Photo: P199 · Public domainNipissing has yet to put a famous person on the list
The nearest list is in Powassan, 9 km away: 4 names, starting with James Corkery. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Behind Toronto, the runner-up in Ontario is Ottawa, at 1,194. Famous people are on record for 386 of the towns in Ontario.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Nipissing’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Nipissing as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Nipissing
Questions about famous people from Nipissing
Who counts as from Nipissing?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Nipissing’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Taylor Milne: Citizen59, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).