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Gordon Aitchison
1909–1990Canadian basketball player
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · North Bay, Ontario
89 famous people from North Bay, many of them athletes
Most widely known is Gordon Aitchison, the Canadian basketball player, with articles in 16 languages. Only 25 of the 386 towns in Ontario with anyone on record list more. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 14.3 for every 10,000 residents. The largest group, 33, was born between 1946 and 1969.
Born here
89
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gordon Aitchison
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1892
Billy Coutu
Youngest
1998
Colton Point
Most common field
Sports
58 people
What stands out about North Bay’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When North Bay’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1960s come out on top, with 15 births.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsNotableMusicMilitaryFaith
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What North Bay is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.7 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in North Bay
All three are athletes.
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Garnet Ault
1905–1993Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Everyone
Everyone else born in North Bay
86 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Callander has the most on record: 2.
Questions about famous people from North Bay
Who is the most famous person from North Bay?
Gordon Aitchison (Canadian basketball player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Garnet Ault and Harvey Charters.
How many famous people were born in North Bay?
Wikidata places 110 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is North Bay known for?
Here the share is 65%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from North Bay?
Billy Coutu, born in 1892. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from North Bay?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside North Bay’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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (27)
- Garnet Ault: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Rota: Photographer: Dati Bendo, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Craig Rivet: Ivanmakarov , Bildbearbeitung: Wladyslaw, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ray Giroux: Ильяха . Original uploader was Ильяха at ru.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Thompson: Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Omischl: Duncan Rawlinson from Vancouver, BC, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy: DoD, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Coutu: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Courtright: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenny Wharram: National Hockey League / Chicago Blackhawks, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Kokrak: Jzt0903, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Marquardt: Dan4th, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Charland: Francis Bellerive, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Rochefort: Roosterfan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stan Brown: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ab DeMarco: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bryan Maxwell: St Louis Blues / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Howie Lockhart: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Shaw: Rbshaw273, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Holly Farrell: Benbelson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Hunter: U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Danielle Quilla, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Vic Fedeli: Irhw1997, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike O'Shea: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Colton Point: Texas Stars Hockey, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jaymz Bee: ZMCreativeServices, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Reginald Hinton Haskins: Keith Seifert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- 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).