#1Sports
Edge
born 1973Canadian professional wrestler and actor
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Orangeville, Ontario
42 famous people were born in Orangeville, most of them since 1970
Most widely known is Edge, the Canadian professional wrestler and actor, with articles in 45 languages. Ryan Cooley and Nick Ritchie follow. The earliest on the list is Charles Robert McKeown, born in 1866, and the youngest Luke Valenti, born in 2004. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 12.7 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
42
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Edge
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1866
Charles Robert McKeown
Youngest
2004
Luke Valenti
Most common field
Sports
16 people
What stands out about Orangeville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Orangeville’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1970s, with 11 births.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Orangeville
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#3Sports
Nick Ritchie
born 1995Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Orangeville is known for
Share of Orangeville’s famous people in each field.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Orangeville
39 more, 14 of them athletes.
Johnson Lindsay Rowlett Parsons
1876–1935Canadian Engineer and Military Officer
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Erin counts 12 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Orangeville
Who is the most famous person from Orangeville?
Edge (Canadian professional wrestler and actor) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Ryan Cooley and Nick Ritchie.
How many famous people were born in Orangeville?
Wikidata places 52 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Orangeville known for?
That is 38% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Orangeville?
Charles Robert McKeown, born in 1866. The youngest on the list was born in 2004.
Who counts as from Orangeville?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Orangeville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (16)
- Edge: zuko1312, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Cooley: Flickr user Tiger Girl, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Ritchie: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Ritchie: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alyscha Mottershead: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Ireland: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Oscar D. Skelton: Lafayette / Library and Archives Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- R. Scott Gemmill: Christopher Okula, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maitland Stewart McCarthy: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- T. C. West: J. C. Bates (editor of the volume in which this photograph appeared), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brandon Miller: Rob Frohne from USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dillon Ward: Highcounty, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William C. Leggett: Greenmind ( Uploads ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William C. McBrien: Canadian Army Uploaded by Abebenjoe at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Downey: Dan4th Nicholas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Wick: Fabien Perissinotto, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).