KF#1
Sports
Kurtis Foster
born 1981Canadian ice hockey defenceman
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Carp, Ottawa
4 famous people come from Carp, Kurtis Foster the best known
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Kurtis Foster, covered in 11 languages. Close behind are Joanna Brown and George Nelson Kidd. From George Nelson Kidd to Joanna Brown, the births on the list run from 1864 to 1992. For every 10,000 residents the town has 7.1, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kurtis Foster
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1864
George Nelson Kidd
Youngest
1992
Joanna Brown
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Carp
JB#2
GK#3
Politics & Law
George Nelson Kidd
1864–1907Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Carp’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 1.
SportsPolitics & Law
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Carp is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Carp
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Stittsville, with 7.
Questions about famous people from Carp
Who is the most famous person from Carp?
The top name is Kurtis Foster (Canadian ice hockey defenceman), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Joanna Brown and George Nelson Kidd.
How many famous people were born in Carp?
Wikidata places 6 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Carp known for?
50% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Carp?
George Nelson Kidd (1864). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Carp?
Born inside Carp’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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.
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).