#1Grant Clitsome
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player
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Most widely known is Grant Clitsome, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 6 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian ice hockey player Steve Thornton, third to Burke Murphy. More than half were born since 1970, 6 in all. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 8 for every 10,000 residents.
The 1980s saw the most births of any decade: 3.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2.3 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
All three are athletes.
#1Canadian ice hockey player
Canadian ice hockey player
Canadian ice hockey player
6 more, from 1891 to 1989.


Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament, 1948-1971
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Grant Clitsome (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Steve Thornton and Burke Murphy.
Wikidata places 12 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 89%.
The earliest is Angus Duford, born in 1891, and the latest birth listed is 1989.
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Carson Grove - Carson Meadows’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
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).
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