SV#1
Sports
Scott Valentine
born 1991Canadian ice hockey defenceman
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Metcalfe, Ottawa
Metcalfe’s famous people span 119 years: 4 births from 1872 to 1991
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Scott Valentine, covered in 5 languages. Jack Brannen is second and John C. Bowen third. The biggest group are athletes: 2. The list’s best known name, Scott Valentine, dates from 1991.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Scott Valentine
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1872
John C. Bowen
Youngest
1991
Scott Valentine
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Metcalfe
Two of the three are athletes.
#2Sports
Jack Brannen
1874–1964Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JB#3
Politics & Law
John C. Bowen
1872–1957Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Metcalfe’s famous people were born
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Metcalfe is known for
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Everyone else born in Metcalfe
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Winchester has the most on record, with 12.
Questions about famous people from Metcalfe
Who is the most famous person from Metcalfe?
By our measure the best known is Scott Valentine (Canadian ice hockey defenceman); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Jack Brannen and John C. Bowen.
What is Metcalfe known for?
50% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Metcalfe?
The earliest is John C. Bowen, born in 1872, and the latest birth listed is 1991.
Who counts as from Metcalfe?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Metcalfe’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. 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?
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 (4)
- Jack Brannen: William Notman & Son, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sharron Proulx-Turner: rmajzels, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Hume: University of Florida Digital Collections, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Allen Carson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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