#1Sports
Érik Bédard
born 1979Canadian former professional baseball player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Navan - Sarsfield, Ottawa
Leaders stand out among the 9 famous people born in Navan - Sarsfield
Most widely known is Érik Bédard, the Canadian former professional baseball player, with articles in 10 languages. Close behind are Irving Farmer Kennedy and Norman Frank Wilson. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 31.5 for every 10,000 residents. The oldest name on the list belongs to Norman Frank Wilson, born in 1876, the newest to Jackson Bennett, born in 1996.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Érik Bédard
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1876
Norman Frank Wilson
Youngest
1996
Jackson Bennett
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4 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Navan - Sarsfield is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2 times.
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Born in Navan - Sarsfield
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Military
Irving Farmer Kennedy
1922–2011Canadian flying ace
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Norman Frank Wilson
1876–1956Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Navan - Sarsfield’s famous people were born
The 1970s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
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Everyone else born in Navan - Sarsfield
Of the other 6, 3 are leaders.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Navan - Sarsfield
Who is the most famous person from Navan - Sarsfield?
The top name is Érik Bédard (Canadian former professional baseball player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Irving Farmer Kennedy and Norman Frank Wilson.
What is Navan - Sarsfield known for?
Here the share is 44%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Navan - Sarsfield?
The earliest is Norman Frank Wilson, born in 1876, and the latest birth listed is 1996.
Who counts as from Navan - Sarsfield?
The list takes people born within Navan - Sarsfield’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
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 (5)
- Érik Bédard: Keith Allison on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Norman Frank Wilson: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ferdinand Larose: D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jackson Bennett: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cody Ceci: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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