#1Famous people · Parry Sound, Ontario
Of the 23 famous people born in Parry Sound, an unusual share are athletes
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Bobby Orr, with articles in 38 languages. Second and third on the list are Francis Pegahmagabow and Marilyn Corson. Between 1946 and 1969, 7 were born, the most of any period. Only 81 of the 386 towns in Ontario with anyone on record list more.
Born here
23
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bobby Orr
38 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1885
Allan Loney
Youngest
1998
Graham Ritchie
Most common field
Sports
18 people
What stands out about Parry Sound’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Parry Sound is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.1 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Parry Sound’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 6.
SportsMilitaryFilm, TV & StageMusicPolitics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Parry Sound
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2Military
Francis Pegahmagabow
?–1952Canadian First Nations soldier, politician and activist
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MC#3
Sports
Marilyn Corson
born 1950Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Parry Sound
Of the other 20, 16 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
McKellar leads the towns around it, with one name.
Questions about famous people from Parry Sound
Who is the most famous person from Parry Sound?
Bobby Orr (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Francis Pegahmagabow and Marilyn Corson.
How many famous people were born in Parry Sound?
Wikidata has 28 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Parry Sound known for?
They make up 78% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Parry Sound?
The earliest is Allan Loney, born in 1885, and the latest birth listed is 1998.
Who counts as from Parry Sound?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Parry Sound’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), 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.
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)
- Bobby Orr: Aaron Frutman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Pegahmagabow: Canadian government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Ideson: LGOntario from Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerald Carson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Allan Loney: Unknown author, Public domain, 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).