#1Famous people · Petawawa, Ontario
3 famous people call Petawawa their birthplace
At the top of the list is the ice hockey player Matthew Peca, covered in 7 languages. The Canadian ice hockey player Brent Cullaton ranks second, ahead of Lloyd Mohns. Just 14 km away, Pembroke’s list holds 55 names, Tom Green the best known. Births span 1921 to 1993, from Lloyd Mohns to Matthew Peca.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Matthew Peca
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1921
Lloyd Mohns
Youngest
1993
Matthew Peca
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Petawawa
#1BC#2
Sports
Brent Cullaton
born 1974Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
LM#3
Sports
Lloyd Mohns
1921–2005Canadian ice hockey defenceman
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Questions about famous people from Petawawa
Who is the most famous person from Petawawa?
The top name is Matthew Peca (ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Brent Cullaton and Lloyd Mohns.
How many famous people were born in Petawawa?
Of the 4 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Petawawa known for?
Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Petawawa?
Lloyd Mohns (1921). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Petawawa?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Petawawa’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- Matthew Peca: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Green: Kristen Wong, 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).