DC#1
Sports
Dayne St. Clair
born 1997Canadian soccer player
29 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Pickering, Ontario
39 famous people were born in Pickering, more of them performers than in most towns
The best known is the Canadian soccer player Dayne St. Clair, with articles in 29 languages. Tom Thomson, the Canadian artist, comes second, with Daniel David Palmer third. Born in 1833, Caroline M. Nichols Churchill is the first name on record, and Erik Glavic, born in 2000, the most recent. Most were born since 1970: 22 of them.
Born here
39
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dayne St. Clair
29 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1833
Caroline M. Nichols Churchill
Youngest
2000
Erik Glavic
Most common field
Sports
17 people
What stands out about Pickering’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Pickering’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 10.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMusicNotableBusinessFaith
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Pickering is known for
Compared with the usual town, performers are the most over-represented field, at 1.8 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Pickering
The three are covered in 29, 23 and 19 languages: Dayne St. Clair, Tom Thomson and Daniel David Palmer.
#2
#3Business
Daniel David Palmer
1845–1913Founder of Chiropractic
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Pickering
36 more names, born between 1833 and 2000.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Ajax counts 44 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Pickering
Who is the most famous person from Pickering?
Dayne St. Clair (Canadian soccer player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Tom Thomson and Daniel David Palmer.
How many famous people were born in Pickering?
Wikidata places 60 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Pickering known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 44%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Pickering?
Caroline M. Nichols Churchill, born in 1833. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Pickering?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Pickering’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?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (22)
- Tom Thomson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel David Palmer: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jaime Peters: chelmsfordblue, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brayden Schnur: si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Holland: Mholland2014, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Slean: Christopher Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenn Healy: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Webb: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Andreoff: mark6mauno, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Caroline M. Nichols Churchill: C.N. Churchill, from Active Footsteps, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Malcolm Shaw: A Disappearing Act, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Novak: Cold, Indrid, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Grant: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis T. O'Connor: Not listed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- T. J. Kemp: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Traci Melchor: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Van Vliet: FTW9798, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Berg: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Campbell: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Leys: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Menzies Mitchell: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Robert Braden: 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).