#1Sports
Babe Siebert
1904–1939Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Plattsville, Ontario
8 famous people call Plattsville their birthplace
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Babe Siebert, with articles in 9 languages. The Canadian inventor Thomas Willson ranks second, ahead of Walter Gretzky. 4 of them were born before Confederation, the first Thomas Willson in 1860. The largest group, 4, was born before Confederation.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Babe Siebert
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1860
Thomas Willson
Youngest
1945
John English
Most common field
Sports
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Plattsville’s famous people were born
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineNotableMusicWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Plattsville
#1
#2Science & Medicine
Thomas Willson
1860–1915Canadian inventor
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
WG#3
Notable
Walter Gretzky
1938–2021Father of Wayne Gretzky
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Plattsville is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Everyone else born in Plattsville
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Woodstock has the longest list next door: 52.
Questions about famous people from Plattsville
Who is the most famous person from Plattsville?
Babe Siebert (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Thomas Willson and Walter Gretzky.
How many famous people were born in Plattsville?
Of the 11 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Plattsville known for?
They make up 25% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Plattsville?
Thomas Willson, from 1860; the most recent birth on the list is from 1945.
Who counts as from Plattsville?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Plattsville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (10)
- Babe Siebert: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Willson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Augustus Stephen Vogt: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Katherine Merritte Yates: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Deeton: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Zegers: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Syl Apps: Globe and Mail, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Beck: Alexandra Studio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Clifford: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Stanley Plaskett: 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).