NA#1
Sports
Neil Armstrong
1932–2020Canadian ice hockey official
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Plympton-Wyoming, Ontario
3 famous people were born in Plympton-Wyoming
Articles in 6 languages make the Canadian ice hockey official Neil Armstrong the best known. Second and third on the list are Brian Verbeek and Gordon Beverly Walker. Gordon Beverly Walker (1891) and Brian Verbeek (1966) mark the two ends of the list. Of its neighbours, Sarnia, 20 km away, lists the most: 139, Sid Meier first.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Neil Armstrong
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1891
Gordon Beverly Walker
Youngest
1966
Brian Verbeek
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Plympton-Wyoming
Two of the three are athletes.
BV#2
Sports
Brian Verbeek
born 1966Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Gordon Beverly Walker
1891–1954Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Plympton-Wyoming is known for
Share of Plympton-Wyoming’s famous people in each field.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Plympton-Wyoming
Who is the most famous person from Plympton-Wyoming?
The top name is Neil Armstrong (Canadian ice hockey official), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Brian Verbeek and Gordon Beverly Walker.
How many famous people were born in Plympton-Wyoming?
Of the 7 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Plympton-Wyoming known for?
They make up 67% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Plympton-Wyoming?
Gordon Beverly Walker, from 1891; the most recent birth on the list is from 1966.
Who counts as from Plympton-Wyoming?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Plympton-Wyoming’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?
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 (4)
- Gordon Beverly Walker: United Farmers Historical Society, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sid Meier: Guerric, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dale Hunter: Tabercil from Canadian, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Samuel McLaughlin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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