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Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Point Edward, Ontario
2 famous people call Point Edward their birthplace
Don Burgess, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in one language. The only other name is the Canadian politician William Guthrie. Born in 1884, William Guthrie is the first name on record, and Don Burgess, born in 1946, the most recent. Nearby, Sarnia, 4 km away, lists 139, led by Sid Meier.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Don Burgess
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1884
William Guthrie
Youngest
1946
Don Burgess
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Point Edward
WG#2
Politics & Law
William Guthrie
1884–1954Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Point Edward is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 1 people.
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Questions about famous people from Point Edward
Who is the most famous person from Point Edward?
The top name is Don Burgess (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come William Guthrie.
What is Point Edward known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Point Edward?
The earliest is William Guthrie, born in 1884, and the latest birth listed is 1946.
Who counts as from Point Edward?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Point Edward’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (1)
- Sid Meier: Guerric, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).