#1Film, TV & Stage
Emily VanCamp
born 1986Canadian actress
47 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Port Perry, Ontario
Performers stand out among the 15 famous people born in Port Perry
Emily VanCamp, the Canadian actress, is the most widely known, written about in 47 languages. The next two names are Ty Dellandrea and John Ross Roach. Since 1970, 7 were born, the most of any period. For every 10,000 residents the town has 6.3, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
15
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Emily VanCamp
47 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1857
J. F. Paxton
Youngest
2000
Ty Dellandrea
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
6 people
What stands out about Port Perry’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Port Perry is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as performers, at 4.1 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Through the years
When Port Perry’s famous people were born
The 1990s alone account for 3 of the births charted here.
Film, TV & StageSportsPolitics & LawWriting & Arts
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Port Perry
Two of the three are athletes.
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#3Sports
John Ross Roach
1900–1973Canadian ice hockey player
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Port Perry
The rest number 12, with 5 performers among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Uxbridge has the most on record: 17.
Questions about famous people from Port Perry
Who is the most famous person from Port Perry?
The top name is Emily VanCamp (Canadian actress), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Ty Dellandrea and John Ross Roach.
How many famous people were born in Port Perry?
Of the 27 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Port Perry known for?
40% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 10%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Port Perry?
J. F. Paxton (1857). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Port Perry?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Port Perry’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (7)
- Emily VanCamp: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Ross Roach: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mackenzie Bent: Luu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kate Beirness: GMcIsaac, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Markus Phillips: Kilaseell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- J. F. Paxton: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Frise: 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).