#1Famous people · Quinte West, Ontario
Jayna Hefford tops a list of 25 famous people born in Quinte West
Jayna Hefford, the ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 20 languages. Between 1946 and 1969, 10 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 386 towns in Ontario with famous people list more. Athletes make up the largest group, 11 of them.
Born here
25
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jayna Hefford
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1818
George Copway
Youngest
1987
Katie Uhlmann
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Quinte West’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Quinte West’s famous people were born
The 1950s alone account for 6 of the births charted here.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineFaithNotableBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Quinte West
#1GF#2
Sports
George Ferguson
1952–2019Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JD#3
Sports
Jack Douglas
1930–2003Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Quinte West is known for
Quinte West has 1.3× the usual share of writers and artists.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Quinte West
Still to come: 22 more, from 1818 to 1987.
Angus McGill Mowat
1892–1977NotableWikipedia ↗
William Bleasdell Cameron
1862–1951Canadian survivor of the Frog Lake Massacre
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Belleville’s, at 114 names.
Questions about famous people from Quinte West
Who is the most famous person from Quinte West?
Jayna Hefford (ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come George Ferguson and Jack Douglas.
How many famous people were born in Quinte West?
Wikidata places 38 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Quinte West known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 44%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Quinte West?
George Copway (1818). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1987.
Who counts as from Quinte West?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Quinte West’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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 (9)
- Jayna Hefford: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hockeymedia, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc Tessier-Lavigne: Adam Fagen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mel Bridgman: Richard Pilling, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Garrett: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Copway: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Angus McGill Mowat: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Archibald MacLellan: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Bleasdell Cameron: William Beaswell Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Avril Lavigne: Raph_PH, CC BY 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).