GM#1
Politics & Law
George McLean
1885–1975Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ramara, Ontario
4 famous people were born in Ramara
Articles in 3 languages make the Canadian politician George McLean the best known. John Duncan McPhee and Stephen Furniss follow. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3.5, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. Born in 1804, Henry Bird Steinhauer is the first name on record, and John Duncan McPhee, born in 1894, the most recent.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
George McLean
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1804
Henry Bird Steinhauer
Youngest
1894
John Duncan McPhee
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Ramara
The three best known are all leaders.
JM#2
Politics & Law
John Duncan McPhee
1894–1953Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
SF#3
Politics & Law
Stephen Furniss
1875–1952Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Ramara’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1880s, with 1 people born in that decade.
Politics & LawFaith
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Ramara is known for
Ramara has 3.4× the usual share of leaders.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ramara
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Orillia: 40.
Questions about famous people from Ramara
Who is the most famous person from Ramara?
By our measure the best known is George McLean (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come John Duncan McPhee and Stephen Furniss.
How many famous people were born in Ramara?
8 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Ramara known for?
Here the share is 75%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ramara?
Henry Bird Steinhauer, from 1804; the most recent birth on the list is from 1894.
Who counts as from Ramara?
The list takes people born within Ramara’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (3)
- Henry Bird Steinhauer: Callanmurphy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Lightfoot: Arnielee, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Lyman Abbott: Veterans Affairs Canada archives, 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).