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Kayle Osborne
born 2002Canadian ice hockey player
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Rideau Lakes, Ontario
12 famous people were born in Rideau Lakes, more of them leaders than in most towns
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Kayle Osborne, covered in 8 languages. Vic Ripley and Mary Littlejohn follow. 8 of them were born between Confederation and 1913, more than in any other period. As early as 1805, Jesse Delong was born here, one of 3 born before Confederation.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kayle Osborne
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1805
Jesse Delong
Youngest
2002
Kayle Osborne
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Rideau Lakes is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 2.3 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Rideau Lakes
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Through the years
When Rideau Lakes’s famous people were born
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
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Everyone else born in Rideau Lakes
A further 9 follow, born between 1805 and 1906.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Athens lists the most people: 5.
Questions about famous people from Rideau Lakes
Who is the most famous person from Rideau Lakes?
The top name is Kayle Osborne (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Vic Ripley and Mary Littlejohn.
How many famous people were born in Rideau Lakes?
Wikidata counts 23 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Rideau Lakes known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rideau Lakes?
Jesse Delong, born in 1805. The youngest on the list was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Rideau Lakes?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Rideau Lakes’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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)
- Kayle Osborne: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Vic Ripley: Detroit Free Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Mooney: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leonora King: Yuen Chang, Tien- f.sin, 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).