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Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Sables-Spanish Rivers, Ontario
Sables-Spanish Rivers is the birthplace of 2 famous people
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Pete Horeck, covered in 4 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian politician Wilf Spooner. For more famous names, Espanola is 18 km away: its list has 6, led by Greg Duhaime. Pete Horeck, born in 1923, is the youngest, and Wilf Spooner, born in 1910, the first on record.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Pete Horeck
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1910
Wilf Spooner
Youngest
1923
Pete Horeck
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Sables-Spanish Rivers
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Known for
What Sables-Spanish Rivers is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
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Questions about famous people from Sables-Spanish Rivers
Who is the most famous person from Sables-Spanish Rivers?
Pete Horeck (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Wilf Spooner.
How many famous people were born in Sables-Spanish Rivers?
Wikidata places 3 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Sables-Spanish Rivers known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sables-Spanish Rivers?
Wilf Spooner, born in 1910. The youngest on the list was born in 1923.
Who counts as from Sables-Spanish Rivers?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Sables-Spanish Rivers’ 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?
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.
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).