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Aaron Downey
born 1974Canadian ice hockey player and coach
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Shelburne, Ontario
The 3 famous people born in Shelburne, led by Aaron Downey
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player and coach Aaron Downey, covered in 11 languages. Second and third on the list are Nick Bootland and Ruby Waters. Nearby, Orangeville, 20 km away, lists 42, led by Edge. Born in 1974, Aaron Downey is the first name on record, and Ruby Waters, born in 1997, the most recent.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Aaron Downey
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1974
Aaron Downey
Youngest
1997
Ruby Waters
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Shelburne
Two of the three are athletes.
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#2Sports
Nick Bootland
born 1978Canadian ice hockey player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Known for
What Shelburne is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 5.
Questions about famous people from Shelburne
Who is the most famous person from Shelburne?
The top name is Aaron Downey (Canadian ice hockey player and coach), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Nick Bootland and Ruby Waters.
What is Shelburne known for?
They make up 67% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Shelburne?
Aaron Downey (1974). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1997.
Who counts as from Shelburne?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Shelburne’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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)
- Aaron Downey: Dan4th Nicholas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Bootland: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edge: zuko1312, 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).