#1Film, TV & Stage
Helen Shaver
born 1951Canadian actress and director
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · St. Thomas, Ontario
61 famous people come from St. Thomas, Helen Shaver the best known
The best known is the Canadian actress and director Helen Shaver, with articles in 21 languages. The Canadian rower Angela Schneider ranks second, ahead of Dell Henderson. For every 10,000 residents the town has 12.4, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. Births span 1842 to 2000, from John Burnham to Lexie Adzija.
Born here
61
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Helen Shaver
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1842
John Burnham
Youngest
2000
Lexie Adzija
Most common field
Politics & Law
20 people
What stands out about St. Thomas’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When St. Thomas’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1960s, at 7.
Politics & LawSportsWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineNotableFaithMusicMilitary
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in St. Thomas
Two of the three are performers.
#1AS#2
#3Film, TV & Stage
Dell Henderson
1883–1956Canadian actor, writer and director
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What St. Thomas is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 1.5 times the usual share.
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 St. Thomas
58 more names, born between 1842 and 2000.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 6.
Questions about famous people from St. Thomas
Who is the most famous person from St. Thomas?
The top name is Helen Shaver (Canadian actress and director), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Angela Schneider and Dell Henderson.
How many famous people were born in St. Thomas?
Wikidata places 80 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is St. Thomas known for?
They make up 33% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from St. Thomas?
John Burnham (1842). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2000.
Who counts as from St. Thomas?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside St. Thomas’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (20)
- Helen Shaver: NBC Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dell Henderson: Fox Film Corporation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cory Emmerton: Pakeha, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg McKegg: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mitchell Hepburn: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Hudson: New York Islanders, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill McKenzie: Sunroomsketcher, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- D. J. Kennington: Tsunami330, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Norman Alexander McLarty: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Graney: American Tobacco Company, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Henry Coyne: Topley Studio / Library and Archives Canada / PA-177170, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kent Hulst: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Walters: Krazytea, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brittany Howard: John Mac, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Yurek: Legislature of Ontario, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lexie Adzija: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Marissen: CdnPoli2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Kenneth Galbraith: Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Photographer is unknown., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Vance Millar: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Glass: William James Topley, 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).