WB#1
Politics & Law
William Herbert Burns
1878–1964Canadian politician and curler
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Stayner, Ontario
Stayner is the birthplace of 6 famous people
The best known is the Canadian politician and curler William Herbert Burns, with articles in 7 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian ice hockey player Angus Daniel Campbell, third to Merrill Samuel Taylor. The largest group, 6, was born between Confederation and 1913. Born in 1872, John McEachern is the first name on record, and Vern Turner, born in 1895, the most recent.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
William Herbert Burns
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1872
John McEachern
Youngest
1895
Vern Turner
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Stayner
#2Sports
Angus Daniel Campbell
1884–1976Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MT#3
Notable
Merrill Samuel Taylor
1893–1918Canadian aviator
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Stayner’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1870s than in any other decade: 2.
Politics & LawSportsNotableScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Stayner is known for
Share of Stayner’s famous people in each field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Stayner
3 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Collingwood’s, with 30.
Questions about famous people from Stayner
Who is the most famous person from Stayner?
By our measure the best known is William Herbert Burns (Canadian politician and curler); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Angus Daniel Campbell and Merrill Samuel Taylor.
How many famous people were born in Stayner?
Wikidata places 10 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Stayner known for?
They make up 33% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Stayner?
John McEachern (1872). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1895.
Who counts as from Stayner?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Stayner’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (4)
- Angus Daniel Campbell: Imperial Tobacco Co., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Vern Turner: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Reg Noble: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Brown: TheAHL, 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).