JF#1
Politics & Law
James Albert Faulkner
1877–1944Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Stirling, Ontario
Stirling is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 2 languages make the Canadian politician James Albert Faulkner the best known. Behind the leader come Keith Brown and William Morgan. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 7.3 for every 10,000 residents. The first birth on record is William Morgan’s, in 1848, and the last Jim Pollock’s, in 1930.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
James Albert Faulkner
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1848
William Morgan
Youngest
1930
Jim Pollock
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
The best known
Born in Stirling
The three best known are all leaders.
KB#2
WM#3
Politics & Law
William Morgan
born 1848Canadian politician and businessman
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Stirling’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1870s, with 1 people born in that decade.
Politics & Law
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Stirling
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Quinte West, at 25.
Questions about famous people from Stirling
Who is the most famous person from Stirling?
By our measure the best known is James Albert Faulkner (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Keith Brown and William Morgan.
How many famous people were born in Stirling?
Wikidata places 5 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Stirling known for?
100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Stirling?
William Morgan, born in 1848. The youngest on the list was born in 1930.
Who counts as from Stirling?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Stirling’s 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?
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 (3)
- Jim Pollock: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jayna Hefford: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hockeymedia, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Escott Reid: Renate Patzek, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).