#1Sports
Keith Acton
born 1958Canadian ice hockey player
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Stouffville, Ontario
19 famous people were born in Stouffville, more of them athletes than in most towns
Keith Acton, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 11 languages. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3.3, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. The largest group, 6, was born since 1970. From Joseph Henry Widdifield to Trevor Carrick, the births on the list run from 1845 to 1994.
Born here
19
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Keith Acton
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1845
Joseph Henry Widdifield
Youngest
1994
Trevor Carrick
Most common field
Sports
11 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Stouffville’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Stouffville is known for
Stouffville has 1.5× the usual share of athletes.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Stouffville
The three are covered in 11, 11 and 8 languages: Keith Acton, Michael Del Zotto and Sam Carrick.
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#2Sports
Michael Del Zotto
born 1990Canadian ice hockey defenceman
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Stouffville
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Unionville has the most people on record, 3 of them.
Questions about famous people from Stouffville
Who is the most famous person from Stouffville?
The top name is Keith Acton (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Michael Del Zotto and Sam Carrick.
How many famous people were born in Stouffville?
Wikidata places 23 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Stouffville known for?
Here the share is 58%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Stouffville?
Joseph Henry Widdifield (1845). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Stouffville?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Stouffville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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 (6)
- Keith Acton: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Del Zotto: Robert Kowal, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Carrick: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trevor Carrick: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- H. R. MacMillan: Don Coltman or Steffens Colmer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Liz Knox: Sports Talk with Erica L. Ayala, CC BY 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).