#1Science & Medicine
John Stanley Plaskett
1865–1941Canadian astronomer
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Tavistock, Ontario
John Stanley Plaskett tops a list of 5 famous people born in Tavistock
Most widely known is John Stanley Plaskett, the Canadian astronomer, with articles in 19 languages. Armand Schaefer and Arthur White follow. More than half were born between Confederation and 1913, 3 in all. Born in 1865, John Stanley Plaskett is the first name on record, and Mark Kean, born in 1988, the most recent.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John Stanley Plaskett
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1865
John Stanley Plaskett
Youngest
1988
Mark Kean
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Tavistock
#1AS#2
Film, TV & Stage
Armand Schaefer
1898–1967Film producer, Film director
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AW#3
Politics & Law
Arthur White
1907–1973Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Tavistock’s famous people were born
The 1890s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
Politics & LawScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageSports
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Tavistock is known for
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tavistock
2 more names, born between 1894 and 1988.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 3.
Questions about famous people from Tavistock
Who is the most famous person from Tavistock?
John Stanley Plaskett (Canadian astronomer) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Armand Schaefer and Arthur White.
How many famous people were born in Tavistock?
Of the 10 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Tavistock known for?
40% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tavistock?
John Stanley Plaskett (1865). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1988.
Who counts as from Tavistock?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Tavistock’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?
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)
- John Stanley Plaskett: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Zegers: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Babe Siebert: Unknown author, 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).