#1Film, TV & Stage
Paul Anthony Kelly
born 1988Canadian actor and model
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Tay, Ontario
5 famous people come from Tay, Paul Anthony Kelly the best known
Paul Anthony Kelly, the Canadian actor and model, is the most widely known, written about in 17 languages. Second and third on the list are John Arpin and Ty Arbour. 3 of them were born between Confederation and 1913, more than in any other period. Births span 1896 to 1988, from Ty Arbour to Paul Anthony Kelly.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Paul Anthony Kelly
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1896
Ty Arbour
Youngest
1988
Paul Anthony Kelly
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Tay
Paul Anthony Kelly, John Arpin and Ty Arbour are written about in 17, 7 and 6 languages.
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#3Through the years
When Tay’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1890s come out on top, with 3 births.
SportsFilm, TV & StageMusicMilitary
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Tay is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 2 people.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Tay
2 more, best known first.
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Questions about famous people from Tay
Who is the most famous person from Tay?
Paul Anthony Kelly (Canadian actor and model) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come John Arpin and Ty Arbour.
How many famous people were born in Tay?
9 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Tay known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 40%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tay?
Ty Arbour (1896). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1988.
Who counts as from Tay?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Tay’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (6)
- Paul Anthony Kelly: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ty Arbour: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Arbour: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Herb Drury: Tri-State News Bureau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James LaBrie: Dario De Marco, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Damien Robitaille: Pierre5018, CC BY 4.0, 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).