NL#1
Politics & Law
Nelson Seymour Lougheed
1882–1944Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Skytrain3514 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Thornbury, Ontario
2 famous people call Thornbury their birthplace
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian politician Nelson Seymour Lougheed. The other is Charles Alexander Mitchell. A short trip away, Collingwood (17 km) counts 30 famous people, Reg Noble among them. Nelson Seymour Lougheed, born in 1882, is the earliest name and Charles Alexander Mitchell, born in 1891, the latest.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Nelson Seymour Lougheed
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1882
Nelson Seymour Lougheed
Youngest
1891
Charles Alexander Mitchell
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Thornbury
CM#2
Science & Medicine
Charles Alexander Mitchell
1891–19791 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Thornbury is known for
The field with the most names is Politics & Law: 1.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Questions about famous people from Thornbury
Who is the most famous person from Thornbury?
By our measure the best known is Nelson Seymour Lougheed (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Charles Alexander Mitchell.
How many famous people were born in Thornbury?
Wikidata places 8 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Thornbury known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Thornbury?
Nelson Seymour Lougheed (1882). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1891.
Who counts as from Thornbury?
The list takes people born within Thornbury’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (2)
- Reg Noble: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lyman Duff: Topley Studio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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