RG#1
Faith
Richard John Grecco
born 1946Canadian Catholic bishop
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Thorold, Ontario
18 famous people were born in Thorold from 1838 to 1993
Articles in 9 languages make the Canadian Catholic bishop Richard John Grecco the best known. The Canadian ice hockey player Bep Guidolin ranks second, ahead of Edward Wentworth Beatty. Since 1970, 6 were born, the most of any period. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 5.3 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
18
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Richard John Grecco
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1838
James Stoddard
Youngest
1993
Randy Gazzola
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Thorold’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Thorold’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1940s, with 3 people born in that decade.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Thorold
BG#2
Sports
Bep Guidolin
1925–2008Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Business
Edward Wentworth Beatty
1877–1943Canadian transportation executive, philanthropist
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Thorold is known for
Thorold has 1.3× the usual share of athletes.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Thorold
The other 15 span the years 1838 to 1993.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
St. Catharines leads the towns around it, with 202 names.
Questions about famous people from Thorold
Who is the most famous person from Thorold?
By our measure the best known is Richard John Grecco (Canadian Catholic bishop); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Bep Guidolin and Edward Wentworth Beatty.
How many famous people were born in Thorold?
Wikidata has 23 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Thorold known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Thorold?
James Stoddard, born in 1838. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Thorold?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Thorold’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 (10)
- Edward Wentworth Beatty: The original uploader was YUL89YYZ at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sean Bentivoglio: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joey Martin: Mathis Benguigui, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martha Cartmell: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Randy Gazzola: Mathis Benguigui, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Giancola: Philcheevers, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Linda Evangelista: jusez from Hong Kong, China, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sabrina D'Angelo: BDZ Sports, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Allan MacNab: Théophile Hamel, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nina Arsenault: Nancy Paiva from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).