#1Sports
Jay Triano
born 1958Canadian basketball player and coach
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Tillsonburg, Ontario
19 famous people were born in Tillsonburg, more of them athletes than in most towns
The best known is the Canadian basketball player and coach Jay Triano, with articles in 18 languages. Behind the leader come Clara Sipprell and Tillson Harrison. The largest group, 8, was born between Confederation and 1913. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 8.9 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
19
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jay Triano
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1872
Victor Albert Sinclair
Youngest
1985
Christopher Mabee
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Tillsonburg’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Tillsonburg is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.5 times as common.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Tillsonburg’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Tillsonburg
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Writing & Arts
Clara Sipprell
1885–1975Canadian photographer
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Science & Medicine
Tillson Harrison
1881–1947Canadian physician and adventurer
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tillsonburg
Here are 16 more, born from 1872 to 1985.
Stephanie Martin
born 1962Canadian composer, conductor, and associate professor of music at York University
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Questions about famous people from Tillsonburg
Who is the most famous person from Tillsonburg?
Jay Triano (Canadian basketball player and coach) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Clara Sipprell and Tillson Harrison.
How many famous people were born in Tillsonburg?
Wikidata places 28 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Tillsonburg known for?
58% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tillsonburg?
The earliest is Victor Albert Sinclair, born in 1872, and the latest birth listed is 1985.
Who counts as from Tillsonburg?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Tillsonburg’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (8)
- Jay Triano: Alex English, Jay Triano, Marc Iavaroni.jpg : chensiyuan derivative work: Arbor to SJ, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tillson Harrison: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Mabee: Caroline Paré, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lloyd Andrews: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Russell Oatman: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Victor Albert Sinclair: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Innis: H. James that is a pseudonym for William James Jr. according to City of Toroto Archive, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Dignam: W. Briggs, 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).