#1Music
Damien Robitaille
born 1981Franco-ontarian musician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Tiny, Ontario
4 famous people call Tiny their birthplace
At the top of the list is the Franco-Ontarian musician Damien Robitaille, covered in 5 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian Catholic bishop Paul Marchand, third to Heber Smith. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 2.8 for every 10,000 residents. The earliest on the list is Emile Marchildon, born in 1888, and the youngest Damien Robitaille, born in 1981.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Damien Robitaille
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1888
Emile Marchildon
Youngest
1981
Damien Robitaille
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Tiny
#1PM#2
HS#3
Politics & Law
Heber Smith
1915–1990Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Tiny’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1 births.
MusicFaithPolitics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Tiny is known for
Musicians are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tiny
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Midland, with 27.
Questions about famous people from Tiny
Who is the most famous person from Tiny?
By our measure the best known is Damien Robitaille (franco-ontarian musician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Paul Marchand and Heber Smith.
How many famous people were born in Tiny?
Wikidata has 7 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Tiny known for?
That is 25% of the town’s list, against 6% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tiny?
The earliest is Emile Marchildon, born in 1888, and the latest birth listed is 1981.
Who counts as from Tiny?
The list takes people born within Tiny’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?
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 (4)
- Damien Robitaille: Pierre5018, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Herb Drury: Tri-State News Bureau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James LaBrie: Dario De Marco, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Anthony Kelly: Kevin Paul, 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).