#1Famous people · Tweed, Ontario
Tweed is the birthplace of 5 famous people
Articles in 4 languages make the Canadian politician Bert Wemp the best known. James Thomas Gordon is second and Jim Jordan third. For every 10,000 residents the town has 7.7, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. Born in 1859, James Thomas Gordon is the first name on record, and Jack Vance, born in 1933, the most recent.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bert Wemp
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1859
James Thomas Gordon
Youngest
1933
Jack Vance
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Tweed
#1JG#2
Politics & Law
James Thomas Gordon
1859–1919Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JJ#3
Through the years
When Tweed’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1880s come out on top, with 1 births.
Politics & LawMilitaryWriting & Arts
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Tweed is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 2.7 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tweed
Here are 2 more, born from 1901 to 1933.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Madoc, at 7.
Questions about famous people from Tweed
Who is the most famous person from Tweed?
By our measure the best known is Bert Wemp (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come James Thomas Gordon and Jim Jordan.
What is Tweed known for?
That is 60% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tweed?
James Thomas Gordon (1859). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1933.
Who counts as from Tweed?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Tweed’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 (1)
- Bert Wemp: Unknown author, 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).