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Chris Simon
1972–2024Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Wawa, Ontario
2 famous people come from Wawa, Chris Simon the best known
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Chris Simon, covered in 15 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian ice hockey player Denny Lambert. The first birth on record is Denny Lambert’s, in 1970, and the last Chris Simon’s, in 1972. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Chris Simon
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1970
Denny Lambert
Youngest
1972
Chris Simon
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Wawa
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Sports
Denny Lambert
born 1970Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Questions about famous people from Wawa
Who is the most famous person from Wawa?
By our measure the best known is Chris Simon (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Denny Lambert.
What is Wawa known for?
Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Wawa?
The earliest is Denny Lambert, born in 1970, and the latest birth listed is 1972.
Who counts as from Wawa?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Wawa’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)
- Chris Simon: JamesTeterenko, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
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