#1Sports
Sabrina D'Angelo
born 1993Canadian soccer player
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Welland, Ontario
Athletes stand out among the 63 famous people born in Welland
Articles in 20 languages make the Canadian soccer player Sabrina D'Angelo the best known. Cal Clutterbuck is second and Natalie Mastracci third. For every 10,000 residents the town has 9.5, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. 23 of them were born since 1970.
Born here
63
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Sabrina D'Angelo
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1880
Roy Schooley
Youngest
1993
Johnny Augustine
Most common field
Sports
38 people
What stands out about Welland’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Welland’s famous people were born
The 1960s alone account for 13 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsNotableScience & MedicineMusicMilitaryFilm, TV & StageFaithBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Welland is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.6 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Welland
All three are athletes.
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#2Sports
Cal Clutterbuck
born 1987Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
NM#3
Everyone
Everyone else born in Welland
Another 60, the earliest born in 1880.
Nina Bunjevac
born 1973Yugoslav (Serbian) Canadian comics artist and writer, painter, illustrator, and art teacher
Film, TV & StageWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Niagara Falls: 109.
Questions about famous people from Welland
Who is the most famous person from Welland?
Sabrina D'Angelo (Canadian soccer player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Cal Clutterbuck and Natalie Mastracci.
How many famous people were born in Welland?
Wikidata places 82 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Welland known for?
60% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Welland?
Roy Schooley (1880). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Welland?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Welland’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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 (21)
- Sabrina D'Angelo: BDZ Sports, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cal Clutterbuck: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Girardi: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Paille: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Smrek: The original uploader was Event Horizon5 at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Ellis: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Bissonnette: Michael Wifall, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alison Brooks: Karl.mok, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Tardif: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Yaremko: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isabel Hampton Robb: Pennock, Meta Rutter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Todd Griffith: mark6mauno, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Burkholder: Rochester Institute of Technology, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Arvay: LLarose-McGillU, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Belanger: EHC_Biel_2004.jpg : EHC Biel AG derivative work: Hic et nunc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Shaffer: Larsena11, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Kormos: Abebenjoe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnny Augustine: Words in the Wind, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Moshe Gottesman: JGotz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Demers: Fistacuffs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Thompson: William James Topley, 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).