#1Notable
Pierce Lepage
born 1996Canadian athletics competitor
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Famous people · Whitby, Ontario
Athletes stand out among the 51 famous people born in Whitby
Most widely known is Pierce Lepage, the Canadian athletics competitor, with articles in 25 languages. Since 1970, 36 were born, the most of any period. Born in 1820, Thomas Paxton is the first name on record, and Tristyn Lee, born in 2002, the most recent. Only 41 of the 386 towns in Ontario with anyone on record list more.
Born here
51
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Pierce Lepage
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1820
Thomas Paxton
Youngest
2002
Tristyn Lee
Most common field
Sports
30 people
What stands out about Whitby’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Whitby’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 13.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableFilm, TV & StageMusicMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Whitby is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.6 times.
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 Whitby
#1
#2Sports
Andrew Martin
1975–2009Canadian professional wrestler
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#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Whitby
The rest number 48, with 28 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Oshawa has the most on record, with 151.
Questions about famous people from Whitby
Who is the most famous person from Whitby?
Pierce Lepage (Canadian athletics competitor) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Andrew Martin and Jessica Klimkait.
How many famous people were born in Whitby?
82 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Whitby known for?
They make up 59% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Whitby?
The earliest is Thomas Paxton, born in 1820, and the latest birth listed is 2002.
Who counts as from Whitby?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Whitby’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?
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 (21)
- Pierce Lepage: filip bossuyt, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Martin: Greg, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Klimkait: Rodolfo Vilela/rededoesporte.gov.br, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- May Irwin: Joseph Hall, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cole Perfetti: Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dyshawn Pierre: Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Ayres: JFVoll, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Regan: Voltmetro, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Ranger: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood: Bain News Service (publisher), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hughes: Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin Edwards: Timan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Reddox: Anders H Foto, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Hunter McMillan: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Priyanka: DVSROSS, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Herbert Edwin Bradley: Mary Hastings Bradley ( On The Gorilla Trail , 1922), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Paxton: Notman & Fraser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Claude Wilson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gavin Prout: MattBinYYC, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Pottinger: DoubleBlue, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- A. J. Cook: Nigel Horsley, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).