#1Famous people · Whitewater Region, Ontario
Whitewater Region’s famous people span 131 years: 5 births from 1870 to 2001
Jack Quinn, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 12 languages. The next two names are David Allan Bromley and Arthur Edward Ross. Between Confederation and 1913, 3 were born, the most of any period. The list’s best known name, Jack Quinn, dates from 2001.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jack Quinn
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1870
Arthur Edward Ross
Youngest
2001
Jack Quinn
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Whitewater Region
#1
#2Science & Medicine
David Allan Bromley
1926–2005Canadian-American physicist
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AR#3
Politics & Law
Arthur Edward Ross
1870–1952Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Whitewater Region’s famous people were born
The 2000s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Politics & LawSportsScience & Medicine
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Whitewater Region is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 2.7 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Whitewater Region
Still to come: 2 more, from 1880 to 1892.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Fort-Coulonge’s, at 6 names.
Questions about famous people from Whitewater Region
Who is the most famous person from Whitewater Region?
The top name is Jack Quinn (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come David Allan Bromley and Arthur Edward Ross.
How many famous people were born in Whitewater Region?
Wikidata places 8 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Whitewater Region known for?
60% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Whitewater Region?
Arthur Edward Ross, born in 1870. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Whitewater Region?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Whitewater Region’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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (3)
- Jack Quinn: HickoryOughtShirt?4, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Allan Bromley: D. Allen Bromley, Eugen Merzbacher, Donal Robson, Frans Saris, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Percy Wright: 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).