#1Famous people · Windsor
Shania Twain tops a list of 332 famous people born in Windsor
Shania Twain, the Canadian singer, is the most widely known, written about in 73 languages. Second and third on the list are Paul Martin and David H. Hubel. Born in 1822, Alexander Lewis is the first name on record, and Isabelle Nélisse, born in 2003, the most recent. The largest group, 105, was born since 1970.
Born here
332
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Shania Twain
73 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1822
Alexander Lewis
Youngest
2003
Isabelle Nélisse
Most common field
Sports
166 people
What stands out about Windsor’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Windsor
Hubel (48).
#1
#2Politics & Law
Paul Martin
born 1938Prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006
65 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Science & Medicine
David H. Hubel
1926–2013Canadian neurophysiologist
48 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Windsor’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 52 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMusicFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineNotableBusinessFaithMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Windsor is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.3 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Windsor
329 more; the 197 best known are listed here.
J. Paul Reddam
born 1955University Professor, Race Horse owner of the 2012 Kentucky Derby winner, I'll Have Another.
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Windsor
Who is the most famous person from Windsor?
Shania Twain (Canadian singer) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Paul Martin and David H. Hubel.
How many famous people were born in Windsor?
Wikidata places 453 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Windsor known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Windsor?
The earliest is Alexander Lewis, born in 1822, and the latest birth listed is 2003.
Who counts as from Windsor?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Windsor’s city limits (the city’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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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 (81)
- Shania Twain: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Martin: Kate Gottli on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David H. Hubel: Joey cantod, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Oliver Platt: Bridget Laudien, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeon Somi: f2.8, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Katie Findlay: sean.koo, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Garth Hudson: Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacqueline MacInnes Wood: Frantogian, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tamia: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ed Jovanovski: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Skip Spence: KRLA/Beat Publications-page 2, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cam Fowler: mark6mauno, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Ekblad: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sean Burke: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Abdullah the Butcher: Marty555 ( Marty555 ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joel Quenneville: Matt Boulton from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Killer Kowalski: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1931 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice . For further explanation, see Commons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cathy Priestner: Hans Peters for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Meghan Agosta: Meghan_Agosta.jpg : Allie from Vancity derivative work: Tabercil, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Ademolu: Vilnietis, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Zack Kassian: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Martin: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Petey Williams: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tie Domi: Secondarywaltz, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Ward: Dan4th Nicholas from Cambridge, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dorothy Collins: There is no photographer or source shown on either side of the photo, as per the University of Missouri description as source: unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ken Daneyko: Mike L Photo's, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Fellows: Apexonephoto (Transferred by Royalbroil /Originally uploaded by Apexonephoto ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Herb Gray: United Press International, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Viger: City of Boston Archives from West Roxbury, United States, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isabelle Nélisse: Guillaume Boucher, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Beleskey: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Miah-Marie Langolis: IQRemix, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Swainson: Abbie Rowe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Wellwood: CANUCKS HOCKEY BLOG, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott D'Amore: Yagobo79 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barbara Gowdy: Dan Harasymchuk, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Bellemore: Benjamin Reed, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Wellwood: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernestine Russell: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lionel Sanders: Tom.fancsy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Chong: Jake Wright, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sterling Lyon: NJ the Greek, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trevor Murphy: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyrone Crawford: Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christina Pazsitzky: Mandee Johnson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Liffiton: Weatherman05071, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Phillips: OhanaUnited Talk page, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Sobolov: Siike Donnelly, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge: Anonymous, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Susan Truppe: Landontulk, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Annie Chapelier: Annie Chapelier, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Masse: Scott A. Davidson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cheryl Hardcastle: Ian Shalapata, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Jancevski: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Wnukowski: Pianoman199, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc Houle: Marc Houle, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raymond B. Egan: Raymond B. Egan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roman De Angelis: Mdc89, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Mandel: Dave Cournoyer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna Maria Tremonti: Centre for International Governance Innovation from Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Romberg: GMO66, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christine Fellows: Jim Craft ( Happinessiseasy at en.wikipedia ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Martin: Mandy Hall, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Watson: Yoink78, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael DiPietro: Jfvoll, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Fleming: Veenoghu at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Spider Jones: DoubleBlue, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trish Brown: Adamzien, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alaric Jackson: Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Zonjic: 42-BRT, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- BOA: DVSROSS, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Francis: Steven M. Dzibela from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eleanor McMahon: Ben More Assynt, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hayden Hodgson: m_kania, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin James: FourFoFour, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ray Timgren: C56quad, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sandra Pupatello: Sandra Pupatello, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stéphane Gervais: Jice38, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stubby Clapp: EricEnfermero, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Joseph Simpson: Thomas Joseph Simpson, 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).