#1Famous people · Woodstock, Ontario
Of the 52 famous people born in Woodstock, an unusual share are business people
The best known is the Canadian actor Kevin Zegers, with articles in 34 languages. Behind the leader come Andrea Roth and Jake Muzzin. Between Confederation and 1913, 15 were born, the most of any period. The list is still growing: 8 were born since 1970.
Born here
52
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kevin Zegers
34 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1837
Robert William Weir Carrall
Youngest
1993
Wesley Killing
Most common field
Politics & Law
16 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Woodstock is known for
Business people stand out most, at 3.7 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Woodstock
Two of the three are performers.
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Andrea Roth
born 1967Canadian actress
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Jake Muzzin
born 1989Canadian ice hockey player
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Woodstock’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1950s, with 7 births.
Politics & LawSportsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageBusinessWriting & ArtsMusicMilitary
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Woodstock
Here are 49 more, born from 1837 to 1993.
Evelyn Fletcher Copp
1872–1945Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Karen Mulhallen
born 1942Canadian educator, poet, essayist, critic and editor
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Ingersoll’s, at 24 names.
Questions about famous people from Woodstock
Who is the most famous person from Woodstock?
The top name is Kevin Zegers (Canadian actor), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Andrea Roth and Jake Muzzin.
How many famous people were born in Woodstock?
Wikidata places 66 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Woodstock known for?
31% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Woodstock?
Robert William Weir Carrall (1837). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Woodstock?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Woodstock’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?
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)
- Kevin Zegers: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrea Roth: RealTVfilms, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jake Muzzin: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Kearns: Library of Congress?, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Dufferin Pattullo: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Garth Turner: Chris Slothouber, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Naylor: Blaise Alleyne from Toronto, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave MacQueen: Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Owen Johnson: Bassano, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Pattullo: Pvt. Brotherhood, War Department, USA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ric McIver: Dbo789, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wallace Nesbitt: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isabel Ecclestone Mackay: Major J.S. Matthews, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert William Weir Carrall: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brad Kovachik: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Evelyn Fletcher Copp: Photographer not named., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Farthing: William John Oliver, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Malcolm Smith Schell: Unknown author , publisher: Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edna Alexander: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Babe Siebert: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Stanley Plaskett: 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).