#1Science & Medicine
Wade MacLauchlan
born 1954Canadian legal academic, university administrator, politician, community leader and 32nd Premier of Prince Edward Island
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Famous people · North Shore, Prince Edward Island
Wade MacLauchlan tops a list of 2 famous people born in North Shore
Wade MacLauchlan is the best known, with articles in 10 languages. The other is Buck Watts, the Canadian politician. For more famous names, Charlottetown is 13 km away: its list has 157, led by Brian Tracy. The oldest name on the list belongs to Buck Watts, born in 1944, the newest to Wade MacLauchlan, born in 1954.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Wade MacLauchlan
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1944
Buck Watts
Youngest
1954
Wade MacLauchlan
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 person
The best known
Born in North Shore
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Known for
What North Shore is known for
1 of them work in Science & Medicine, the biggest field.
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Questions about famous people from North Shore
Who is the most famous person from North Shore?
By our measure the best known is Wade MacLauchlan (Canadian legal academic, university administrator, politician, community leader and 32nd Premier of Prince Edward Island); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Buck Watts.
What is North Shore known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 5%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from North Shore?
Buck Watts, born in 1944. The youngest on the list was born in 1954.
Who counts as from North Shore?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside North Shore’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. North Shore is also the name of another municipality on Prince Edward Island: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “North Shore”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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)
- Wade MacLauchlan: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Tracy: Daniel Wikberg, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Alexander Macdonald: Charlottetown Guardian, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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