#1Politics & Law
George Barnard Baker
1834–1910Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Dunham, Quebec
Dunham is the birthplace of 2 famous people
George Barnard Baker, the Canadian politician, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The other is Thomas Wood. Go 7 km to Cowansville and the list grows to 20, with Max Parrot at the top. Over 19 years of births, the list goes from Thomas Wood (1815) to George Barnard Baker (1834).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
George Barnard Baker
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1815
Thomas Wood
Youngest
1834
George Barnard Baker
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Dunham
#1#2Business
Thomas Wood
1815–1898Canadian businessman, farmer and politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Dunham is known for
The field with the most names is Politics & Law: 1.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 6.
Questions about famous people from Dunham
Who is the most famous person from Dunham?
By our measure the best known is George Barnard Baker (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Thomas Wood.
What is Dunham known for?
50% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dunham?
Thomas Wood, born in 1815. The youngest on the list was born in 1834.
Who counts as from Dunham?
Born inside Dunham’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
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)
- George Barnard Baker: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Wood: Montminy & Cie., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Hart: 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).