Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0No one born in Orford has made the famous people list yet
The nearest list is in Magog, 8 km away: 14 names, starting with Miha Fontaine. In Quebec, 605 towns have someone on the list. Montréal’s 5,278 names make the longest list in Quebec. After Montréal, the next longest list in Quebec is Québec’s, with 1,179.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Orford’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Orford for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Orford
Questions about famous people from Orford
Who counts as from Orford?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Orford’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (1)
- Alvin Head Moore: Publisher: Montreal, Lovell, 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).