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Sports
Bryan Murray
1942–2017Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Shawville, Quebec
13 famous people come from Shawville, Bryan Murray the best known
Articles in 11 languages make the Canadian ice hockey coach and executive Bryan Murray the best known. Behind the leader come Genevieve Morrison and Terry Murray. Between 1914 and 1945, 4 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 605 towns in Quebec with famous people list more.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bryan Murray
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1845
Moses Chamberlain Edey
Youngest
1988
Genevieve Morrison
Most common field
Sports
7 people
The best known
Born in Shawville
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TM#3
Sports
Terry Murray
born 1950Canadian ice hockey player and coach
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Shawville’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1910s come out on top, with 3 births.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicWriting & Arts
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Shawville is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.4 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.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Shawville
Another 10, the earliest born in 1845.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 1.
Questions about famous people from Shawville
Who is the most famous person from Shawville?
Bryan Murray (Canadian ice hockey coach and executive) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Genevieve Morrison and Terry Murray.
How many famous people were born in Shawville?
Wikidata places 16 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Shawville known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 54%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Shawville?
Moses Chamberlain Edey (1845). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1988.
Who counts as from Shawville?
The list takes people born within Shawville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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.
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).