Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0No one from Stoke is on the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Sherbrooke, 12 km away, lists the most: 240, Garou first. 605 towns across Quebec can name a famous person born there. The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278. Only Montréal outnumbers Québec in Quebec, whose list holds 1,179 names.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Stoke’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Stoke with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Stoke
Questions about famous people from Stoke
Who counts as from Stoke?
Born inside Stoke’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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (3)
- Garou: Wojciech Pędzich, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rufus Henry Pope: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Ball: Anonymous, 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).