AP#1
Sports
Annie Perreault
born 1971Canadian short track speed skater
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Windsor, Quebec
Of the 10 famous people born in Windsor, an unusual share are leaders
Annie Perreault, the Canadian short track speed skater, is the most widely known, written about in 15 languages. The next two names are Albert Joseph Brown and Manon Massé. Over 110 years of births, the list goes from Albert Joseph Brown (1861) to Annie Perreault (1971). For every 10,000 residents there are 18.6 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Annie Perreault
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1861
Albert Joseph Brown
Youngest
1971
Annie Perreault
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
What stands out about Windsor’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Windsor is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 2.7 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When Windsor’s famous people were born
The 1960s alone account for 3 of the births charted here.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Windsor
The three are covered in 15, 6 and 6 languages: Annie Perreault, Albert Joseph Brown and Manon Massé.
#2Politics & Law
Albert Joseph Brown
1861–1938Canadian lawyer, business man and politician
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Manon Massé
born 1963Canadian politician
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Windsor
Here are 7 more, born from 1930 to 1964.
No one matches both filters.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Windsor
Who is the most famous person from Windsor?
Annie Perreault (Canadian short track speed skater) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Albert Joseph Brown and Manon Massé.
How many famous people were born in Windsor?
Wikidata places 19 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Windsor known for?
They make up 60% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Windsor?
The earliest is Albert Joseph Brown, born in 1861, and the latest birth listed is 1971.
Who counts as from Windsor?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Windsor’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.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Albert Joseph Brown: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Manon Massé: Québec solidaire, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Nichol: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sylvain Lefebvre: Håkan Dahlström, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund William Tobin: Unknown author , publisher: Montreal Perrault Print. Co, 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).