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OTTAWA
Most Famous People Born in Ottawa, Canada
- Notable people
- 1,174
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1951
- Most distinctive
- Curler 23.1×
Less a national capital than the place Canada uses to manufacture winter athletes — the Curler bench runs at better than twenty-three times the global baseline, which is extreme even by Canadian standards, and the broom-and-blade pipeline goes deeper than the Parliament Hill day jobs. A disproportionate Skater count and a catch-all Sport bump fill in everything the Rideau Canal has frozen into Olympians over the decades.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Ottawa during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Ottawa Is Known For
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Hockey is Ottawa's biggest profession — 21% of all notables (248).
Ottawa over-indexes on curler — 23.1× the global rate.
Ottawa under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Ottawa's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Duncan Campbell Scott
1862 - 1947
Archibald Lampman
1861 - 1899
Agar Adamson
1865 - 1929
Elgin Gould
1860 - 1915
Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles
1866 - 1928
Edgar Lewis Horwood
1868 - 1957
Régis Roy
1864 - 1944
Robert Henry Grant
1860 - 1930
William Costello Kennedy
1868 - 1923
Alfred Ernest Fripp
1866 - 1938
Halder Kirby
1863 - 1924
Fred Chittick
1868 - 1917
Jack Kerr (ice hockey)
1863 - 1933
John Léo Chabot
1869 - 1936