45.4232° N, 75.6926° W
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 1880s Clear ×
Éva Gauthier
1885 - 1958
Frank McGee (ice hockey)
1882 - 1916
Tommy Gorman
1886 - 1961
Frank Patrick (ice hockey)
1885 - 1960
Rockliffe Fellowes
1883 - 1950
Tommy Smith (ice hockey)
1885 - 1966
Bruce Stuart
1881 - 1961
Hamby Shore
1886 - 1918
Harry Smith (ice hockey, born 1883)
1883 - 1953
Skene Ronan
1889 - 1937
Billy Gilmour
1885 - 1959
T. Franklin Ahearn
1886 - 1962
Romuald Bourque
1889 - 1974
Edgar Dey
1883 - 1912
Garnet Sixsmith
1885 - 1967
Charles Edwin Ruttan
1884 - 1939
Lou Skuce
1886 - 1951
Ellard A. Walsh
1887 - 1975
Arthur Sixsmith
1880 - 1969
Billy Baird
1884 - 1968
Arthur Throop
1884 - 1973
Teddy Groulx
1883 - 1936
Suddy Gilmour
1884 - 1932
Percy Sparks
1880 - 1959
J. R. Tremblay
1883 - 1959
Joseph Daniel Nault
1888 - 1954
Dave Gilmour (ice hockey, born 1881)
1882 - 1932
E. A. Bourque
1887 - 1962
Patrick Nolan (politician)
1881 - 1941
Malcolm Ross Bow
1887 - 1982
John P. Balharrie
1883 - 1952
Mickey O'Leary
1882 - 1954
Archie Atkinson
1886 - 1968
Charles Cathmer Ross
1884 - 1938
Thomas Westwick
1887 - 1963
Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier
1887 - 1956
Dave Finnie
1883 - 1967
Joe Dennison
1888 - 1958
Fred Lambart
1880 - 1946
Gordon Shore
1887 - 1964
Charlie McCarthy (ice hockey)
1889 - 1969
Ras Murphy
1886 - 1975