Allan Roy Dafoe

Doctor Allan Roy Dafoe (* May 29, 1883, † June 2, 1943 ) was a Canadian obstetrician and especially as a midwife of Dionne Quintuplets, the first known surviving quintuplets known and because of the assumption their custody.

Dafoe was born in Madoc, Ontario, the son of a doctor. In 1909 he began in Callander to work and spent the rest of his life there.

On 28 May 1934 he was called to the birth of a multiple birth of the Dionne family in which both the children and the mother survived what was regarded internationally as a sensation. After the parents custody was revoked, and he henceforth took care under guardianship of the children, he became increasingly attention in the media. Empire he was so by using the children as an advertising medium for many different products and had them put the government in an amusement park to flaunt what observed only positive with great interest by the public, but was later heavily criticized.

For his work with the Dionne quintuplets, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

He can be seen in the documentary Five Times Five.