Photo: runran from An island in the stream · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Boyle Street has made the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Downtown, 2 km away, lists the most: 2, James McKay first. The Alberta lists hold names for 154 towns. No town in Alberta lists more than Edmonton, with 1,033. After Edmonton, the next longest list in Alberta is Calgary’s, with 1,028.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Boyle Street’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Boyle Street who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Boyle Street
Questions about famous people from Boyle Street
Who counts as from Boyle Street?
The list takes people born within Boyle Street’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (1)
- James McKay: Archives of Manitoba, 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).