Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Newton
Go 7 km to Port Mann and the list has one name, Samuel Maclure. Vancouver has the most of any town in British Columbia: 1,534. Only Vancouver outnumbers Victoria in British Columbia, whose list holds 386 names. Of the famous people on record, none was born in Newton.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Newton’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Newton yet.
Famous people born near Newton
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Newton
Who counts as from Newton?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Newton’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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.
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).