Photo: Paulo O from Halifax, Canada · CC BY 2.0Next door to Woodlawn, North End lists 71 famous people
No famous person on record lists Woodlawn as their birthplace yet. The longest list of any town in Nova Scotia belongs to Halifax, with 397. After Halifax, the next longest list in Nova Scotia is Cape Breton’s, with 202. Across Nova Scotia, the lists cover 82 towns.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Woodlawn’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Woodlawn who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Woodlawn
Questions about famous people from Woodlawn
Who counts as from Woodlawn?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Woodlawn’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (3)
- Elliot Page: PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sidney Crosby: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Dixon: unattributed, 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).