DC#1
Sports
Derek Cornelius
born 1997Canadian soccer player
29 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ajax, Ontario
Of the 44 famous people born in Ajax, an unusual share are athletes
Derek Cornelius, the Canadian soccer player, is the most widely known, written about in 29 languages. Since 1970, 38 were born, the most of any period. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3.1, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. Born in 1940, Joe Dickson is the first name on record, and Matthew Poitras, born in 2004, the most recent.
Born here
44
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Derek Cornelius
29 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1940
Joe Dickson
Youngest
2004
Matthew Poitras
Most common field
Sports
31 people
What stands out about Ajax’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Ajax’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1990s, with 17 births.
SportsMusicNotableFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineMilitary
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Ajax is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.9 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Ajax
Athletes take two of the three places.
#2Sports
Nichelle Prince
born 1995Canadian soccer player
23 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Ajax
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Oshawa lists the most people: 151.
Questions about famous people from Ajax
Who is the most famous person from Ajax?
Derek Cornelius (Canadian soccer player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Nichelle Prince and Corey Sevier.
How many famous people were born in Ajax?
Wikidata places 61 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Ajax known for?
They make up 70% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ajax?
Joe Dickson (1940). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2004.
Who counts as from Ajax?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Ajax’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next 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 (24)
- Nichelle Prince: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Corey Sevier: Canadian Film Centre / Mark Sullivan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Jocz: Jonas MF from Arrecife, Canarias, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Munro Chambers: Vervegirl Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tara Watchorn: _becaro_, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Kostka: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny O'Shea: St Louis Blues / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Devin Shore: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Beukeboom: Håkan Dahlström [1] ( Hakandahlstrom at en.wikipedia ), CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- T-Minus: Shutemdownyyz, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Connor McMichael: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Dover: Hayden Schiff from Cincinnati, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Carcone: HappyBoi3892, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Emmett O'Connor: Chris Crews, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Shepherd: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nyal Higgins: wanderin' wolfgang, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Ramsay: Hockeytigers (Eva Fuchs), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Akeem Foster: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Dickson: Sandra Pupatello, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christian Cardell Corbet: Drchandler, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Boateng: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- A. J. Cook: Nigel Horsley, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierce Lepage: filip bossuyt, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- William Robert Braden: Unknown author, 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).