Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person yet from Beckwith
Go 15 km to Almonte and the list grows to 14, with James Naismith at the top. Across Ontario, the lists cover 386 towns. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Beckwith’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata places 2 people here, but none of their articles confirm Beckwith as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Beckwith
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 3.
Questions about famous people from Beckwith
Who counts as from Beckwith?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Beckwith’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 (2)
- James Naismith: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Roy Brown: 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).