Photo: Jennifer Aitkens from Guelph, Ontario, Canada · CC BY 2.0No one from Brooke-Alvinston is on the famous people list yet
Within 15 km, Watford lists the most: 13, with Frank L. Shaw first. 386 of the towns in Ontario list at least one person. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Brooke-Alvinston’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata places 2 people here, but none of their articles confirm Brooke-Alvinston as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Brooke-Alvinston
Questions about famous people from Brooke-Alvinston
Who counts as from Brooke-Alvinston?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Brooke-Alvinston’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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)
- Frank L. Shaw: Los Angeles Daily News, CC BY 4.0, 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).