Photo: RichardBH from Hamilton, Canada · CC BY 2.0Battlefield has yet to put a famous person on the list
Ethan Page heads the list in Stoney Creek, 1 km away, which has 17 names. In all of Ontario, the famous people on record come from 386 towns. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Battlefield’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Battlefield yet.
Famous people born near Battlefield
Questions about famous people from Battlefield
Who counts as from Battlefield?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Battlefield’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. 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?
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 (1)
- Ethan Page: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).