Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Beasley is on the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Strathcona, 2 km away, lists one: Peter Jones. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Behind Toronto, the runner-up in Ontario is Ottawa, at 1,194. The Ontario lists hold names for 386 towns.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Beasley’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Beasley for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Beasley
Of the towns around it, Strathcona has the most on record.
Questions about famous people from Beasley
Who counts as from Beasley?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Beasley’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
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)
- Peter Jones: Hill & Adamson, 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).