Next door to Butler, Sheldon lists 2 famous people
No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Butler. 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
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Butler’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Nobody born in Butler with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Butler
The best known from each town within 20 km of Butler, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Butler
Who counts as from Butler?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Butler’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. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed 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.
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).