Photo: Rick Cordeiro · Public domainNo famous person yet from Central
For a famous name nearby, Strathcona is 1 km away, with Peter Jones. Across Ontario, the lists cover 386 towns. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. After Toronto, the next longest list in Ontario is Ottawa’s, with 1,194.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Central’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Central for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Central
Around it, only Strathcona has someone listed.
Questions about famous people from Central
Who counts as from Central?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Central’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. 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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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)
- 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).