No one from Garner is on the famous people list yet
Go 2 km to Sulphur Springs and the list grows to 13, with Stephen Elop at the top. In Ontario, 386 towns have someone on the list. 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
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Garner’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Garner yet.
Famous people born near Garner
The best known from each town within 20 km of Garner, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Garner
Who counts as from Garner?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Garner’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out. 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?
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)
- Stephen Elop: luca.sartoni, 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).