Golf Course has yet to put a famous person on the list
William Thoburn tops the 25 names on record in Central Business Dis, 2 km away. 386 towns across Ontario can name a famous person born there. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. Behind Toronto, the runner-up in Ontario is Ottawa, at 1,194.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Golf Course’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Golf Course for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Golf Course
Questions about famous people from Golf Course
Who counts as from Golf Course?
The list takes people born within Golf Course’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only 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 (2)
- Stephen Elop: luca.sartoni, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Syvret: Remy Connors, CC BY 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).