Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Next door to Kentley, Stoney Creek lists 17 famous people
Of the famous people on record, none was born in Kentley. 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. Famous people are on record for 386 of the towns in Ontario.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Kentley’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Kentley who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Kentley
Questions about famous people from Kentley
Who counts as from Kentley?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Kentley’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. 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?
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)
- Ethan Page: Tabercil, 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).