Marritt has no famous person on record yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Sulphur Springs, 2 km away: 13, led by Stephen Elop. In all of Ontario, the famous people on record come from 386 towns. Toronto has the most of any town in Ontario: 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Marritt’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in Marritt with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Marritt
Questions about famous people from Marritt
Who counts as from Marritt?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Marritt’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. 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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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).