Photo: P199 · Public domainNo one from Highlands East is on the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Haliburton Village, 18 km away: 5, led by Matt Duchene. In all of Ontario, the famous people on record come from 386 towns. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. Only Toronto outnumbers Ottawa in Ontario, whose list holds 1,194 names.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Highlands East’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Highlands East yet.
Famous people born near Highlands East
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Highlands East
Who counts as from Highlands East?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Highlands East’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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)
- Matt Duchene: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, 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).