Photo: Padraic · CC BY-SA 2.0Laurentian Valley has yet to put a famous person on the list
The neighbour with the longest list is Pembroke, 4 km away: 55, led by Tom Green. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. 386 towns across Ontario can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Laurentian Valley’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in Laurentian Valley with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Laurentian Valley
Questions about famous people from Laurentian Valley
Who counts as from Laurentian Valley?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Laurentian Valley’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (2)
- Tom Green: Kristen Wong, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Peca: TheAHL, 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).