Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNo one from Bostwick is on the famous people list yet
Lambeth, 3 km away, has 3 on its list, the best known Ralph Gordon Stanton. 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. Across Ontario, the lists cover 386 towns.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Bostwick’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Bostwick with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Bostwick
Questions about famous people from Bostwick
Who counts as from Bostwick?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Bostwick’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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)
- David Glass: William James Topley, Public domain, 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).