Photo: P199 · Public domainNo one from Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional is on the famous people list yet
386 towns across Ontario can name a famous person born there. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata places 2 people here, but none of their articles confirm Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Questions about famous people from Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional
Who counts as from Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional’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?
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.
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).