Photo: Jean7031 · CC BY-SA 3.0Cachet has yet to put a famous person on the list
Just 2 km away, Unionville’s list holds 3 names, Bob Beckett the best known. Famous people are on record for 386 of the towns in Ontario. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Cachet’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Cachet with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Cachet
Questions about famous people from Cachet
Who counts as from Cachet?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Cachet’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. 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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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)
- Clarence Chant: Unknown author, 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).