Photo: Transportfan70 · CC0Cathedraltown has no famous person on record yet
For more famous names, Richmond Hill is 5 km away: its list has 63, led by Connor McDavid. Toronto has the most of any town in Ontario: 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. 386 towns in Ontario have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Cathedraltown’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in Cathedraltown with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Cathedraltown
Questions about famous people from Cathedraltown
Who counts as from Cathedraltown?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Cathedraltown’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. 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?
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)
- Connor McDavid: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).