Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from Cornell
Bob Beckett heads the list in Unionville, 7 km away, which has 3 names. Across Ontario, 386 towns list someone born there. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. Behind Toronto, the runner-up in Ontario is Ottawa, at 1,194.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Cornell’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Cornell who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Cornell
Questions about famous people from Cornell
Who counts as from Cornell?
Born inside Cornell’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. 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?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- William Robert Braden: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- 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).