Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person born in Langstaff is listed yet
Thornhill, 2 km away, has 24 on its list, the best known Frank Amyot. In Ontario, 386 towns have someone on the list. 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
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Langstaff’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Langstaff with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Langstaff
Questions about famous people from Langstaff
Who counts as from Langstaff?
Born inside Langstaff’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. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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)
- Howie Mandel: TYMA4561, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).