Photo: Mhsheikholeslami · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Markham Village is on the famous people list yet
Unionville, 5 km off, can claim 3 famous people, the best known Bob Beckett. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. Across Ontario, the lists cover 386 towns.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Markham Village’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Nobody born in Markham Village with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Markham Village
Questions about famous people from Markham Village
Who counts as from Markham Village?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Markham Village’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded 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 (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).