#1Sports
Mitchell Marner
born 1997Canadian ice hockey player
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Markham
58 famous people were born in Markham, more of them athletes than in most towns
Mitchell Marner, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 24 languages. The Canadian ice hockey forward Steven Stamkos ranks second, ahead of Jayde Riviere. The largest group, 46, was born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents the town has 1.6, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
58
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mitchell Marner
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1823
David Reesor
Youngest
2004
Micah Chisholm
Most common field
Sports
44 people
What stands out about Markham’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Markham’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1990s, with 26 births.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageBusinessMusicMilitaryNotableScience & Medicine
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Markham is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Markham
Mitchell Marner, Steven Stamkos and Jayde Riviere are written about in 24, 24 and 20 languages.
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#2Sports
Steven Stamkos
born 1990Canadian ice hockey forward
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Markham
Still to come: 55 more, from 1823 to 2004.
Shivon Zilis
born 1986Canadian technology executive and project director at Neuralink
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Rose Labreche
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Unionville has the most on record, with 3.
Questions about famous people from Markham
Who is the most famous person from Markham?
Mitchell Marner (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Steven Stamkos and Jayde Riviere.
How many famous people were born in Markham?
Wikidata counts 85 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Markham known for?
76% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Markham?
David Reesor, from 1823; the most recent birth on the list is from 2004.
Who counts as from Markham?
Born inside Markham’s city limits (the city’s 2021 census subdivision) 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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (28)
- Mitchell Marner: Nickbarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steven Stamkos: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jayde Riviere: Douglas O'Brien from Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Skinner: VirtKitty from Raleigh, NC, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Wells: SD Dirk, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aviva Mongillo: غالي مسلم, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Warren Foegele: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Morad: Osajus Photography from Asheville, NC, United States, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jade Rose: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shivon Zilis: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aidan Daniels: Hayden Schiff from Cincinnati, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ethan Werek: Jessica, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Blandisi: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Haley Smith: s.yuki, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Romano: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luca Uccello: Hayden Schiff from Cincinnati, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Niko Giantsopoulos: John Jacques, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Schmidt: Katzenfutter, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Calandra: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Robertson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna-Marie Ondaatje: GrandTV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward L. Cash: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Rennie: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Shannon Turner: Puffycoombes, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Reesor: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Querrie: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clarence Chant: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Craig: 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).