Photo: Wesoree · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person from Thornlea yet, but Thornhill next door has 24
Across Ontario, the lists cover 386 towns. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. After Toronto, the next longest list in Ontario is Ottawa’s, with 1,194. The best known born in Thornhill is Frank Amyot.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Thornlea’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Thornlea for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Thornlea
Questions about famous people from Thornlea
Who counts as from Thornlea?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Thornlea’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. 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?
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).