Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0Next door to Vinegar Hill, Unionville lists 3 famous people
Across Ontario, 386 towns list someone born there. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. Ottawa comes next in Ontario, behind Toronto, with 1,194 names. Of the famous people on record, none was born in Vinegar Hill.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Vinegar Hill’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Vinegar Hill for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Vinegar Hill
Questions about famous people from Vinegar Hill
Who counts as from Vinegar Hill?
The list takes people born within Vinegar Hill’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. 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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (3)
- William Robert Braden: 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).