Photo: ChadPerez49 · CC BY-SA 3.0Next door to Wismer Commons, Unionville lists 3 famous people
386 towns across Ontario can name a famous person born there. No famous person’s birth in Wismer Commons is on record yet. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Ottawa comes next in Ontario, behind Toronto, with 1,194 names.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Wismer Commons’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Wismer Commons for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Wismer Commons
Questions about famous people from Wismer Commons
Who counts as from Wismer Commons?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Wismer Commons’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out. 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)
- William Robert Braden: 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).