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Film, TV & Stage
David James Elliott
born 1960Canadian actor
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Famous people · Milton, Ontario
34 famous people were born in Milton, more of them athletes than in most towns
Most widely known is David James Elliott, the Canadian actor, with articles in 25 languages. The first birth on record is Joseph Martin’s, in 1852, and the last Andrei Dumitru’s, in 2006. 16 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.2, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
34
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David James Elliott
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1852
Joseph Martin
Youngest
2006
Andrei Dumitru
Most common field
Sports
20 people
What stands out about Milton’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Milton’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 7 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsMilitary
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Milton is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is scientists and doctors, at 1.9 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Milton
Two of the three are athletes.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Milton
The other 31 span the years 1852 to 2006.
Joseph Martin
1852–1923Canada and British politician, lawyer and newspaper publisher
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William David Willson
1865–1932Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Ronald Roberts
1925–2012Canadian ice hockey executive and international insurance executive
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No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Oakville has the most on record: 147.
Questions about famous people from Milton
Who is the most famous person from Milton?
By our measure the best known is David James Elliott (Canadian actor); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Kirsten Wall and Michael Foley.
How many famous people were born in Milton?
Of the 49 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Milton known for?
59% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Milton?
Joseph Martin (1852). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2006.
Who counts as from Milton?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Milton’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (13)
- Darren Haydar: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Martin: Creator: Cochrane, William, 1831-1898 Creator: Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell), 1864-1923, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Sgarbossa: Michael_Sgarbossa_2013_(2).jpg : Jessica derivative work: Avaholic, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Victoria Bach: John Mac, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Holgate Watson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Megan Carter: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Oscar Fleming: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ben Gulak: BenGulak89, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Krantz: YourTV Halton, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Tracy Wallace: W.T. Wallace, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lindy Booth: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcelo Flores: TheSoccerBoy, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Solowoniuk: Bowman, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).