Photo: Photographer: Christine Lee (Malton Resident) ( Tuvok649 ) · CC BY 3.0Malton has no famous person on record yet
West Humber-Clairville, 4 km away, has 6 on its list, the best known Nav. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. Famous people are on record for 386 of the towns in Ontario.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Malton’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Malton as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Malton
The best known from each town within 20 km of Malton, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Malton
Who counts as from Malton?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Malton’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. 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?
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 (2)
- Nav: Shotbytwinky, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Cassels: Tsunami330, 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).