#1Film, TV & Stage
Shay Mitchell
born 1987Canadian actress
51 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Mississauga
248 famous people from Mississauga, many of them athletes
Shay Mitchell, the Canadian actress, is the most widely known, written about in 51 languages. Behind the leader come Bianca Andreescu and Alessia Cara. The largest group, 218, was born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3.2, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
248
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Shay Mitchell
51 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1876
Melvin Ormond Hammond
Youngest
2005
Myles Naylor
Most common field
Sports
184 people
What stands out about Mississauga’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Mississauga’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 91 people born in that decade.
SportsFilm, TV & StageMusicNotablePolitics & LawWriting & ArtsBusinessScience & MedicineMilitaryFaith
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Mississauga is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 2 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Mississauga
#1
#2Sports
Bianca Andreescu
born 2000Canadian tennis player
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#3Music
Alessia Cara
born 1996Italian-Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Mississauga
245 more; the 197 best known are listed here.
Tera van Beilen
born 1993Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games silver medallist
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No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Hurontario’s, at 3 names.
Questions about famous people from Mississauga
Who is the most famous person from Mississauga?
Shay Mitchell (Canadian actress) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Bianca Andreescu and Alessia Cara.
How many famous people were born in Mississauga?
Wikidata has 347 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Mississauga known for?
Here the share is 74%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mississauga?
Melvin Ormond Hammond (1876). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2005.
Who counts as from Mississauga?
The list takes people born within Mississauga’s city limits (the city’s 2021 census subdivision), 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?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (102)
- Shay Mitchell: Ashley Graham, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bianca Andreescu: JazzyJoeyD, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alessia Cara: Ted Eytan, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Santino Marella: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Harmon: Nathalie de los Santos via Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Winnie Harlow: Owl Bridge Media, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Diana Matheson: Erica McCaulley, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Tavares: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- PartyNextDoor: Warner Bros. Records, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nik Stauskas: Frenchieinportland, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonelle Filigno: Hmlarson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Schmid: Meretean at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Natalie Appleton: ger1axg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Owen Power: Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carmelina Moscato: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Spezza: Nick Barden, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ricardo Ferreira: Богдан Заяц, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoff Platt: Saruwine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laura Stacey: John Mac, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Strome: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dylan Strome: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Paul: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Naz Mitrou-Long: Max Goldberg, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brad Boyes: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Manny Malhotra: Loxy!! from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robby Fabbri: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adamo Ruggiero: Phil Birnbaum, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brittany Crew: CBC Sports, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Caleb Houstan: MGoBlog, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Emery Welshman: Hayden Schiff from Cincinnati, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marina Stakusic: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Stajan: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Sproul: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shawn Matthias: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael McLeod: Jfvoll, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sebastien Grainger: Stuart Sevastos, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elias Theodorou: MMAnytt, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Grant Marshall: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Capobianco: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luciano Aquino: Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan McLeod: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sean Durzi: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Aquino: Matteo Della Malva, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- J.D. Fortune: Wikifanp99, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica De Filippo: Jessica De Filippo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laeticia Amihere: Gamecock Central, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maksym Kowal: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shawn Hill: james_in_to on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tera van Beilen: Ubcwwong, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Laird Kennedy: Gilbert A. Milne, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Kostopoulos: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Blake McGrath: Vervegirl Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Broll: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gavin McCallum: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Giuliano Frano: Cold, Indrid, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Vanderbeken: SD Dirk from San Diego, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jelani Smith: Canada Soccer Fan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Barber: Martin Cathrae, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Caruso: Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Melhado: Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rick Titus: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan James: Hayden Schiff from Cincinnati, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shawn Faria: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Austin MacDonald: RealTVfilms, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bo Naylor: Erik Drost, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brent Urban: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dalton Pompey: Randy Landicho, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Adams: CBC Sports, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Gaudreault: Daieuxetdailleurs, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Corrente: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Boskovic: Hayden Schiff from Cincinnati, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Suzie McNeil: nikkon- ( http://www.nikky.org ), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- A.J. Saudin: The Come Up Show from Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adrian Anantawan: Shealeah Craighead, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Amanda Allen: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris D'Alvise: Alex Micheu Photography from VILLACH, Austria, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elijah Mitrou-Long: Ron Sellers, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isaiah Johnston: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jaime Bourbonnais: Rh723, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Devane: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica DiGirolamo: John Mac, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Balazovic: Minda Haas Kuhlmann, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kunle Dada-Luke: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marko Bedenikovic: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Massimo Ferrin: A Disappearing Act, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Silva: John Jacques, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Melvin Ormond Hammond: Attributed to Melvin Ormond Hammond, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samantha Chang: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sebastian Castello: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Allan Rourke: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christina Kessler: Genevieve2, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Visentin: Sikander Iqbal, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dean Kondziolka: Sunlover2011, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Deanna Casaluce: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Heather MacLean: Ubcwwong, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Croxall: Japanbird, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Beca: Tthaas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richie Mehta: MiamiFilmFestival, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew McGrath: Flickerd, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brandon Toste: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Shales: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dejon Brissett: Cmm3, 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).