Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0No one born in North Kawartha has made the famous people list yet
Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. 386 towns in Ontario have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside North Kawartha’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in North Kawartha yet.
Questions about famous people from North Kawartha
Who counts as from North Kawartha?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside North Kawartha’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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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.
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).