Photo: Michael Nugent from Vancouver, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from City View is on the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Centrepointe - Briargreen, 2 km away: 17, led by Sandra Oh. Across Ontario, 386 towns list someone born there. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Behind Toronto, the runner-up in Ontario is Ottawa, at 1,194.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside City View’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in City View for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near City View
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from City View
Who counts as from City View?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside City View’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. 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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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)
- Sandra Oh: Peabody Awards, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).