Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person born in Greely is listed yet
Osgoode - Vernon, 12 km off, can claim 7 famous people, the best known Samuel Allen Carson. 386 of the towns in Ontario list at least one person. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. After Toronto, the next longest list in Ontario is Ottawa’s, with 1,194.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Greely’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Greely who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Greely
Questions about famous people from Greely
Who counts as from Greely?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Greely’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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the 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 (1)
- Samuel Allen Carson: Unknown author, Public domain, 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).