Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNo famous person born in Kinburn is listed yet
James Naismith heads the list in Almonte, 17 km away, which has 14 names. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. Behind Toronto, the runner-up in Ontario is Ottawa, at 1,194. Across Ontario, 386 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Kinburn’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Kinburn for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Kinburn
Questions about famous people from Kinburn
Who counts as from Kinburn?
Born inside Kinburn’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. 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?
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 (4)
- James Naismith: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Evan Milward: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hib Milks: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James C. Willson: 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).