Photo: Paul Tavares · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people near New Edinburgh: 6 in Vanier North
No famous person’s birth in New Edinburgh is on record yet. 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 New Edinburgh’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in New Edinburgh who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near New Edinburgh
The best known from each town within 20 km of New Edinburgh, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from New Edinburgh
Who counts as from New Edinburgh?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside New Edinburgh’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (2)
- Eric Gelinas: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Buckham Kennedy: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, 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).