Photo: Raymond Leung from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0The Archipelago has no famous person on record yet
Bobby Orr heads the list in Parry Sound, 6 km away, which has 23 names. 386 towns in Ontario have at least one famous person on record. 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.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside The Archipelago’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in The Archipelago for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near The Archipelago
Questions about famous people from The Archipelago
Who counts as from The Archipelago?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside The Archipelago’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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)
- Bobby Orr: Aaron Frutman, CC BY 2.0, 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).