#1Famous people · Annex, Toronto
Annex, birthplace of the Canadian politician Ezra Riley
The Canadian politician Ezra Riley was born in 1866. That places their birth before Confederation. Their name appears in articles in 4 languages. Of its neighbours, Yonge-Bay Corridor, 2 km away, lists one: John Lewis.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ezra Riley
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1866
Ezra Riley
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Annex
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Yonge-Bay Corridor’s: one name.
Questions about famous people from Annex
Who is the most famous person from Annex?
By our measure the best known is Ezra Riley (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Annex?
For Annex the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Annex known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Annex?
The list takes people born within Annex’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
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)
- Ezra Riley: 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).