Photo: Sikander Iqbal · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Avondale is on the famous people list yet
Howie Mandel tops the 6 names on record in Newtonbrook West, 4 km away. The Ontario lists hold names for 386 towns. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. Only Toronto outnumbers Ottawa in Ontario, whose list holds 1,194 names.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Avondale’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Avondale with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Avondale
Questions about famous people from Avondale
Who counts as from Avondale?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Avondale’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?
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 (2)
- Howie Mandel: TYMA4561, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dalton Bales: Ontario Legislative Assembly, 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).