#1George William Allan
1822–1901Canadian politician
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The best known is the Canadian politician George William Allan, with articles in 8 languages. Close behind are Frieda Fraser and Glen Sharpley. The list runs from James Edward Small, born in 1798, to Peter Flache, born in 1982. For every 10,000 residents the town has 20.3, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
#1Canadian politician
#2Canadian physician
#3Canadian ice hockey player
The 1890s alone account for 3 of the births charted here.
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 1.4 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The other 10 span the years 1798 to 1982.


Canadian paediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto


No one matches both filters.
Nearby, Mount Dennis has the most on record: one.
The top name is George William Allan (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Frieda Fraser and Glen Sharpley.
Of the 22 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
38% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
James Edward Small, from 1798; the most recent birth on the list is from 1982.
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Beechborough-Greenbrook’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
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).
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).