Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person yet from Blake-Jones
Go 2 km to Danforth East York and the list grows to 24, with Jim Brennan at the top. In all of Ontario, the famous people on record come from 386 towns. Toronto has the most of any town in Ontario: 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Blake-Jones’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Blake-Jones yet.
Famous people born near Blake-Jones
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 2.
Questions about famous people from Blake-Jones
Who counts as from Blake-Jones?
Born inside Blake-Jones’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. 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?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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)
- Jim Brennan: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, 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).