Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person from Broadview North yet, but Danforth East York next door has 24
386 towns in Ontario have at least one famous person on record. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. The best known born in Danforth East York is Jim Brennan.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Broadview North’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Broadview North who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Broadview North
Questions about famous people from Broadview North
Who counts as from Broadview North?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Broadview North’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. 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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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)
- Jim Brennan: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Harper: World Economic Forum / Remy Steinegger, CC BY-SA 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).