Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Clairlea-Birchmount has yet to put a famous person on the list
The Ontario lists hold names for 386 towns. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. After Toronto, the next longest list in Ontario is Ottawa’s, with 1,194.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Clairlea-Birchmount’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Clairlea-Birchmount who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Questions about famous people from Clairlea-Birchmount
Who counts as from Clairlea-Birchmount?
The list takes people born within Clairlea-Birchmount’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?
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.
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).