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Photo: Fabian Roudra Baroi · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Downsview, Toronto
3 famous people were born in Downsview from 1847 to 1956
The best known is the Canadian athlete Robert Gray, with articles in 8 languages. The Canadian politician Samuel Bridgeland ranks second, ahead of Thomas Wesley Jackson. Nearby, Beechborough-Greenbrook, 4 km away, lists 13, led by George William Allan. Robert Gray, the best known, was born in 1956.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Robert Gray
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1847
Samuel Bridgeland
Youngest
1956
Robert Gray
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Downsview
Leaders take two of the three places.
SB#2
Politics & Law
Samuel Bridgeland
1847–1903Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
TJ#3
Politics & Law
Thomas Wesley Jackson
1859–1934Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Downsview is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, with 2 people.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
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Questions about famous people from Downsview
Who is the most famous person from Downsview?
Robert Gray (Canadian athlete) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Samuel Bridgeland and Thomas Wesley Jackson.
How many famous people were born in Downsview?
5 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Downsview known for?
Here the share is 67%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Downsview?
The earliest is Samuel Bridgeland, born in 1847, and the latest birth listed is 1956.
Who counts as from Downsview?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Downsview’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?
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).
Photo credits (1)
- George William Allan: William James Topley, 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).