Photo: Michael Gil from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0Islington has no famous person on record yet
Dixie, 4 km off, can claim 3 famous people, the best known Albert Durrant Watson. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. 386 towns in Ontario have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Islington’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Islington with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Islington
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 2.
Questions about famous people from Islington
Who counts as from Islington?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Islington’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (2)
- Albert Durrant Watson: Photographer unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Holmes Howland: Unknown author, 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).