#1Politics & Law
Stephen Harper
born 195922nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
111 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Leaside-Bennington, Toronto
Leaside-Bennington has just one famous person to its name: Stephen Harper
Stephen Harper was born in 1959. Their birth falls between 1946 and 1969. 111 languages have an article about them. Of its neighbours, South Eglinton-Davisville, 2 km away, lists one: Henry Sloane Cooper.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Stephen Harper
111 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1959
Stephen Harper
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Leaside-Bennington
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Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is South Eglinton-Davisville’s, with one.
Questions about famous people from Leaside-Bennington
Who is the most famous person from Leaside-Bennington?
The top name is Stephen Harper (22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Leaside-Bennington?
For Leaside-Bennington the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Leaside-Bennington known for?
The largest group is leaders, 1 in all out of 1. Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who counts as from Leaside-Bennington?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Leaside-Bennington’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?
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)
- 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).