Barbara Howard, born in 1926, is Long Branch’s famous person on record

By our measure the best known is Barbara Howard (Canadian painter, wood engraver, draughtsperson, bookbinder and designer); the spotlight above gives the details.

Born in Long Branch and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1.

The largest group is writers and artists, 1 in all out of 1. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 12%.

Wikidata has to place the birth inside Long Branch’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. 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.

Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.