No famous person from Maple Leaf yet, but Weston next door has 28
In Ontario, 386 towns have someone on the list. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. Weston’s list is led by Paul Coffey.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Maple Leaf’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Maple Leaf with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Maple Leaf
Questions about famous people from Maple Leaf
Who counts as from Maple Leaf?
Born inside Maple Leaf’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (3)
- Paul Coffey: Mother Pucker, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George William Allan: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Brooks: Republic Country Club, CC BY 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).