Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Next door to Morningside Heights, Agincourt South-Malvern West lists 4 famous people
No famous person on record lists Morningside Heights as their birthplace yet. In Ontario, 386 towns have someone on the list. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. Ottawa comes next in Ontario, behind Toronto, with 1,194 names.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Morningside Heights’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Morningside Heights for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Morningside Heights
Questions about famous people from Morningside Heights
Who counts as from Morningside Heights?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Morningside Heights’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. 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)
- William Robert Braden: 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).