Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.0No one from Moss Park is on the famous people list yet
Born 1 km away in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town: Larry Gains, the one name on its list. Across Ontario, the lists cover 386 towns. 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
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Moss Park’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Moss Park for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Moss Park
The longest list nearby is Cabbagetown-South St.James Town’s, with one.
Questions about famous people from Moss Park
Who counts as from Moss Park?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Moss Park’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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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.
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).