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Famous people · Mount Dennis, Toronto

Mount Dennis, birthplace of the Canadian musician and author Danny Brooks

In 1951, the Canadian musician and author Danny Brooks was born. Their birth falls between 1946 and 1969. Articles about them exist in 3 languages. Paul Coffey heads the list in Weston, 2 km away, which has 28 names.

#1 best knownDanny BrooksMusic · born 1951
Born here
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Best known
Danny Brooks
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1951
Danny Brooks
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known

Born in Mount Dennis

Danny Brooks#1
Music

Danny Brooks

born 1951

Canadian musician and author

3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Questions about famous people from Mount Dennis

Who is the most famous person from Mount Dennis?

Danny Brooks (Canadian musician and author) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.

How many famous people were born in Mount Dennis?

Count on the list: 1, each born in Mount Dennis according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has 2 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.

What is Mount Dennis known for?

Mostly musicians: 1 of the 1 people listed. They make up 100% here, compared with 6% across Canadian towns.

Who counts as from Mount Dennis?

Born inside Mount Dennis’ 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. 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).

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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).