No town in Ontario has more famous people than Toronto: 4,724

By our measure the best known is Christopher Plummer (Canadian actor); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Mary Pickford and Drake.

Wikidata places 6,945 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.

Mostly athletes: 1,832 of the 4,724 people listed. 39% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.

Robert Baldwin, born in 1804. The youngest on the list was born in 2008.

What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Toronto’s city limits (the city’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. 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.

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.