Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0No one born in The Beaches has made the famous people list yet
Jim Brennan tops the 24 names on record in Danforth East York, 3 km away. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. After Toronto, the next longest list in Ontario is Ottawa’s, with 1,194. 386 of the towns in Ontario list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside The Beaches’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in The Beaches for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near The Beaches
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 1.
Questions about famous people from The Beaches
Who counts as from The Beaches?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside The Beaches’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. 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?
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)
- Jim Brennan: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, 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).