#1Sports
Paul Coffey
born 1961Canadian ice hockey defenceman
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Famous people · Weston, Toronto
Weston counts 28 famous people, first among them Paul Coffey
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Paul Coffey, covered in 20 languages. 14 of them were born between 1946 and 1969, more than in any other period. Born in 1842, Vernon Bayley Wadsworth is the first name on record, and Mikey Bustos, born in 1981, the most recent. For every 10,000 residents the town has 14.8, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
28
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Paul Coffey
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1842
Vernon Bayley Wadsworth
Youngest
1981
Mikey Bustos
Most common field
Sports
14 people
What stands out about Weston’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Weston’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1950s than in any other decade: 8.
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Born in Weston
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Adam Oates
born 1962Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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Craig Ramsay
born 1951Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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Known for
What Weston is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.3 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Weston
25 more names, born between 1842 and 1981.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, only Mount Dennis has a name on its list.
Questions about famous people from Weston
Who is the most famous person from Weston?
Paul Coffey (Canadian ice hockey defenceman) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Adam Oates and Craig Ramsay.
How many famous people were born in Weston?
Of the 35 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Weston known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Weston?
Vernon Bayley Wadsworth, from 1842; the most recent birth on the list is from 1981.
Who counts as from Weston?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Weston’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (10)
- Paul Coffey: Mother Pucker, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Oates: Alena Schwarz, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Tyrrell: Canadian Press Syndicate, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Martini: Wolfgang Thieme, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Liut: St Louis Blues / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Smitherman: Andrei Sedoff, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Karen McCrimmon: Tholden28, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne Giardini: Dale Northey, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elwy Yost: Markbellis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Brooks: Republic Country Club, CC BY 2.0, 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).