Photo: andrewarchy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0Famous people near Yonge-Doris: 6 in Newtonbrook West
386 towns in Ontario have at least one famous person on record. No famous person on record lists Yonge-Doris as their birthplace yet. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Yonge-Doris’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Yonge-Doris for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Yonge-Doris
Towns around it with someone on record: 2.
Questions about famous people from Yonge-Doris
Who counts as from Yonge-Doris?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Yonge-Doris’ 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. 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 (2)
- Howie Mandel: TYMA4561, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dalton Bales: Ontario Legislative Assembly, Public domain, 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).