Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Yonge-Eglinton yet, but South Eglinton-Davisville next door has 1
Toronto has the most of any town in Ontario: 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. Famous people are on record for 386 of the towns in Ontario. The best known born in South Eglinton-Davisville is Henry Sloane Cooper.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Yonge-Eglinton’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Yonge-Eglinton yet.
Famous people born near Yonge-Eglinton
The longest list nearby is South Eglinton-Davisville’s, with one.
Questions about famous people from Yonge-Eglinton
Who counts as from Yonge-Eglinton?
The list takes people born within Yonge-Eglinton’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. 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?
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.
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).