Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Beverley Glen is on the famous people list yet
A short trip away, Thornhill (2 km) counts 24 famous people, Frank Amyot among them. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Ottawa has the second-longest list in Ontario, after Toronto, with 1,194. In all of Ontario, the famous people on record come from 386 towns.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Beverley Glen’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Beverley Glen with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Beverley Glen
Questions about famous people from Beverley Glen
Who counts as from Beverley Glen?
Born inside Beverley Glen’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. 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)
- Howie Mandel: TYMA4561, CC BY-SA 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).