Photo: Ryan Tir from Vaughan, ON, Canada · CC BY 2.0Crossroads has no famous person on record yet
Of its neighbours, Thornhill, 4 km away, lists the most: 24, Frank Amyot first. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. 386 of the towns in Ontario list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Crossroads’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Crossroads who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Crossroads
Questions about famous people from Crossroads
Who counts as from Crossroads?
The list takes people born within Crossroads’ 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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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)
- Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook: Unknown author, 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).