Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNo one from Hope is on the famous people list yet
A short trip away, Richmond Hill (6 km) counts 63 famous people, Connor McDavid among them. In all of Ontario, the famous people on record come from 386 towns. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. Behind Toronto, the runner-up in Ontario is Ottawa, at 1,194.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Hope’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Hope for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Hope
Questions about famous people from Hope
Who counts as from Hope?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Hope’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out. 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?
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)
- Connor McDavid: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- 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).