Photo: Raquel. · CC BY 3.0Famous people from Vellore
The neighbour with the longest list is Woodbridge, 6 km away: 18, led by Elizabeth Arden. No famous person’s birth in Vellore is on record yet. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario. Only Toronto outnumbers Ottawa in Ontario, whose list holds 1,194 names.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Vellore’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Vellore with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Vellore
The best known from each town within 20 km of Vellore, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Vellore
Who counts as from Vellore?
Born inside Vellore’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?
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 (2)
- Elizabeth Arden: New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Fisher, Alan, photographer., Public domain, 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).