Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0South Cameron has yet to put a famous person on the list
386 towns in Ontario have at least one famous person on record. Jesse Divnich tops the 7 names on record in LaSalle, 6 km away. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724. Behind Toronto, the runner-up in Ontario is Ottawa, at 1,194.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside South Cameron’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in South Cameron for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near South Cameron
Questions about famous people from South Cameron
Who counts as from South Cameron?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside South Cameron’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. 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 (2)
- Jesse Divnich: AussieDev, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- McKee Rankin: C. A. Myers, 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).