Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person from South Central yet, but Walkerville next door has 2
In Ontario, 386 towns have someone on the list. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. Ottawa comes next in Ontario, behind Toronto, with 1,194 names. The best known born in Walkerville is Arthur Saint-Pierre.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside South Central’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in South Central for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near South Central
Questions about famous people from South Central
Who counts as from South Central?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside South Central’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed 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)
- 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).