No one from Kingston is on the famous people list yet
Brian Tracy tops the 157 names on record in Charlottetown, 13 km away. 30 of the towns in Prince Edward Island list at least one person. The longest list of any town in Prince Edward Island belongs to Charlottetown, with 157. Second in Prince Edward Island is Summerside (49 names), behind only Charlottetown.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Kingston’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Kingston as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Kingston
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 4.
Questions about famous people from Kingston
Who counts as from Kingston?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Kingston’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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)
- Brian Tracy: Daniel Wikberg, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Russell Shaw: Canada Centennial Commission, 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).