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TORONTO

Most Famous People Born in Toronto, Canada

Notable people

4,438

Peak decade

1950s

Median birth year

1956

Most distinctive

Hockey 12.0×

A hockey town with a film industry on the side. Hockey alone accounts for one in seven of Toronto's notable births, and the distinctive-profession list reads like a Canadian winter — ice hockey players at twelve times the global rate, figure skaters, rowers, and novelists close behind. Almost nothing here predates Confederation; the city's notables fan out from the late 19th century into a steady bench of actors, musicians, and filmmakers.