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Patrick Iannone
born 1982Canadian-born Italian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Fruitvale, British Columbia
One famous person was born in Fruitvale
In 1982, the Canadian-Born Italian ice hockey player Patrick Iannone was born. Their name appears in articles in 6 languages. Of its neighbours, Trail, 11 km away, lists the most: 67, Kathleen Heddle first. The longest list of any town in British Columbia belongs to Vancouver, with 1,534.
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Patrick Iannone
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
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1982
Patrick Iannone
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Questions about famous people from Fruitvale
Who is the most famous person from Fruitvale?
Patrick Iannone (Canadian-born Italian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Fruitvale?
Born in Fruitvale and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1. Wikidata counts 2 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Fruitvale known for?
The largest group is athletes, 1 in all out of 1. They make up 100% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Fruitvale?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Fruitvale’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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.
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).