#1Sports
Chuck Kobasew
born 1982Canadian ice hockey player
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Famous people · Osoyoos, British Columbia
The 4 famous people born in Osoyoos, led by Chuck Kobasew
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Chuck Kobasew, covered in 10 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian ice hockey player Mitch Fritz, third to Luke Fritz. For every 10,000 residents the town has 7, while at least half the towns in British Columbia list nobody born there. The list runs from Neil Eisenhut, born in 1967, to Chuck Kobasew, born in 1982.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Chuck Kobasew
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1967
Neil Eisenhut
Youngest
1982
Chuck Kobasew
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Osoyoos
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#2LF#3
Sports
Luke Fritz
born 1978Player of American and Canadian football
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Through the years
When Osoyoos’s famous people were born
Most were born since 1970 (3); the busiest decade is the 1980s (2).
Sports
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Osoyoos
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Osoyoos
Who is the most famous person from Osoyoos?
Chuck Kobasew (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Mitch Fritz and Luke Fritz.
What is Osoyoos known for?
100% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Osoyoos?
Neil Eisenhut, from 1967; the most recent birth on the list is from 1982.
Who counts as from Osoyoos?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Osoyoos’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (3)
- Chuck Kobasew: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mitch Fritz: FrenchKheldar, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patricia Churchland: Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).