Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Oakridge has no famous person on record yet
Of its neighbours, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 4 km away, lists the most: 2, Sasha Lakovic first. The longest list in British Columbia is Vancouver’s, with 1,534 names. After Vancouver, the next longest list in British Columbia is Victoria’s, with 386. The British Columbia lists hold names for 144 towns.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Oakridge’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Oakridge who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Oakridge
Questions about famous people from Oakridge
Who counts as from Oakridge?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Oakridge’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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)
- Sasha Lakovic: Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, 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).