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Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/naturallight/ Leslie Philipp · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Taloyoak, Nunavut
2 famous people call Taloyoak their birthplace
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian politician Jeannie Ugyuk. The only other name is the Canadian politician Enuk Pauloosie. Iqaluit’s 12 names make the longest list in Nunavut. 15 towns across Nunavut can name a famous person born there.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jeannie Ugyuk
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1961
Enuk Pauloosie
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Taloyoak
EP#2
Politics & Law
Enuk Pauloosie
born 1961Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Questions about famous people from Taloyoak
Who is the most famous person from Taloyoak?
The top name is Jeannie Ugyuk (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Enuk Pauloosie.
How many famous people were born in Taloyoak?
Wikidata places 5 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Taloyoak known for?
100% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Taloyoak?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Taloyoak’s 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.
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).