#1Film, TV & Stage
Sandra Oh
born 1971Canadian and American actress
52 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Centrepointe - Briargreen, Ottawa
17 famous people from Centrepointe - Briargreen, many of them athletes
At the top of the list is the Canadian and American actress Sandra Oh, covered in 52 languages. Dan Ratushny is second and Brandt Clarke third. More than half were born since 1970, 11 in all. Over 63 years of births, the list goes from Marjory LeBreton (1940) to Brandt Clarke (2003).
Born here
17
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Sandra Oh
52 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1940
Marjory LeBreton
Youngest
2003
Brandt Clarke
Most common field
Sports
15 people
What stands out about Centrepointe - Briargreen’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Centrepointe - Briargreen’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1970s, with 4 people born in that decade.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Centrepointe - Briargreen is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2.3 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Centrepointe - Briargreen
Two of the three are athletes.
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#2
#3Sports
Brandt Clarke
born 2003Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Centrepointe - Briargreen
14 more, 13 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Britannia: one.
Questions about famous people from Centrepointe - Briargreen
Who is the most famous person from Centrepointe - Briargreen?
By our measure the best known is Sandra Oh (Canadian and American actress); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Dan Ratushny and Brandt Clarke.
How many famous people were born in Centrepointe - Briargreen?
Wikidata places 18 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Centrepointe - Briargreen known for?
That is 88% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Centrepointe - Briargreen?
The earliest is Marjory LeBreton, born in 1940, and the latest birth listed is 2003.
Who counts as from Centrepointe - Briargreen?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Centrepointe - Briargreen’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
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 (9)
- Sandra Oh: Peabody Awards, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Ratushny: Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brandt Clarke: TheAHL, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Chiarelli: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marjory LeBreton: Canadaolympic989 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Doug Frobel: Pittsburgh Pirates, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Zion: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Crapigna: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Beynon: Stef from gap, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).