Photo: Mike Kalasnik from Charlotte, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Iris is listed yet
Sandra Oh heads the list in Centrepointe - Briargreen, 1 km away, which has 17 names. Famous people are on record for 386 of the towns in Ontario. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Iris’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Iris who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Iris
Questions about famous people from Iris
Who counts as from Iris?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Iris’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. 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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (1)
- Sandra Oh: Peabody Awards, 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).