page_title: Iranian Canadians
section_title: Academia
hierarchical_section_title: Iranian Canadians / Notable Canadians of Iranian descent / Academia
caption_attribution_description: English: In Toronto, Persian community is quite big. Many Persian (Iranian) shops, restaurants, institutes, etc are located in Toronto's Yonge Street (North York section). Photo: Persian Dutch Network, June 2014
context_page_description: Iranian Canadians or Persian Canadians are citizens of Canada whose national background is traced from Iran or are people possessing Iranian and Canadian dual citizenship. From the 2016 Canadian census, the main communities can be found in Southern Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. The vast majority, however, live in northern suburbs of Toronto such as Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Markham, and Thornhill, and in certain municipalities of Vancouver, including North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, and Coquitlam. As of 2016 a total of 97,110 Iranians reside in the Greater Toronto Area, 46,255 in the Greater Vancouver Area, and 23,410 in the Greater Montreal Area, with the remainder spread out in the other major cities of Canada, based on the 2016 Canadian Census. These numbers represent the people who stated "Iranian" as their single or joint ethnic origin in the census survey.
context_section_description: Payam Akhavan, pioneer in international criminal law and leading human rights advocate; McGill University
  Kaveh Farrokh, historian
  Hamid Reza Habibi, Cardiologist; University of Calgary
  Ramin Jahanbegloo, philosopher and university professor
  Ali Khademhosseini, Associate Professor of Medicine; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
  Shahrzad Mojab, Professor of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education; University of Toronto
  Reza Zadeh, computer scientist; Stanford University
caption: Little Persia on Yonge Street at North York, 2014
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