Photo: Ben Waardenburg benwubbleyou · CC0No one from Anmore is on the famous people list yet
Coquitlam, 6 km off, can claim 36 famous people, the best known Mathew Barzal. The longest list of any town in British Columbia belongs to Vancouver, with 1,534. Behind Vancouver, the runner-up in British Columbia is Victoria, at 386. In British Columbia, 144 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Anmore’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Anmore who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Anmore
Questions about famous people from Anmore
Who counts as from Anmore?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Anmore’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (2)
- Mathew Barzal: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kent Johnson: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 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).