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Photo: Muskwatch · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Bella Coola 1, British Columbia
Bella Coola 1 counts 2 famous people, first among them Andrew Crosby
Articles in 17 languages make the Canadian rower Andrew Crosby the best known. The list has one more: the Canadian politician Lorne Greenaway. Born in 1933, Lorne Greenaway is the first name on record, and Andrew Crosby, born in 1965, the most recent. The longest list of any town in British Columbia belongs to Vancouver, with 1,534.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Andrew Crosby
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1933
Lorne Greenaway
Youngest
1965
Andrew Crosby
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Bella Coola 1
LG#2
Politics & Law
Lorne Greenaway
1933–2010Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Bella Coola 1 is known for
Share of Bella Coola 1’s famous people in each field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Questions about famous people from Bella Coola 1
Who is the most famous person from Bella Coola 1?
Andrew Crosby (Canadian rower) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Lorne Greenaway.
What is Bella Coola 1 known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bella Coola 1?
The earliest is Lorne Greenaway, born in 1933, and the latest birth listed is 1965.
Who counts as from Bella Coola 1?
The list takes people born within Bella Coola 1’s reserve lands (the reserve’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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).