Photo: George Dean · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people near Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako: 20 in Smithers
No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako. Across British Columbia, 144 towns list someone born there. Vancouver’s 1,534 names make the longest list in British Columbia. Only Vancouver outnumbers Victoria in British Columbia, whose list holds 386 names.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako yet.
Famous people born near Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako
Questions about famous people from Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako
Who counts as from Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako?
The list takes people born within Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’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?
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 (1)
- Gina Holden: Gina_Holden_Elizabeth_Rowin_Saw_3D_premiere.jpg : Cathy Greutert derivative work: MikeAllen 03:25, 30 October 2010 (UTC), 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).