Photo: Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0No one born in Buckingham Heights has made the famous people list yet
Nearby, New Westminster, 4 km away, lists 167, led by Raymond Burr. Across British Columbia, 144 towns list someone born there. Vancouver has the most of any town in British Columbia: 1,534. Only Vancouver outnumbers Victoria in British Columbia, whose list holds 386 names.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Buckingham Heights’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Buckingham Heights yet.
Famous people born near Buckingham Heights
Questions about famous people from Buckingham Heights
Who counts as from Buckingham Heights?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Buckingham Heights’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed 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)
- Raymond Burr: NBC TV, Public domain, 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).