Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person born in Edmonds is listed yet
New Westminster, 3 km off, can claim 167 famous people, the best known Raymond Burr. Famous people are on record for 144 of the towns in British Columbia. No town in British Columbia lists more than Vancouver, with 1,534. Second in British Columbia is Victoria (386 names), behind only Vancouver.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Edmonds’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Edmonds yet.
Famous people born near Edmonds
Questions about famous people from Edmonds
Who counts as from Edmonds?
Born inside Edmonds’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded 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).