Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/sillygwailo/ - sillygwailo / Richard Eriksson · CC BY 2.0Famous people near Heights: 1 in Holdom
No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Heights. In British Columbia, 144 towns have someone on the list. Vancouver’s 1,534 names make the longest list in British Columbia. After Vancouver, the next longest list in British Columbia is Victoria’s, with 386.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Heights’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Heights for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Heights
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 1.
Questions about famous people from Heights
Who counts as from Heights?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Heights’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. 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?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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).