Photo: Darren Kirby Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 2.0Metrotown has yet to put a famous person on the list
Across British Columbia, the lists cover 144 towns. The longest list in British Columbia is Vancouver’s, with 1,534 names. Behind Vancouver, the runner-up in British Columbia is Victoria, at 386.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Metrotown’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Metrotown for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Questions about famous people from Metrotown
Who counts as from Metrotown?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Metrotown’s 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. 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?
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.
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).