Of the 106 famous people born in Burnaby, an unusual share are athletes

Carrie-Anne Moss (Canadian actress, producer and model) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Michael Bublé and Christine Sinclair.

Wikidata has 146 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.

That is 66% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.

Frank Griffiths, born in 1916. The youngest on the list was born in 2011.

The list takes people born within Burnaby’s city limits (the city’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. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.

Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.