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Photo: Britcruise · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Burns Lake, British Columbia
4 famous people call Burns Lake their birthplace
At the top of the list is the Canadian biathlete Emily Dickson, covered in 6 languages. Close behind are Kajan Johnson and Cindy Blackstock. Rick Miller, born in 1960, is the earliest name and Emily Dickson, born in 1997, the latest. Across British Columbia, 144 towns list someone born there.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Emily Dickson
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1960
Rick Miller
Youngest
1997
Emily Dickson
The best known
Born in Burns Lake
KJ#2
Notable
Kajan Johnson
born 1984Canadian mixed martial arts fighter
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CB#3
Politics & Law
Cindy Blackstock
born 1964Human rights activist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Burns Lake’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1960s come out on top, with 2 births.
NotablePolitics & Law
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Burns Lake is known for
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Burns Lake
1 more, best known first.
Questions about famous people from Burns Lake
Who is the most famous person from Burns Lake?
The top name is Emily Dickson (Canadian biathlete), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Kajan Johnson and Cindy Blackstock.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Burns Lake?
Rick Miller, from 1960; the most recent birth on the list is from 1997.
Who counts as from Burns Lake?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Burns Lake’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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.
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).