#1Sports
Jordyn Huitema
born 2001Canadian association football player
28 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Chilliwack, British Columbia
29 famous people were born in Chilliwack, most of them since 1970
Jordyn Huitema, the Canadian association football player, is the most widely known, written about in 28 languages. The next two names are Tyler Christopher and Reece Howden. Born in 1927, Ursula K. Abbott is the first name on record, and Zach Benson, born in 2005, the most recent. Half or more of the towns in British Columbia have no one on record, but this one has 2.7 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
29
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jordyn Huitema
28 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1927
Ursula K. Abbott
Youngest
2005
Zach Benson
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Chilliwack’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Chilliwack’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1980s come out on top, with 6 births.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Chilliwack
The three are covered in 28, 13 and 12 languages: Jordyn Huitema, Tyler Christopher and Reece Howden.
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Sports
Tyler Christopher
born 1983Canadian athletics competitor
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Reece Howden
born 1998Canadian male freestyle skier
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Chilliwack is known for
Compared with the usual town, scientists and doctors are the most over-represented field, at 2.2 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Chilliwack
The other 26 span the years 1927 to 2005.
Dorothy Kostrzewa
1928–2013First Chinese Canadian woman elected to public office in Canada
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley has the longest list next door, one name.
Questions about famous people from Chilliwack
Who is the most famous person from Chilliwack?
By our measure the best known is Jordyn Huitema (Canadian association football player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Tyler Christopher and Reece Howden.
How many famous people were born in Chilliwack?
Wikidata places 55 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Chilliwack known for?
They make up 38% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Chilliwack?
Ursula K. Abbott, born in 1927. The youngest on the list was born in 2005.
Who counts as from Chilliwack?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Chilliwack’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?
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 (9)
- Jordyn Huitema: Douglas O'Brien from Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Reece Howden: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Hill: LG전자, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bria Skonberg: Zoot mojo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steven Point: Tony Sprackett, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Thompson: Michael Julian Berz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rita Steblin: JohnSpecialK, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tasha Tilberg: Christopher Macsurak, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Inez Jasper: IJphotos, CC BY 3.0, 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).