Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNo one born in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap has made the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Sicamous, 9 km away: 4, led by Shea Weber. No town in British Columbia lists more than Vancouver, with 1,534. Victoria has the second-longest list in British Columbia, after Vancouver, with 386. In British Columbia, 144 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap yet.
Famous people born near Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 1.
Questions about famous people from Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap
Who counts as from Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Shea Weber: Sean Russell from Knoxville, TN, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).