Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNo one born in Electoral Area A, Comox Valley has made the famous people list yet
Famous people are on record for 144 of the towns in British Columbia. Vancouver has the most of any town in British Columbia: 1,534. After Vancouver, the next longest list in British Columbia is Victoria’s, with 386. The best known born in Comox is Cam Neely.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Electoral Area A, Comox Valley’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Electoral Area A, Comox Valley for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Electoral Area A, Comox Valley
Of the towns around it, Comox has the most on record: 24.
Questions about famous people from Electoral Area A, Comox Valley
Who counts as from Electoral Area A, Comox Valley?
The list takes people born within Electoral Area A, Comox Valley’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’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.
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 (3)
- Cam Neely: Meowwcat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Nessman: Sara Cimino from Milan, Italy ( Flickr account ), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Fletcher: Raj Taneja from Bangkok, TH, 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).