#1Famous people · Comox, British Columbia
Of the 24 famous people born in Comox, an unusual share are athletes
Cam Neely, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 20 languages. Second and third on the list are Thomas Herschmiller and Adin Hill. 15 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. Half or more of the towns in British Columbia have no one on record, but this one has 15.1 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
24
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Cam Neely
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1937
Red Robinson
Youngest
1996
Phelan Simpson
Most common field
Sports
14 people
What stands out about Comox’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Comox’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 6.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableFilm, TV & StageWriting & Arts
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Comox is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.5 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Comox
#1TH#2
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Comox
21 more, 11 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 4.
Questions about famous people from Comox
Who is the most famous person from Comox?
Cam Neely (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Thomas Herschmiller and Adin Hill.
How many famous people were born in Comox?
Wikidata places 32 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Comox known for?
That is 58% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Comox?
Red Robinson, born in 1937. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Comox?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Comox’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (13)
- Cam Neely: Meowwcat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adin Hill: Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett McLean: _becaro_, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Terry Beech: Simon Fraser University, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ty Wishart: dougtone, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Van Cleave: Luu, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Catherine J. Bell: Montrealais 21:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Taylor Green: https://www.flickr.com/people/darrins/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lynn Hunter: Photographer: Rob Destrube Copyright Owner: Lynn Hunter, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Phelan Simpson: Ave Maria Mõistlik, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Emily St. John Mandel: librairie mollat, 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).