TT#1
Famous people · Cumberland, British Columbia
Cumberland is the birthplace of 5 famous people
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian sprinter Terry Tobacco. Thomas Audley Bate, the Canadian politician, comes second, with Bob Auchterlonie third. Born in 1913, Thomas Audley Bate is the first name on record, and Lance Blomgren, born in 1970, the most recent. For every 10,000 residents the town has 10.1, while at least half the towns in British Columbia list nobody born there.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Terry Tobacco
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1913
Thomas Audley Bate
Youngest
1970
Lance Blomgren
Most common field
Sports
1 person
What stands out about Cumberland’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Cumberland’s famous people were born
The 1930s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryWriting & ArtsNotable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Cumberland
TB#2
Politics & Law
Thomas Audley Bate
1913–1967Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Known for
What Cumberland is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cumberland
Still to come: 2 more, from 1929 to 1970.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Comox lists the most people: 24.
Questions about famous people from Cumberland
Who is the most famous person from Cumberland?
The top name is Terry Tobacco (Canadian sprinter), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Thomas Audley Bate and Bob Auchterlonie.
How many famous people were born in Cumberland?
Wikidata places 6 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Cumberland known for?
20% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cumberland?
Thomas Audley Bate (1913). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1970.
Who counts as from Cumberland?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Cumberland’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 (5)
- Bob Auchterlonie: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- 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
- 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).