#1Film, TV & Stage
Will Sasso
born 1975Canadian actor and comedian
35 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Delta, British Columbia
38 famous people were born in Delta, more of them athletes than in most towns
At the top of the list is the Canadian actor and comedian Will Sasso, covered in 35 languages. The next two names are Linus Sebastian and Kyle O'Reilly. More than half were born since 1970, 30 in all. The first birth on record is Leon Johnson Ladner’s, in 1884, and the last Kian Proctor’s, in 2005.
Born here
38
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Will Sasso
35 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1884
Leon Johnson Ladner
Youngest
2005
Kian Proctor
Most common field
Sports
25 people
What stands out about Delta’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Delta’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 11 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageNotableMusicWriting & ArtsBusinessScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Delta is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.7 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Delta
Performers take two of the three places.
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Linus Sebastian
born 1986Canadian YouTuber
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Kyle O'Reilly
born 1987Canadian professional wrestler
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Delta
35 more, from 1884 to 2005.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, New Westminster has the most on record: 167.
Questions about famous people from Delta
Who is the most famous person from Delta?
Will Sasso (Canadian actor and comedian) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Linus Sebastian and Kyle O'Reilly.
How many famous people were born in Delta?
Wikidata counts 51 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Delta known for?
66% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Delta?
Leon Johnson Ladner (1884). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2005.
Who counts as from Delta?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Delta’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?
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 (11)
- Will Sasso: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Linus Sebastian: Tessa Bury, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle O'Reilly: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicolas Petan: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hayley McKelvey: Daieuxetdailleurs, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Rutherford: Benjamin Reed, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Seabrook: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyson Mulock: Fabien Perissinotto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Davis Sanchez: Davis Sanchez, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Eiben: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raymond Burr: NBC TV, Public domain, 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).