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Andrew Marshall
born 1990Canadian football player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: KenWalker · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Fairwinds, British Columbia
Andrew Marshall, born in 1990, is Fairwinds’ famous person on record
Andrew Marshall, the Canadian football player, was born in 1990. Articles about them exist in 3 languages. Just 17 km away, Nanaimo’s list holds 81 names, Diana Krall the best known. The British Columbia lists hold names for 144 towns.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Andrew Marshall
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1990
Andrew Marshall
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Fairwinds
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 2.
Questions about famous people from Fairwinds
Who is the most famous person from Fairwinds?
Andrew Marshall (Canadian football player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Fairwinds?
The list holds 1 born in Fairwinds, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Fairwinds known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are athletes. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Fairwinds?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Fairwinds’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly 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 (2)
- Diana Krall: Chris Govias, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin Sorensen: Michael Tedesco, CC BY 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).