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John van 't Schip
born 1963Dutch association football player and manager
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Famous people · Fort St. John, British Columbia
Athletes stand out among the 24 famous people born in Fort St. John
John van 't Schip, the Dutch association football player and manager, is the most widely known, written about in 30 languages. Behind the leader come Ina Forrest and Michelle Kelly. More than half were born between 1946 and 1969, 12 in all. Half or more of the towns in British Columbia have no one on record, but this one has 9.8 for every 10,000 residents.
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24
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Best known
John van 't Schip
30 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1952
Jay Hill
Youngest
2000
Tristen Nielsen
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What stands out about Fort St. John’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Fort St. John’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other ten years, 9 in all.
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What Fort St. John is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.9 times.
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Another 21, 14 of them athletes.
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Questions about famous people from Fort St. John
Who is the most famous person from Fort St. John?
By our measure the best known is John van 't Schip (dutch association football player and manager); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Ina Forrest and Michelle Kelly.
How many famous people were born in Fort St. John?
27 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Fort St. John known for?
That is 71% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Fort St. John?
The earliest is Jay Hill, born in 1952, and the latest birth listed is 2000.
Who counts as from Fort St. John?
The list takes people born within Fort St. John’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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (3)
- John van 't Schip: Wim Hollemans, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Ford: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Kolodziejzyk: Behnt at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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