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Ryan Dempster
born 1977Canadian baseball player
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Famous people · Gibsons, British Columbia
Ryan Dempster tops a list of 2 famous people born in Gibsons
Ryan Dempster, the Canadian baseball player, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper. Nearby, Sechelt, 20 km away, lists 6, led by Carol Montgomery. Born in 1963, Velcrow Ripper is the first name on record, and Ryan Dempster, born in 1977, the most recent.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ryan Dempster
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1963
Velcrow Ripper
Youngest
1977
Ryan Dempster
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Sports
1 person
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Born in Gibsons
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Film, TV & Stage
Velcrow Ripper
born 1963Canadian filmmaker
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What Gibsons is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 1 of them.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Questions about famous people from Gibsons
Who is the most famous person from Gibsons?
By our measure the best known is Ryan Dempster (Canadian baseball player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Velcrow Ripper.
How many famous people were born in Gibsons?
Of the 4 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Gibsons known for?
50% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Gibsons?
The earliest is Velcrow Ripper, born in 1963, and the latest birth listed is 1977.
Who counts as from Gibsons?
Born inside Gibsons’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (1)
- Ryan Dempster: User Mshake3 on en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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