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Famous people · Kimberley, British Columbia
11 famous people from Kimberley, many of them athletes
The best known is the Canadian alpine skier Gerry Sorensen, with articles in 13 languages. Second and third on the list are Frank Howard and Jason Wiemer. The largest group, 5, was born between 1946 and 1969. The list runs from Frank Howard, born in 1925, to Josh Dueck, born in 1981.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gerry Sorensen
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1925
Frank Howard
Youngest
1981
Josh Dueck
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Kimberley’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Kimberley’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 3.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Kimberley is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.9 times the usual share.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Kimberley
Two of the three are athletes.
#2Politics & Law
Frank Howard
1925–2011Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JW#3
Sports
Jason Wiemer
born 1976Canadian ice hockey player
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Kimberley
8 more names, born between 1940 and 1981.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Kimberley
Who is the most famous person from Kimberley?
By our measure the best known is Gerry Sorensen (Canadian alpine skier); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Frank Howard and Jason Wiemer.
How many famous people were born in Kimberley?
Wikidata places 18 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Kimberley known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 73%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kimberley?
The earliest is Frank Howard, born in 1925, and the latest birth listed is 1981.
Who counts as from Kimberley?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Kimberley’s 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?
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)
- Frank Howard: New Democratic Party, original photographer uncredited, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Josh Dueck: LauraHale, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike McBain: mark6mauno, 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).