#1Notable
Benjamin Thorne
born 1993Canadian athletics competitor
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Kitimat, British Columbia
13 famous people were born in Kitimat, most of them between 1946 and 1969
Articles in 16 languages make the Canadian athletics competitor Benjamin Thorne the best known. Behind the leader come Alison Redford and Jamie MacDonald. The oldest name on the list belongs to Richard Zokol, born in 1958, the newest to Zhao Kai Pang, born in 1995. 6 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Benjamin Thorne
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1958
Richard Zokol
Youngest
1995
Zhao Kai Pang
Most common field
Sports
5 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Kitimat’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other ten years, 5 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageNotable
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Kitimat
#1
#2Politics & Law
Alison Redford
born 196514th Premier of Alberta
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JM#3
Sports
Jamie MacDonald
born 1994Canadian short-track speed skater
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Kitimat is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as performers, at 2.3 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Kitimat
A further 10 follow, born between 1958 and 1995.
Marianna Komlos
1969–2004Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestling manager
Film, TV & StageWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Kitimat
Who is the most famous person from Kitimat?
Benjamin Thorne (Canadian athletics competitor) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Alison Redford and Jamie MacDonald.
What is Kitimat known for?
Here the share is 38%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kitimat?
Richard Zokol, from 1958; the most recent birth on the list is from 1995.
Who counts as from Kitimat?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Kitimat’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (6)
- Benjamin Thorne: Ubcwwong, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alison Redford: Dave Cournoyer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rod Pelley: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Penner: DarisL, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellis Ross: TimBray, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Zhao Kai Pang: Luu, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).