#1Famous people · Langford, British Columbia
Langford, birthplace of the Canadian musician Moka Only
In 1973, the Canadian musician Moka Only was born. Their name appears in articles in 3 languages. For more famous names, Victoria is 12 km away: its list has 386, led by Nelly Furtado. The British Columbia lists hold names for 144 towns.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Moka Only
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1973
Moka Only
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Langford
#1Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 5.
Questions about famous people from Langford
Who is the most famous person from Langford?
Moka Only (Canadian musician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Langford?
Born in Langford and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1. Of the 2 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Langford known for?
Mostly musicians: 1 of the 1 people listed. 100% here, set against 6% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Langford?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Langford’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (1)
- Moka Only: Simon Law, CC BY-SA 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).