MP#1
Film, TV & Stage
Molly Parker
born 1972Canadian actress
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Maple Ridge, British Columbia
Of the 23 famous people born in Maple Ridge, an unusual share are athletes
At the top of the list is the Canadian actress Molly Parker, covered in 24 languages. Behind the leader come Linda Chung and Andrew Ladd. 19 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. Half or more of the towns in British Columbia have no one on record, but this one has 2.2 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
23
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Molly Parker
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1962
Anna Merveldt
Youngest
1999
Maggie Coles-Lyster
Most common field
Sports
15 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Maple Ridge’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1990s, at 9.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsNotableMusicScience & Medicine
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Maple Ridge is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.7 times as common.
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 Maple Ridge
#2Film, TV & Stage
Linda Chung
born 1984Chinese-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter
23 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Andrew Ladd
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Maple Ridge
20 more, from 1962 to 1999.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 5.
Questions about famous people from Maple Ridge
Who is the most famous person from Maple Ridge?
The top name is Molly Parker (Canadian actress), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Linda Chung and Andrew Ladd.
How many famous people were born in Maple Ridge?
Of the 33 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Maple Ridge known for?
65% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Maple Ridge?
Anna Merveldt, born in 1962. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Maple Ridge?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Maple Ridge’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off 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 (14)
- Linda Chung: 愛麗健醫療儀器, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Ladd: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Larry Walker: Googie Man on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brad Hunt: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maggie Coles-Lyster: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Madeline Merlo: US Embassy Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Garet Hunt: Matt Boulton from London, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gillian Lester: CLS Public Affairs, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Malcolm Williams: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sean O'Reilly: Animation Fun, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Amanda Crew: alimartell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shea Theodore: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Morrison: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Kremyr: TheAHL, 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).