BL#1
Sports
Brad Larsen
born 1977Canadian ice hockey player and coach
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Kevstan · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Nakusp, British Columbia
Brad Larsen tops a list of 4 famous people born in Nakusp
Brad Larsen, the Canadian ice hockey player and coach, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. Behind the leader come Graham Richard Lea and Parzival Copes. Over 53 years of births, the list goes from Parzival Copes (1924) to Brad Larsen (1977). The longest list of any town in British Columbia belongs to Vancouver, with 1,534.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brad Larsen
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1924
Parzival Copes
Youngest
1977
Brad Larsen
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Nakusp
Brad Larsen, Graham Richard Lea and Parzival Copes are written about in 10, 2 and 2 languages.
GL#2
Politics & Law
Graham Richard Lea
1934–2013Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
PC#3
Science & Medicine
Parzival Copes
1924–2017Canadian economist
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Nakusp’s famous people were born
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineWriting & Arts
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Nakusp is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Nakusp
1 more, best known first.
Questions about famous people from Nakusp
Who is the most famous person from Nakusp?
Brad Larsen (Canadian ice hockey player and coach) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Graham Richard Lea and Parzival Copes.
How many famous people were born in Nakusp?
Wikidata places 5 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Nakusp known for?
They make up 25% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Nakusp?
Parzival Copes, born in 1924. The youngest on the list was born in 1977.
Who counts as from Nakusp?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Nakusp’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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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.
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).