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Famous people · Electoral Area B, Nanaimo, British Columbia
A single famous person was born in Electoral Area B, Nanaimo: Ike MacKay
The Canadian soccer player Ike MacKay was born in 1948. Their birth falls between 1946 and 1969. Readers can find them written up in 6 languages. In British Columbia, 144 towns have someone on the list.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ike MacKay
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1948
Ike MacKay
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Electoral Area B, Nanaimo
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Electoral Area B, Nanaimo, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Electoral Area B, Nanaimo
Who is the most famous person from Electoral Area B, Nanaimo?
Ike MacKay (Canadian soccer player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Electoral Area B, Nanaimo?
For Electoral Area B, Nanaimo the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Electoral Area B, Nanaimo known for?
The largest group is athletes, 1 in all out of 1. Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who counts as from Electoral Area B, Nanaimo?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Electoral Area B, Nanaimo’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?
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 (2)
- Diana Krall: Chris Govias, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Smith: Douglas Cook from Edinburgh, Scotland, 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).