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Sports
Macklin Celebrini
born 2006Canadian ice hockey player
23 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · North Vancouver, British Columbia
24 famous people from North Vancouver, many of them athletes
Most widely known is Macklin Celebrini, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 23 languages. Samantha Ferris, the Canadian actress, comes second, with Connor Bedard third. Since 1970, 15 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 144 towns in British Columbia with famous people list more.
Born here
24
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Macklin Celebrini
23 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1948
Brian Cadle
Youngest
2006
Macklin Celebrini
Most common field
Sports
18 people
What stands out about North Vancouver’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When North Vancouver’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 6 of the births charted here.
SportsFilm, TV & StageMusicWriting & ArtsPolitics & Law
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What North Vancouver is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 2 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in North Vancouver
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#3Sports
Connor Bedard
born 2005Canadian ice hockey player
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in North Vancouver
21 more, 16 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from North Vancouver
Who is the most famous person from North Vancouver?
Macklin Celebrini (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Samantha Ferris and Connor Bedard.
How many famous people were born in North Vancouver?
Wikidata counts 31 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is North Vancouver known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 75%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from North Vancouver?
Brian Cadle, from 1948; the most recent birth on the list is from 2006.
Who counts as from North Vancouver?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside North Vancouver’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. North Vancouver is also the name of another municipality in British Columbia: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “North Vancouver”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
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 (9)
- Connor Bedard: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Reynolds: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Jones: mark6mauno, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Manuel Osborne-Paradis: Dispe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sonja Gaudet: popejon2, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Firus: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sharon Gaetz: University of the Fraser Valley, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rose Ranger: Author Control, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marielle Thompson: Robert Thivierge, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).