Photo: rpaterso · CC BY-SA 2.0Oak Bay has yet to put a famous person on the list
Of its neighbours, Victoria, 3 km away, lists the most: 386, Nelly Furtado first. No town in British Columbia lists more than Vancouver, with 1,534. Across British Columbia, the lists cover 144 towns.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Oak Bay’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Oak Bay as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Oak Bay
Questions about famous people from Oak Bay
Who counts as from Oak Bay?
The list takes people born within Oak Bay’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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).