Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people near Okanagan (Part) 1: 42 in Vernon
So far, no famous person on record was born in Okanagan (Part) 1. 144 of the towns in British Columbia list at least one person. Vancouver has the most of any town in British Columbia: 1,534. After Vancouver, the next longest list in British Columbia is Victoria’s, with 386.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Okanagan (Part) 1’s reserve lands and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Okanagan (Part) 1 who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Okanagan (Part) 1
Questions about famous people from Okanagan (Part) 1
Who counts as from Okanagan (Part) 1?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Okanagan (Part) 1’s reserve lands (the reserve’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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)
- Daniel Powter: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne Cherkowski: Rh723, CC BY 4.0, 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).