Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people from Penticton 1
The list for Penticton 1 is empty for now. Vancouver’s 1,534 names make the longest list in British Columbia. Second in British Columbia is Victoria (386 names), behind only Vancouver. Famous people are on record for 144 of the towns in British Columbia.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Penticton 1’s reserve lands, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in Penticton 1 with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Penticton 1
Nearby, Penticton has the most on record, with 38.
Questions about famous people from Penticton 1
Who counts as from Penticton 1?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Penticton 1’s reserve lands (the reserve’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- Alexis Smith: Whitey Schafer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Bowen: Australian News and Information Bureau, Public domain, 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).