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Famous people · Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
10 famous people from Port Coquitlam, many of them athletes
Chris Rinke, the Canadian amateur wrestler, is the most widely known, written about in 12 languages. The next two names are Zach Hamill and Ryan Glenn. Most were born since 1970: 8 of them. Half or more of the towns in British Columbia have no one on record, but this one has 1.5 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Chris Rinke
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1952
Ken McKenzie
Youngest
1992
Sukh Chungh
Most common field
Sports
7 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Port Coquitlam’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 7.
SportsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Port Coquitlam is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.8 times.
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 Port Coquitlam
All three are athletes.
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Everyone else born in Port Coquitlam
7 more, from 1952 to 1992.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Coquitlam has the most people on record, 36 of them.
Questions about famous people from Port Coquitlam
Who is the most famous person from Port Coquitlam?
Chris Rinke (Canadian amateur wrestler) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Zach Hamill and Ryan Glenn.
How many famous people were born in Port Coquitlam?
16 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Port Coquitlam known for?
70% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Port Coquitlam?
The earliest is Ken McKenzie, born in 1952, and the latest birth listed is 1992.
Who counts as from Port Coquitlam?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Port Coquitlam’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (8)
- Zach Hamill: Dan4th Nicholas from Cambridge, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Glenn: Aleksi Ollila, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sukh Chungh: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Codron: Ubcwwong, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Van Beek: Digitalerica, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mathew Barzal: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kent Johnson: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Morrison: Resolute, 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).