#1Famous people · Prince George, British Columbia
Of the 47 famous people born in Prince George, an unusual share are scientists and doctors
Articles in 18 languages make the actor Dean Butler the best known. Close behind are Jon Cooper and Richard Hastings. The largest group, 26, was born since 1970. Births span 1935 to 1997, from Anne Pomeroy Autor to Carolina Hiller.
Born here
47
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dean Butler
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1935
Anne Pomeroy Autor
Youngest
1997
Carolina Hiller
Most common field
Sports
25 people
What stands out about Prince George’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Prince George’s famous people were born
The 1960s top the chart, with 12 births in the decade.
SportsNotableScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawBusinessMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Prince George is known for
Prince George has 1.8× the usual share of scientists and doctors.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Prince George
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2Sports
Jon Cooper
born 1967Canadian-American ice hockey coach
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RH#3
Sports
Richard Hastings
born 1977Canadian-English footballer
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Prince George
Of the other 44, 23 are athletes.
Matt Pearce
1967–2016SportsWikipedia ↗
Sean LeBrun
born 1969SportsWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Prince George
Who is the most famous person from Prince George?
Dean Butler (actor) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Jon Cooper and Richard Hastings.
How many famous people were born in Prince George?
Of the 68 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Prince George known for?
53% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Prince George?
The earliest is Anne Pomeroy Autor, born in 1935, and the latest birth listed is 1997.
Who counts as from Prince George?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Prince George’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (12)
- Dean Butler: Christopher Matthew Spencer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jon Cooper: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Beaudry: Picture taken by Marcus Cyron, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Amanda Asay: Ubcwwong, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Bulmer: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Kuznik: Ex13, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarena Parmar: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicholas Drazenovic: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shirley Bond: University of the Fraser Valley, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jared Young: Johnmaxmena2, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Rustad: Province of British Columbia, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daryl Reaugh: pointnshoot from Castro Valley, California, CC BY 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).