Stewart Butterfield
born 1973Canadian entrepreneur and businessman
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainStewart Butterfield, the Canadian entrepreneur and businessman, was born in 1973. Readers can find them written up in 15 languages. Famous people are on record for 144 of the towns in British Columbia. No town in British Columbia lists more than Vancouver, with 1,534.
Canadian entrepreneur and businessman
Stewart Butterfield (Canadian entrepreneur and businessman) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
Count on the list: 1, each born in Electoral Area A, qathet according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
The largest group is business people, 1 in all out of 1. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 2%.
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Electoral Area A, qathet’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.
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.
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).