SA#1
Film, TV & Stage
Shawn Ashmore
born 1979Canadian actor
38 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Richmond, British Columbia
Of the 63 famous people born in Richmond, an unusual share are athletes
Shawn Ashmore, the Canadian actor, is the most widely known, written about in 38 languages. The Canadian hammer thrower Camryn Rogers ranks second, ahead of Aaron Ashmore. More than half were born since 1970, 50 in all. The earliest on the list is John Murdoch Buchanan, born in 1897, and the youngest Justin Sourdif, born in 2002.
Born here
63
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Shawn Ashmore
38 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1897
John Murdoch Buchanan
Youngest
2002
Justin Sourdif
Most common field
Sports
40 people
What stands out about Richmond’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Richmond’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1970s than in any other decade: 18.
SportsNotableFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawBusinessWriting & ArtsMusicMilitaryScience & Medicine
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Richmond is known for
Richmond has 1.7× the usual share of athletes.
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 Richmond
#2Notable
Camryn Rogers
born 1999Canadian hammer thrower
32 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AA#3
Film, TV & Stage
Aaron Ashmore
born 1979Canadian actor
30 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Richmond
The other 60 span the years 1897 to 2002.
Michael Craven
born 1974Canadian sports executive; former General Manager of International Business for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Author
BusinessWikipedia ↗
Mark Takeshi McGregor
born 1972Canadian flutist, educator, producer, curator and visual artist
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
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Questions about famous people from Richmond
Who is the most famous person from Richmond?
Shawn Ashmore (Canadian actor) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Camryn Rogers and Aaron Ashmore.
How many famous people were born in Richmond?
Of the 93 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Richmond known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 63%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Richmond?
John Murdoch Buchanan, born in 1897. The youngest on the list was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Richmond?
The list takes people born within Richmond’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (23)
- Camryn Rogers: filip bossuyt from Kortrijk, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Evan Dunfee: CBC Sports, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brent Seabrook: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Hannan: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raymond Sawada: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Noemie Thomas: JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Tardi: pleclown, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Hirayama: Warwick Gastinger, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Caleb Clarke: Ubcwwong, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Jordan: Longbomb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nadia Gontova: Kakoula10, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Angus Reid: Raj Taneja from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Jarvis: Photo by flipchip / LasVegasVegas.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Gossland: Ubcwwong, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenn Gawdin: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Steves: BC NDP History Group, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff May: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kendall Gender: DVSROSS, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthias Goossen: Winnipeg Blue Bombers, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Palmer: en:DoubleBlue (Transferred by Grondemar /Originally uploaded by DoubleBlue ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sonny Assu: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Asotui Eli: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Takeshi McGregor: Marktmcgregor, CC BY-SA 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).