Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainRosedale has yet to put a famous person on the list
Go 15 km to Chilliwack and the list grows to 29, with Jordyn Huitema at the top. In British Columbia, 144 towns have someone on the list. The longest list in British Columbia is Vancouver’s, with 1,534 names. Only Vancouver outnumbers Victoria in British Columbia, whose list holds 386 names.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Rosedale’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Rosedale yet.
Famous people born near Rosedale
Questions about famous people from Rosedale
Who counts as from Rosedale?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Rosedale’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?
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 (1)
- Jordyn Huitema: Douglas O'Brien from Canada, CC BY-SA 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).