#1Film, TV & Stage
Brian Drummond
born 1969Canadian actor
34 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Salmon Arm, British Columbia
17 famous people were born in Salmon Arm, more of them athletes than in most towns
The best known is the Canadian actor Brian Drummond, with articles in 34 languages. Curtis Lazar is second and E. V. Gordon third. Since 1970, 12 were born, the most of any period. From E. V. Gordon in 1896 to Daniel Hall in 2005, the births cover 109 years.
Born here
17
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brian Drummond
34 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1896
E. V. Gordon
Youngest
2005
Daniel Hall
Most common field
Sports
12 people
What stands out about Salmon Arm’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Salmon Arm’s famous people were born
The 2000s top the chart, with 4 births in the decade.
SportsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawMusic
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Salmon Arm is known for
Salmon Arm has 1.9× the usual share of athletes.
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 Salmon Arm
Brian Drummond, Curtis Lazar and E. V. Gordon are written about in 34, 15 and 10 languages.
#1
#2Sports
Curtis Lazar
born 1995Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
EG#3
Science & Medicine
E. V. Gordon
1896–1938Canadian philologist
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Salmon Arm
14 more, best known first.
Rick Say
born 1979Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, world championships silver medallist
SportsWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Enderby lists the most people: 5.
Questions about famous people from Salmon Arm
Who is the most famous person from Salmon Arm?
Brian Drummond (Canadian actor) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Curtis Lazar and E. V. Gordon.
How many famous people were born in Salmon Arm?
Wikidata has 26 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Salmon Arm known for?
71% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Salmon Arm?
E. V. Gordon, from 1896; the most recent birth on the list is from 2005.
Who counts as from Salmon Arm?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Salmon Arm’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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (5)
- Brian Drummond: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Curtis Lazar: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kris Beech: Anders Henrikson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Randy Kamp: Greg Nehring from Mission, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Shattock: TheAHL, 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).