#1Film, TV & Stage
Gina Holden
born 1975Canadian actress
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Smithers, British Columbia
20 famous people were born in Smithers, most of them since 1970
The best known is the Canadian actress Gina Holden, with articles in 24 languages. From John Alan Beesley in 1927 to Adam Kingsmill in 2000, the births cover 73 years. For every 10,000 residents the town has 35.5, while at least half the towns in British Columbia list nobody born there. More are athletes than anything else, 11 in all.
Born here
20
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gina Holden
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1927
John Alan Beesley
Youngest
2000
Adam Kingsmill
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Smithers’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Smithers’s famous people were born
The 1970s alone account for 5 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageMusicWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Smithers
#1
#2Sports
Dan Hamhuis
born 1982Canadian ice hockey player
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DB#3
Known for
What Smithers is known for
Smithers has 1.5× 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.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Telkwa counts one famous person.
Questions about famous people from Smithers
Who is the most famous person from Smithers?
The top name is Gina Holden (Canadian actress), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Dan Hamhuis and Dean Brody.
How many famous people were born in Smithers?
Wikidata places 22 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Smithers known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 55%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Smithers?
John Alan Beesley, from 1927; the most recent birth on the list is from 2000.
Who counts as from Smithers?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Smithers’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- Gina Holden: Gina_Holden_Elizabeth_Rowin_Saw_3D_premiere.jpg : Cathy Greutert derivative work: MikeAllen 03:25, 30 October 2010 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Hamhuis: Leech44, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachelle Brown: Allthegoldmedals, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ruth Hamblin: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Antje von Seydlitz: Larsena11, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Mangan: Martin Cathrae, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alicia Kaye: MartinPutz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Goodacre: BC NDP History Group, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cody Westman: EvanHennessey, 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).