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Photo: Kyle Wilson · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Sooke, British Columbia
The Canadian rugby union player Rori Wood is the one famous person from Sooke
The one name here is Rori Wood, the Canadian rugby union player. Langford, 17 km off, can claim one famous person: Moka Only. Their name appears in an article in one language. The longest list in British Columbia is Vancouver’s, with 1,534 names.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rori Wood
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Sooke
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Sooke
Who is the most famous person from Sooke?
Rori Wood (Canadian rugby union player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Sooke?
For Sooke the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Sooke known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are athletes. Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 100%.
Who counts as from Sooke?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Sooke’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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 (1)
- Moka Only: Simon Law, 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).