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Famous people · Squamish, British Columbia
10 famous people were born in Squamish, more of them athletes than in most towns
Articles in 6 languages make the Canadian cyclist Miranda Miller the best known. Close behind are Jackson Goldstone and Joe Capilano. The largest group, 7, was born since 1970. Trinity Likins, born in 2006, is the youngest, and Joe Capilano, born in 1850, the first on record.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Miranda Miller
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1850
Joe Capilano
Youngest
2006
Trinity Likins
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Squamish’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Squamish’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1990s come out on top, with 3 births.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Squamish is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.8 times as common.
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 Squamish
The three are covered in 6, 5 and 5 languages: Miranda Miller, Jackson Goldstone and Joe Capilano.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Squamish
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet’s: one name.
Questions about famous people from Squamish
Who is the most famous person from Squamish?
Miranda Miller (Canadian cyclist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Jackson Goldstone and Joe Capilano.
How many famous people were born in Squamish?
Wikidata has 14 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Squamish known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 70%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Squamish?
The earliest is Joe Capilano, born in 1850, and the latest birth listed is 2006.
Who counts as from Squamish?
The list takes people born within Squamish’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?
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 (3)
- Jackson Goldstone: Stephen LaBonte, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mikayla Martin: Wendymonica, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sleepy Tom: Tonewise, 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).