Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNo one from Birdland is on the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is New Westminster, 8 km away: 167, led by Raymond Burr. In British Columbia, 144 towns have someone on the list. The longest list in British Columbia is Vancouver’s, with 1,534 names. Victoria has the second-longest list in British Columbia, after Vancouver, with 386.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Birdland’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Birdland yet.
Famous people born near Birdland
Questions about famous people from Birdland
Who counts as from Birdland?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Birdland’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
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)
- Raymond Burr: NBC TV, Public domain, 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).