Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person from Grandview yet, but White Rock next door has 25
In all of British Columbia, the famous people on record come from 144 towns. The longest list of any town in British Columbia belongs to Vancouver, with 1,534. Victoria has the second-longest list in British Columbia, after Vancouver, with 386. The best known born in White Rock is Jewel Staite.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Grandview’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in Grandview with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Grandview
Questions about famous people from Grandview
Who counts as from Grandview?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Grandview’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
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 (1)
- Jordan Kremyr: 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).