Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person yet from Guildford
The nearest list is in Port Mann, 3 km away: one name, Samuel Maclure. 144 towns across British Columbia can name a famous person born there. No town in British Columbia lists more than Vancouver, with 1,534. Behind Vancouver, the runner-up in British Columbia is Victoria, at 386.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Guildford’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Guildford who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Guildford
Close by, Port Mann counts one famous person.
Questions about famous people from Guildford
Who counts as from Guildford?
Born inside Guildford’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. 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.
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).