#1Sports
Sydney Leroux
born 1990Canadian-born American soccer player
28 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Surrey
76 famous people from Surrey, many of them athletes
Most widely known is Sydney Leroux, the Canadian-Born American soccer player, with articles in 28 languages. The Canadian political activist Lauren Southern ranks second, ahead of Neeru Bajwa. More than half were born since 1970, 67 in all. Max Anchor, born in 2004, is the youngest, and Barry Smith, born in 1955, the first on record.
Born here
76
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Sydney Leroux
28 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1955
Barry Smith
Youngest
2004
Max Anchor
Most common field
Sports
55 people
What stands out about Surrey’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Surrey’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1990s come out on top, with 29 births.
SportsFilm, TV & StageNotableMusicPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsBusinessScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Surrey is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.9 times the usual share.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Surrey
Counted by languages, Sydney Leroux is ahead of Lauren Southern and Neeru Bajwa: 28, 25 and 23.
#1
#2Politics & Law
Lauren Southern
born 1995Canadian political activist
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Film, TV & Stage
Neeru Bajwa
born 1980Canadian actress, director and producer
23 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Surrey
The other 73 span the years 1955 to 2004.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Surrey
Who is the most famous person from Surrey?
The top name is Sydney Leroux (Canadian-born American soccer player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Lauren Southern and Neeru Bajwa.
How many famous people were born in Surrey?
Wikidata places 112 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Surrey known for?
72% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Surrey?
Barry Smith (1955). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2004.
Who counts as from Surrey?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Surrey’s city limits (the city’s 2021 census subdivision), 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?
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 (28)
- Sydney Leroux: Ampatent, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lauren Southern: Meaghan Gipps, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Neeru Bajwa: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Tenta: YSKW Cst, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ali Liebert: Jason Hargrove from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brenden Dillon: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tristan Jarry: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Randee Hermus: Longbomb / Wilson Wong, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jujhar Khaira: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kim Gaucher: IQRemix, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chelsea Buckland: KT King from Stillwater, OK, US, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Django Lovett: CBC Sports, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alen Marcina: Tedzsee, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Loewen: Keith Allison on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Noah Verhoeven: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Curtis Fraser: Alex Micheu Photography from VILLACH, Austria, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jodi Proznick: ataelw, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lisa Brokop: mr. bongohead (Mark Farrell), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Brown: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nolan Watson: Ron Ho, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Baldock: Oreobare, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kalib Starnes: Theorginaleditor, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Sundher: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rolf Mathewes: Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin Kent: Narnabi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Cowan: Ucla90024, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Reece Willcox: Hunter Kahn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Leveque: Digitalerica, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).