Photo: Thegooduser · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people near Collingwood: 2 in Kensington-Cedar Cottage
The longest list of any town in British Columbia belongs to Vancouver, with 1,534. Second in British Columbia is Victoria (386 names), behind only Vancouver. No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Collingwood. 144 towns across British Columbia can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Collingwood’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Collingwood with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Collingwood
Questions about famous people from Collingwood
Who counts as from Collingwood?
Born inside Collingwood’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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the 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 (1)
- Sasha Lakovic: Vujcic, 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).