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Photo: Xicotencatl · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Kitsilano, Vancouver
A single famous person was born in Kitsilano: Frank Palmer
Frank Palmer, the Canadian entrepreneur, was born in 1940. That places their birth between 1914 and 1945. Their name appears in articles in 2 languages. Famous people are on record for 144 of the towns in British Columbia.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Frank Palmer
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1940
Frank Palmer
Most common field
Business
1 person
The best known
Born in Kitsilano
Questions about famous people from Kitsilano
Who is the most famous person from Kitsilano?
By our measure the best known is Frank Palmer (Canadian entrepreneur); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Kitsilano?
For Kitsilano the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Kitsilano known for?
The largest group is business people, 1 in all out of 1. Across Canadian towns the figure is 2%; here, 100%.
Who counts as from Kitsilano?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Kitsilano’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. 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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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.
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