Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from Marpole
The nearest list is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 5 km away: 2 names, starting with Sasha Lakovic. Vancouver’s 1,534 names make the longest list in British Columbia. Only Vancouver outnumbers Victoria in British Columbia, whose list holds 386 names. Across British Columbia, 144 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Marpole’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Nobody born in Marpole with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Marpole
Towns around it with someone on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Marpole
Who counts as from Marpole?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Marpole’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
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)
- 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).