Ryan Reynolds leads the 1,534 famous people born in Vancouver

By our measure the best known is Ryan Reynolds (Canadian-American actor); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Cobie Smulders and Hayden Christensen.

2,463 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.

Here the share is 39%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.

The earliest is Walter Belasco, born in 1864, and the latest birth listed is 2009.

The list takes people born within Vancouver’s city limits (the city’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. 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.

Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each refresh.