#1Music
Daniel Powter
born 1971Canadian musician and singer
31 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Vernon, British Columbia
Of the 42 famous people born in Vernon, an unusual share are athletes
Most widely known is Daniel Powter, the Canadian musician and singer, with articles in 31 languages. Vasek Pospisil and Eric Brewer follow. More than half were born since 1970, 24 in all. The oldest name on the list belongs to Frederick McCall, born in 1896, the newest to Elena Gaskell, born in 2001.
Born here
42
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Daniel Powter
31 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1896
Frederick McCall
Youngest
2001
Elena Gaskell
Most common field
Sports
27 people
What stands out about Vernon’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Vernon’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1980s come out on top, with 11 births.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicNotableMilitaryBusinessFaithWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Vernon is known for
Vernon has 1.7× the usual share of athletes.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Vernon
Counted by languages, Daniel Powter is ahead of Vasek Pospisil and Eric Brewer: 31, 27 and 22.
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Sports
Eric Brewer
born 1979Canadian ice hockey player
22 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Vernon
Still to come: 39 more, from 1896 to 2001.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, only Coldstream has a name on its list.
Questions about famous people from Vernon
Who is the most famous person from Vernon?
Daniel Powter (Canadian musician and singer) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Vasek Pospisil and Eric Brewer.
How many famous people were born in Vernon?
Wikidata counts 61 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Vernon known for?
Here the share is 64%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Vernon?
Frederick McCall, from 1896; the most recent birth on the list is from 2001.
Who counts as from Vernon?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Vernon’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (14)
- Daniel Powter: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Vasek Pospisil: Carine06 from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Ebbett: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ken Holland: Holland_Zetterberg_Babcock.jpg : Tom Gromak derivative work: Connormah, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Godard: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jerred Smithson: Sean Russell from Knoxville, TN, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Larry Kwong: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cassandra Brown: Rolandhino1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick McCall: Jason Ernst, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Randene Neill: BC NDP, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Holmes: Collision Conf from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stefan Schneider: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- SonReal: Scott Schiller, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne Cherkowski: Rh723, CC BY 4.0, 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).