#1Film, TV & Stage
Serinda Swan
born 1984Canadian actress
26 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · West Vancouver, British Columbia
17 famous people were born in West Vancouver, most of them since 1970
Articles in 26 languages make the Canadian actress Serinda Swan the best known. Grant Hadwin (1948) and Jake Christiansen (1999) mark the two ends of the list. More are athletes than anything else, 7 in all. Fewer than a quarter of the 144 towns in British Columbia with famous people list more.
Born here
17
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Serinda Swan
26 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1948
Grant Hadwin
Youngest
1999
Jake Christiansen
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about West Vancouver’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When West Vancouver’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 5.
SportsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawNotableMusicBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in West Vancouver
#1MJ#2
Sports
Mollie Jepsen
born 1999Canadian para-alpine skier
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
WD#3
Science & Medicine
Wade Davis
born 1953Canadian anthropologist
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What West Vancouver is known for
Scientists and doctors stand out most, at 3.8 times the usual share.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in West Vancouver
Here are 14 more, born from 1948 to 1999.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 2.
Questions about famous people from West Vancouver
Who is the most famous person from West Vancouver?
The top name is Serinda Swan (Canadian actress), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Mollie Jepsen and Wade Davis.
How many famous people were born in West Vancouver?
Wikidata places 22 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is West Vancouver known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 41%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from West Vancouver?
Grant Hadwin (1948). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1999.
Who counts as from West Vancouver?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside West Vancouver’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
Why is someone missing?
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.
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 (8)
- Serinda Swan: AMFM STUDIOS LLC, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Lord: Augustiner, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jake Christiansen: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Negrin: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Falcon: Province of British Columbia, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian McAllister: Fireguy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Mulholland: Spamedica.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marielle Thompson: Robert Thivierge, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).