DM#1
Notable
David McGill
1901–1981Canadian athletics competitor
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: FedexPope · CC BY 3.0Famous people · Victoria, Manitoba
4 famous people call Victoria their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the Canadian athletics competitor David McGill the best known. Glen Harmon, the Canadian ice hockey defenceman, comes second, with Anne Ireland third. The oldest name on the list belongs to Olive Lillian Irvine, born in 1895, the newest to Anne Ireland, born in 1946. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David McGill
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1895
Olive Lillian Irvine
Youngest
1946
Anne Ireland
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Victoria
GH#2
Sports
Glen Harmon
1921–2007Canadian ice hockey defenceman
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AI#3
Sports
Anne Ireland
born 1946Canadian volleyball player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Victoria’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1900s, with 1 births.
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Victoria is known for
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
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Questions about famous people from Victoria
Who is the most famous person from Victoria?
By our measure the best known is David McGill (Canadian athletics competitor); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Glen Harmon and Anne Ireland.
How many famous people were born in Victoria?
7 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Victoria known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Victoria?
Olive Lillian Irvine, from 1895; the most recent birth on the list is from 1946.
Who counts as from Victoria?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Victoria’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?
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.
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).