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x Frank Iacobucci Frank Iacobucci.jpg Jan 29, 1937 Male Judge
Frank Iacobucci, CC (born January 29, 1937) was a Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 to 2004 when he retired from the bench. He is an expert in business and tax law. The son of Italian immigrants, Iacobucci was born in Vancouver...
Academic
x Wayne Robson WayneRobson1998 Jul 18, 1946 Male Film actor
Wayne Robson (born July 18, 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian television, film and stage actor who is best known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, a thief on The Red Green Show, and the character Beano Callahan in the Sandra...
TV Actor
Influence Node
x John Allen Fraser   Dec 15, 1931 Male  
John Allen Fraser, PC, OC, OBC, CD, QC (born December 15, 1931) is a retired Canadian parliamentarian and former Speaker of the House of Commons. Born in Yokohama, Japan, Fraser first won a seat in Parliament in the 1972 general election as a...
x Nick Dasovic   Dec 5, 1968 Male Football player
Nick Robert Dasovic (born December 5, 1968 in Vancouver) is a retired professional Canadian soccer player of Croatian decent. He is currently First Assistant coach at Toronto FC. A 6'1, 180 lbs defender, Dasovic began his career in the Yugoslav...
x Chris Szarka   Feb 12, 1975 Male Football player
Chris Szarka (born February 12, 1975 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian Football League fullback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He has spent his entire professional football career with the Roughriders. He was selected by the...
x Gil Bellows GilBellows08TIFF Jun 28, 1967 Male Film actor
Gil Bellows (born June 28, 1967) is a Canadian film and television actor. He's best known for the roles of Billy Thomas in the television series Ally McBeal and as CIA agent Matt Callan in the television series The Agency. Bellows was born in...
TV Actor
Influence Node
x Sonija Kwok   Jul 22, 1974 Female Film actor
Sonija Kwok (traditional Chinese: 郭羨妮, born 22 July 1974) is a Hong Kong actress, currently working for TVB. She was born in Hong Kong on 22 July, 1974, of mixed Cantonese and British parentage). Kwok immigrated to Vancouver, Canada from Hong Kong....
TV Actor
Competitor
x Jeff Hyslop   May 30, 1951 Male Influence Node
Jeff Hyslop (born May 30, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian musical theatre actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, and director. His most famous roles were as Jeff the mannequin in the children's show Today's Special and as the title...
TV Actor
x Patrick Sykes   Mar 3, 1925 Male  
Patrick William Sykes (born 3 March 1925 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a former English rugby player. He made his debut on 29 March 1948 against France. In total he played 7 times for England.
x Garry Ayre   Oct 12, 1953 Male Football player
Garry Ayre (born on October 2 or October 12, 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former Canadian national team and NASL player. He was with amateur side New Westminster Blues in 1976. In 1977 Garry turned professional with the Vancouver...
x Bryan Chiu   Aug 16, 1974 Male Football player
Bryan Chiu (born August 16, 1974, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a professional Canadian football player who has played centre for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League since the 1997 CFL season. Chiu started his college...
x Cobie Smulders Colbie Smulders.jpg Apr 3, 1982 Female Film actor
Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders (born April 3, 1982) is a Canadian actress and former international model, best known for her current role as Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother. Smulders was born in...
TV Actor
Influence Node
x Ben Ferreira Ben Ferreira Apr 5, 1979 Male  
Ben Ferreira (b. April 5, 1979, in Vancouver, BC) is a Canadian figure skater. Ferreira is a three-time Canadian medalist and World competitor. He married Jadene Ferreira on May 21, 2005. Jadene works as a choreographer at Royal Glenora and used to...
x Gerry McGeer Gerry McGeer, c. 1935 Jan 6, 1888 Male Deceased Person
Gerald Grattan McGeer (6 January 1888 – 11 August 1947) was a lawyer, populist politician, and monetary reform advocate in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He served as Mayor of Vancouver, a Member of the Legislative Assembly in BC, Member...
Politician
x Bruce Wilson   Jun 20, 1951 Male Football player
Bruce Alec Wilson (born June 20, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia) was a NASL and Canadian international soccer player. He played the second most games of any player in the former league, 299 (276 regular season and 23 playoff). He also captained...
Olympic athlete
x Gerald Smedley Andrews   Dec 12, 1903 Male Deceased Person
Gerald Smedley Andrews, CM, MBE, OBC, FRGS (December 12, 1903 – December 5, 2005) was a Canadian frontier teacher, farm and ranch hand, cook, horse wrangler, engineer and soldier. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he was educated in Vancouver, Toronto,...
Chivalric Order Member
x Michelle Meyrink   Sep 1, 1962 Female Film actor
Michelle Meyrink (born September 1, 1962) is a Canadian actress who played offbeat girls in several 1980s movies. Meyrink was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is remembered for her role as hyperactive whiz-kid Jordan Cochran in the...
Influence Node
x David Yule   Sep 4, 1974 Male  
David Yule (born September 4, 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former field hockey midfielder from Canada, who earns a living as a housepainter. The forward is BA in English Literature and History from University of British Columbia. He co...
x Nardwuar the Human Serviette Nardwuar by William Jans Jul 5, 1968 Male Musical Artist
Nardwuar the Human Serviette (born John Ruskin, July 5, 1968) is a Canadian celebrity interviewer and musician from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the lead singer and keyboardist for The Evaporators and plays in Thee Goblins. He is an...
Musical Group Member
Broadcast Artist
Funny names
x Peter Milkovich   Oct 17, 1966 Male Olympic athlete
Peter Milkovich (born October 17, 1966) is a Canadian field hockey player and coach, with a noteworthy playing career as a midfielder for his country over many years, including appearances at the Pan American Games and the Olympics, with 268...
x Kimberley Stanfield   Nov 18, 1981 Female Award Winner
Kimberley Stanfield (born November 18, 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian model. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for July 2001. She graduated from Lord Byng Secondary School in Vancouver.
Playmate
x Teryl Rothery Teryl Rothery Nov 9, 1962 Female Film actor
Teryl Rothery (born November 9, 1962 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. She started her career when she played in the musical Bye Bye Birdie at the age of thirteen, and knew that she belonged in front of the camera when she...
TV Actor
x Doug Bennett   Oct 31, 1951 Male Musical Artist
Doug Bennett (October 31, 1951 - October 16, 2004) was the lead singer of Canadian rock band Doug and the Slugs. He also produced and directed music videos for artists such as Headpins, Trooper, Zappacosta, Images In Vogue and for the Slugs...
Musical Group Member
Deceased Person
x Dave Barrett David Barrett became Premier of British Columbia on September 15 Oct 2, 1930 Male Politician
David Barrett, OC (born 2 October 1930 in Vancouver, British Columbia), commonly known as Dave Barrett, was a politician and social worker in British Columbia, Canada. He was Premier of British Columbia for three years between 1972 and 1975, the...
x Erin White   Oct 27, 1977 Female Olympic athlete
Erin (Woods) White (born October 27, 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian softball first baseman. She is a graduate of Iowa State University, where she played catcher and at one point held the school's career home run record. She was a...
x Martin Kariya   Oct 5, 1981 Male Hockey Player
Martin Tetsuya Kariya (born October 5, 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey right winger for the Dinamo Riga in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Kariya had a standout NCAA college hockey career at the University of...
Pro Athlete
Measured person
x Norman McLeod   Sep 1938 Male Football player
Norman ("Norm") McLeod (born September, 1938 in Vancouver, Canada) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. McLeod played four times for Canada, in 1957 he was selected to Canada's first ever World Cup team and scored Canada's first ever...
x Michael Ontkean tbs0473ontkeanpu.jpg Jan 24, 1946 Male Film actor
Michael Ontkean (born 24 January 1946) is a Canadian actor. Ontkean was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Muriel (née Cooper), an actress, and Leonard Ontkean, a boxer and actor. Ontkean is best known for early roles in the film Slap...
TV Actor
Influence Node
Celebrity
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x Sam Lenarduzzi   Dec 19, 1949 Male Football player
Silvano (Sam) Lenarduzzi (born December 19, 1949 in Udine, Italy) is a Canadian former national soccer team player. Born in Udine, Italy, but raised in Vancouver, Lenarduzzi made his international debut in 1967 as member of the Pan American Games...
x Marianna Komlos Marianna Komlos Sep 3, 1969 Female Deceased Person
Marianna Komlos (September 3, 1969 – September 26, 2004) was a Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model, professional wrestler, and valet. She is perhaps best known for her stint in World Wrestling Entertainment in 1999 as Marianna. Before she started...
x Jon Kimura Parker   Dec 25, 1959 Male Musical Artist
Jon Kimura Parker (born 25 December 1959) is a Canadian pianist. He was born in Vancouver, Canada, the son of Keiko Parker and the nephew of Edward Parker. He appeared with the Vancouver Youth Orchestra when he was five. He later studied at The...
x Kate Richardson   Jun 27, 1984 Female Olympic athlete
Kate Richardson (born June 27, 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She began gymnastics at age three. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she placed 7th in the floor exercises event. She graduated UCLA in 2007 with a degree...
x Bruce Robertson   Apr 27, 1953 Male Olympic athlete
Bruce Richard Robertson (born April 27, 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 in Munich. There he won...
x Rick Goltz   Mar 19, 1955 Male Football player
Ricardo Eugene Goltz (born March 19, 1955 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a former NFL and CFL player. He played his college football at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. In 1978 he was drafted by his hometown B.C....
x Alexander Sundstrom   Mar 14, 1987 Male Hockey Player
Patrik Alexander Sundström (born March 14, 1987 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Swedish-Canadian hockey player. He currently plays for Brynäs IF in the Swedish Elitserien. Sundström was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the 7th round, 218th...
Pro Athlete
Measured person
x Jack Wasserman   1927 Male Deceased Person
Jack Wasserman (1927-1977) was a nightlife and celebrity columnist for the Vancouver Sun newspaper from 1949 on. He also had a radio program on the talk-radio station CJOR (1968). His column was read by almost everyone in the province. Largely made...
Broadcast Artist
x David Lam DavidLam Sep 2, 1923 Male Film director
David See-Chai Lam, OC, CVO, OBC (林思齊, pinyin: Lín Sīqí) (born September 2, 1923) was Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1988 to 1995. Born in Hong Kong, Lam and his family immigrated to British Columbia following the World War II. He...
Film producer
Chivalric Order Member
x Rick Roberts   Dec 8, 1967 Male Olympic athlete
Rick Roberts (born December 8, 1967 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former field hockey defender from Canada. Roberts started playing hockey in Victoria at age thirteen. He is nicknamed "Rico". He is married to former Women's National Team...
x Cammi Granato   Mar 25, 1971 Female Hockey Player
Catherine Michelle "Cammi" Granato (born March 25, 1971 in Downers Grove, Illinois) is a retired American female ice hockey player. Granato was the captain of the U.S. women's hockey team that won a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics. She is the...
Olympic athlete
x Gabrielle Miller   Nov 9, 1973 Female Film actor
Gabrielle Sunshine Miller (born November 9, 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. She was a cast member of the Canadian television series Corner Gas, for which she won a shared Gemini Awards for Best Ensemble Performance in a...
TV Actor
Influence Node
Practicer of diet
x Joy Kogawa kogawa200x.gif Jun 6, 1935 Female Author
Joy Nozomi Kogawa, CM, OBC (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Born Joy Nozomi Nakayama in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was sent to internment camps in the Slocan and Coaldale, Alberta during World War II....
Influence Node
Award Winner
x Dolores Claman   Jul 6, 1927 Female Musical Artist
Dolores Claman (July 6, 1927 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian composer and pianist. She is best known for composing the theme song, known simply as The Hockey Theme, for Hockey Night in Canada, a song often regarded as Canada's...
Composer
x Bill Henderson Greatest Hits Nov 6, 1944 Male Musical Artist
Bill Henderson (born November 6, 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian singer/songwriter. He first appeared on the Canadian music scene as a member of the group The Collectors, but he is best known for his work with the group Chilliwack...
Musical Group Member
x Robert Elsie   1950 Male  
Robert Elsie (born in 1950 in Vancouver, Canada) is an expert in Albanian culture and affairs. Elsie studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1972 with a diploma in Classical Studies and Linguistics. In the following years, he...
x Paul Snider   Apr 15, 1951 Male Deceased Person
Paul Leslie Snider (April 15, 1951–August 14, 1980) was the estranged husband of Playboy model Dorothy Stratten, whom he murdered before he himself committed suicide. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Snider met Stratten in 1977 while...
x Wayson Choy   1939 Male Author
Wayson Choy, CM (崔維新 Pinyin: Cuī Wéixīn ; Jyutping: Ceoi1 Wai4-san1) (born April 20, 1939) is a Canadian writer. Choy was born in Vancouver in 1939. A Chinese Canadian, he spent his childhood in the city's Chinatown. Choy graduated from Gladstone...
Deceased Person
x Ross Rutledge   Jul 7, 1962 Male Deceased Person
Michael Ross ("Roscoe") Rutledge (born July 7, 1962 – died April 23, 2004) is a former field hockey player. Rutledge participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for Canada, starting in 1984. After having finished in tenth position in Los Angeles...
Olympic athlete
x Katie Stuart   Mar 22, 1985 Female Film actor
Katherine Anne Stuart (born March 22, 1985) is a Canadian actress who has appeared in over 15 movies, ranging from the obscure (Atomic Dog) to the more well-known (X2). She has guest-starred on numerous television shows as well as appearing in the...
TV Actor
Influence Node
x Barbara Parkins Barbara Parkins Valley of the Dolls May 22, 1942 Female Film actor
Barbara Parkins (born on May 22, 1942) is a Canadian television and film actress. Parkins was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 22 May 1942. At the age of sixteen, Parkins and her mother moved to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at Hollywood...
TV Actor
Influence Node
Award Nominee
x Genni Gunn   1949 Female Author
Genni Gunn (born 1949) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and translator. Born in Trieste, Italy, she currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gunn has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia. She is Treasurer of the...
x Crystal Lowe Crystal Lowe-2005 Jan 20, 1981 Female Film actor
Crystal Lowe (born January 20, 1981) is a Canadian model and actress perhaps best known for her roles in the horror films such as Final Destination 3, Black Christmas and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. She is considered a scream queen. Lowe was born in...
Influence Node
Adult entertainer
Measured person
TV Actor
x Marc Singer Marc Singer Jan 29, 1948 Male Film actor
Marc Singer (born January 29, 1948) is a Canadian-born American actor known for his roles in science fiction films and television. Singer was born in Vancouver, British Columbia into a family of performers. His father, Jacques Singer, was a symphony...
TV Actor
Influence Node
x Robbi Chong   May 28, 1965 Female Film actor
Robbi Lynn Chong (born May 28, 1965) is a Canadian actress and former model. Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong, a comedian, actor, writer and director. Chong's father is of Chinese and Scots...
Influence Node
TV Actor
x Bruno Gerussi image:CBCbeachcombers.jpg May 7, 1928 Male TV Actor
Bruno Gerussi (7 May 1928 – November 21, 1995) was a Canadian television actor born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, best known for the lead role in the CBC series The Beachcombers. He also hosted CBC's daily cooking-talk show Celebrity Cooks in the late...
Deceased Person
Film actor
x Kate Ground Kate Ground 2004 Nov 22, 1984 Female Adult entertainer
Kate Ground is an adult model and porn star. Kate Ground was born and raised in Vancouver, BC. While it has been of some debate, the model has confirmed that her ethnicity is "mostly Caucasian, with a bit of Native Indian". Kate's Playground was...
Measured person
x Grant McNally   Jan 8, 1962 Male Politician
Grant McNally (born 8 January 1962 in Vancouver, British Columbia) was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004. He was educated at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC. By career, he is a teacher. He won election with the...
x W. H. New   Mar 28, 1938 Male Author
William Herbert New, OC, FRSC (born 28 March 1938) is a Canadian poet and literary critic. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Leeds. He taught English literature at the...
x Percy Williams Center May 19, 1908 Male Deceased Person
Percy Alfred Williams, OC (May 19, 1908 – November 29, 1982) was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 m and 200 m races at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Vancouver. Williams surprised many - himself the most - when he won the...
Olympic athlete
Track and Field athlete
x Leanne Li Leanne Li as Miss Chinese International 2005 1984 Female  
Leanne Li, born 25 November 1984, was the 2005 Miss Chinese International Pageant winner hailing from Vancouver, Canada. She is now an actress and a TV host for TVB. Leanne's family originate from Shanghai, China who later emigrated to Canada when...
x Stan Persky   Jan 19, 1941 Male  
Stan Persky (born 19 January 1941) is a Canadian writer, media commentator and philosophy instructor. Persky was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a teenager, he made contact with and received encouragement from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other...
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