49.2608° N, 123.1138° W

VANCOUVER

Most Famous People Born in Vancouver, Canada

Notable people

1,538

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1965

Most distinctive

Hockey 6.1×

A young Pacific city whose economy runs on trees, ships, and Hollywood North. Vancouver's distinctive professions are ice hockey players, sprinters, swimmers, rowers, skaters, and actors — the last because American studios have been shooting television and film here since the 1990s. Ryan Reynolds, Seth Rogen, Hayden Christensen, Cobie Smulders, and Joshua Jackson all grew up in the same few neighbourhoods; the pre-1900 tail is almost nonexistent.