List of Famous people born in British Columbia, Canada
Daniel Powter
Daniel Richard Powter is a Canadian musician. He is best known for his self-penned hit song "Bad Day" (2005), which was top of the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks.
Gordon Herbert
Gordon Walter Herbert is a Canadian professional basketball coach and a retired professional basketball player. He is the head coach of Germany men's national team.
Laura Harris
Laura Elizabeth Harris is a Canadian actress.
Bernice Liu
Bernice Jan Liu is a Canadian actress, singer, and commercial model based in Hong Kong. She has previously held the title Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 as well as Miss Chinese International 2001, the latter position bringing her fame in Hong Kong. Liu left Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) in 2011 to pursue a singing career.
Liam James
Liam James is a Canadian actor, known for his role as Noah Curtis in the 2009 film 2012, young Shawn Spencer on the USA Network television series Psych, and the lead character, Duncan, in 2013's The Way, Way Back. He also starred as Jack Linden in AMC's The Killing and Adam Warren in ABC's The Family, playing the son of main characters.
Lochlyn Munro
Lochlyn Munro is a Canadian film and television actor. For films, Munro is mostly known for his roles in A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Scary Movie (2000), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), and White Chicks (2004). For television, he is perhaps best known for his roles in the Canadian series Northwood, supernatural drama Charmed, and teen drama Riverdale.
Rykka
Christina Maria Rieder, better known by their stage name Rykka, is a Swiss-Canadian singer and songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. Their songs have been featured on TV, and they have been nominated for several music awards both in British Columbia, and across Canada. On May 12, 2016, they represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm with the song "The Last of Our Kind". They sang in the second semi-final of the event.
Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg is a Canadian screenwriter, film and television producer, comedian and television and film director. He has collaborated with his childhood friend Seth Rogen on several films, including Superbad (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), The Interview (2014), and Good Boys (2019).
Manuel Osborne-Paradis
Manuel Osborne-Paradis is a Canadian former World Cup alpine ski racer.
Megan Charpentier
Megan Charpentier is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as the feral child Victoria in the 2013 horror film Mama and as the new Red Queen in Resident Evil: Retribution. She is also commonly known for playing the younger version of characters in the media.