List of Famous people born in British Columbia, Canada

Saffron Henderson

First Name Saffron
Last Name Henderson
Born on September 25, 1965 (age 60)

Saffron Henderson is a Canadian voice actress and singer who often works with Ocean Productions in numerous anime dubs.

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John Beckwith

First Name John
Last Name Beckwith
Born on March 9, 1927 (age 99)

John Beckwith, is a Canadian composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator.

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Lisa Vultaggio

First Name Lisa
Last Name Vultaggio
Born on January 20, 1973 (age 53)

Lisa Vultaggio is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Hannah Scott on General Hospital.

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David Cheriton

First Name David
Last Name Cheriton
Born on March 29, 1951 (age 75)
Net Worth $8.8B

David Ross Cheriton is a Canadian computer scientist, mathematician, billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group.

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Roger Stanier

First Name Roger
Last Name Stanier
Born on October 22, 1916
Died on January 29, 1982 (aged 65)

Roger Yate Stanier was a Canadian microbiologist who was influential in the development of modern microbiology. As a member of the Delft School and former student of C. B. van Niel, he made important contributions to the taxonomy of bacteria, including the classification of blue-green algae as cyanobacteria. In 1957, he and co-authors wrote The Microbial World, an influential microbiology textbook which was published in five editions over three decades. In the course of 24 years at the University of California, Berkeley he reached the rank of professor and served as chair of the Department of Bacteriology before leaving for the Pasteur Institute in 1971. He received several awards over the course of his career, including the Leeuwenhoek Medal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences and the Légion d’Honneur.

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Andrew Sabiston

First Name Andrew
Last Name Sabiston
Born on February 8, 1965 (age 61)

Andrew Sabiston is a multi-award nominated Canadian children's television series developer, story editor, writer and actor with over 1100 episodes to his credit. His mother is artist Carole Sabiston.

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Cliff Thorburn

First Name Cliff
Last Name Thorburn
Born on January 16, 1948 (age 78)

Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Higgins 18–16 in the final to become the first world champion in the sport's modern era from outside the United Kingdom.

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Adrian Dix

First Name Adrian
Last Name Dix
Born on April 26, 1964 (age 61)

Adrian Dix is a Canadian politician serving as the current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia. In addition to serving as the current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia, Dix is also serving as the current Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs in British Columbia and the current Minister of Health in British Columbia. He has also served as the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2011 to 2014. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2005 provincial election. Dix's decision in 2013 to be replaced as leader came following the party's disappointing result in the May 2013 provincial election which the BC NDP lost despite a 20-point lead in the polls prior to the election campaign.

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Nigel Bowen

First Name Nigel
Born on May 26, 1911
Died on September 27, 1994 (aged 83)

Sir Nigel Hubert Bowen, AC, KBE, QC was an Australian lawyer, politician and judge. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives from 1964 to 1973, representing the New South Wales seat of Parramatta. He held senior ministerial office in multiple Coalition governments, serving as Attorney-General, Minister for Education and Science (1969–1971), and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1971–1972). After the Coalition lost the 1972 election he was an unsuccessful candidate to replace William McMahon as Liberal leader, losing to Billy Snedden by a single vote. After leaving politics he served as the inaugural chief justice of the Federal Court of Australia (1976–1990).

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Donald C. MacDonald

First Name Donald
Last Name MacDonald
Born on December 7, 1913
Died on March 8, 2008 (aged 94)

Donald Cameron MacDonald was a long time Canadian politician and political party leader and had been referred to as the "Best premier Ontario never had." He represented the provincial riding of York South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1955 to 1982. From 1953 to 1970 he was the leader of the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and its successor, the Ontario New Democratic Party.

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