Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Columbia Británica
Saffron Henderson
Saffron Henderson is a Canadian voice actress and singer who often works with Ocean Productions in numerous anime dubs.
John Beckwith
John Beckwith, is a Canadian composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator.
Lisa Vultaggio
Lisa Vultaggio is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Hannah Scott on General Hospital.
David Cheriton
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.
Roger Stanier
Roger Yate Stanier fue un microbiólogo canadiense cuyos trabajos fueron muy influyentes en el desarrollo de la microbiología moderna. Como estudiante de C. B. van Niel realizó importantes contribuciones a la taxonomía de las bacterias y clasificó a las algas verde-azules como cianobacterias. En 1957, publicó junto a otros autores, el influyente libro de texto The Microbial World, que fue editado en cinco ocasiones durante más de tres décadas. En el transcurso de 24 años en la Universidad de California en Berkeley, llegó al cargo de profesor y dirigió el Departamento of Bacteriología. En 1971 se unió al Instituto Pasteur de París. Recibió varios premios y reconocimientos durante su carrera, icnluyendo la Medalla Leeuwenhoek.
Andrew Sabiston
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.
Cliff Thorburn
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.
Adrian Dix
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.
Nigel Bowen
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).
Donald C. MacDonald
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.