Notable Residents
- Alfred George Richard "Red" Carr, father of Gene Carr, who played 8 seasons of senior hockey before he played NHL Hockey in 1943 for the Toronto Maple Leafs. When he retired he coached hockey for the Vancouver Island Amateur League and was posthumously selected to be inducted into the Nanaimo Sports Hall of Fame in 2010
- Gene Carr, NHL Hockey Player drafted by St. Louis Blues (1st round, 4th overall of the 1971 NHL Amateur draft), New York Rangers, L.A. Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Atlanta Flames
- Cameron Bright, actor
- Justin Chatwin, actor
- Jimmy Claxton, Black baseball pitcher, born in nearby Wellington, who broke the US baseball colour line
- Raymond Collishaw, one of the highest scoring British Aces of WWI, ranking overall third in the British Empire with 60 confirmed kills
- Peter Croft, rock climber, free solo
- Allison Crowe, singer-songwriter and pianist
- John DeSantis, actor
- Jodelle Ferland, actress
- Lloyd Gilmour, NHL Referee
- David Gogo, blues guitarist
- Gogo, keyboardist for the rock band Trooper
- Ashleigh Harrington, actress
- Christopher Hart, actor, magician
- Diana Krall, jazz pianist and vocalist
- Tim Lander, poet
- Cory Monteith, actor
- Shane Sutcliffe, boxer
- Kirsten Sweetland, triathlete
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