Famous people from Langley

Ask around and most people can name one famous person from Langley, usually a hockey player, and then stall. The real list is longer and stranger than that. It runs from a Kwantlen chief who decided where the Hudson’s Bay Company would trade, through a Fort Langley butcher whose will paid for a bridge, to a Stanley Cup winner who learned the game in Aldergrove and a child actor who voiced a Pixar lead and then graduated from Walnut Grove Secondary.

A note on how we decide who goes in. “From Langley” means a source says the person was born here, grew up here, or lives and works here now. Plenty of famous people have played a junior hockey game at George Preston or shot a movie on Glover Road; that alone doesn’t make them ours. Where sources disagree on a birthplace, and for athletes they often do, the bio says so rather than picking the answer we’d like.

Five ways in

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  14 biosAthletes

  Olympic and Paralympic champions, NHL and MLB players, a World Cup defender and a Little League team in the BC Sports Hall of Fame.

  Athletes from Langley →
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  7 biosMusicians

  Country stars who live on Langley acreages, a punk band that started here and a tenor born in Murrayville.

  Musicians →
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  5 biosActors, artists and writers

  The kid from Room, the Langley-born star of Silicon Valley, a magician, a documentary maker and a painter.

  Actors and artists →
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  9 biosPeople who shaped Langley

  The Kwantlen chief, the fur traders, the governor sworn in at the fort and the settlers on our street signs.

  History in names →
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  7 biosLangley in public life

  Former MLAs, cabinet ministers and MPs who represented Langley, riding by riding.

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A few you might not know were from here

• Shea Theodore came up through Aldergrove minor hockey and won the Stanley Cup with Vegas in 2023, then Olympic silver with Canada in 2026. His story
• Lisa Roman grew up in Murrayville, went to D.W. Poppy and rowed in Canada’s gold-medal women’s eight at Tokyo. Her story
• Lauren Barwick, born in Langley and based in Aldergrove, won Paralympic gold and silver in para dressage at Beijing 2008. Her story
• Ben Heppner, one of the great Wagner tenors of his era, was born in Murrayville in 1956 before his family moved north. His story
• Jacob Tremblay, the boy in Room and the voice of Pixar’s Luca, grew up in Langley and graduated from Walnut Grove Secondary in 2024. His story
• Amanda Crew was born in Langley in 1986 and went on to six seasons of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Her story
• Dallas Smith, the former Default frontman turned country star, lives here and shows up for hometown causes. His story
• Whattlekainum, the Kwantlen leader, made his nation the fort’s main trading partner after 1827 and pushed the company into salmon and cranberries. His story
• James Douglas took his oath as the first governor of the Colony of British Columbia at Fort Langley on November 19, 1858. That day

Help us fill the gaps

Lists like this are never finished. If you know someone with a real Langley connection and a public record we can source, a team page, a published bio, a news story, send it in and we’ll do the research. We only write about people’s public lives, so please don’t send private details.

Related: Langley on screen for the shows and films shot here, and the past mayors for local government.