• Atom Egoyan, Filmmaker (raised in Victoria)
• Barry Pepper, Actor (born in Campbell River)
• Brendan Fletcher, Actor (born in Comox Valley)
• Cameron Bright, Actor (born in Victoria)
• Cam Neely, Athlete – hockey (born in Comox)
• David Foster, Musician/Producer (born in Victoria)
• Diana Krall, Jazz Musician (born in Nanaimo)
• Emily Carr, Painter/Writer (born in Victoria)
• Jeff Courtnall, Athlete – hockey (born in Duncan)
• Jodelle Ferland, Actor (born in Nanaimo)
• Justin Chatwin, Actor (born in Nanaimo)
• Kim Cattrall, Actor (raised in Comox Valley)
• Nelly Furtado, Singer/Songwriter (born in Victoria)
• Pamela Anderson, Actor (born in Ladysmith)
• Randy Bachman, Musician (lives on Salt Spring Island)
• Raymond Law, Actor (born in Victoria)
• Rick Hansen, Wheelchair Athlete (born in Port Alberni)
• Robert Bateman, Painter (lives on Salt Spring Island)
• Russ Courtnall, Athlete – hockey (born in Duncan)
• Steve Nash, Athlete – basketball (raised in Victoria)

Movies filmed in the Vancouver Island region:

• Are we There Yet? (Ice Cube, Nia Long)
• Bird on a Wire (Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn)
• Cats & Dogs (Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins)
• Clan of the Cave Bear (Darryl Hannah)
• Excess Baggage (Alicia Silverstone, Benicio del Toro, Christopher Walken)
• Insomnia (Robin Williams, Al Pacino)
• Intersection (Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau)
• Lake Placid (Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda)
• Little Women (Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Kirsten Dunst)
• Seven Years in Tibet (Brad Pitt)
• The Fog (Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair)
• The Scarlett Letter (Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall)
• The 13th Warrior (Antonia Banderas)
• The Wicker Man (Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn)
• The X Files 1993 (Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny)
• Trapped (Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Kevin Bacon, Stuart Townsend)
• X2 & X-Men: The Last Stand (Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen)