15 Notable alumni of
British Columbia Institute of Technology
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British Columbia Institute of Technology is 1710th in the world, 591st in North America, and 36th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from British Columbia Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jillian Harris
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Jillian Harris is a Canadian television personality. She is best known for appearing on the television series The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Love It or List It Vancouver. She has also appeared on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Canada's Handyman Challenge, and The Bachelorette Canada.
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Mike Holmes
- Occupations
- television presentermaster builder
- Biography
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Michael James Holmes is a Canadian general contractor, businessman, investor, television host, and philanthropist.
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Sahar Biniaz
- Occupations
- actorbeauty pageant contestantmodel
- Biography
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Sahar Biniaz is a Persian-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Canada 2012 and Miss Universe Persia 2025. She had a recurring role on the hit TV show Sanctuary as the Hindu goddess of power Kali. She was set to represent Iran at Miss Universe 2025 pageant held in Thailand but later withdrew in solidarity with and out of respect for her national director, Golshan Barazesh — whose unexplained detention in Iran is a serious human rights concern
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Rachel Marsden
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Rachel Marsden is a Canadian conservative political columnist and television commentator based in Paris. Her weekly column is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency. She has hosted talk shows on Fox News and Sputnik News, and has written for the Toronto Sun and several other major news outlets. She is also a regular contributor to the English and French services of the RT news channel.
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Tamara Taggart
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Tamara Taggart OBC is a Canadian podcaster and former television presenter. She served as the weekday anchor of CTV News at Six alongside Mike Killeen on CIVT-TV ("CTV British Columbia") in Vancouver between 2010 and 2018.
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Wai Young
- Occupations
- community organizerbusinesspersonconsultantpolitician
- Biography
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Wai Yee Young is a Canadian politician from Vancouver, British Columbia. She represented the electoral district of Vancouver South for the Conservative Party of Canada from 2011 to 2015. She was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election, but was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Harjit Sajjan in the 2015 election. She started her own municipal party, Coalition Vancouver, on June 21, 2018. She is leader of the party and ran as its mayoral candidate for the 2018 municipal election. She unsuccessfully contested the 2019 federal election.
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Vera Kobalia
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vera Kobalia is a Georgian politician who has served in the Cabinet of Georgia as the country's Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development from 2 July 2010 to 25 October 2012.
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Diana Swain
- Occupations
- journalistbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Diana Swain is a public speaker and the founder of Diana Swain Strategies, an executive coaching and communications consulting firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Swain established the firm in January 2024 after a career as a Canadian journalist.
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Gloria Macarenko
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Gloria Macarenko, CM is a Canadian television and radio journalist. From 1989 until 2014, she was the longtime host or co-host of CBC Vancouver's supper-hour television newscast at 5:00 or 6:00. She later hosted the CBC Radio One local program B.C. Almanac and the national CBC Radio One documentary series The Story from Here. In January 2018 she took over as the host of On The Coast, CBC Radio One's daily afternoon program in the Vancouver area. Macarenko has been a guest anchor on The National and CBC News Now on CBC News Network.
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John Furlong
- Occupations
- sports executive
- Biography
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John Furlong OC OBC is a Canadian sports administrator who oversaw the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics and was President and CEO of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC).
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Shawn Atleo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, is a Canadian activist and politician, a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada (serving 2009 to 2014). He also has served since 1999 as a Hereditary Chief of the Ahousaht First Nation, part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation based in British Columbia.
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Colin Basran
- Occupations
- politicianreal-estate agentjournalist
- Biography
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Colin G. Basran is a Canadian politician who served as the mayor of Kelowna, British Columbia from 2014 to 2022.
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Rob Brown
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Rob Brown is a Canadian television journalist and anchor for CBC News Calgary.
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Annie Bellemare
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Annie Bellemare is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2000 Four Continents bronze medallist, 2004 Bofrost Cup on Ice bronze medallist, and a five-time Canadian national medallist.
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Andrew George Jr
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- writerchef
- Biography
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Andrew George Jr. is a Canadian chef and writer.
