#1Sports
Jake Neighbours
born 2002Canadian ice hockey player
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Airdrie, Alberta
Jake Neighbours tops a list of 5 famous people born in Airdrie
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Jake Neighbours, covered in 11 languages. Dana Tyrell is second and Aaron Dell third. More than half were born since 1970, 5 in all. For every 10,000 residents the town has 0.5, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jake Neighbours
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1981
Angela Pitt
Youngest
2002
Jake Neighbours
Most common field
Sports
4 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Airdrie’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1980s, with 4 people born in that decade.
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One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Airdrie
#1#2#3Sports
Aaron Dell
born 1989Canadian ice hockey goaltender
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Airdrie is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 2.1 times the usual share.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Airdrie
2 more, from 1981 to 1984.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Airdrie
Who is the most famous person from Airdrie?
Jake Neighbours (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Dana Tyrell and Aaron Dell.
How many famous people were born in Airdrie?
Wikidata places 8 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Airdrie known for?
They make up 80% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Airdrie?
Angela Pitt (1981). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Airdrie?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Airdrie’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Jake Neighbours: Kaiser matias, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dana Tyrell: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougtone/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Dell: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Darcy Campbell: Leech44, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Angela Pitt: Chris Bolin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).