MB#1
Sports
Mark Bomersback
born 1982Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Athabasca County, Alberta
4 famous people were born in Athabasca County
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Mark Bomersback, with articles in 6 languages. Second and third on the list are Tim Hague and Oliver Bowen. Tim Hague, born in 1983, is the youngest, and Oliver Bowen, born in 1942, the first on record. Half or more of the towns in Alberta have no one on record, but this one has 5.5 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mark Bomersback
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1942
Oliver Bowen
Youngest
1983
Tim Hague
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Athabasca County
Two of the three are athletes.
TH#2
OB#3
Science & Medicine
Oliver Bowen
1942–2000Canadian engineer 1942-2000
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Athabasca County’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1980s, with 2 people born in that decade.
SportsScience & Medicine
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Athabasca County is known for
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Athabasca County
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Athabasca leads the towns around it, with 9 names.
Questions about famous people from Athabasca County
Who is the most famous person from Athabasca County?
By our measure the best known is Mark Bomersback (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Tim Hague and Oliver Bowen.
What is Athabasca County known for?
That is 75% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Athabasca County?
Oliver Bowen, born in 1942. The youngest on the list was born in 1983.
Who counts as from Athabasca County?
The list takes people born within Athabasca County’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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).
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- Alissa York: Oscar, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
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