#1Famous people · Barrhead, Alberta
Leaders stand out among the 9 famous people born in Barrhead
Articles in 12 languages make the Canadian bobsledder Melissa Lotholz the best known. The first birth on record is Ivan Messmer’s, in 1931, and the last Melissa Lotholz’s, in 1992. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period. For every 10,000 residents the town has 18.9, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Melissa Lotholz
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1931
Ivan Messmer
Youngest
1992
Melissa Lotholz
Most common field
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6 people
What stands out about Barrhead’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Barrhead is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 3 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Barrhead’s famous people were born
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Barrhead
The three are covered in 12, 4 and 4 languages: Melissa Lotholz, Alan May and Brian Storseth.
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Brian Storseth
born 1978Canadian politician
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Everyone else born in Barrhead
Another 6, the earliest born in 1931.
Doug Horner
born 1961Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and Deputy Premier of Alberta
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Questions about famous people from Barrhead
Who is the most famous person from Barrhead?
By our measure the best known is Melissa Lotholz (Canadian bobsledder); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Alan May and Brian Storseth.
What is Barrhead known for?
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Barrhead?
Ivan Messmer, from 1931; the most recent birth on the list is from 1992.
Who counts as from Barrhead?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Barrhead’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here at the next 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 (4)
- Melissa Lotholz: Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Doug Horner: Doug_Horner.jpg : Dave Cournoyer derivative work: Connormah, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Janis Irwin: MontonEd88, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arnold Viersen: Scaredmonkey54, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).