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Photo: Ribbet32 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Beaverlodge, Alberta
13 famous people were born in Beaverlodge, more of them athletes than in most towns
Articles in 12 languages make the Canadian male curler Geoff Walker the best known. Close behind are Simon Hoogewerf and Chris Schmidt. 5 of them were born since 1970. Mel Knight (1944) and Geoff Walker (1985) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Geoff Walker
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1944
Mel Knight
Youngest
1985
Geoff Walker
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Beaverlodge’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Beaverlodge’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1970s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
SportsPolitics & Law
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Beaverlodge is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2.2 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Beaverlodge
SH#2
Sports
Simon Hoogewerf
born 1963Canadian middle-distance runner
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CS#3
Sports
Chris Schmidt
born 1976Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Beaverlodge
10 more names, born between 1944 and 1980.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Beaverlodge
Who is the most famous person from Beaverlodge?
The top name is Geoff Walker (Canadian male curler), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Simon Hoogewerf and Chris Schmidt.
How many famous people were born in Beaverlodge?
14 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Beaverlodge known for?
Here the share is 85%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Beaverlodge?
Mel Knight, from 1944; the most recent birth on the list is from 1985.
Who counts as from Beaverlodge?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Beaverlodge’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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.
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).