Photo: Madereugeneandrew · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Blackfalds is on the famous people list yet
Rebecca Smith heads the list in Red Deer, 13 km away, which has 87 names. No town in Alberta lists more than Edmonton, with 1,033. After Edmonton, the next longest list in Alberta is Calgary’s, with 1,028. Famous people are on record for 154 of the towns in Alberta.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Blackfalds’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Blackfalds for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Blackfalds
Questions about famous people from Blackfalds
Who counts as from Blackfalds?
The list takes people born within Blackfalds’ 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).
Photo credits (1)
- Roland Michener: Uncropped version from the St. Thomas Times-Journal (via Elgin County Archives ), CC BY 2.0, 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).