Photo: Dwayne Reilander · CC BY-SA 4.0No one born in Bowness has made the famous people list yet
Edmonton’s 1,033 names make the longest list in Alberta. Only Edmonton outnumbers Calgary in Alberta, whose list holds 1,028 names. Across Alberta, the lists cover 154 towns.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Bowness’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Bowness yet.
Questions about famous people from Bowness
Who counts as from Bowness?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Bowness’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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.
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).