No famous person yet from Copperfield
154 towns in Alberta have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Alberta belongs to Edmonton, with 1,033. Second in Alberta is Calgary (1,028 names), behind only Edmonton.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Copperfield’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Copperfield with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Questions about famous people from Copperfield
Who counts as from Copperfield?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Copperfield’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the 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).