Photo: outofthought · CC BY-SA 3.0No one born in Discovery Ridge has made the famous people list yet
In Alberta, 154 towns have someone on the list. The longest list in Alberta is Edmonton’s, with 1,033 names. Only Edmonton outnumbers Calgary in Alberta, whose list holds 1,028 names.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Discovery Ridge’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Discovery Ridge with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Questions about famous people from Discovery Ridge
Who counts as from Discovery Ridge?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Discovery Ridge’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed 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).