Photo: Michael from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0No famous person born in Patterson is listed yet
No town in Alberta lists more than Edmonton, with 1,033. Calgary has the second-longest list in Alberta, after Edmonton, with 1,028. 154 towns in Alberta have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Patterson’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Patterson with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Questions about famous people from Patterson
Who counts as from Patterson?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Patterson’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. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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).