Adam Enright
born 1983Canadian curler and Olympian
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Photo: jayscratch from Victoria, B.C., Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Most widely known is Adam Enright, the Canadian curler and olympian, with articles in 13 languages. The largest group, 3, was born between 1914 and 1945. Born in 1907, Hilliard Beyerstein is the first name on record, and Adam Enright, born in 1983, the most recent. Half or more of the towns in Alberta have no one on record, but this one has 7.8 for every 10,000 residents.
Leaders stand out most, at 3.9 times the usual share.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Canadian curler and Olympian
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The busiest decade was the 1910s, with 2 births.
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Another 4, 4 of them leaders.
No one matches both filters.
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 1.
Adam Enright (Canadian curler and Olympian) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Arnold Malone and Hilliard Beyerstein.
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 86%.
Hilliard Beyerstein, born in 1907. The youngest on the list was born in 1983.
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Camrose County’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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).
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).