#1Famous people · Cardston, Alberta
Performers stand out among the 17 famous people born in Cardston
Most widely known is Fay Wray, the actress, with articles in 49 languages. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is second and George Woolf third. The earliest on the list is Solon Earl Low, born in 1900, and the youngest Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, born in 1985. Half or more of the towns in Alberta have no one on record, but this one has 44 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
17
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Fay Wray
49 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1900
Solon Earl Low
Youngest
1985
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Cardston is known for
Performers stand out most, at 2.4 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Cardston
Performers take two of the three places.
#1ET#2
Film, TV & Stage
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
born 1985Canadian filmmaker, actor, and producer
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Through the years
When Cardston’s famous people were born
The 1900s alone account for 6 of the births charted here.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & StageSportsWriting & ArtsMilitaryScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cardston
The other 14 span the years 1900 to 1968.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Cardston, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Cardston
Who is the most famous person from Cardston?
Fay Wray (actress) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and George Woolf.
How many famous people were born in Cardston?
Wikidata counts 24 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Cardston known for?
Here the share is 35%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cardston?
The earliest is Solon Earl Low, born in 1900, and the latest birth listed is 1985.
Who counts as from Cardston?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Cardston’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Fay Wray: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Woolf: Unidentified photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Solon Earl Low: Solon_Earl_Low.jpg : Library and Archives of Canada, Arthur Roy derivative work: Connormah, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Davis Shaw: Arthur Roy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry R. Wellman: Credited to TIOSO, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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).