#1Famous people · Coaldale, Alberta
Coaldale is the birthplace of 4 famous people
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Ben Thomson, covered in 5 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian ice hockey player Steve Tsujiura, third to Werner Schmidt. Over 50 years of births, the list goes from Werner Schmidt (1932) to Ben Thomson (1982). For every 10,000 residents the town has 4.1, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ben Thomson
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1932
Werner Schmidt
Youngest
1982
Ben Thomson
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Coaldale
#1ST#2
Sports
Steve Tsujiura
born 1962Canadian ice hockey player
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
WS#3
Politics & Law
Werner Schmidt
1932–2024Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Coaldale’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1960s come out on top, with 2 births.
SportsPolitics & Law
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Coaldale is known for
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Coaldale
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Coaldale
Who is the most famous person from Coaldale?
Ben Thomson (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Steve Tsujiura and Werner Schmidt.
What is Coaldale known for?
That is 75% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Coaldale?
Werner Schmidt (1932). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1982.
Who counts as from Coaldale?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Coaldale’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?
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).
Photo credits (2)
- Ben Thomson: Oliver Rothenhäusler (redro.de) ( Redro at de.wikipedia ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Conrad Bain: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, 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).