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Hector Negrello
1921–2000Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Coalhurst, Alberta
One famous person was born in Coalhurst
Hector Negrello, the Canadian ice hockey player, was born in 1921. Their birth falls between 1914 and 1945. Readers can find them written up in 2 languages. The neighbour with the longest list is Lethbridge, 8 km away: 114, led by Conrad Bain.
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Hector Negrello
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Hector Negrello
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Questions about famous people from Coalhurst
Who is the most famous person from Coalhurst?
Hector Negrello (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Coalhurst?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Coalhurst according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Coalhurst known for?
The largest group is athletes, 1 in all out of 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Coalhurst?
The list takes people born within Coalhurst’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
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- 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).