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Famous people · Cochrane, Alberta
12 famous people from Cochrane, many of them athletes
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian ice hockey player Billy Dawe. Close behind are Justin Dowling and Ethan Gage. More than half were born since 1970, 10 in all. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Billy Dawe
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1920
Clarence Copithorne
Youngest
2003
Sarah Wozniewicz
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Cochrane’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Cochrane’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 5.
SportsPolitics & Law
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Cochrane is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2.4 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Cochrane
All three are athletes.
#2Sports
Justin Dowling
born 1990Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Cochrane
9 more, 8 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Rocky View County has the longest list next door: 4.
Questions about famous people from Cochrane
Who is the most famous person from Cochrane?
Billy Dawe (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Justin Dowling and Ethan Gage.
How many famous people were born in Cochrane?
Wikidata counts 13 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Cochrane known for?
Here the share is 92%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cochrane?
Clarence Copithorne, from 1920; the most recent birth on the list is from 2003.
Who counts as from Cochrane?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Cochrane’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Justin Dowling: Ross Bonander, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ethan Gage: Longbomb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tanner House: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Wozniewicz: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wacey Hamilton: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, 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).