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David Shand
born 1956Canadian ice hockey defenceman
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Cold Lake, Alberta
8 famous people were born in Cold Lake, more of them athletes than in most towns
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman David Shand, covered in 6 languages. The largest group, 4, was born between 1946 and 1969. Births since 1970 account for 3 of the names. The earliest on the list is Jimmy Herman, born in 1940, and the youngest Blake MacDonald, born in 1976.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David Shand
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1940
Jimmy Herman
Youngest
1976
Blake MacDonald
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Cold Lake’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Cold Lake’s famous people were born
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Cold Lake is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2 times as common.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Cold Lake
The three best known are all athletes.
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Kevin Krook
born 1958Canadian ice hockey defenceman
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Everyone else born in Cold Lake
A further 5 follow, born between 1940 and 1973.
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Questions about famous people from Cold Lake
Who is the most famous person from Cold Lake?
The top name is David Shand (Canadian ice hockey defenceman), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Kevin Krook and Blake MacDonald.
How many famous people were born in Cold Lake?
Wikidata places 10 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Cold Lake known for?
75% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cold Lake?
The earliest is Jimmy Herman, born in 1940, and the latest birth listed is 1976.
Who counts as from Cold Lake?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Cold Lake’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (4)
- David Shand: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Garry Howatt: New York Islanders, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Doug Hicks: Chicago Blackhawks / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bonnie McFarlane: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 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).