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Don McFadyen
1907–1990Canadian ice hockey centre
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Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Famous people · Crossfield, Alberta
Crossfield is the birthplace of 2 famous people
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian ice hockey centre Don McFadyen. The other is Kim Forge, the Australian female curler. Jake Neighbours heads the list in Airdrie, 17 km away, which has 5 names. The oldest name on the list belongs to Don McFadyen, born in 1907, the newest to Kim Forge, born in 1971.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Don McFadyen
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1907
Don McFadyen
Youngest
1971
Kim Forge
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Crossfield
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Questions about famous people from Crossfield
Who is the most famous person from Crossfield?
By our measure the best known is Don McFadyen (Canadian ice hockey centre); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Kim Forge.
What is Crossfield known for?
They make up 100% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Crossfield?
Don McFadyen, from 1907; the most recent birth on the list is from 1971.
Who counts as from Crossfield?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Crossfield’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off 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 (2)
- Jake Neighbours: Kaiser matias, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Hays: Erkki Voutilainen / Maaseudun Tulevaisuus, CC BY 4.0, 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).