#1Sports
Rick Rypien
1984–2011Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
Most of the 13 famous people born in Crowsnest Pass came into the world between 1914 and 1945
Rick Rypien, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 15 languages. The next two names are Anatol Roshko and Doug Houda. Fewer than a quarter of the 154 towns in Alberta with famous people list more. For every 10,000 residents the town has 21.6, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rick Rypien
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1909
William Kovach
Youngest
1984
Rick Rypien
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Crowsnest Pass
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Science & Medicine
Anatol Roshko
1923–2017Canadian-born American physicist and engineer
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Doug Houda
born 1966Canadian ice hockey player and coach
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Crowsnest Pass’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1930s than in any other decade: 4.
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One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Crowsnest Pass is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
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Questions about famous people from Crowsnest Pass
Who is the most famous person from Crowsnest Pass?
By our measure the best known is Rick Rypien (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Anatol Roshko and Doug Houda.
What is Crowsnest Pass known for?
31% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Crowsnest Pass?
William Kovach (1909). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1984.
Who counts as from Crowsnest Pass?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Crowsnest Pass’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (2)
- Rick Rypien: Resolute, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Doug Houda: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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