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Famous people · Cypress County, Alberta
From 1798 to 1917, Cypress County was the birthplace of 4 famous people
Most widely known is Margaret Bell, the Canadian high jumper, with articles in 7 languages. Close behind are Mountain Chief and Keeseekoowenin. For every 10,000 residents the town has 5.1, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there. Margaret Bell was born in 1917.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Margaret Bell
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1798
Jean Baptiste Lolo
Youngest
1917
Margaret Bell
The best known
Born in Cypress County
Margaret Bell, Mountain Chief and Keeseekoowenin are written about in 7, 3 and 2 languages.
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Through the years
When Cypress County’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1910s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Notable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cypress County
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Medicine Hat lists the most people: 66.
Questions about famous people from Cypress County
Who is the most famous person from Cypress County?
The top name is Margaret Bell (Canadian high jumper), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Mountain Chief and Keeseekoowenin.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cypress County?
Jean Baptiste Lolo (1798). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1917.
Who counts as from Cypress County?
The list takes people born within Cypress County’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?
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 (4)
- Mountain Chief: BPL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Baptiste Lolo: Carlo Charles Gentile, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard E. Taylor: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cody Snyder: MollyMylo, CC BY-SA 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).