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Dave Hakstol
born 1968Canadian ice hockey player and coach
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Drayton Valley, Alberta
10 famous people from Drayton Valley, many of them athletes
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player and coach Dave Hakstol, covered in 9 languages. Behind the leader come Peter Oldring and Clay Stevenson. Since 1970, 8 were born, the most of any period. Diana McQueen, born in 1961, is the earliest name and Clay Stevenson, born in 1999, the latest.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dave Hakstol
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1961
Diana McQueen
Youngest
1999
Clay Stevenson
Most common field
Sports
6 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Drayton Valley’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1990s than in any other decade: 4.
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One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Drayton Valley is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.6 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Drayton Valley
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Clay Stevenson
born 1999Canadian ice hockey player
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Everyone else born in Drayton Valley
Of the other 7, 4 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Drayton Valley
Who is the most famous person from Drayton Valley?
The top name is Dave Hakstol (Canadian ice hockey player and coach), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Peter Oldring and Clay Stevenson.
How many famous people were born in Drayton Valley?
Wikidata counts 13 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Drayton Valley known for?
They make up 60% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Drayton Valley?
Diana McQueen (1961). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Drayton Valley?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Drayton Valley’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 (4)
- Dave Hakstol: Bruce C. Cooper, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clay Stevenson: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mason Geertsen: Kline, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sid Neigum: Jonneigum, 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).