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Andrew Bodnarchuk
born 1988Canadian ice hockey player
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Drumheller, Alberta
12 famous people from Drumheller, many of them leaders
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Andrew Bodnarchuk, with articles in 7 languages. The largest group, 7, was born between 1914 and 1945. For every 10,000 residents the town has 14.2, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there. The list is still growing: 2 were born since 1970.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Andrew Bodnarchuk
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1923
Edgar Gerhart
Youngest
1988
Andrew Bodnarchuk
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Drumheller is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 2.3 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Drumheller
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Don Campbell
1925–2012Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Through the years
When Drumheller’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1940s, with 4 people born in that decade.
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
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Everyone else born in Drumheller
9 more names, born between 1923 and 1974.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Drumheller
Who is the most famous person from Drumheller?
Andrew Bodnarchuk (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Don Campbell and Tom Siddon.
How many famous people were born in Drumheller?
Of the 21 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Drumheller known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Drumheller?
Edgar Gerhart, from 1923; the most recent birth on the list is from 1988.
Who counts as from Drumheller?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Drumheller’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (3)
- Don Campbell: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jackie Pement: BC NDP History Group, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Karen Sanford: BC NDP History Group, CC BY 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).