Photo: Kurayba · CC BY-SA 2.0Brookside has no famous person on record yet
154 towns in Alberta have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Alberta belongs to Edmonton, with 1,033. Second in Alberta is Calgary (1,028 names), behind only Edmonton.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Brookside’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Nobody born in Brookside with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Questions about famous people from Brookside
Who counts as from Brookside?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Brookside’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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.
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).