Photo: Odysseus1479 · CC BY-SA 3.0Central McDougall has yet to put a famous person on the list
Of its neighbours, Downtown, 2 km away, lists the most: 2, James McKay first. The longest list of any town in Alberta belongs to Edmonton, with 1,033. Behind Edmonton, the runner-up in Alberta is Calgary, at 1,028. 154 towns across Alberta can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Central McDougall’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Central McDougall who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Central McDougall
Questions about famous people from Central McDougall
Who counts as from Central McDougall?
The list takes people born within Central McDougall’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
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 (1)
- James McKay: Archives of Manitoba, Public domain, 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).