Photo: Rowanswiki · CC0Ottewell has no famous person on record yet
Across Alberta, the lists cover 154 towns. The longest list of any town in Alberta belongs to Edmonton, with 1,033. After Edmonton, the next longest list in Alberta is Calgary’s, with 1,028.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Ottewell’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Ottewell for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Questions about famous people from Ottewell
Who counts as from Ottewell?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Ottewell’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
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).