Of the 1,033 famous people born in Edmonton, none is better known than Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan (Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Michael J. Fox and Jordan Peterson.

1,401 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.

Here the share is 54%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.

Walter Kelly Firminger (1870). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2008.

The list takes people born within Edmonton’s city limits (the city’s 2021 census subdivision), 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. 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.

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.