Photo: Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Pleasantview has yet to put a famous person on the list
154 towns in Alberta have at least one famous person on record. The longest list in Alberta is Edmonton’s, with 1,033 names. Calgary comes next in Alberta, behind Edmonton, with 1,028 names.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Pleasantview’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Pleasantview for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Questions about famous people from Pleasantview
Who counts as from Pleasantview?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Pleasantview’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. 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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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).