Photo: Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people from Queen Alexandra
So far, no famous person on record was born in Queen Alexandra. A short trip away, Downtown (3 km) counts 2 famous people, James McKay among them. Edmonton’s 1,033 names make the longest list in Alberta. Second in Alberta is Calgary (1,028 names), behind only Edmonton.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Queen Alexandra’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Queen Alexandra for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Queen Alexandra
The best known from each town within 20 km of Queen Alexandra, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Queen Alexandra
Who counts as from Queen Alexandra?
Born inside Queen Alexandra’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. 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. 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).