Photo: CnekYT · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Ritchie is on the famous people list yet
Downtown, 3 km away, has 2 on its list, the best known James McKay. No town in Alberta lists more than Edmonton, with 1,033. Second in Alberta is Calgary (1,028 names), behind only Edmonton. In all of Alberta, the famous people on record come from 154 towns.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Ritchie’s neighbourhood outline, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in Ritchie with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Ritchie
Questions about famous people from Ritchie
Who counts as from Ritchie?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Ritchie’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
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.
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).