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Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Strathcona, Edmonton
The Canadian ice hockey player Ab Newsome is the one famous person from Strathcona
In 1920, the Canadian ice hockey player Ab Newsome was born. Their birth falls between 1914 and 1945. An article about them exists in one language. A short trip away, Downtown (2 km) counts 2 famous people, James McKay among them.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ab Newsome
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1920
Ab Newsome
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Strathcona
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Strathcona
Who is the most famous person from Strathcona?
Ab Newsome (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Strathcona?
The list holds 1 born in Strathcona, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Strathcona known for?
The largest group is athletes, 1 in all out of 1. Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who counts as from Strathcona?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Strathcona’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. 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?
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).