#1Sports
Jeremy Colliton
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player and coach
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Foothills County, Alberta
4 famous people call Foothills County their birthplace
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player and coach Jeremy Colliton, with articles in 6 languages. Pat Egan, the Canadian ice hockey player, comes second, with George Groeneveld third. Half or more of the towns in Alberta have no one on record, but this one has 1.6 for every 10,000 residents. Births span 1918 to 1998, from Pat Egan to Malia Schneider.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jeremy Colliton
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1918
Pat Egan
Youngest
1998
Malia Schneider
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Foothills County
The three are covered in 6, 4 and 1 languages: Jeremy Colliton, Pat Egan and George Groeneveld.
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Known for
What Foothills County is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2 times.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Foothills County
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Foothills County
Who is the most famous person from Foothills County?
Jeremy Colliton (Canadian ice hockey player and coach) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Pat Egan and George Groeneveld.
How many famous people were born in Foothills County?
Wikidata counts 5 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Foothills County known for?
That is 75% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Foothills County?
Pat Egan, born in 1918. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Foothills County?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Foothills County’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Jeremy Colliton: Sarah Connors, CC BY 2.0, 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).