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Sports
Justin Pogge
born 1986Canadian ice hockey goaltender
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Famous people · Fort McMurray, Alberta
22 famous people were born in Fort McMurray, most of them since 1970
Articles in 10 languages make the Canadian ice hockey goaltender Justin Pogge the best known. Nolan Pratt and Scottie Upshall follow. The oldest name on the list belongs to Louis Schmidt, born in 1844, the newest to Shannon-Ogbani Abeda, born in 1996. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.7, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born here
22
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Justin Pogge
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1844
Louis Schmidt
Youngest
1996
Shannon-Ogbani Abeda
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Fort McMurray’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Fort McMurray’s famous people were born
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageNotableBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Fort McMurray
#2Sports
Nolan Pratt
born 1975Canadian ice hockey defenceman
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#3Sports
Scottie Upshall
born 1983Canadian ice hockey player
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Known for
What Fort McMurray is known for
Compared with the usual town, performers are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Fort McMurray
The other 19 span the years 1844 to 1996.
Mikael Colville-Andersen
born 1968Danish urban designer and expert on urban mobility and bicycle friendliness
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Questions about famous people from Fort McMurray
Who is the most famous person from Fort McMurray?
Justin Pogge (Canadian ice hockey goaltender) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Nolan Pratt and Scottie Upshall.
How many famous people were born in Fort McMurray?
Wikidata has 31 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Fort McMurray known for?
That is 41% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Fort McMurray?
Louis Schmidt (1844). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Fort McMurray?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Fort McMurray’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
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 (9)
- Nolan Pratt: U.S. Navy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Scottie Upshall: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brooke Voigt: LG전자, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shannon-Ogbani Abeda: SilverJayPhotography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Lehman: Franklin Park Library from Franklin Park, United States, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Murphy: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Roderick Ross: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Boucher: Jauvonne, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Schmidt: Moewest.ca, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).