#1Evangeline Lilly
born 1979Canadian actress
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Evangeline Lilly, the Canadian actress, is the most widely known, written about in 80 languages. Second and third on the list are Joffrey Lupul and Ray Whitney. Since 1970, 9 were born, the most of any period. For every 10,000 residents the town has 4.3, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Count by decade and the 1970s come out on top, with 4 births.
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
#1Canadian actress
#2Canadian ice hockey player
#3Canadian ice hockey player
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The other 10 span the years 1884 to 2008.





No one matches both filters.
By our measure the best known is Evangeline Lilly (Canadian actress); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Joffrey Lupul and Ray Whitney.
Of the 14 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
Here the share is 77%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Henry Norwest, from 1884; the most recent birth on the list is from 2008.
The list takes people born within Fort Saskatchewan’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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).
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).