#1Notable
Gavin Schmitt
born 1986Canadian volleyball player
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Grande Prairie, Alberta
47 famous people come from Grande Prairie, Gavin Schmitt the best known
Articles in 16 languages make the Canadian volleyball player Gavin Schmitt the best known. The next two names are William P. Young and Kristie Moore. Since 1970, 21 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 154 towns in Alberta with famous people list more.
Born here
47
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gavin Schmitt
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1917
Robert J. Love
Youngest
2006
Jonnie Newman
Most common field
Sports
23 people
What stands out about Grande Prairie’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Grande Prairie’s famous people were born
The 1970s alone account for 11 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageMusicMilitary
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Grande Prairie
Gavin Schmitt, William P. Young and Kristie Moore are written about in 16, 16 and 15 languages.
#1
#2Writing & Arts
William P. Young
born 1955Canadian Christian author
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
KM#3
Known for
What Grande Prairie is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 23 people.
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 Grande Prairie
44 more names, born between 1917 and 2006.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Grande Prairie County No. 1 counts 5 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Grande Prairie
Who is the most famous person from Grande Prairie?
Gavin Schmitt (Canadian volleyball player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come William P. Young and Kristie Moore.
How many famous people were born in Grande Prairie?
Of the 58 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Grande Prairie known for?
49% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Grande Prairie?
Robert J. Love, from 1917; the most recent birth on the list is from 2006.
Who counts as from Grande Prairie?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Grande Prairie’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (15)
- Gavin Schmitt: Piotr Drabik, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William P. Young: Tylerwardis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Zahara: Jeff Hitchcock from Vancouver, BC, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clint Malarchuk: Claude Brochu, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carter Rycroft: Earl Andrew, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Warkentin: Jake Wright, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Scott: Boneyard90, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tanner Fritz: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Reid: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daren Zenner: See the ticket in the Permission field below., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Everett McDonald: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurie Throness: University of the Fraser Valley, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Shaver: Franco Folini, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert J. Love: United States Air Force, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Royce Vavrek: Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).