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Famous people · High Prairie, Alberta
7 famous people from High Prairie, many of them athletes
Most widely known is Randy Ragan, the Canadian soccer player, with articles in 14 languages. The largest group, 5, was born between 1946 and 1969. The list runs from Eugène Rhéaume, born in 1932, to Karen Bass, born in 1962. For every 10,000 residents the town has 26.9, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Randy Ragan
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1932
Eugène Rhéaume
Youngest
1962
Karen Bass
Most common field
Sports
4 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When High Prairie’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1950s than in any other decade: 4.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What High Prairie is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.5 times the usual share.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in High Prairie
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Politics & Law
John Ostashek
1936–2007Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in High Prairie
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from High Prairie
Who is the most famous person from High Prairie?
By our measure the best known is Randy Ragan (Canadian soccer player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Tom Lysiak and John Ostashek.
How many famous people were born in High Prairie?
Of the 8 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is High Prairie known for?
That is 57% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from High Prairie?
Eugène Rhéaume, from 1932; the most recent birth on the list is from 1962.
Who counts as from High Prairie?
The list takes people born within High Prairie’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.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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)
- Tom Lysiak: Panini, 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).