#1Sports
Dave Scatchard
born 1976Canadian ice hockey player
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Hinton, Alberta
Hinton is the birthplace of 5 famous people
Articles in 8 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Dave Scatchard the best known. Second place goes to the Canadian ice hockey player Jade Galbraith, third to Tim Gilbertson. More than half were born since 1970, 5 in all. Athletes make up the largest group, 3 of them.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dave Scatchard
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1976
Dave Scatchard
Youngest
1988
Edward Dostaler
Most common field
Sports
3 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Hinton’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 4.
SportsMusicNotable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Hinton
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Sports
Jade Galbraith
born 1982Canadian ice hockey player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
TG#3
Music
Tim Gilbertson
born 1987Canadian power pop singer-songwriter
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Hinton is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.6 times the usual share.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Hinton
2 more names, born between 1986 and 1988.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Hinton
Who is the most famous person from Hinton?
Dave Scatchard (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Jade Galbraith and Tim Gilbertson.
How many famous people were born in Hinton?
Wikidata places 7 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Hinton known for?
Here the share is 60%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hinton?
Dave Scatchard (1976). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1988.
Who counts as from Hinton?
The list takes people born within Hinton’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?
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)
- Dave Scatchard: TheAHL, 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).