#1Film, TV & Stage
Rebecca Jenkins
born 1959Canadian actress and singer
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Famous people · Innisfail, Alberta
Of the 13 famous people born in Innisfail, an unusual share are athletes
At the top of the list is the Canadian actress and singer Rebecca Jenkins, covered in 11 languages. For every 10,000 residents the town has 14.9, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there. Fewer than a quarter of the 154 towns in Alberta with famous people list more. The list is still growing: 3 were born since 1970.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rebecca Jenkins
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First
1926
Molly Lazechko
Youngest
1988
Devin Dreeshen
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Innisfail’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Innisfail is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.8 times as common.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Innisfail’s famous people were born
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & Stage
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Innisfail
#1BW#2
GB#3
Sports
Garry Bauman
1940–2006Canadian ice hockey goaltender
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Everyone else born in Innisfail
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Questions about famous people from Innisfail
Who is the most famous person from Innisfail?
By our measure the best known is Rebecca Jenkins (Canadian actress and singer); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Bob Watt and Garry Bauman.
How many famous people were born in Innisfail?
Wikidata has 16 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Innisfail known for?
69% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Innisfail?
Molly Lazechko (1926). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1988.
Who counts as from Innisfail?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Innisfail’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (2)
- Rebecca Jenkins: Markbellis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Devin Dreeshen: Ribbet32, 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).