#1Science & Medicine
Richard E. Taylor
1929–2018Canadian physicist
66 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Medicine Hat, Alberta
Medicine Hat counts 66 famous people, first among them Richard E. Taylor
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian physicist Richard E. Taylor is the best known. The largest group, 30, was born since 1970. Doug Young (1908) and Elic Ayomanor (2003) mark the two ends of the list. The biggest group are athletes: 32.
Born here
66
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Richard E. Taylor
66 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1908
Doug Young
Youngest
2003
Elic Ayomanor
Most common field
Sports
32 people
What stands out about Medicine Hat’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Medicine Hat
Ranked by languages covered: Richard E.
#1
#2Sports
Trevor Linden
born 1970Canadian ice hockey player
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Kirsti Lay
born 1988Canadian cyclist and speed skater
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Medicine Hat’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 11.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsMusicScience & MedicineNotableFaithMilitaryBusiness
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Medicine Hat is known for
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Medicine Hat
Another 63, the earliest born in 1908.
Mike Hudema
born 1976Canadian activist, writer, former candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Cypress County has the most on record: 4.
Questions about famous people from Medicine Hat
Who is the most famous person from Medicine Hat?
Richard E. Taylor (Canadian physicist) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Trevor Linden and Kirsti Lay.
How many famous people were born in Medicine Hat?
Wikidata places 89 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Medicine Hat known for?
48% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Medicine Hat?
Doug Young, born in 1908. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Medicine Hat?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Medicine Hat’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?
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 (19)
- Richard E. Taylor: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Trevor Linden: Kaiser matias, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kirsti Lay: eatonj_128, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jadyn Wong: iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Darren Dietz: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sage Watson: RonJonMan from Orlando, FL, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Corey Hirsch: Province of British Columbia, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kalan Porter: Dawn, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Stanley Clinton: Seattle Municipal Archives cropped by Joe Mabel, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Jenkins: Ahmethi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Neil Little: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Crawford: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Kent: Arthur Kent, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Schlenker: Mandoli, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Crystal Webster: TracyFleuryFan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Keetley: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Hudema: Lana Law, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Connor McGough: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cody Snyder: MollyMylo, 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).