Photo: Brett Snyder ( 1brettsnyder at en.wikipedia ) · CC BY 1.0No one born in Newell County has made the famous people list yet
Just 5 km away, Brooks’ list holds 10 names, Ryan Peake the best known. The Alberta lists hold names for 154 towns. The longest list in Alberta is Edmonton’s, with 1,033 names. Only Edmonton outnumbers Calgary in Alberta, whose list holds 1,028 names.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Newell County’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Newell County as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Newell County
Questions about famous people from Newell County
Who counts as from Newell County?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Newell County’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly 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)
- Ryan Peake: Jonnylondon11, CC BY 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).