Photo: Nathan Schneider, aka Schnits at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person yet from Penhold
Of its neighbours, Red Deer, 16 km away, lists the most: 87, Rebecca Smith first. Edmonton has the most of any town in Alberta: 1,033. Second in Alberta is Calgary (1,028 names), behind only Edmonton. In all of Alberta, the famous people on record come from 154 towns.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Penhold’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Penhold who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Penhold
Questions about famous people from Penhold
Who counts as from Penhold?
Born inside Penhold’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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)
- Rebecca Jenkins: Markbellis, 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).