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Norm Ullman
born 1935Canadian ice hockey player
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Photo: Jason Woodhead · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Provost, Alberta
6 famous people come from Provost, Norm Ullman the best known
Norm Ullman, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. Between 1914 and 1945, 4 were born, the most of any period. Births span 1918 to 1990, from Harold Raymond Ballard to Lance Bouma. Athletes make up the largest group, 3 of them.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Norm Ullman
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1918
Harold Raymond Ballard
Youngest
1990
Lance Bouma
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Provost
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KG#3
Sports
Ken Goodwin
born 1961Canadian field hockey player
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Through the years
When Provost’s famous people were born
The 1920s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Provost is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.3 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Provost
Still to come: 3 more, from 1918 to 1924.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, only Provost No. 52 has someone listed.
Questions about famous people from Provost
Who is the most famous person from Provost?
Norm Ullman (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Lance Bouma and Ken Goodwin.
How many famous people were born in Provost?
Of the 8 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Provost known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Provost?
The earliest is Harold Raymond Ballard, born in 1918, and the latest birth listed is 1990.
Who counts as from Provost?
The list takes people born within Provost’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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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.
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).