PT#1
Sports
Phil Tollestrup
born 1949Canadian basketball player
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Raymond, Alberta
Raymond is the birthplace of 11 famous people
Most widely known is Phil Tollestrup, the Canadian basketball player, with articles in 8 languages. Behind the leader come W. Cleon Skousen and Brock Ralph. The list runs from Douglas Miller, born in 1904, to Jimmy Ralph, born in 1992. Since 1970, 4 were born, the most of any period.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Phil Tollestrup
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1904
Douglas Miller
Youngest
1992
Jimmy Ralph
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Raymond’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Raymond’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 3.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Raymond
Two of the three are athletes.
WS#2
Writing & Arts
W. Cleon Skousen
1913–2006Ex FBI agent, conservative United States author and faith-based political theorist
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BR#3
Sports
Brock Ralph
born 1980Player of American and Canadian football
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Raymond is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Questions about famous people from Raymond
Who is the most famous person from Raymond?
The top name is Phil Tollestrup (Canadian basketball player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come W. Cleon Skousen and Brock Ralph.
How many famous people were born in Raymond?
Wikidata counts 12 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Raymond known for?
55% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Raymond?
Douglas Miller, born in 1904. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Raymond?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Raymond’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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)
- Jimmy Ralph: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Ralph: IcE MaN, CC BY 2.0, 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).