Photo: Mascdman · CC BY-SA 2.5No famous person born in Special Area No. 2 is listed yet
Edmonton’s 1,033 names make the longest list in Alberta. Behind Edmonton, the runner-up in Alberta is Calgary, at 1,028. 154 towns across Alberta can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Special Area No. 2’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata places 2 people here, but none of their articles confirm Special Area No. 2 as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Questions about famous people from Special Area No. 2
Who counts as from Special Area No. 2?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Special Area No. 2’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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).