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Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Taber, Alberta
Taber is the birthplace of 2 famous people
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian ice hockey player Bert Knibbs. The list has one more: the Canadian politician Ray Speaker. The oldest name on the list belongs to Bert Knibbs, born in 1924, the newest to Ray Speaker, born in 1935. The longest list in Alberta is Edmonton’s, with 1,033 names.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bert Knibbs
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1924
Bert Knibbs
Youngest
1935
Ray Speaker
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Taber
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Politics & Law
Ray Speaker
born 1935Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Taber is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 1 people.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Taber has the longest list next door: 12.
Questions about famous people from Taber
Who is the most famous person from Taber?
Bert Knibbs (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Ray Speaker.
What is Taber known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Taber?
Bert Knibbs, from 1924; the most recent birth on the list is from 1935.
Who counts as from Taber?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Taber’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. Taber is also the name of another municipality in Alberta: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Taber”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
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.
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).