RB#1
Sports
Ross Bekkering
born 1987Dutch basketball player
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Taber, Alberta
12 famous people were born in Taber, more of them leaders than in most towns
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Dutch basketball player Ross Bekkering. 5 of them were born between 1946 and 1969, more than in any other period. Half or more of the towns in Alberta have no one on record, but this one has 11.8 for every 10,000 residents. Births since 1970 account for 3 of the names.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ross Bekkering
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1913
James Harper Prowse
Youngest
1987
Devin Setoguchi
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
What stands out about Taber’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Taber’s famous people were born
Politics & LawSportsWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineBusiness
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Taber is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as writers and artists, at 2.1 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Taber
Ross Bekkering, Devin Setoguchi and Henry Bekkering are written about in 12, 10 and 5 languages.
#2Sports
Devin Setoguchi
born 1987Canadian ice hockey player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
HB#3
Sports
Henry Bekkering
born 1985Dutch basketball player
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Taber
Of the other 9, 4 are leaders.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Taber: 2.
Questions about famous people from Taber
Who is the most famous person from Taber?
By our measure the best known is Ross Bekkering (dutch basketball player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Devin Setoguchi and Henry Bekkering.
How many famous people were born in Taber?
Wikidata places 14 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Taber known for?
That is 33% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Taber?
James Harper Prowse, born in 1913. The youngest on the list was born in 1987.
Who counts as from Taber?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Taber’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. 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?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Devin Setoguchi: Ivan Makarov Original uploader was Ivanmakarov at en.wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Swann: Dave Cournoyer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenneth B. Storey: Jzhangc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fraser Bullock: Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of the Chief Human Capital Office. Office of Broadcasting Operations. Photo Section. (ca. 2011 - ca. 7/18/2014), Public domain, 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).