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Politics & Law
Willie de Wit
born 1961Canadian lawyer and boxer
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Three Hills, Alberta
Of the 7 famous people born in Three Hills, an unusual share are leaders
Articles in 13 languages make the Canadian lawyer and boxer Willie de Wit the best known. Born in 1943, Art Hanger is the first name on record, and John Bender, born in 1987, the most recent. 4 of them were born between 1946 and 1969, more than in any other period. For every 10,000 residents the town has 20, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Willie de Wit
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1943
Art Hanger
Youngest
1987
John Bender
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
What stands out about Three Hills’ famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Three Hills is known for
Three Hills has 2.6× the usual share of leaders.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Through the years
When Three Hills’s famous people were born
The 1960s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
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Everyone else born in Three Hills
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Kneehill County lists the most people: 6.
Questions about famous people from Three Hills
Who is the most famous person from Three Hills?
By our measure the best known is Willie de Wit (Canadian lawyer and boxer); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Bill Peters and Paul Janz.
How many famous people were born in Three Hills?
11 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Three Hills known for?
That is 57% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Three Hills?
Art Hanger, from 1943; the most recent birth on the list is from 1987.
Who counts as from Three Hills?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Three Hills’ 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.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Bob Benzen: w:en:Presidential Office Building, Taiwan, 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).