#1Sports
Beckie Scott
born 1974Canadian cross-country skier
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Vegreville, Alberta
22 famous people were born in Vegreville, most of them between 1914 and 1945
Most widely known is Beckie Scott, the Canadian cross-country skier, with articles in 21 languages. The Canadian Ukrainian Catholic Catholic bishop David Motiuk ranks second, ahead of Brent Severyn. For every 10,000 residents the town has 35.8, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there. James Edgar Walker (1911) and Chris Langkow (1989) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
22
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Beckie Scott
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1911
James Edgar Walker
Youngest
1989
Chris Langkow
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Vegreville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Vegreville’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1930s, with 5 births.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineFaithMusicFilm, TV & StageBusinessNotable
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Vegreville
#1
#2Faith
David Motiuk
born 1962Canadian Ukrainian Catholic Catholic bishop
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BS#3
Sports
Brent Severyn
born 1966Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Vegreville is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 7.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Vegreville
Here are 19 more, born from 1911 to 1989.
Lillian Sarafinchan
born 1935Location manager, art director, production designer
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with a name on record is Minburn County No. 27.
Questions about famous people from Vegreville
Who is the most famous person from Vegreville?
The top name is Beckie Scott (Canadian cross-country skier), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come David Motiuk and Brent Severyn.
How many famous people were born in Vegreville?
Wikidata has 25 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Vegreville known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 32%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Vegreville?
James Edgar Walker, from 1911; the most recent birth on the list is from 1989.
Who counts as from Vegreville?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Vegreville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (5)
- Beckie Scott: Bjarte Hetland, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- David Motiuk: Jhjujhju123211, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurence Decore: Robert Rynerson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lillian Sarafinchan: AnnaParana, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Tomyn: Unknown author, 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).