#1Famous people · Vermilion, Alberta
11 famous people from Vermilion, many of them athletes
The best known is the Canadian bicycle racer Alison Jackson, with articles in 14 languages. Second and third on the list are Bill Flett and Jeff Woywitka. The list is still growing: 3 were born since 1970. The oldest name on the list belongs to Ernest Kenny, born in 1907, the newest to Alison Jackson, born in 1988.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alison Jackson
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1907
Ernest Kenny
Youngest
1988
Alison Jackson
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Vermilion’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Vermilion is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 2.2 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Vermilion’s famous people were born
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Vermilion
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Jeff Woywitka
born 1983Canadian ice hockey player
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Vermilion
A further 8 follow, born between 1907 and 1983.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 1.
Questions about famous people from Vermilion
Who is the most famous person from Vermilion?
Alison Jackson (Canadian bicycle racer) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Bill Flett and Jeff Woywitka.
What is Vermilion known for?
82% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Vermilion?
The earliest is Ernest Kenny, born in 1907, and the latest birth listed is 1988.
Who counts as from Vermilion?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Vermilion’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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (3)
- Alison Jackson: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Woywitka: Sarah Connors, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Jones: Pittsburgh Penguins / NHL, 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).