KH#1
Sports
Kathleen Heddle
1965–2021Canadian Olympic rower
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Trail, British Columbia
67 famous people from Trail, many of them athletes
The best known is the Canadian Olympic rower Kathleen Heddle, with articles in 21 languages. Close behind are Kerrin Lee-Gartner and Adam Deadmarsh. Percy McKelvey (1896) and Jasmine Drolet (2002) mark the two ends of the list. For every 10,000 residents the town has 78.5, while at least half the towns in British Columbia list nobody born there.
Born here
67
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kathleen Heddle
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1896
Percy McKelvey
Youngest
2002
Jasmine Drolet
Most common field
Sports
49 people
What stands out about Trail’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Trail’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1930s come out on top, with 12 births.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableMilitaryWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageMusic
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Trail is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.9 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 Trail
KL#2
#3Sports
Adam Deadmarsh
born 1975Canadian-American ice hockey player
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Trail
Of the other 64, 46 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Rossland leads the towns around it, with 14 names.
Questions about famous people from Trail
Who is the most famous person from Trail?
By our measure the best known is Kathleen Heddle (Canadian Olympic rower); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Kerrin Lee-Gartner and Adam Deadmarsh.
How many famous people were born in Trail?
Of the 77 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Trail known for?
That is 73% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Trail?
Percy McKelvey, from 1896; the most recent birth on the list is from 2002.
Who counts as from Trail?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Trail’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?
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 (22)
- Adam Deadmarsh: Håkan Dahlström, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Bay: slgckgc on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shawn Horcoff: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barret Jackman: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dallas Drake: Dan4th Nicholas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Craig Cunningham: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve McCarthy: Berend Stettler, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cesare Maniago: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Trevor Johnson: Matteo Della Malva, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Lunn: Gary Lunn staff, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dianne Gerace: Unknown (Asahi Shinbun), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Madeline Edwards: Luu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Tambellini: Steve Tambellini 2010Draft.jpg : Mike derivative work: Connormah, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom McVie: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Rogers Anderson: Ctjj.stevenson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Todd Robinson: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Donaldson: Chicago Blackhawks / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Loutitt: Heather, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Hampton Gray: Digging.holes, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Faron Moller: Deaner, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ken Georgetti: OFL Communications Department, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul David Manson: DAN SOLIS, 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).