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Caroll-Ann Alie
born 1960Canadian Olympic windsurfer
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Gracefield has just one famous person to its name: Caroll-Ann Alie
The Canadian Olympic windsurfer Caroll-Ann Alie was born in 1960. Their birth falls between 1946 and 1969. An article about them exists in one language. Go 18 km to Messines and the list grows to 3, with Michel Noël at the top.
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Caroll-Ann Alie
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1960
Caroll-Ann Alie
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Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Gracefield, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Gracefield
Who is the most famous person from Gracefield?
By our measure the best known is Caroll-Ann Alie (Canadian Olympic windsurfer); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Gracefield?
Born in Gracefield and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1. Wikidata places 2 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Gracefield known for?
Mostly athletes: 1 of the 1 people listed. 100% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Gracefield?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Gracefield’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?
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.
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