51.0475° N, 114.0626° W
CALGARY
Most Famous People Born in Calgary, Canada
- Notable people
- 993
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1973
- Most distinctive
- Luger 35.1×
The 1988 Winter Olympics permanently bent the city's roster toward frozen-track sports, with a Luger bench running at better than thirty times the global baseline out of venues still in use at Canada Olympic Park. The Curler and Skater depth comes from the same cold-weather apparatus, while the Wrestler signal owes almost everything to the Hart family dynasty out of the old Stampede Wrestling territory.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Calgary during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 241 notable births.
What Calgary Is Known For
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Hockey is Calgary's biggest profession — 24% of all notables (240).
Calgary over-indexes on luger — 35.1× the global rate.
Calgary under-produces writer — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Calgary's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1920s Clear ×
Peter Lougheed
1928 - 2012
Roy Jenson
1927 - 2007
Edwin G. Pulleyblank
1922 - 2013
Bill Gadsby
1927 - 2016
Stan Stephens
Born 1929
Norman Kwong
1929 - 2016
Doris Anderson
1921 - 2007
Bobby Kromm
1928 - 2010
Morton N. Cohen
1921 - 2017
Jack Adams (ice hockey, born 1920)
1920 - 1996
Martha Cohen
1920 - 2015
Don Pettie
1927 - 2017
Thelma Chalifoux
1929 - 2017
Samuel Belzberg
1928 - 2018
Elizabeth Joan Smith
1928 - 2016
Margaret Crosland
Born 1920
George Pargeter
1923 - 2005
Georgie Collins
1925 - 2017
Bert Lawrence
1923 - 2007
Donald Adam Hartman
1929 - 1996
Dave Tomlinson (Canadian football)
1926 - 2005
Violet King Henry
1929 - 1981
Fred Wilmot
1927 - 2009
Ken Moore (Canadian football)
1925 - 2016
Stanley A. Milner
Born 1928
Glen Christian
Born 1929
Harry Anderson (Canadian football)
1926 - 1996
Jenny Belzberg
Born 1928
Roy Kelly
1925 - 2015
Doug Smith (sportscaster)
1920 - 1979
Harry Irving (Canadian football)
1927 - 2006
Bill Pullar
1926 - 1981
James Lavery
Born 1929
Jack Leslie (politician)
1920 - 2010
Albert Snider
1921 - 1948
Bill Dickie (politician)
1925 - 2019
Muriel Kovitz
Born 1926
Norman Jones (sailor)
1923 - 1995
Walter Jones (sailor)
1926 - 2007
Marke Raines
1927 - 2020
Ernie McCullough
1925 - 2015
David Sidorsky
Born 1925
Paul John O’Byrne
1922 - 2004
Raymond Heimbecker
1922 - 2014
Dick Gray (ice hockey)
1920 - 1990
Bill Alexander (Canadian football)
Born 1924