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 1930s Clear ×
Robert D. Hare
Born 1934
Frances Fox Piven
Born 1932
Douglas Cardinal
Born 1934
Ron Stewart
1932 - 2012
Arnold Belkin
1930 - 1992
Kenneth D. Taylor
1934 - 2015
Tommy Banks
1936 - 2018
Desmond Morton (historian)
1937 - 2019
Bruce Boa
1930 - 2004
Hank Bassen
1932 - 2009
Ian McDougall (musician)
Born 1938
William Gerald D'Arcy
1931 - 1999
Dan Hays
Born 1939
Diana McIntosh
Born 1937
John Little (footballer)
1930 - 2017
Dick Irvin Jr.
Born 1932
Eric W. Mountjoy
1931 - 2010
Jack Austin (politician)
Born 1932
Ron Southern
1930 - 2016
Harry Palmer (photographer)
Born 1930
Ivan Head
1930 - 2004
Ted Godwin
1933 - 2013
Rich Ferguson (athlete)
1931 - 1986
Betty Lambert
1933 - 1983
Jim Hawkes
1934 - 2019
Richard Haskayne
Born 1934
Gordon Dickson (athlete)
1932 - 2015
Dorothy Kozak
1932 - 2009
Neil Williams (pilot)
1934 - 1977
Terry Goulet
Born 1934
Douglas Henderson (Physikochemiker)
1934 - 2020
Walter Dexter (artist)
1931 - 2015
Jerry Fuller (Schlagzeuger)
1939 - 2002
Ron Allbright
1934 - 2016
Harvey Wylie
1934 - 2019
Klondike Bill
1931 - 2000
Douglas Mitchell
Born 1939
George Hansen (Canadian football)
1934 - 2017
Bert Brown
1938 - 2018
Ken Arkell
Born 1930
Ron Ghitter
Born 1935
Charles Richard Harington
Born 1933
David G. A. McLean
Born 1938
Robert Howard McClelland
Born 1933
Barry Pashak
Born 1937
Marylou Dawes
1933 - 2013
Ken Larsen
1935 - 2012
Bonnie Laing
1937 - 2016
David John Russell
Born 1931
Lynn Bottoms
1933 - 1995
Hugh Planche
Born 1931
Allan Warrack
Born 1937
Betty Stanhope-Cole
1937 - 2017
Sheila Embury
1931 - 2005
Don Fletcher (ice hockey)
Born 1931
Thomas Charles Donnelly
Born 1933
Donald Albert Marshall
Born 1932