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 1950s Clear ×
Bret Hart
Born 1957
Nancy Huston
Born 1953
James Gosling
Born 1955
Paul Gross
Born 1959
Peter Watts (author)
Born 1958
Lance Kinsey
Born 1959
Morris Panych
Born 1952
Terri Hawkes
Born 1958
Lanny Poffo
Born 1954
Keith Hart (wrestler)
Born 1952
Darrell L. Bock
Born 1953
Erin Mouré
Born 1955
Jan Zwicky
Born 1955
Joanne Ernst
Born 1958
Harvey Locke
Born 1959
Brian Pockar
1959 - 1992
Pat Hughes (ice hockey)
Born 1955
Allan Gordon Bell
Born 1953
Jim Wych
Born 1955
Michael Keusch
Born 1955
Billy Chow
Born 1958
Mike Rogers (ice hockey)
Born 1954
Brent Peterson
Born 1958
Shelley Thompson
Born 1959
David Paul Grove
Born 1958
Robert D. Atkinson
Born 1954
James Keelaghan
Born 1959
Andrew Lowe (géophysicien)
Born 1959
Jeremy D. Safran
1952 - 2018
Monte Solberg
Born 1958
Randy Holland
Born 1951
Neil Houston
Born 1957
Dean Hart
1954 - 1990
Christian Eckart
Born 1959
Murdoch Burnett
1953 - 2015
John Ferguson (Curler)
Born 1958
Helen Vanderburg
Born 1959
Brenda Eisler
Born 1951
Brian Mason
Born 1953
Ardele Lister
Born 1950
Carol Johnston
1958 - 2019
Brian Carlin
Born 1950
Marg McCuaig-Boyd
Born 1952
Doug Falconer (Canadian football)
Born 1952
Brent Syme
Born 1956
Catherine DeVrye
Born 1950
Trevor Boys
Born 1957
Glen Pearson
Born 1950
Doug Black
Born 1952
Bruce Hunter (poet)
Born 1952
Clark Davis (wrestler)
Born 1957
Terry Johnson (ice hockey)
Born 1958
Trevor Kennerd
Born 1955
Archie Henderson
Born 1957
Leslie Belzberg
Born 1953
Anthony Brenner
Born 1959
Jack Taggart
Born 1950
Robert Murray (ice hockey, born 1951)
Born 1951
Craig Levie
Born 1959
Steve Olson (actor)
Born 1957
Heather Klimchuk
Born 1958
Janet Austin
Born 1956
Tom Forzani
Born 1951
Jon Lord (politician)
1956 - 2014
Mike Kouwenhoven
Born 1959
Richard Gotfried
Born 1958
Ron Orr
Born 1954
Ross Cory
Born 1957
Kevin Willison
Born 1958
Ray Danyluk
Born 1952
Pat Walter
Born 1959
Dan Backs
Born 1953
Tony Pesznecker
Born 1958
Barbara Boettcher
Born 1955
Evelyn Gillespie
Born 1952
David Brumwell
Born 1953
Georgette Sheridan
Born 1952
Marty Klyne
Born 1957
Sharon Carry
Born 1950