55.9835° N, 109.0120° W
COLD LAKE
Most Famous People Born in Cold Lake, Canada
- Notable people
- 753
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1961
- Most distinctive
- Film 3.8×
Cold Lake is wildly screen-heavy for a small prairie garrison town — a Film and Screenwriter tilt mostly reflecting Canadian actors and writers born on the base before moving south to Toronto and Vancouver production. The Hockey bench is the expected Alberta story, but the Novelist and Artist counts are the surprise: a small but real creative diaspora out of a Royal Canadian Air Force town.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cold Lake during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 97 notable births.
What Cold Lake Is Known For
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Actor is Cold Lake's biggest profession — 19% of all notables (140).
Cold Lake over-indexes on film — 3.8× the global rate.
Cold Lake under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Cold Lake's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Sports
- Writing
- Science
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Other
- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Ernest M. McSorley
1912 - 1975
Myron Daciuk
1919 - 1996
Jim Charlton
1911 - 2013
Lou Rusoff
1911 - 1963
Dorothy Rungeling
1911 - 2018
Tiny Timbrell
1917 - 1992
Dick Hillis
1913 - 2005
Larry Thor
1916 - 1976
Louis-Marie Parent
1910 - 2009
Gordon Tanner
1918 - 1983
Tony Anselmo (Canadian football)
1918 - 2009
Jack Lannan
1910 - 1993
Alick Foord-Kelcey
1913 - 1973
Betty Chandler
1915 - 2006
Frank Schwinghammer
Born 1914