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.

Through the Decades

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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Biggest Most distinctive Under-indexed

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

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Jennifer Hinze

Born 1988

Notable Births by Decade

What Cold Lake Is Known For

Profession Mix Over Time

Jennifer Hinze

Newton John Stabb

Petra Januskova

Mary Ellen Christian

Ryan Stevenson (Canadian musician)

Susan Maggi

George Low (Medal of Honor)

Kevin Doherty (filmmaker)

Cary Kaplan

Bree Wasylenko

Iain Baird

Gule Sheikh

Michael Lombardi (entrepreneur)

Lauren O'Reilly

Lana Roi

Florence Casler

Brian McGregor

Jennifer Pappas

Jessie Turnbull

Joseph Brant Arseneau

Katherine Gray

Skylar Healey

Nadine Alphonse

Huntly D. Millar

Lucas Papaconstantinou

Tonya Mokelki

Arthur Massey Berry

Donald Stringer (canoeist)

John W. Brown (labor leader)

Sue Richards (artist)

Sean Roche

Sir Richard Poore, 4th Baronet

Don Shipley (stage director)

Jack Lannan

John Shivers (Medal of Honor)

Doris Jones (archer)

Samuel Perris

Debra Macleod

Deborah Martin-Downs

T. Jerome Lawler

Morwenna Lane

Adolfo Mella

John R. Dufrocq

Vivian Bercovici

Alick Foord-Kelcey

Heather Logan-Sprenger

Craig Heron

Joseph Dorsey (baseball)

Andrea Dupont

Lisa Olsen

Shaherose Charania

Willy Giummarra

Daniel Wesley (athlete)

Frank Cardona

Isaiah Peck

David Gee (soccer)

John McCourt

Ben Grossman

Paul Moore (soccer)

Tom Bruno (Musiker)

Carsen Campbell

Rupert Michell

Martin McLeod

Bob Boyer (wrestler)

Rickey Harris

Frank Ciaccia

Felicia Greer

Bayete Smith

E. K. Johnston

Nikola Andrijevic

Andrew Smith (golfer)

Skeena Reece

Ron Jonkhans

Murray Edmund Watts

Gregor Young

Kieran Sequoia

Paul Lepa