# List of people from Alberta

This is a list of notable people who are from Alberta, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province.

## A

* William Aberhart – former Premier of Alberta
* John Acorn – naturalist, lecturer at the University of Alberta, research associate at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, and research associate at the E.H. Strickland Entomology Museum
* Aly Kassam Remtulla – anthropologist, non-profit executive, Vice Provost at Princeton University
* Ernie Afaganis – sports broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
* Jack Agrios – lawyer
* David Albahari – Serbian-born author
* Melody Anderson – former actress
* Violet Archer – composer
* Jann Arden – singer
* Rob Armitage – curler
* Margaret-Ann Armour – chemist, academic, advocate for women in science, technology and engineering
* Mark Astley – National Hockey League player
* Geoff Aunger – soccer player

## B

* Ruth B – singer/songwriter and musician
* Conrad Bain – actor
* Tommy Banks – musician
* Doug Barkley – hockey player
* Cori Bartel – curler
* Hank Bassen – National Hockey League goalie
* Nolan Baumgartner – professional ice hockey player
* Jay Beagle – National Hockey League player
* Will Beauchamp – filmmaker
* Michelle Beaudoin – actress
* Gary Beck – two-time world champion drag racer and member of the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame
* Chelsey Bell – curler
* Jill Belland – television host and producer
* Richard Bennett – former Prime Minister of Canada
* Chris Benoit – professional wrestler
* Roloff Beny – photographer
* Moe Berg – singer/songwriter
* Cheryl Bernard – curler
* Blair Betts – ice hockey player
* Manmeet Bhullar – Progressive Conservative politician
* Martha Bielish – politician, farmer, feminist, teacher and Canadian senator
* Earle Birney – poet
* Ted Bishop – author of Riding with Rilke
* David Bissett – Olympic bobsledder
* Rosella Bjornson – first female pilot for a commercial airline in North America
* Heather Blush – singer
* Arthur Boileau – Olympic marathon runner
* Bill Borger – first Canadian to both swim the English Channel and climb Mount Everest
* Tyler Bouck – professional hockey player currently with the ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga
* Bill Bourne – folk and blues singer songwriter, three-time Juno Award winner
* Jay Bouwmeester – ice hockey player
* Trevor Boys – NASCAR driver
* Paul Brandt – country music singer
* Bertram Brockhouse – Nobel Prize winner
* Andrew Brook – philosopher, author of Kant and the Mind
* Brox Sisters – singers
* Gilbert Brulé – ice hockey player
* Johnny Bucyk – ice hockey player
* Georges Bugnet – French Canadian writer and plant hybridiser
* Ronnie Burkett – puppeteer
* Nate Burleson – professional American football player, Detroit Lions
* Pat Burns – rancher, businessman, and Canadian Senator

## C

* Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton) – rapper
* Don Cairns – professional ice hockey player
* Pearl Calahasen – Canadian politician, first Métis woman elected to public office in Alberta
* Eric Cameron – visual artist
* Elaine Cameron-Weir – visual artist
* Tommy Campbell – actor and stand-up comedian
* Janet Cardiff – artist
* Celeigh Cardinal – singer-songwriter
* Douglas Cardinal – architect
* Gil Cardinal – filmmaker
* Tantoo Cardinal – actress
* Beatrice Carmichael – grand dame of the opera
* Mark Carney – Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the G20's Financial Stability Board; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada
* Thelma Chalifoux – Métis social justice activist, politician, and Canadian senator
* Sean Cheesman – dancer and choreographer
* Terry Chen – film and television actor
* Jason Chimera – ice hockey player
* Ken Chinn (a.k.a. Chi Pig) – lead singer, songwriter and bandleader of SNFU
* Rae Dawn Chong – Canadian-born American actress, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong
* Tommy Chong – comedian, actor and musician
* Erik Christensen – ice hockey player
* Joe Clark – businessman, writer, politician and 16th prime minister of Canada
* Karl Clark – U of A professor and inventor of oil sands extraction technology
* Allen Coage – professional wrestler known as "Bad News Allen"
* Mac Colville – early star in the National Hockey League
* Neil Colville – early star in the National Hockey League
* Mike Commodore – ice hockey player
* Mike Comrie – ice hockey player
* Michelle Conn – field hockey player
* Patrick Cox – shoe designer
* Paul Cranmer – former CFL player
* Gavin Crawford – actor
* Rafael Cruz – Cuban-born Canadian/American Christian preacher and public speaker; lived in Calgary and later Houston, Texas; father of Ted Cruz
* Ted Cruz – Canadian/American politician and current U.S. Senator for the state of Texas; born in Calgary but grew up in Houston, Texas
* Philip Currie – Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator
* Elisha Cuthbert – actress, moved to Montreal at a very young age, and remained there until she moved to Los Angeles

## D

* Kirby Dach – professional hockey player
* John Dahmer – politician
* Cal Dallas – politician
* Carolyn Darbyshire – curler
* Alphonso Davies – professional soccer player for Bayern Munich
* Carol-Anne Day – voice actress
* Jason Day – mixed martial arts fighter
* Jake DeBrusk – professional hockey player
* Louie DeBrusk – former professional hockey player; current Hockey Night in Canada colour analyst
* Mac DeMarco – indie rock musician
* Kris Demeanor – poet, musician and actor
* Kent Derricott – actor
* Paula Devicq – actress
* Punch Dickins – aviator and bush pilot; the Dickinsfield community was named in his honour
* Shane Doan – professional hockey player
* Michael Dowse – film director
* Earl Dreeshen – politician
* Darren Dreger – sportscaster
* Trevor Dunn – guitarist, member of 1970s group Fifth Avenue Allstars
* Erica Durance – actress, born in Calgary but raised in Three Hills
* Ryan Duthie – ice hockey player

## E

* Bernard Ebbers – WorldCom co-founder
* Brad Erdos – gridiron football player
* Darren Espanto – Filipino-Canadian child singer
* Lance Evers – professional wrestler known as "Lance Storm"

## F

* Joyce Fairbairn – Canadian senator
* Anne Fanning – Canadian physician, academic, and expert in tuberculosis
* Tim Feehan – artist, singer/songwriter, producer, co-owner of Los Angeles recording studio Backroom, mix master
* Leslie Feist – singer/songwriter born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, then moved to Calgary as a child
* John Fennell – luger
* Randy Ferbey – multiple Canadian and World Men's Curling Champion
* Andrew Ference – ice hockey player
* Scott Ferguson – retired professional hockey player
* Nathan Fillion – film and television actor
* Brandon Firla – actor
* David Ford – kayaker
* Helen Forrester (June Huband Bhatia) – Anglo-Canadian author
* Malcolm Forsyth – composer
* Dianne Foster – film and television actress
* George Fox – country music singer/songwriter
* Michael J. Fox – film and television actor
* Brad Fraser – Canadian playwright
* Matt Fraser – ice hockey player
* Chrystia Freeland – journalist, politician, Deputy Prime Minister
* William Fruet – film and television writer and director
* Grant Fuhr – ice hockey player born in Spruce Grove, Alberta, an Edmonton suburb

## G

* Forrest Gainer – rugby union player
* Brendan Gallagher – ice hockey player
* Lynn Garrison – aviator, author and mercenary
* Austin Gary – author and songwriter
* Mark Gatha – former voice actor
* Lucas Gilbertson – voice actor
* Onalea Gilbertson – voice actress
* Allan Gilliland – composer
* Patrick Gilmore – film and television actor
* John Glenn – Calgary's earliest recorded European settler
* Dwayne Goettel – musician, member of industrial band Skinny Puppy
* James Gosling – creator of the Java programming language
* Jurgen Gothe – radio broadcaster
* Robert Goulet – singer and film actor
* Henry Grattan Nolan – lawyer and soldier
* Josh Green – retired professional hockey player
* Mike Green – professional hockey player (Detroit Red Wings)
* Mary Greene (1843–1933) – mother superior and educator, established first Roman Catholic school board in Alberta
* Jessica Gregg – short track speed skater
* Randy Gregg – ice hockey player
* Adam Gregory – singer
* Paul Gross – actor
* Brion Gysin – artist and writer

## H

* Taylor Hall – professional hockey player
* Owen Hargreaves – professional footballer, plays for Manchester City
* Stephen Harper – former politician and Prime Minister of Canada (2006–2015) and former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
* Richard Harrison – poet
* Bret Hart – professional wrestler
* Owen Hart – professional wrestler
* Stu Hart – professional wrestler, promoter and trainer
* Teddy Hart – professional wrestler
* Dr. Helen Hays – physician, medical pioneer in chronic pain and palliative care
* Dar Heatherington – politician
* Dany Heatley – professional ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild)
* Ben Hebert – curler
* Meghan Heffern – actress
* Jennifer Heil – freestyle skier born in Spruce Grove, Alberta
* Tricia Helfer – model and actress born in Donalda, Alberta
* Jill Hennessy – television actor
* Jimmy Herman – First Nations actor
* Peter Hide – British-born sculptor, living in Edmonton since 1977
* Stuart Hilborn – automotive engineer
* Arthur Hiller – Hollywood film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America
* David Hoffos – contemporary artist
* Lois Hole – gardener, Alberta's 15th Lieutenant Governor
* Carl Honoré – grew up in Edmonton; journalist and author of In Praise of Slowness
* Richard Hortness – Olympic swimmer
* Dakota House – Canadian actor, politician, writer and activist
* Kelly Hrudey – ice hockey player
* Jan Hudec – alpine ski racer
* Brian Hughes – smooth jazz guitarist
* William Humberstone – politician in Alberta; municipal councillor in Edmonton
* Tim Hunter – professional National Hockey League player (won the Stanley Cup with the Flames in 1989)
* Mel Hurtig – publisher, author, and politician
* Nancy Huston – novelist; born in Calgary, left at age 15

## I

* Jarome Iginla – National Hockey League player
* Mary Imrie – architect
* Earl Ingarfield, Sr. – hockey player
* Brad Isbister – ice hockey player
* Werner Israel – physicist

## J

* Tom Jackson – Métis actor, singer and entrepreneur
* Roy Jenson – actor
* Eric Johnson – actor

## K

* Athena Karkanis – actor
* Daryl Katz – chairman and chief executive officer of the Katz Group; owner of the Edmonton Oilers
* James Keelaghan – musician
* Jessica Parker Kennedy – actress
* Cassius Khan – Indian classical tabla player and ghazal singer, recipient of Salute to Excellence Award
* Kiesza – singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and dancer
* Matt Kinch – ice hockey player
* Cathy King – curler, from St Albert
* Ralph Klein – mayor of Calgary and premier of Alberta
* Cody Ko – YouTuber
* Andrew Kooman – author and playwright
* Brent Kosolofski – boxer
* Myrna Kostash – writer of eight books, including All of Baba's Children
* John Krizanc – playwright
* Chad Kroeger – lead singer and guitarist of Nickelback
* Ed Kucy – Canadian Football League player
* Norman Kwong – Canadian Football League player and Lieutenant Governor of Alberta

## L

* Stephanie Labbe – Olympic soccer player
* Patti LaBoucane-Benson – Métis academic and senator
* Morgan Lander – singer/songwriter
* Daymond Langkow – ice hockey player
* Danielle Lappage - Olympic wrestler
* Alvin Law – motivational speaker
* Tony Law – comedian
* Sheena Lawrick – Olympic softball player
* Raymond Lemieux – organic chemist
* Stewart Lemoine – playwright
* Evangeline Lilly – actress
* Jens Lindemann – trumpet soloist
* Trevor Linden – former professional hockey player, member of the Order of Canada, president of hockey operations for Vancouver Canucks and recipient of the Order of British Columbia
* Amanda Lindhout – journalist and humanitarian
* Bryan Little – ice hockey player
* Sam Livingston – Irish-born early settler in Calgary
* Rochelle Loewen – model who appeared briefly with WWE
* Paul Lorieau (1942–2013) – optician and national anthem singer for the Edmonton Oilers 1981–2011
* Peter Lougheed – Canadian Football League player and Premier of Alberta
* Lowell – electropop musician
* Pierre Lueders – bobsledder
* Ed Lukowich – curler
* Joffrey Lupul – ice hockey player

## M

* Don MacBeth – jockey
* Jason MacDonald – Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter
* Jinder Mahal – professional wrestler
* Cale Makar – professional hockey player
* Ernest Manning – former Premier of Alberta
* Heather Marks – supermodel
* Kari Matchett – actor
* Bill Matheson – meteorologist
* Richard Matvichuk – National Hockey League player
* Wop May – pioneering aviator and bush pilot
* Ken McAuley – goaltender for the National Hockey League New York Rangers, husband of Mildred Warwick McAuley
* Frederick McCall – World War I fighter ace, businessman, stuntman
* Trent McClellan – comedian
* Nellie McClung – first woman appointed to the Board of Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1936), one of the Famous Five
* Don McCrimmon – politician
* Bruce McCulloch – actor, writer, comedian, and film director
* Todd McFarlane – creator of the Spawn series of comics
* Kevin McKenna – professional soccer player
* Sherry McKibben – politician
* Marshall McLuhan – recipient of numerous awards and appointments, pioneer of media theory
* Tate McRae – singer/songwriter, dancer, and voice actress
* Anne-Marie Mediwake – broadcaster
* Jordan Mein – mixed martial arts fighter
* Joseph Meli – four-time Canadian Olympian (judo)
* Mark Messier – National Hockey League player
* Barb Miller – politician
* Big Miller – jazz and blues singer
* Gord Miller – sportscaster
* Joni Mitchell – singer-songwriter and painter; born in Fort Macleod, but grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
* Carl Mokosak – National Hockey League player
* Cory Monteith – singer and actor; born in Calgary but grew up in Vancouver
* Cory Morgan – blogger, Alberta independence politician and activist, and columnist
* William (Billy) Morin – Chief of Enoch Cree Nation
* Derek Morris – ice hockey player
* E. Roger Muir – creator of "Howdy Doody" TV show
* Emily Murphy – first female magistrate in British Empire and petitioned Supreme Court of Canada to allow women the vote; one of the Famous Five
* Ray Muzyka – co-founder of BioWare Corp.
* Curtis Myden – Olympic bronze medallist, swimming

## N

* Issey Nakajima-Farran – professional soccer player
* Jim Neidhart – professional wrestler
* Natalya Neidhart – professional wrestler
* Naheed Nenshi – Mayor of Calgary
* Richard Newman – writer, broadcaster, and reality TV star, best known for participating in the seventh series of the British version of Big Brother
* Scott Nichol – ice hockey player
* Marjorie Nichols – journalist and writer
* Scott Niedermayer – ice hockey player
* Leslie Nielsen – film and television actor
* Amy Nixon – curler
* Rebecca Northan – actress

## O

* Susan O'Connor – curler
* Steven Ogg – actor, best known for his roles as Simon in The Walking Dead and Trevor Philips in Grand Theft Auto V
* Kevin Ogilvie – vocalist for the industrial band Skinny Puppy
* Peter Oldring – actor
* Bud Olson – former Member of Parliament and Senator for Medicine Hat, former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
* Ben Ondrus – ice hockey player
* Melissa O'Neil – 2005 Canadian Idol winner
* Maren Ord – singer, songwriter
* Chris Osgood – former professional hockey player
* Kelly Oxford – writer, New York Times bestselling author of Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar

## P

* Jean Paré – author of Company's Coming cookbooks
* Ryan Peake – rhythm guitarist of Nickelback
* Chris Pearson – 1st Premier of Yukon
* Allen Pedersen – National Hockey League player
* Ron Pederson – stage and screen actor
* Nigel Pengelly – politician
* Jim Peplinski – former professional hockey player (Calgary Flames)
* Kelly Perlette – light middle-weight boxing gold medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
* P.J. Perry – jazz saxophonist
* Jordan Peterson – University professor
* Matt Pettinger – ice hockey player
* Michael Phair – politician and activist
* Dion Phaneuf – ice hockey player
* Chris Phillips – professional hockey player (Ottawa Senators)
* Rod Phillips – radio broadcaster for 630 CHED
* Annamay Pierse – swimmer born in Toronto and raised in Edmonton
* Gerry Pinder – professional hockey player
* Fernando Pisani – ice hockey player
* Justin Pogge – ice hockey player
* Pierre Poilievre (born 1979) - member of Parliament, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition
* John "Red" Pollard – jockey of the famous horse Seabiscuit
* Tara-Jean Popowich – winner of So You Think You Can Dance Canada (Season 2)
* Glenn Price – conductor
* Doug Pruden – multiple world records in push ups
* Purity Ring – electronic duo
* Al Purvis (1929–2009) – assistant captain of the Edmonton Mercurys
* Jamie Pushor – hockey player
* Mark Pysyk – ice hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres

## Q

* Quanteisha – singer
* Carl Quinn – singer-songwriter

## R

* Theo de Raadt – programmer, founder of OpenBSD and OpenSSH software projects
* Lobsang Rampa – Tibetan Lama
* Jan Randall – composer
* Heather Rankin – curler
* Duncan Regehr – actor
* Steve Regier – ice hockey player
* Alyssa Reid – singer/songwriter
* Steven Reinprecht – ice hockey player
* Chris Reitsma – professional baseball player
* Nick Ring – professional mixed martial arts fighter
* Douglas Roche – O.C., former M.P., senator, U.N. ambassador, nuclear disarmament figure, author, and journalist
* Steve Rodehutskors – Canadian football player
* Stacy Roest – hockey player
* Hey Romeo – country singer/songwriter
* Chava Rosenfarb – author and Holocaust survivor
* Matthew Rowley – ski jumper
* Mark Rypien – quarterback and most valuable player in Super Bowl XXVI
* Rick Rypien – former NHL player (Vancouver Canucks)

## S

* Jamie Salé – Olympic gold medallist skater
* Willie Saunders – Montana-born Hall of Fame jockey, won U.S. Triple Crown
* Mary Scott – visual artist
* Patrick Sharp – professional ice hockey player (Dallas Stars); born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, raised in Calgary and later Thunder Bay, Ontario and Burlington, Vermont
* Kyle Shewfelt – Olympic gold medallist
* Shiloh – singer/songwriter
* Keith Shologan – professional Canadian football player
* Barbara Sibbald – novelist and journalist
* Paula Simons – journalist and Canadian senator
* Rhonda Sing – professional wrestler
* Laurie Skreslet – first Canadian to climb Mount Everest
* Harry Smith – professional wrestler
* Jason Smith – retired professional ice hockey player
* Linda Smith – novelist
* Keegan Soehn – trampoline gymnast
* Monte Solberg – Conservative politician
* Ron Southern – businessman and founder of Spruce Meadows
* Donald H. Sparrow – businessman and Conservative politician
* Jay Sparrow – singer/songwriter
* Paul Spence – actor; portrays headbanger Dean Murdoch in FUBAR
* George Stanley – designer of the current Canadian flag
* Muriel Stanley Venne – Indigenous women's rights advocate
* Vic Stasiuk – hockey player
* David Stephan
* Stan Stephens – former Governor of Montana
* Stereos – pop rock band
* Richard Stevenson – poet
* Catherine Mary Stewart – film and television actor
* Ryan Stock – TV circus stuntman
* Charlie Storwick – musician, actress in Some Assembly Required
* Jason Strudwick – ice hockey player
* Darryl Sydor – ice hockey player

## T

* Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers – Blackfoot and Sámi filmmaker, actor, and producer from the Kainai First Nation in Canada
* Theo Tams – winner of Canadian Idol Season 6 (2008)
* Barb Tarbox – anti-smoking activist
* Ari Taub – Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
* Cora Taylor – Canadian author
* Ken Taylor – Canadian ambassador to Iran; helped six Americans escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis under operation nicknamed Canadian Caper
* Tegan and Sara – musicians
* Mark Tewksbury – Olympic gold medallist swimming
* Robert Thirsk – astronaut
* Tenille Townes – singer
* Arnold Tremere – executive director of the Canadian International Grains Institute
* Adam Trupish – boxer
* Kreesha Turner – singer/songwriter

## V

* Shaun Van Allen – National Hockey League player
* Aritha Van Herk – Canadian writer, critic, editor, public intellectual, and university professor
* Alan Van Sprang – actor
* Pete Vandermeer – ice hockey player
* Chad VanGaalen – musician
* Greg Vavra – football player
* Mike Vernon – former professional National Hockey League player; won with the Calgary Flames in 1989
* Kris Versteeg – hockey player
* Doug Vogt – photojournalist
* Delwin Vriend – teacher and activist

## W

* Allan Wachowich – former Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta
* Jean Wallbridge – architect
* Cam Ward – professional ice hockey goaltender (Carolina Hurricanes); born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but grew up in Edmonton
* Max Ward – aviator and founder of Wardair airlines
* John Ware – pioneer rancher
* Dr. Lorne Warneke – activist, clinical psychiatrist, and founder of the Grey Nuns Community Hospital's gender clinic
* Bronwen Webster – curler
* Crystal Webster – curler
* Kenneth Welsh – film and television actor
* Michael Wex – novelist and playwright
* Ray Whitney – retired professional ice hockey player; played from 1991 to 2014
* TJ Wilson – professional wrestler
* David Winning – film and television director, Stargate: Atlantis, Andromeda, Syfy Channel movies

## Z

* Alfie Zappacosta – singer, songwriter
* Greg Zeschuk – co-founder of BioWare Corp.