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x Jarome Iginla JaromeIginla Jul 1, 1977 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla (born July 1, 1977) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). A five-time NHL All-Star, he is the Flames' all-time leader in goals,...
x Johnathan Aitken   May 24, 1978 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Johnathan James Aitken (born May 24, 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman. Aitken was drafted 8th overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins. He only played three games for them. For the 2000–01 season...
x Lars Hirschfeld Lars Hirschfeld Oct 17, 1978 Canada  
Lars Justin Hirschfeld (born on October 17, 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian football goalkeeper currently playing for Energie Cottbus in Germany. Hirschfeld started his career with the Edmonton Drillers, playing indoor soccer. He has also...
Germany
x Garry Valk   1967 Canada  
Garry Valk (b. Nov. 27, 1967 at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) was selected 108th overall in the 1987 National Hockey League (NHL) entry draft (6th Round, 108). Valk went on to have a distinguished NHL career spanning over a decade, debuting with the...
x Dennis Fentie Dennis Fentie Nov 8, 1950    
Dennis G. Fentie, MLA (born November 8, 1950 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian politician. He is the current Premier of Yukon and leader of the Yukon Party, as well as the incumbent MLA for Watson Lake. In 1962, Fentie moved to Watson Lake. Prior...
x Gene Kiniski   Nov 23, 1928 United States of America Wrestler
Eugene Nicholas Kiniski (born November 23, 1928), better known as Gene Kiniski, is a retired Canadian professional wrestler and the father of wrestlers Nick Kiniski and Kelly Kiniski. He was born outside of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Kiniski was one...
Canada
x Cale Hulse   Nov 10, 1973 Canada  
Cale Hulse (born November 10, 1973 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. He was a defenceman. Hulse was drafted in the 3rd round (66th overall) in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft by the...
x Chandra West Chandra West Dec 31, 1970 Canada  
Chandra West (born December 31, 1970) is a Canadian actress. West's career began in 1991 when she played a small part in the television series True Confections, a 1950s conservative drama about a woman with an ahead-of-her-time awareness. It was not...
x Tom Bladon   Dec 29, 1952 Canada  
Tom George Bladon (born December 29, 1952 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 610 NHL games over a nine-season career mostly with the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins. He won the...
x Brian Sutherby Brian Sutherby Mar 1, 1982 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Brian Sutherby (born March 1, 1982 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. Sutherby was drafted in the 1st round, 26th overall by the Washington Capitals in...
x Ray Elgaard   Aug 29, 1959 Canada  
Raymond "Ray" Elgaard (born August 29, 1959, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a former Canadian Football League slotback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1983 through 1996, including winning the 77th Grey Cup in 1989. A big man, he was noted...
x Tyson Nash   Mar 11, 1975 Canada  
Tyson Nash (born March 11, 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta) is an ice hockey left winger. He announced his retirement on September 11, 2008. He last played for the Nippon Paper Cranes in Japan during the 2007-08 season. Former Phoenix Coyotes left wing...
x Shane Willis   Jun 13, 1977 Canada  
Shane Willis (born June 13, 1977 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League. Willis was originally drafted by Tampa Bay 56th overall in the...
x Melody Anderson Anderson (under the bird) with Simon MacCorkindale in a promotional photo from Manimal Dec 3, 1955 United States of America Actor
Melody Anderson (born December 3, 1955) is a Canadian American social worker and public speaker specializing in the impact of addiction on families. She is more widely known as an actress, with her most high-profile role being Dale Arden in the 1980...
Canada
x Keltie Duggan   Sep 7, 1970 Canada Swimmer
Keltie Duggan (born September 7, 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a former international breaststroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she won the bronze medal in the...
x Chris Dingman   Jul 6, 1976 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Chris Dingman (born July 6, 1976 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League with the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, Carolina Hurricanes and the Tampa Bay Lightning. Dingman...
x Bruce McCulloch Bruce McCulloch May 12, 1961 Canada Comedian
Bruce Ian McCulloch (born May 12, 1961) is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live....
Actor
x Gilbert Brule   Jan 1, 1987 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Gilbert Brulé (born January 1, 1987 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian professional ice hockey center currently with the Edmonton Oilers organization of the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted 6th overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, Brulé began...
x Pat Duncan   Apr 8, 1960    
Pat Duncan (born April 8, 1960) is a former politician in the Yukon, Canada. Duncan served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party from 1998 to 2005 and as Premier of Yukon from 2000 until 2002. Duncan was the first Liberal premier of the Yukon and the...
x Jill Hennessy JillHennessy08TIFF Nov 25, 1968 Canada Actor
Jillian Noel "Jill" Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress and musician known for her television roles on Law & Order and Crossing Jordan. Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and...
x Blair Betts Blair Betts Feb 16, 1980 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Blair Betts (born February 16, 1980) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). Betts was drafted by the Calgary Flames in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in the second...
x Fernando Pisani Fernando Pisani Dec 27, 1976 Canada  
Fernando Pisani (born December 27, 1976) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL), where he has spent his entire career. After posting 103 points in 58 games...
x Jack McIlhargey   Mar 7, 1952 Canada  
Jack McIlhargey (born March 7, 1952 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks, and Hartford Whalers. He is currently an assistant coach with...
x Barb Tarbox   Apr 10, 1961 Canada  
Barb Tarbox, MSM (April 10, 1961 – May 18, 2003) was one of the most well-known anti-smoking activists in Canada; a life-long smoker dying of brain and lung cancers whose very open and frank discussions of her illness, its cause and its consequences...
x Beverly Adams   Nov 7, 1940 Canada  
Beverly Adams (born November 7, 1940) is a Canadian actress and author. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Adams moved to Burbank, California as a child. As a teen, she competed in and won beauty contests before becoming an actress. During her career, Adams...
x Jason David   Jun 12, 1982 United States of America American football player
Jason Aeron Walter David (born June 12, 1982 in Edmonton, Alberta) is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at...
Canada
x Susan Roman   Apr 17, 1957 Canada  
Susan Roman (born April 17, 1957) is a Canadian voice actress best known for voice acting the role of Lita/Sailor Jupiter in the American DiC (and later Cloverway) dub of the anime, Sailor Moon. She is one of the few voice actors to remain...
x Terry Cavanagh   Jul 19, 1926 Canada  
Terence James (Terry) Cavanagh (born July 19, 1926) is a Canadian politician and former mayor and municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta. He was Edmonton's first native-born mayor. Cavanagh was born in Edmonton July 19, 1926, to recent Scottish...
x Jim Benning   Apr 29, 1963 Canada Ice Hockey Player
James Benning (born April 29, 1963 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman. Drafted in the first round (6th overall) in the 1981 NHLentry draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, he played 605 games over nine seasons for the...
x Jamie Lundmark Jamie Lundmark Jan 16, 1981 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Jamie Lundmark (born January 16, 1981 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey player with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lundmark was drafted in the 1st round, 9th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1999 NHL...
x Graham Smith   May 9, 1958 Canada Swimmer
Graham Smith (born May 9, 1958 in Edmonton, Alberta) was a Canadian swimmer, who won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He did so alongside Stephen Pickell, Clay Evans, and Gary MacDonald....
x Gary Basaraba Gary Basaraba as Officer Ray Hechler in Boomtown Mar 16, 1959 Canada  
Gary Basaraba (born March 16, 1959) is a Canadian actor best known for playing American police officers. He appeared as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South and Officer Ray Heckler on Boomtown. According to the DVD commentary...
x David Jason David Jason in A Touch of Frost Feb 2, 1940 England Actor
Sir David John White, OBE, known by his stage name David Jason (born 2 February 1940 in Edmonton, London) is an English actor. He first found fame on the popular sitcom Open All Hours as Granville, Ronnie Barker's corner shop delivery boy. He later...
x Preston Manning Preston Manning Jun 10, 1942 Canada  
Ernest Preston Manning, CC (born June 10, 1942, in Edmonton, Alberta), is a conservative populist Canadian politician. He was the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance....
x Hnat Domenichelli   Feb 16, 1976 Canada  
Hnat A. Domenichelli (born February 16, 1976, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a former National Hockey League centre. He was drafted by the Hartford Whalers in the fourth round, 83rd overall, of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. Since the 2008-09 season,...
x Erik Christensen   Dec 17, 1983 Canada  
Erik Christensen (born December 17, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Christensen was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the third round (69th overall)...
x Jim Thomson   Dec 30, 1965 Canada  
James B. Thomson (born December 30, 1965 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player. Selected 185th overall by the Washington Capitals in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, Thomson also played for the Hartford Whalers, New Jersey Devils,...
x Brook Taylor BTaylor Aug 18, 1685 United Kingdom Mathematician
Brook Taylor FRS (18 August 1685 – 30 November 1731) was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series. Brook Taylor was born at Edmonton (at that time in Middlesex) to John Taylor of Bifrons House, Kent, and...
England
x Neil Colville   Aug 4, 1914 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Neil McNeil Colville (August 4, 1914 - December 26, 1987) was a professional ice hockey player. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League with his brother Mac, winning the Stanley Cup in 1940....
x Blythe Hartley   May 2, 1982 Canada  
Blythe Hartley (born May 2, 1982) is a Canadian Olympic diver. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta and began diving at age 12. She went to the National Sport School in Calgary, Alberta with many other top Canadian athletes. Hartley attended Handsworth...
x Kenneth Welsh   Mar 30, 1942 Canada  
Kenneth Welsh, CM (born March 30, 1942) is a Canadian film and television actor (sometimes credited as Ken Welsh). He is known to Twin Peaks fans as the multi-faced villain Windom Earle, and has more recently played the father of Katharine Hepburn ...
x Eric Johnson   Aug 7, 1979 Canada Actor
Eric Johann Johnson (born August 7, 1979) is a Canadian actor best known for playing the role of Whitney Fordman on the television series Smallville. Johnson left the cast after the first season but resurfaced in guest appearances during the second...
x Johnny Bucyk   May 12, 1935 Canada Ice Hockey Player
John Paul "Chief" Bucyk (born on May 12, 1935, in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired professional ice hockey left winger. As of 2008, he has been a member of the Boston Bruins' organization for an unprecedented fifty consecutive years. Bucyk was a...
x Jay Bouwmeester Jay Bouwmeester Sep 27, 1983 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Jay Bouwmeester (born September 27, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). After playing minor hockey for his hometown team in Edmonton of the Alberta...
x Mark Fistric Mark Fistric Jun 1, 1986 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Mark Fistric (born June 1, 1986, in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted out of the Western Hockey League (WHL) by the Stars 28th overall in...
x Darryl Sydor Darryl Sydor May 13, 1972 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Darryl Sydor (born May 13, 1972 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has won two Stanley Cups during his career – one with the Dallas Stars in 1999 and...
x Jason Botterill   May 19, 1976 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Jason Botterill (born May 19, 1976 in Edmonton, Alberta) is the Assistant General Manager for the Pittsburgh Penguins and a former professional hockey left winger. He was drafted by the Dallas Stars in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, First Round,...
x Michael Harcourt   Jan 6, 1943   Lawyer
Michael Franklin Harcourt (born Edmonton, January 6, 1943) served as the 30th Premier of the province of British Columbia in Canada from 1991 to 1996, and before that as mayor of BC's major city, Vancouver from 1980 to 1986. Harcourt was Student...
Mayor
x Steven Reinprecht   May 7, 1976 Canada  
Steven Edward Reinprecht (born May 7, 1976) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Undrafted, Steven Reinprecht typically plays as centre and is known for his two...
x Lisa Ryder Lisa Ryder as Beka Valentine Oct 26, 1968 Canada  
Lisa Ryder (born 26 October 1968) is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known as Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. Ryder was born in Edmonton, Alberta and attended the University of Toronto, where...
x John "Red" Pollard Red Pollard on  Seabiscuit Oct 27, 1909 United States of America Jockey
John "Red" M. Pollard (October 27, 1909 – March 7, 1981) was a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing jockey. A founding member of the Jockeys' Guild in 1940, Pollard rode at racetracks in the United States and is best known for riding Seabiscuit. Red...
Canada
x Perry Berezan   Dec 5, 1964 Canada  
Perry Berezan (born December 5, 1964, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a former National Hockey League centre. He was drafted in the third round, 55th overall, by the Calgary Flames in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft. After playing two seasons at the...
x Arthur Hiller images.jpg Nov 22, 1923 Canada  
Arthur Hiller, O.C. (born 22 November 1923) is a Canadian film director. His filmography includes 33 major studio releases, including the 1970 film Love Story. Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from University College, University...
x Brantt Myhres   Mar 18, 1974 Canada  
Brantt Myhres (born March 18, 1974 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a professional hockey player, formerly a left winger for the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights of the AHL. He is 6'4" tall, 220 lb (100 kg) in weight and shoots right. He was drafted by the Tampa...
x Richard Matvichuk   Feb 5, 1973 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Richard Matvichuk (born February 5, 1973 in Edmonton, Alberta) is an NHL defenceman, currently a free agent. Although he was born in Edmonton, Richard was raised in the nearby city of Fort Saskatchewan. Matvichuk was drafted eighth overall in the...
x Jason Chimera   May 2, 1979 Canada  
Jason Chimera (born May 2, 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta), is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who currently plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League. Chimera played his junior career in the WHL, for Medicine Hat...
x Jason Strudwick   Jul 17, 1975 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Jason Strudwick (born July 17, 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Edmonton Oilers. He is a cousin of fellow NHL players Scott and Rob Niedermayer. Strudwick was drafted in the 3rd...
x Jacqueline Hennessy   Nov 25, 1968 Canada TV Journalist
Jacqueline Hennessy (born November 25, 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian journalist, television host, and occasional actress. She is the identical twin sister of actress Jill Hennessy. Hennessy is of Irish, Italian, Swedish, French, and...
Journalist
x Scott Niedermayer Stanley Cup Ducks and Bush Scott Neids crop Aug 31, 1973 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Scott Niedermayer (born August 31, 1973) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and team captain of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Niedermayer is known for his skating stride, and knack for leading or joining the offensive rush....
x Dion Phaneuf DionPhaneuf Apr 10, 1985 Canada Ice Hockey Player
Dion Phaneuf (born April 10, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League. Phaneuf was drafted ninth overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Flames, and completed...
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