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.
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- 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 – Canadianpalaeontologist and museum curator
- Elisha Cuthbert – actress, moved to Montreal at a very young age, and remained there until she moved to Los Angeles
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- 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
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- 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[1]
- 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
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- 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
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