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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.

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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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