List of people from Calgary
The following is a list of notable people from Calgary:
Arts
- David Albahari - Serbian-born author
- Earle Birney – poet
- Sean Cheesman - dancer and choreographer
- Richard Harrison - poet
- Nancy Huston – novelist born in Calgary; left at age 15
- Nellie McClung – writer and activist
- Dr. Glenn D. Price - Conductor
- Cory Monteith - singer and actor; born in Calgary but grew up in Vancouver
Agriculture
- Pat Burns - Calgarian rancher, businessman, and Canadian Senator
- Ron Southern - businessman and founder of Spruce Meadows
Miscellaneous
- Lynn Garrison - aviator, author and mercenary.
- John Glenn - Calgary's earliest recorded European settler
- Alvin Law - motivational speaker
- Sam Livingston - Irish-born early settler in Calgary
- James Alexander Lougheed - head of military hospitals during World War I
- Laurie Skreslet - first Canadian to climb Mount Everest
- George Stanley - designer of the Canadian flag
- Ken Taylor - Canadian ambassador to Iran. Helped six Americans escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis
- Robert Thirsk - astronaut
- John Ware - pioneer rancher
- Dr. Michael Twoyoungmen member of Canada's First Nations (specifically the Tsuu T'ina)
- Lobsang Rampa - Tibetan Lama
- Cindy Kovalak - Human Trafficking Awareness Coordinator for the Northwest Region Immigration and Passport Section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police[1]
Politicians
- William Aberhart - former Premier of Alberta
- Richard Bennett - former Prime Minister of Canada
- Stephen Harper - Prime Minister of Canada
- Ralph Klein - former Mayor of Calgary and Premier of Alberta
- Norman Kwong - former CFL player and former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
- Peter Lougheed - former CFL player and Premier of Alberta
- Ernest Manning - former Premier of Alberta
- Monte Solberg - Conservative politician
- Stan Stephens - former Governor of Montana
- Ted Cruz - Current Senator Elect in the United States Senate for the State of Texas
- Manmeet Bhullar - Progressive Conservative politician
- Naheed Nenshi - Mayor of Calgary
Athletes
- Mark Astley - former NHL player
- Cori Bartel - curler
- Hank Bassen- former NHL goalie
- Nolan Baumgartner - professional ice hockey player
- Jay Beagle - NHL player
- Chelsey Bell - curler
- Cheryl Bernard - curler
- Trevor Boys, NASCAR driver
- Nate Burleson - professional American football player - Detroit Lions
- Don Cairns - professional ice hockey player
- Allen Coage - professional wrestler known as "Bad News Allen"
- Carolyn Darbyshire - curler
- Aaron Durley - baseball and basketball player
- Lance Evers - professional wrestler known as "Lance Storm"
- Karyn Garossino - Professional ice dancer with partner Rod Garossino
- Mike Green - professional hockey player (Washington Capitals)
- Taylor Hall - professional hockey player (Edmonton Oilers)
- Owen Hargreaves - professional footballer, who plays for Manchester City
- Bret Hart - professional wrestler
- Owen Hart - professional wrestler
- Stu Hart - professional wrestler, promoter and trainer
- Teddy Hart - professional wrestler
- Ben Hebert - curler
- Dany Heatley - professional ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild)
- Sheena Lawrick - Olympic softball player
- Peter Lougheed - former CFL player and Premier of Alberta
- Ed Lukowich - curler
- Kevin McKenna - professional soccer player
- Curtis Myden - Olympic bronze medalist swimming
- Issey Nakajima-Farran - professional soccer player
- Jim Neidhart - professional wrestler
- Natalie "Nattie" Neidhart – professional wrestler
- Amy Nixon - curler
- Susan O'Connor - curler
- Chris Phillips - professional hockey player (Ottawa Senators)
- Gerry Pinder - professional hockey player
- Al Purvis (1929–2009), assistant captain of the Edmonton Mercurys
- Heather Rankin - curler
- Chris Reitsma - professional baseball player
- Ross "Rollerball" Pederson - most wins in Canadian Motocross history. Born in Medicine Hat, but grew up in Calgary and went to Lord Beaverbrook High School (class of 1978). First motocross bike was a 1976 YZ125. From 1980 to 1993, Ross captured 29 Canadian Motocross titles, a feat which may never be equaled. He also had twelve, top 10 finishes in AMA (U.S.) Ross used to practice at an area called "the pit", which is now the subdivision of Diamond Cove in SE Calgary. Many of the dirt bikers from Acadia, Fairview and Willow Park would regularly ride there in the mid 1970s. The boys from Academy Drive; Gordon Hoover, Bill Bastain, Rick Rados and Len Himmelspeck spent many summer evenings and weekends riding there.
- Mark Rypien - Super Bowl XXVI MVP
- Jamie Salé - Olympic gold medalist skater
- Willie Saunders - Montana-born Hall of Fame jockey, won U.S. Triple Crown
- Kyle Shewfelt - Olympic gold medalist
- Rhonda Sing - Professional Wrestler
- Laurie Skreslet - first Canadian to climb Mount Everest
- Harry Smith - professional wrestler
- Jason Smith - retired professional ice hockey player
- Ari Taub - Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
- Mark Tewksbury - Olympic gold medalist swimming
- Shaun Van Allen - retired NHL player
- Mike Vernon - professional National Hockey League player (won with the Flames in 1989)
- Tim Hunter - professional National Hockey League player (won with the Flames in 1989)
- Bronwen Webster - curler
- Crystal Webster - curler
- TJ Wilson - professional wrestler
Entertainers
- Jann Arden - singer
- Jill Belland - TV host and producer
- Heather Blush - singer
- Paul Brandt - Country music singer
- Tommy Campbell (actor) - actor and stand-up comedian
- Elisha Cuthbert - actress (although she moved to Montreal at a very young age, and remained there until she moved to Los Angeles
- Michael Dowse - Film director
- Kyle Bobby Dunn - Composer and musician raised in Lake Bonavista, Calgary and based in Brooklyn.
- Erica Durance - Actress, Born in Calgary but raised in Three Hills, Alberta
- Leslie Feist - singer–songwriter (though born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, she relocated to Calgary as a child)
- Brandon Firla - actor
- George Fox - Country music singer–songwriter
- Paul Gross - actor
- Albert Howell - actor
- Tom Jackson - actor
- Roy Jenson - Actor
- James Keelaghan - Musician
- Pat Kelly – actor
- David Lawrence - actor (portrays headbanger Terry Cahill in FUBAR)
- Heather Marks - supermodel
- Todd McFarlane - creator of the Spawn series of comics
- Cory Monteith- Actor in hit Fox TV show Glee
- Rebecca Northan - actress
- Nivek Ogre (real name Kevin Ogilvie) - vocalist for the industrial band Skinny Puppy
- Peter Oldring - actor
- Melissa O'Neil - 2005 Canadian Idol winner
- Tegan and Sara Quin - musicians
- Paul Spence - Actor (portrays headbanger Dean Murdoch in FUBAR)
- Chad VanGaalen- musician
- David Winning – film and television director, Stargate: Atlantis, Andromeda (series), Sci Fi Channel movies, etc.
- Tommy Chong - Although born in Edmonton, Chong moved to Calgary at a young age and attended Crescent Heights High School.
- Denise Wong - stage actor
- Cari Russell - theatre actor, director, and instructor
Science
- James Gosling – creator of the Java programming language
- Theo de Raadt – founder and head of the OpenBSD project
- Michael Sideris - former president of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), 2007-2011
War heroes
- Ian Willoughby Bazalgette - Calgary born recipient of the Victoria Cross for actions in the skies above France in the Second World War
- Frederick McCall - World War I Fighter ace, businessman, stuntman
See also
References
- ^ "Human Trafficking: What is it, why does it occur and how is it investigated". Cvent. September 19, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2012.