List of Famous people born in Alberta, Canada

Duncan Regehr

Duncan Peter Regehr
First Name Duncan
Last Name Regehr
Born on October 5, 1952 (age 73)
Born in Canada, Alberta
Height 192 cm | 6'4

Duncan Peter Regehr is a Canadian writer, multi-media artist, and film and television actor. He was also a figure skater and a classically trained Shakespearean stage actor in his native Canada, before heading to Hollywood in 1980. He is perhaps best known as Zorro in The Family Channel's television series based upon Johnston McCulley's classic hero, and from his roles in multiple television incarnations of Star Trek.

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Erin Karpluk

First Name Erin
Last Name Karpluk
Born on October 17, 1978 (age 47)
Born in Canada, Alberta
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Erin Karpluk is a Canadian actress. She is known for her portrayal of Erica Strange on the CBC Television series Being Erica from 2009 to 2011.

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Alex Zahara

First Name Alex
Last Name Zahara
Born on January 1, 1953 (age 73)
Born in Canada, Alberta
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Alex Zahara is a Canadian television, film and voice actor. Born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, he was involved with theatre while still in school, performing in a stage version of MASH. He later taught the "Acting for Teens" class at the Vancouver Film School. Zahara graduated with a BFA after studying at the universities of Alberta and British Columbia.

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Mike Kroeger

Michael Douglas Henry Kroeger
First Name Mike
Last Name Kroeger
Born on June 25, 1972 (age 53)
Born in Canada, Alberta

Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. The band is composed of guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair. The band went through several drummer changes between 1995 and 2005, achieving its current lineup when Adair replaced drummer Ryan Vikedal.

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William P. Young

First Name William
Last Name Young
Born on May 11, 1955 (age 70)
Born in Canada, Alberta

William Paul Young, referred to styled as Wm. Paul Young or simply Paul Young, is a Canadian author. He wrote the novels The Shack, Cross Roads and Eve, and the non-fiction book Lies We Believe About God.

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Beverley McLachlin

Beverley Gietz
First Name Beverley
Last Name McLachlin
Born on September 7, 1943 (age 82)
Born in Canada, Alberta

Beverley Marian McLachlin CStJ is a Canadian jurist and author who served as the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017, the first woman to hold that position and the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history. As chief justice, she also simultaneously served as a Deputy of the Governor General of Canada. She retired from the Supreme Court in December 2017.

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Beckie Scott

First Name Beckie
Born on August 1, 1974 (age 51)
Born in Canada, Alberta
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Rebecca "Beckie" Scott, is a Canadian retired cross-country skier. She is Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee, and served as an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu between 2006 and 2014.

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John MacMillan

First Name John
Last Name MacMillan
Born on October 25, 1935 (age 90)
Born in Canada, Alberta

John Stewart MacMillan is a Canadian retired ice hockey forward.

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James Till

First Name James
Last Name Till
Born on August 25, 1931 (age 94)
Born in Canada, Alberta

James Edgar Till, is a University of Toronto biophysicist, best known for demonstrating – with Ernest McCulloch – the existence of stem cells.

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Jennifer Heil

First Name Jennifer
Born on April 11, 1983 (age 43)
Born in Canada, Alberta

Jennifer Heil is a Canadian freestyle skier from Spruce Grove, Alberta. Heil started skiing at age two. Jennifer Heil won the first gold medal for Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics games in Turin, Italy and a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, which was also Canada's first medal in those games. Heil is the reigning world champion in dual moguls. She has three world championship titles in total and two silver medals from the Worlds as well. Over her career, Heil has won a record-tying five overall FIS World Cup Crystal Globe titles for freestyle skiing.

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