List of Famous people born in Edmonton

Mark Twitchell

First Name Mark
Last Name Twitchell
Born on July 4, 1979 (age 46)

Mark Andrew Twitchell is a Canadian filmmaker, and artist, convicted of first-degree murder in 2011 of John Brian "Johnny" Altinger. His trial attracted particular media attention because Twitchell had allegedly been inspired by the fictional character Dexter Morgan.

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Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer

First Name Karen
Last Name Spencer
Born on November 30, 1972 (age 53)

Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer is a Canadian social entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Whole Child International, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that works to improve the quality of care for vulnerable children.

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Chuba Hubbard

Chuba Robert-Shamar Hubbard
First Name Chuba
Born on June 11, 1999 (age 26)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Chuba Robert-Shamar Hubbard is a Canadian-born American football running back for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

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Rachel Notley

First Name Rachel
Last Name Notley
Born on April 17, 1964 (age 62)

Rachel Anne Notley is a Canadian politician who served as the 17th Premier of Alberta from 2015 to 2019. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Strathcona, and leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party. The daughter of former Alberta NDP leader Grant Notley, she was a lawyer before entering politics; she focused on labour law, with a specialty in workers' compensation advocacy and workplace health and safety issues.

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René Bourque

First Name René
Last Name Bourque
Born on December 10, 1981 (age 44)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Rene Gary Wayne Bourque is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). An undrafted player, Bourque was signed by the Chicago Blackhawks as a free agent in 2004 and made his NHL debut in 2005–06. He spent three years in Chicago before a 2008 trade sent him to the Calgary Flames where he established himself as a key offensive player. He was traded to the Montreal Canadiens before stints with the Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets and Colorado Avalanche.

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Jill Hennessy

First Name Jill
Born on November 25, 1968 (age 57)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Jillian Noel Hennessy is a Canadian actress and musician. She is most known for her roles on the American television series Law & Order, on which she played prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons, and Crossing Jordan, on which she played the lead character, Jordan Cavanaugh, for six seasons. She has also acted in films such as RoboCop 3 and Most Wanted, and the independent films Chutney Popcorn and The Acting Class, the latter of which she also wrote and co-directed.

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Kavan Smith

First Name Kavan
Last Name Smith
Born on May 6, 1970 (age 56)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Kavan Joel Smith is a Canadian actor known for playing Major Evan Lorne in Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG-1, as Agent Jed Garrity in The 4400, and as Leland Coulter in When Calls the Heart.

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W. P. Kinsella

First Name W.
Last Name Kinsella
Born on May 25, 1935
Died on September 16, 2016 (aged 81)

William Patrick "W. P." Kinsella was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues.

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Shannon Szabados

First Name Shannon
Last Name Szabados
Born on August 6, 1986 (age 39)

Shannon Lynn Szabados is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the PWHPA and the Canada women's national ice hockey team.

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Bernard Ebbers

First Name Bernard
Last Name Ebbers
Born on August 27, 1941
Died on February 2, 2020 (aged 78)

Bernard John Ebbers was a Canadian businessman, the co-founder and CEO of WorldCom and a convicted fraudster. Under his management, WorldCom grew rapidly but collapsed in 2002 amid revelations of accounting irregularities, making it at the time one of the largest accounting scandals in the United States. Ebbers blamed his subordinates but was convicted of fraud and conspiracy. In December 2019, Ebbers was released from Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth due to declining health, having served 13 years of his 25-year sentence, and he died just over a month later.

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