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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Map and location of Alberta in Canada
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 – Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator
Elisha Cuthbert – actress, moved to Montreal at a very young age, and remained there until she moved to Los Angeles
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
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
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