- Stu Hart
Stewart Edward "Stu" Hart, CM was a Canadian amateur wrestler, professional wrestler, promoter and trainer. Stu also founded Stampede Wrestling, a promotion based in Calgary, Alberta, and is the father of famous wrestlers Bret and Owen Hart. - Chris Benoit
Christopher Michael Benoit (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler who wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Entertainment. A two-time World Heavyweight Champion, he was widely regarded as one of the best technical professional wrestlers of his generation. Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia home on June 25, 2007. - Ben Bassarab
Ben Bassarab is a Canadian former professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling promotion throughout the 1980s. - Nattie Neidhart
Natalie Katherine "Nattie" Neidhart (born May 27, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian professional wrestler who is currently signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). She is a third generation wrestler - the daughter of wrestler Jim Neidhart, and the granddaughter of wrestling patriarch Stu Hart. She is also cousins to Teddy Hart and Harry Smith. - Nate Burleson
Nathaniel Burleson (born August 29, 1981 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is an American football wide receiver currently playing for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He went to the University of Nevada, Reno, from which he was drafted in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft. Nate is the younger brother of former Charlotte Bobcats guard Kevin Burleson. - Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards
Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards is a Canadian athlete who won a bronze medal in the Women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Mellisa is 5 foot 7 and 61kg and began competing in the Olympics with the women’s skeleton team in 1995. She first made the Canadian team in 1996. She’s been near the top of the rankings for several seasons but moved into the number 1 position on the World Cup standings this season thanks to some stellar performances. - T. J. Wilson
T. J. Wilson (born July 11, 1980 in Calgary, Alberta), is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is currently under a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) developmental contract and training at their developmental facility Florida Championship Wrestling. He is the brother of wrestler Pete Wilson. - Mark Messier
Mark John Douglas Messier (born January 18, 1961, in St. Albert, Alberta) is a former ice hockey centreman of the National Hockey League. He spent a quarter of a century in the NHL (1979-2004) with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, and Vancouver Canucks. He also played professionally with the World Hockey Association's Indianapolis Racers and Cincinnati Stingers. At the time of his retirement, he was the last former WHA player still active in professional hockey, … - Jeff Pain
Jeff Pain (born on December 14, 1970 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a Canadian male skeleton racer. He is regarded as the most successful male competitors in the history of the Canadian skeleton program. Pain has had an 11-year career with 15 World Cup podium finishes, 3 World Championship medals, and an Olympic silver medal. In the 2004-05 season he finished 1st overall in the world cup. - Norman Kwong
Norman Lim Kwong, CM, AOE, KStJ, a.k.a. Normie Kwong (林佐民, pinyin: Lín Zuǒmín) (born Lim Kwong Yew in 1929 in Calgary, Alberta) is a former professional football player in the Canadian Football League and the current Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta. His parents immigrated from Taishan, Guangdong province in China. - Jarome Iginla
Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla, commonly known as Jarome Iginla, (born July 1, 1977 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Calgary Flames. His nickname is "Iggy". - Taryn Swiatek
Taryn Swiatek (born February 4, 1981 in Calgary, Alberta) is a member of the Canada women's national soccer team, which placed fourth in the FIFA Women's World Cup competition in 2003. She also joined with the Ottawa Fury soccer team in the W-League. - Earl W. Bascom
Earl W. Bascom (June 19, 1906 - August 28, 1995) was an American painter, printmaker and sculptor, raised in Canada, who portrayed his own experiences cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West. - Kelly Kisio
Kelly Kisio (born September 18, 1959) is a former professional ice hockey player. Born in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, he is currently the General Manager and Co-coach of the Calgary Hitmen. Kisio played 761 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, San Jose Sharks, and the Calgary Flames. He was team captain for the Rangers for three and a half years. He played the 1982-83 season with the Hockey Club HC Davos in Switzerland. - Barry Blanchard
Barry Blanchard (born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on March 29, 1959) is one of North America's top alpinists, noted for pushing the standards of highly technical, high-risk alpine climbing in the Canadian Rockies and the Himalayas. - Marky Mark
Marky Mark is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently wrestling on the Canadian independent circuit. He mainly wrestles for Stampede Wrestling and the Prairie Wrestling Alliance. Much like how his name is taken from the 1990s rap group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, his gimmick is that of an Eminem-influenced white rapper (similar to WWE wrestler John Cena) whose moveset is emulated from Owen Hart. His real personality is not far from his gimmick, … - Kurt Browning
Kurt Browning (born June 18, 1966) is a Canadian figure skater. Born in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta and raised in Caroline, Alberta, Browning was a four-time Canadian figure skating champion and four-time World Champion. He represented Canada in three Winter Olympics, 1988 (finishing 8th overall), 1992 (6th) and 1994 (5th), and was given the privilege of carrying the Canadian flag during the opening ceremonies of the 1994 games in Lillehammer, Norway. - Cam Ward
Cameron Kenneth Ward is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He cites Sherwood Park, Alberta as his hometown. He is the goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes and won the Stanley Cup in his 2006 rookie campaign—the first goalie to do so since Hall of Famer Patrick Roy in 1986. - Sherraine Mackay
Sherraine Schalm-MacKay (born June 21 1975 at Brooks, Alberta) is a top-ranked Canadian Olympic fencer, World Cup medal winner, elementary school teacher and author. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and finished 6th in individual Epee at the 2001 world championships. Schalm-MacKay has earned the best ever results for any Canadian woman fencer at the World Championships (3rd), … - Blaine Manning
Blaine Manning (b. September 10, 1979 in Calgary, Alberta) is a indoor lacrosse player for the Toronto Rock in the National Lacrosse League. - Mike Johnson
Michael Keith Johnson Mike Johnson was born on Friday, October 3, 1975, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Johnson was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 6, 1997, with the Baltimore Orioles. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, … - Gene Kiniski
Gene Kiniski is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. He is the father of wrestlers Nick Kiniski and Kelly Kiniski. - Stephen Ames
Stephen Ames is a golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. Ames was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and is of English/Trinidadian Portuguese descent, and much of his family resides in the Caribbean nation. His grandmother was Trinidad and Tobago Champion 20 times. He grew up in Pointe-à-Pierre and learned to play at the Petrotrin Pointe-à-Pierre Golf Club. - Trevor Linden
Trevor Linden, OBC, (ancestrally "van der Linden") (born April 11, 1970 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He plays centre and right wing. - Helen Upperton
Helen Upperton (born October 31, 1979 in Ahmadi, Kuwait) is a Canadian bobsledder from Calgary, Alberta. A former triple jumper at the University of Texas at Austin, Upperton moved to the bobsled in 2002. In the 2005-06 season she has achieved four medals on the World cup including a gold at an event in St. Moritz, Switzerland. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she and her partner Heather Moyse finished fourth place in the two-man bobsleigh event. - Marlene Streit
Marlene Stewart Streit (born on March 9, 1934 in Cereal, Alberta) is a golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. The most successful Canadian amateur female golfer and the only golfer to have won the Australian, British, Canadian and United States Women's Amateur Golf Championships. Marlene Stewart Streit was a member of the Canadian team at the World Amateur Golf Team Championships in 1966, 1970, 1972, and 1984. - Jody Patrick
Jody Patrick (born 14 June 1978) is a female badminton player from Canada. Patrick competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Mike Beres. They lost to Frederik Bergstrom and Johanna Persson of Sweden in the round of 32. - Jamie Salé
Jamie Salé is a Canadian figure skater currently partnered with David Pelletier. She and Pelletier are 2002 Olympic champions in pair skating. - Shayne Bower
Shayne Bower was best known as the professional wrestler Biff Wellington. He hailed from Lloydminster, Alberta. - Rick Bogner
Richard (Rick) Bogner (born January 16, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian former professional wrestler, best known as the "fake" Razor Ramon who debuted in the World Wrestling Federation as a replacement for the original man to use the Ramon gimmick, Scott Hall. - Lanny McDonald
Lanny King McDonald (born February 16, 1953 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey player and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. - Jason David
Jason Aeron Walter David (born June 12, 1982 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a cornerback for the New Orleans Saints. David grew up in Covina, California, before attending Washington State University on a football scholarship and majoring in communications. He was a fourth round draft pick by the Indianapolis Colts in 2004. David stands 5 foot 8 inches tall and weighs 172 pounds. In 2004, he had 52 total tackles, 4 interceptions, and one forced fumble. - Ryan Smyth
Ryan Alexander Gordon Smyth (b. February 21, 1976 in Banff, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays left wing for the Colorado Avalanche. Smyth was selected 6th overall in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the Edmonton Oilers, and he went on to play 12 seasons for the club he idolized as a child. - Arne Dankers
Arne Dankers (born June 1, 1980 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian speed skater. Dankers was a member of the Canadian team that set the team pursuit world record of 3:39.69 in Calgary, Canada on November 12, 2005. The Canadian team, of which Dankers was a part, was not able to duplicate this performance at the 2006 Turin Olympics. The Italian team now holds the Olympic team pursuit record of 3:43.64. - Shona Rubens
Shona Rubens (born on October 31, 1986 in Sydney, Australia) is a Canadian alpine skier. Rubens qualified to compete for Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics after placing 18th in a World Cup downhill in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Her other career highlights including placing second in downhill at the 2004 Lake Louise Nor-Am Cup and placing fifth in the super-G at 2005 Canadian championships. - Kristine Holzer
Kristine Holzer (born on March 21, 1974 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is an American Olympic speed skater. Diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) when she was 13-years-old, Holzer originally took up rowing at Gonzaga University because the sport was low-impact. However, in 1997 at the age of 23, Holzer found herself in complete remission. At 24, she decided to take up speed skating - despite only having skated one time in her life. She learned quickly. - George Woolf
George Monroe Woolf was a Canadian-born thoroughbred race horse jockey and the namesake of the annual jockey's award given by the United States Jockeys' Guild. Born on a ranch in Cardston, Alberta, his mother had been a trick rider in a circus and his father rode in rodeos. As such, Woolf was taught to ride horses as a child and as a teenager he rode in horse races and competed in rodeo events in Alberta and Montana. - Ken Read
Kenneth John Read (born November 6, 1955) was a Canadian alpine skier Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Read was raised in Vancouver, Kingston and Calgary and began skiing at age 3 and competing at age 8. He is an alumnus of the Ottawa Ski Club and Lake Louise Ski Club. Ken Read was a member of the Canadian Ski Team, the Crazy Canucks from 1974 to 1983 and competed in two Olympic Winter Games. - Paul Boehm
Paul Boehm (born on August 10, 1974 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian male skeleton racer, who took part in the 2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup. He qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics and finished in fourth place just missing a Canadian sweep as his team mates Duff Gibson and Jeff Pain won gold and silver respectively. - Graham Smith
Donald Graham Smith (born May 9, 1958 in Edmonton, Alberta) was a Canadian swimmer, who won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He did so alongside Stephen Pickell, Clay Evans, and Gary MacDonald. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, he became the first competitor to win six gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games; he won the 100m and 200m breaststroke, 200m and 400m individual medleys, …
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