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Originally Posted by ensquire
Best thing that ever came out of Calgary was an empty bus.....
What do you call a good looking woman in Calgary...... an immigrant...
Used to live in the Hat , I got a million of them. you can swap Calgary for Lethbridge and it works the same.    |
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
Pat Burns - Calgarian rancher, businessman, and Canadian Senator
Ted Haney - President of the Canadian Beef Export Federation(CBEF)
Ron Southern - businessman and founder of Spruce Meadows
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
Frederick McCall - World War I ace, businessman, stuntman
Michael J. McLean - international spy.
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
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
Manmeet Bhullar - Progressive Conservative politician
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 (San Jose Sharks)
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
Ross "Rollerball" Pederson - most wins in Canadian Motocross history.
Chris Phillips - professional hockey player (Ottawa Senators)
Al Purvis (1929–2009), assistant captain of the Edmonton Mercurys who won the ice hockey gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics.[1]
Heather Rankin - curler
Chris Reitsma - professional baseball player
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
Gavin Schmitt - professional volleyball player
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
Graham Clarke - 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
Chris Ippolito - 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.
That's a full bus right
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