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Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Manning, Alberta
Manning is the birthplace of 3 famous people
The best known is the Canadian athlete Murray Keating, with articles in 5 languages. The Canadian ice hockey player Les Jackson ranks second, ahead of Dakota House. Murray Keating, born in 1952, is the earliest name and Dakota House, born in 1974, the latest. The longest list of any town in Alberta belongs to Edmonton, with 1,033.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Murray Keating
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1952
Murray Keating
Youngest
1974
Dakota House
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Manning
LJ#2
DH#3
Known for
What Manning is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Questions about famous people from Manning
Who is the most famous person from Manning?
By our measure the best known is Murray Keating (Canadian athlete); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Les Jackson and Dakota House.
What is Manning known for?
That is 67% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Manning?
Murray Keating (1952). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1974.
Who counts as from Manning?
The list takes people born within Manning’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).