#1Notable
Rory MacDonald
born 1989Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Quesnel, British Columbia
Athletes stand out among the 17 famous people born in Quesnel
Most widely known is Rory MacDonald, the Canadian mixed martial arts fighter, with articles in 14 languages. The largest group, 7, was born since 1970. Over 119 years of births, the list goes from Constance Lindsay Skinner (1877) to Haley Sales (1996). Only 34 of the 144 towns in British Columbia with anyone on record list more.
Born here
17
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rory MacDonald
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1877
Constance Lindsay Skinner
Youngest
1996
Haley Sales
Most common field
Sports
10 people
What stands out about Quesnel’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Quesnel’s famous people were born
The 1980s top the chart, with 5 births in the decade.
SportsWriting & ArtsNotableFilm, TV & StageMilitaryMusic
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Quesnel is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.6 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Quesnel
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Everyone else born in Quesnel
Another 14, the earliest born in 1877.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Only Electoral Area C, Cariboo nearby has a name on record.
Questions about famous people from Quesnel
Who is the most famous person from Quesnel?
Rory MacDonald (Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Aaron Gagnon and Arjun Gill.
How many famous people were born in Quesnel?
Of the 25 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Quesnel known for?
59% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Quesnel?
Constance Lindsay Skinner, born in 1877. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Quesnel?
Born inside Quesnel’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each refresh.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- Rory MacDonald: Canadagift, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Gagnon: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arjun Gill: Logan34can, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Constance Lindsay Skinner: No photographer named., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mitch Love: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyson Marsh: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Errol Rausse: Dave Stanley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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