EW#1
Politics & Law
Errick Willis
1896–1967Canadian politician
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Boissevain, Manitoba
5 famous people were born in Boissevain
Errick Willis, the Canadian politician, is the most widely known, written about in 7 languages. Second and third on the list are David R. Henderson and Brant Little. The first birth on record is Errick Willis’, in 1896, and the last Wade Klippenstein’s, in 1970. No town in Manitoba lists more than Winnipeg, with 1,479.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Errick Willis
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1896
Errick Willis
Youngest
1970
Wade Klippenstein
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
What stands out about Boissevain’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Boissevain’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1890s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Politics & LawSportsScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Boissevain
DH#2
Science & Medicine
David R. Henderson
born 1950American economist
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BL#3
Sports
Brant Little
1906–1980Canadian middle-distance runner
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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What Boissevain is known for
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Everyone else born in Boissevain
2 more names, born between 1937 and 1970.
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Questions about famous people from Boissevain
Who is the most famous person from Boissevain?
By our measure the best known is Errick Willis (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come David R. Henderson and Brant Little.
What is Boissevain known for?
40% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Boissevain?
Errick Willis (1896). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1970.
Who counts as from Boissevain?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Boissevain’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here at the next 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.
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