KM#1
Sports
Kelsey Mitchell
born 1993Canadian track cyclist
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Brandon, Manitoba
Athletes stand out among the 124 famous people born in Brandon
At the top of the list is the Canadian track cyclist Kelsey Mitchell, covered in 21 languages. The largest group, 51, was born since 1970. Among the 115 towns in Manitoba with famous people on record, the town ranks 2nd. Over 117 years of births, the list goes from Russ Ford (1883) to Brayden Payette (2000).
Born here
124
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kelsey Mitchell
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1883
Russ Ford
Youngest
2000
Brayden Payette
Most common field
Sports
74 people
What stands out about Brandon’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Brandon’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 20 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMusicFilm, TV & StageNotableScience & MedicineBusinessMilitary
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Brandon is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.6 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Brandon
AC#2
Sports
Angela Chalmers
born 1963Canadian female distance runner
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Film, TV & Stage
Donald Woods
1906–1998Canadian-born American film and television actor
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Brandon
Here are 121 more, born from 1883 to 2000.
Grant MacEwan
1902–2000Alberta politician, Mayor of Calgary, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Henry Champ
1937–2012Canadian broadcast journalist, correspondent for CBC Newsworld
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Henry Duckworth
1915–2008Canadian physicist and university administrator
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Herb Cox
1950–2025Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Brandon
Who is the most famous person from Brandon?
Kelsey Mitchell (Canadian track cyclist) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Angela Chalmers and Donald Woods.
How many famous people were born in Brandon?
Wikidata has 158 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Brandon known for?
Here the share is 60%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Brandon?
Russ Ford, born in 1883. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Brandon?
The list takes people born within Brandon’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (41)
- Donald Woods: Trailer screenshot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Calder: Sander.v.Ginkel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glen Hanlon: Jvuollo, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Damon Severson: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joel Edmundson: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Ranford: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Calvert: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Hextall: Centpacrr (uploader), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Turk Broda: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Zach Whitecloud: Lakeland PBS, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bryce Salvador: Horge, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Ehnes: Yuja Wang Archives, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Martinook: U.S. Air Force, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Skinner: Palgreen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Plante: Oleg Bkhambri (Voltmetro), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Russ Conway: Alex Nicol (director), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan White: davidgsteadman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elaine McCoy: Chris Bolin, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keegan Kolesar: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sheldon Kennedy: Thivierr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bernie Morris: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Karl Schroeder: Dave Hogg, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kristen Campbell: John Mac, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Caldwell: Tuomas Vitikainen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brad Maxwell: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Grant MacEwan: Unknown author ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Russ Ford: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke McMaster: The original uploader was Petermeg at Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael van den Ham: Flowizm ..., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike McEwen: KrazyTea, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trevor Jobe: Jasonstru at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- D. Brock Hornby: United States District Court for the District of Maine, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Haley Bonar: Stephanie Colgan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Beddome: Bionitech at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Turner: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Treherne: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Karen Lam: Wikibubblegum, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Landon Rice: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pip Skid: Fidel Astro, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Erickson: Allthegoldmedals, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gillis Philip Purcell: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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).