GH#1
Politics & Law
George Henderson
1916–2008Manitoba politician, born 1916
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: HS01 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Dufferin, Manitoba
2 famous people were born in Dufferin
Counted by the languages that write about them, George Henderson is the best known. The only other name is the American ice hockey administrator Al Leader. For more famous names, Carman is 6 km away: its list has 8, led by Jack Carson. George Henderson, born in 1916, is the youngest, and Al Leader, born in 1903, the first on record.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
George Henderson
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1903
Al Leader
Youngest
1916
George Henderson
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Dufferin
AL#2
Sports
Al Leader
1903–1982American ice hockey administrator
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Dufferin is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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Questions about famous people from Dufferin
Who is the most famous person from Dufferin?
George Henderson (manitoba politician, born 1916) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Al Leader.
What is Dufferin known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dufferin?
Al Leader, from 1903; the most recent birth on the list is from 1916.
Who counts as from Dufferin?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Dufferin’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?
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 (2)
- Jack Carson: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Corinne Schroeder: johnmac612, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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