BS#1
Sports
Blaine Stoughton
born 1953Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Gilbert Plains, Manitoba
Gilbert Plains is the birthplace of 2 famous people
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Blaine Stoughton, covered in 6 languages. The other is Colby Robak, the Canadian ice hockey player. Born in 1953, Blaine Stoughton is the first name on record, and Colby Robak, born in 1990, the most recent. Go 15 km to Grandview and the list has one name, Mike Slyziuk.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Blaine Stoughton
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1953
Blaine Stoughton
Youngest
1990
Colby Robak
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Gilbert Plains
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Gilbert Plains, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Gilbert Plains
Who is the most famous person from Gilbert Plains?
Blaine Stoughton (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Colby Robak.
How many famous people were born in Gilbert Plains?
Wikidata counts 3 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Gilbert Plains known for?
Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Gilbert Plains?
Blaine Stoughton (1953). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1990.
Who counts as from Gilbert Plains?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Gilbert Plains’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly 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).