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Sports
Greg Carroll
born 1956Canadian ice hockey player
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Gimli, Manitoba
6 famous people call Gimli their birthplace
Greg Carroll, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The next two names are David Arnason and Michael Ewanchuk. Between 1946 and 1969, 3 were born, the most of any period. Born in 1908, Michael Ewanchuk is the first name on record, and Scott Thorkelson, born in 1958, the most recent.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Greg Carroll
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1908
Michael Ewanchuk
Youngest
1958
Scott Thorkelson
Most common field
Science & Medicine
2 people
What stands out about Gimli’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Gimli’s famous people were born
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Gimli
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Science & Medicine
Michael Ewanchuk
1908–2004Canadian educator and historian of Ukrainian Canadians in Manitoba
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Gimli is known for
Scientists and doctors are the most numerous, 2 of them.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Everyone else born in Gimli
3 more, from 1932 to 1958.
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Questions about famous people from Gimli
Who is the most famous person from Gimli?
By our measure the best known is Greg Carroll (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come David Arnason and Michael Ewanchuk.
How many famous people were born in Gimli?
Wikidata counts 12 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Gimli known for?
They make up 33% here, compared with 5% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Gimli?
The earliest is Michael Ewanchuk, born in 1908, and the latest birth listed is 1958.
Who counts as from Gimli?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Gimli’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- David Arnason: Árni Hjartarson, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).