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Photo: Suburban Rapid Transit Co. via Winnipeg Electric Co. · Public domainFamous people · Headingley, Manitoba
2 famous people were born in Headingley
Fred Britton, the Canadian curler, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. The only other name is the Canadian politician Hugh Clifford Dunfield. The oldest name on the list belongs to Hugh Clifford Dunfield, born in 1891, the newest to Fred Britton, born in 1932. The longest list of any town in Manitoba belongs to Winnipeg, with 1,479.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Fred Britton
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1891
Hugh Clifford Dunfield
Youngest
1932
Fred Britton
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Headingley
HD#2
Politics & Law
Hugh Clifford Dunfield
1891–1973Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Headingley is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 1.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Questions about famous people from Headingley
Who is the most famous person from Headingley?
Fred Britton (Canadian curler) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Hugh Clifford Dunfield.
What is Headingley known for?
50% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Headingley?
Hugh Clifford Dunfield (1891). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1932.
Who counts as from Headingley?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Headingley’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?
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.
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).