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Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · La Salle, Manitoba
4 famous people call La Salle their birthplace
Most widely known is Doris Barr, the Canadian baseball player, with articles in 3 languages. The next two names are Christine Bestland and Joe Ryan. The oldest name on the list belongs to Joe Ryan, born in 1902, the newest to Christine Bestland, born in 1992. More are athletes than anything else, 3 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Doris Barr
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1902
Joe Ryan
Youngest
1992
Christine Bestland
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in La Salle
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Sports
Joe Ryan
1902–1979Canadian Football League manager
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When La Salle’s famous people were born
The 1920s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & Law
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What La Salle is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in La Salle
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from La Salle
Who is the most famous person from La Salle?
By our measure the best known is Doris Barr (Canadian baseball player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Christine Bestland and Joe Ryan.
How many famous people were born in La Salle?
Of the 5 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is La Salle known for?
That is 75% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from La Salle?
Joe Ryan, from 1902; the most recent birth on the list is from 1992.
Who counts as from La Salle?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside La Salle’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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).