JS#1
Sports
Jack Stewart
1917–1983Canadian ice hockey player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Louise, Manitoba
12 famous people from Louise, many of them athletes
Most widely known is Jack Stewart, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 10 languages. William Speechley and Dennis Thiessen follow. The largest group, 4, was born between Confederation and 1913. Only 12 of the 115 towns in Manitoba with anyone on record list more.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jack Stewart
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1892
Paul Hiebert
Youngest
1985
Riley Weselowski
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Louise’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Louise is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2 times as common.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Louise’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1890s come out on top, with 3 births.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Louise
The three best known are all athletes.
WS#2
Sports
William Speechley
1906–1982British ice hockey player
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DT#3
Sports
Dennis Thiessen
born 1961Canadian wheelchair curler
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Louise
Here are 9 more, born from 1892 to 1985.
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Questions about famous people from Louise
Who is the most famous person from Louise?
The top name is Jack Stewart (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come William Speechley and Dennis Thiessen.
How many famous people were born in Louise?
13 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Louise known for?
They make up 75% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Louise?
The earliest is Paul Hiebert, born in 1892, and the latest birth listed is 1985.
Who counts as from Louise?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Louise’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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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).