Photo: http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=3304730&lang=eng&rec_nbr_li · Public domainMossey River has no famous person on record yet
115 towns across Manitoba can name a famous person born there. The longest list of any town in Manitoba belongs to Winnipeg, with 1,479. Brandon has the second-longest list in Manitoba, after Winnipeg, with 124.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Mossey River’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Mossey River with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Questions about famous people from Mossey River
Who counts as from Mossey River?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Mossey River’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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).