#1Famous people · Pembina, Manitoba
Pembina is the birthplace of 7 famous people
Justin Falk, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. The largest group, 3, was born between 1914 and 1945. Only 25 of the 115 towns in Manitoba with anyone on record list more. Half or more of the towns in Manitoba have no one on record, but this one has 28 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Justin Falk
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1910
Thelma Forbes
Youngest
1988
Justin Falk
Most common field
Sports
3 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Pembina’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Pembina
All three are athletes.
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Known for
What Pembina is known for
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
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Everyone else born in Pembina
4 more, best known first.
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Questions about famous people from Pembina
Who is the most famous person from Pembina?
Justin Falk (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Ron Huston and Garry Van Den Berghe.
What is Pembina known for?
Here the share is 43%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Pembina?
The earliest is Thelma Forbes, born in 1910, and the latest birth listed is 1988.
Who counts as from Pembina?
The list takes people born within Pembina’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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)
- Justin Falk: Saruwine, 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).