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Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Pinawa, Manitoba
Pinawa, birthplace of the author Andrew Davidson
In 1969, the author Andrew Davidson was born. That places their birth between 1946 and 1969. Their name appears in articles in 6 languages. Lac du Bonnet, 15 km away, has one on its list: Walter Chikowski.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Andrew Davidson
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1969
Andrew Davidson
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Pinawa
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Lac du Bonnet has the most on record.
Questions about famous people from Pinawa
Who is the most famous person from Pinawa?
The top name is Andrew Davidson (author), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Pinawa?
For Pinawa the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Pinawa known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are writers and artists. 100% here, set against 12% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Pinawa?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Pinawa’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Walter Chikowski: Unknown author, Public domain, 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).