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Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Piney, Manitoba
2 famous people call Piney their birthplace
Most widely known is Marjorie Beaucage, the director, with articles in 5 languages. The list has one more: the ice hockey player Bob May. The first birth on record is Bob May’s, in 1927, and the last Marjorie Beaucage’s, in 1947. Winnipeg has the most of any town in Manitoba: 1,479.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marjorie Beaucage
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1927
Bob May
Youngest
1947
Marjorie Beaucage
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
The best known
Born in Piney
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Known for
What Piney is known for
Performers are the most numerous, 1 of them.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Questions about famous people from Piney
Who is the most famous person from Piney?
Marjorie Beaucage (director) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Bob May.
What is Piney known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 10% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Piney?
The earliest is Bob May, born in 1927, and the latest birth listed is 1947.
Who counts as from Piney?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Piney’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?
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.
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).