PS#1
Faith
Peter Stasiuk
1943–2025Canadian Catholic prelate
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Ken Eckert · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Roblin, Manitoba
The 4 famous people born in Roblin, led by Peter Stasiuk
At the top of the list is the Canadian Catholic prelate Peter Stasiuk, covered in 10 languages. Josh Brook, the Canadian ice hockey player, comes second, with Bill Sawchuk third. Half or more of the towns in Manitoba have no one on record, but this one has 12.6 for every 10,000 residents. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Peter Stasiuk
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1922
Tom Kines
Youngest
1999
Josh Brook
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Roblin
JB#2
Sports
Josh Brook
born 1999Canadian ice hockey player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
BS#3
Sports
Bill Sawchuk
born 1959Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Commonwealth Games gold medalist
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Roblin’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Roblin 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 Roblin
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Questions about famous people from Roblin
Who is the most famous person from Roblin?
The top name is Peter Stasiuk (Canadian Catholic prelate), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Josh Brook and Bill Sawchuk.
How many famous people were born in Roblin?
Wikidata has 5 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Roblin known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Roblin?
The earliest is Tom Kines, born in 1922, and the latest birth listed is 1999.
Who counts as from Roblin?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Roblin’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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).