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Famous people · St. Laurent, Manitoba

St. Laurent is the birthplace of 3 famous people

Most widely known is W. Yvon Dumont, the lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, with articles in 5 languages. Close behind are Harvey Clifford and Jack Connolly. Births span 1900 to 1951, from Jack Connolly to W. Yvon Dumont. In Manitoba, 115 towns have someone on the list.

Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
W. Yvon Dumont
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1900
Jack Connolly
Youngest
1951
W. Yvon Dumont
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known

Born in St. Laurent

Two of the three are athletes.

WD#1
Military

W. Yvon Dumont

born 1951

Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
HC#2
Sports

Harvey Clifford

1926–1982

Canadian alpine skier

4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JC#3
Sports

Jack Connolly

1900–1967

Canadian ice hockey player

2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for

What St. Laurent is known for

Share of St. Laurent’s famous people in each field.

For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.

Questions about famous people from St. Laurent

Who is the most famous person from St. Laurent?

By our measure the best known is W. Yvon Dumont (lieutenant Governor of Manitoba); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Harvey Clifford and Jack Connolly.

How many famous people were born in St. Laurent?

Wikidata places 4 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.

What is St. Laurent known for?

67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.

Who is the earliest-born famous person from St. Laurent?

Jack Connolly, from 1900; the most recent birth on the list is from 1951.

Who counts as from St. Laurent?

What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside St. Laurent’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?

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).