#1Sports
Jocelyne Larocque
born 1988Canadian ice hockey player
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ste. Anne, Manitoba
8 famous people were born in Ste. Anne, more of them leaders than in most towns
Jocelyne Larocque, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 16 languages. Second and third on the list are Bob Nault and Maria Chaput. Between 1946 and 1969, 4 were born, the most of any period. Born in 1942, Maria Chaput is the first name on record, and Raygan Kirk, born in 2001, the most recent.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jocelyne Larocque
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1942
Maria Chaput
Youngest
2001
Raygan Kirk
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
What stands out about Ste. Anne’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Ste. Anne’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 4.
Politics & LawSportsWriting & Arts
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Ste. Anne is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2.3 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Ste. Anne
Leaders take two of the three places.
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#3Politics & Law
Maria Chaput
born 1942Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ste. Anne
5 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Steinbach’s, at 22 names.
Questions about famous people from Ste. Anne
Who is the most famous person from Ste. Anne?
Jocelyne Larocque (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Bob Nault and Maria Chaput.
How many famous people were born in Ste. Anne?
Wikidata has 12 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Ste. Anne known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ste. Anne?
Maria Chaput, born in 1942. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Ste. Anne?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Ste. Anne’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. Ste. Anne is also the name of another municipality in Manitoba: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Ste. Anne”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Jocelyne Larocque: John Mac, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maria Chaput: 233allo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raygan Kirk: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Miriam Toews: Alessio Jacona from Rome, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).