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Famous people · WestLake-Gladstone, Manitoba
8 famous people call WestLake-Gladstone their birthplace
Amy Sloan, the Canadian actress, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. The Canadian ice hockey coach Andy Murray ranks second, ahead of William Gordon Claxton. 4 of them were born between Confederation and 1913, more than in any other period. Fewer than a quarter of the 115 towns in Manitoba with famous people list more.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Amy Sloan
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1887
Gordon S. Fahrni
Youngest
1978
Amy Sloan
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in WestLake-Gladstone
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Military
William Gordon Claxton
1899–1967Canadian flying ace
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When WestLake-Gladstone’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1900s than in any other decade: 2.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & StageSportsMilitaryScience & MedicineWriting & Arts
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What WestLake-Gladstone is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 1.7 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in WestLake-Gladstone
Still to come: 5 more, from 1887 to 1929.
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Questions about famous people from WestLake-Gladstone
Who is the most famous person from WestLake-Gladstone?
The top name is Amy Sloan (Canadian actress), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Andy Murray and William Gordon Claxton.
What is WestLake-Gladstone known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from WestLake-Gladstone?
Gordon S. Fahrni (1887). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1978.
Who counts as from WestLake-Gladstone?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside WestLake-Gladstone’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (3)
- Andy Murray: Bryankreutz_77 ( Uploads ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Doug Cash: Parliamentary Handbook, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gladys Strum: House of Commons of Canada, 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).