#1Famous people · Winkler, Manitoba
Eric Fehr tops a list of 12 famous people born in Winkler
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian ice hockey player Eric Fehr is the best known. The list is still growing: 5 were born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents the town has 7.4, while at least half the towns in Manitoba list nobody born there. From Jacob Froese to Tristan Peters, the births on the list run from 1917 to 2000.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Eric Fehr
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1917
Jacob Froese
Youngest
2000
Tristan Peters
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Winkler’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Winkler’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsNotable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Winkler
All three are athletes.
#1
#2Sports
Dustin Penner
born 1982Canadian professional ice hockey forward
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Byron Froese
born 1991Canadian ice hockey player
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Winkler is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.3 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.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Winkler
A further 9 follow, born between 1917 and 2000.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Morden lists the most people: 15.
Questions about famous people from Winkler
Who is the most famous person from Winkler?
Eric Fehr (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Dustin Penner and Byron Froese.
How many famous people were born in Winkler?
Wikidata places 18 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Winkler known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Winkler?
Jacob Froese (1917). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Winkler?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Winkler’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (7)
- Eric Fehr: Pens Through My Lens, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dustin Penner: Dan4th Nicholas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Byron Froese: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tristan Peters: Minda Haas Kuhlmann, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Loreena McKennitt: Małgorzata Skibińska, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ed Bickert: Courtesy of the Fraser MacPherson estate c/o Guy MacPherson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Saidye Rosner Bronfman: La Presse, 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).