MG#1
Sports
Morgan Geekie
born 1998Canadian ice hockey player
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: runran from An island in the stream · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Yellowhead, Manitoba
2 famous people come from Yellowhead, Morgan Geekie the best known
Morgan Geekie, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 12 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian cardiologis Robert Beamish. The earliest on the list is Robert Beamish, born in 1916, and the youngest Morgan Geekie, born in 1998. In all of Manitoba, the famous people on record come from 115 towns.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Morgan Geekie
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1916
Robert Beamish
Youngest
1998
Morgan Geekie
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Yellowhead
RB#2
Science & Medicine
Robert Beamish
1916–2001Canadian cardiologis
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Yellowhead is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Questions about famous people from Yellowhead
Who is the most famous person from Yellowhead?
The top name is Morgan Geekie (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Robert Beamish.
What is Yellowhead known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Yellowhead?
The earliest is Robert Beamish, born in 1916, and the latest birth listed is 1998.
Who counts as from Yellowhead?
The list takes people born within Yellowhead’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next 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.
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