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Mike Richards
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Kenora, Ontario
Athletes stand out among the 37 famous people born in Kenora
Mike Richards, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 19 languages. The largest group, 11, was born between 1914 and 1945. Born in 1883, Tommy Phillips is the first name on record, and Abigail Dent, born in 2002, the most recent. 7 of them were born since 1970.
Born here
37
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mike Richards
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1883
Tommy Phillips
Youngest
2002
Abigail Dent
Most common field
Sports
24 people
What stands out about Kenora’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Kenora is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.7 times the usual share.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When Kenora’s famous people were born
The 1930s top the chart, with 6 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageNotable
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Kenora
All three are athletes.
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Everyone else born in Kenora
Of the other 34, 21 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Kenora
Who is the most famous person from Kenora?
Mike Richards (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Mike Smith and Abigail Dent.
How many famous people were born in Kenora?
Wikidata places 44 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Kenora known for?
That is 65% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kenora?
Tommy Phillips, from 1883; the most recent birth on the list is from 2002.
Who counts as from Kenora?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Kenora’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?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (13)
- Mike Richards: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Smith: Template:Michael Smith, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wab Kinew: Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tommy Phillips: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Bailey: TCG Topps Gum Cards, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Hooper: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alvin Hamilton: Arthur Roy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles McVeigh: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Don Raleigh: New York Rangers / National Hockey League, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob McCammon: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Gibson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Gibson: Dick Darrell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Ward: Unknown author, 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).