MB#1
Sports
Mike Babcock
born 1963Canadian ice hockey player and coach
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Beems3 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Manitouwadge, Ontario
4 famous people come from Manitouwadge, Mike Babcock the best known
Most widely known is Mike Babcock, the Canadian ice hockey player and coach, with articles in 15 languages. The next two names are Tattiawna Jones and Mike Moher. The first birth on record is Mike Moher’s, in 1962, and the last Tattiawna Jones’, in 1984. More are athletes than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mike Babcock
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1962
Mike Moher
Youngest
1984
Tattiawna Jones
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Manitouwadge
Athletes take two of the three places.
TJ#2
Film, TV & Stage
Tattiawna Jones
born 1984Canadian actress
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MM#3
Through the years
When Manitouwadge’s famous people were born
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & Arts
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Manitouwadge is known for
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Manitouwadge
1 more, best known first.
Questions about famous people from Manitouwadge
Who is the most famous person from Manitouwadge?
Mike Babcock (Canadian ice hockey player and coach) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Tattiawna Jones and Mike Moher.
What is Manitouwadge known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Manitouwadge?
Mike Moher (1962). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1984.
Who counts as from Manitouwadge?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Manitouwadge’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.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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.
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).