#1Film, TV & Stage
Kristen Hager
born 1984Canadian actress
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Famous people · Red Lake, Ontario
Kristen Hager tops a list of 5 famous people born in Red Lake
At the top of the list is the Canadian actress Kristen Hager, covered in 20 languages. The next two names are Philip A. Beachy and Mark Vermette. Between 1946 and 1969, 4 were born, the most of any period. More are athletes than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kristen Hager
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1953
Lynn Donoghue
Youngest
1984
Kristen Hager
Most common field
Sports
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Red Lake’s famous people were born
SportsFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineWriting & Arts
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Red Lake
The three are covered in 20, 4 and 3 languages: Kristen Hager, Philip A. Beachy and Mark Vermette.
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#2Science & Medicine
Philip A. Beachy
born 1958Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor; urology researcher
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MV#3
Sports
Mark Vermette
born 1967Canadian ice hockey player
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Known for
What Red Lake is known for
Share of Red Lake’s famous people in each field.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
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Everyone else born in Red Lake
2 more, best known first.
Lynn Donoghue
1953–2003Canadian Contemporary Realist Painter, 1953-2003; Canadian Painter
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Questions about famous people from Red Lake
Who is the most famous person from Red Lake?
By our measure the best known is Kristen Hager (Canadian actress); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Philip A. Beachy and Mark Vermette.
What is Red Lake known for?
That is 40% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Red Lake?
Lynn Donoghue, born in 1953. The youngest on the list was born in 1984.
Who counts as from Red Lake?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Red Lake’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?
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 (2)
- Kristen Hager: Keith McDuffee, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip A. Beachy: LayTengAng, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).