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Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Biggar, Saskatchewan
13 famous people come from Biggar, Sandra Schmirler the best known
Sandra Schmirler, the Canadian curler, is the most widely known, written about in 19 languages. Second and third on the list are George Kingston and Deb Covey. 5 of them were born between 1914 and 1945, more than in any other period. Fewer than a quarter of the 92 towns in Saskatchewan with famous people list more.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Sandra Schmirler
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1916
J. G. Fox
Youngest
1991
Colton Flasch
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Biggar’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Biggar’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2 births.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineBusiness
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Biggar
All three are athletes.
GK#2
Sports
George Kingston
born 1939Canadian ice hockey coach
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DC#3
Sports
Deb Covey
born 1961Canadian field hockey player-coach
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Biggar is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.4 times as common.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Biggar
10 more, from 1916 to 1991.
Jacqueline Dupuis
Former Executive Director of Vancouver International Film Festival
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Questions about famous people from Biggar
Who is the most famous person from Biggar?
Sandra Schmirler (Canadian curler) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come George Kingston and Deb Covey.
How many famous people were born in Biggar?
Of the 17 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Biggar known for?
54% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Biggar?
J. G. Fox, from 1916; the most recent birth on the list is from 1991.
Who counts as from Biggar?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Biggar’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?
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).