Photo: Kyla Duhamel from Saskatoon, Canada · CC BY 2.0No famous person yet from Candle Lake
92 of the towns in Saskatchewan list at least one person. Regina’s 456 names make the longest list in Saskatchewan. Second in Saskatchewan is Saskatoon (366 names), behind only Regina.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Candle Lake’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Candle Lake yet.
Questions about famous people from Candle Lake
Who counts as from Candle Lake?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Candle Lake’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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.
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).