#1Sports
Jeremy Wotherspoon
born 1976Canadian speed skater
23 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Humboldt, Saskatchewan
Of the 28 famous people born in Humboldt, an unusual share are athletes
Articles in 23 languages make the Canadian speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon the best known. The largest group, 13, was born since 1970. Half or more of the towns in Saskatchewan have no one on record, but this one has 42.7 for every 10,000 residents. The oldest name on the list belongs to Jack Leswick, born in 1910, the newest to Paige Crozon, born in 1994.
Born here
28
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jeremy Wotherspoon
23 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1910
Jack Leswick
Youngest
1994
Paige Crozon
Most common field
Sports
19 people
What stands out about Humboldt’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Humboldt’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1970s, with 6 people born in that decade.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Humboldt is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.8 times.
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Everyone else born in Humboldt
25 more names, born between 1910 and 1994.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, only Humboldt No. 370 has a name on its list.
Questions about famous people from Humboldt
Who is the most famous person from Humboldt?
Jeremy Wotherspoon (Canadian speed skater) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Glenn Hall and Cori Morris.
How many famous people were born in Humboldt?
Wikidata places 32 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Humboldt known for?
They make up 68% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Humboldt?
Jack Leswick, born in 1910. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Humboldt?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Humboldt’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (14)
- Jeremy Wotherspoon: McSmit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenn Hall: Mel, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cori Morris: Robert Thivierge ( Thivierr ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lyndon Rush: Sander van Ginkel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Witt: Sean Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dustin Tokarski: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle McLaren: Ivan Makarov Original uploader was Ivanmakarov at en.wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Paetsch: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Leswick: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wade Skolney: Stefanie Kovacevic, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paige Crozon: BigBen212, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Al Duerr: Cszmurlo, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- John Burton: House of Commons of Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kelly Bates: Canada Hky, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).