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Jim MacRae
1926–1993Canadian football player (1926-unknown)
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Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Langham, Saskatchewan
Jim MacRae, born in 1926, is Langham’s famous person on record
In 1926, the Canadian football player Jim MacRae was born. Their birth falls between 1914 and 1945. Readers can find them written up in one language. 92 of the towns in Saskatchewan list at least one person.
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Jim MacRae
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
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1926
Jim MacRae
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Sports
1 person
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Born in Langham
Questions about famous people from Langham
Who is the most famous person from Langham?
Jim MacRae (Canadian football player (1926-unknown)) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Langham?
The list holds 1 born in Langham, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata counts 2 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Langham known for?
The largest group is athletes, 1 in all out of 1. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who counts as from Langham?
Born inside Langham’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
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.
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).