SB#1
Sports
Sheldon Brookbank
born 1980Canadian ice hockey player
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Lanigan, Saskatchewan
7 famous people were born in Lanigan, more of them athletes than in most towns
Sheldon Brookbank, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 12 languages. Behind the leader come Bobby Baun and Brian Propp. The largest group, 3, was born since 1970. The first birth on record is Alfred Henry Bence’s, in 1908, and the last Julie Paetsch’s, in 1988.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Sheldon Brookbank
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1908
Alfred Henry Bence
Youngest
1988
Julie Paetsch
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Lanigan’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Lanigan’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Lanigan is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.3 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Lanigan
All three are athletes.
BB#2
BP#3
Sports
Brian Propp
born 1959Canadian ice hockey player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Lanigan
The other 4 span the years 1908 to 1988.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Lanigan
Who is the most famous person from Lanigan?
Sheldon Brookbank (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Bobby Baun and Brian Propp.
How many famous people were born in Lanigan?
Wikidata places 8 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Lanigan known for?
They make up 86% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lanigan?
Alfred Henry Bence, from 1908; the most recent birth on the list is from 1988.
Who counts as from Lanigan?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Lanigan’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).