BR#1
Sports
Beattie Ramsay
1895–1952Canadian ice hockey player
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Lumsden, Saskatchewan
Lumsden counts 4 famous people, first among them Beattie Ramsay
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Beattie Ramsay, covered in 17 languages. Glen Burdon is second and Edith Fowke third. Born in 1895, Beattie Ramsay is the first name on record, and Glen Burdon, born in 1954, the most recent. The longest list in Saskatchewan is Regina’s, with 456 names.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Beattie Ramsay
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1895
Beattie Ramsay
Youngest
1954
Glen Burdon
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Lumsden
Athletes take two of the three places.
GB#2
Sports
Glen Burdon
born 1954Canadian ice hockey defenceman
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
EF#3
Writing & Arts
Edith Fowke
1913–1996Canadian folklorist
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Lumsden’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1890s, at 1.
SportsWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Lumsden is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Lumsden
1 more, best known first.
Questions about famous people from Lumsden
Who is the most famous person from Lumsden?
Beattie Ramsay (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Glen Burdon and Edith Fowke.
How many famous people were born in Lumsden?
5 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Lumsden known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lumsden?
Beattie Ramsay, from 1895; the most recent birth on the list is from 1954.
Who counts as from Lumsden?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Lumsden’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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).