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Photo: CP842c · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Maidstone, Saskatchewan
Maidstone is the birthplace of 2 famous people
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian curler Jill Shumay. The list has one more: the Canadian politician Milton Wakefield. Jill Shumay was born in 1974. The longest list in Saskatchewan is Regina’s, with 456 names.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jill Shumay
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1974
Jill Shumay
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Maidstone
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Known for
What Maidstone is known for
Share of Maidstone’s famous people in each field.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Questions about famous people from Maidstone
Who is the most famous person from Maidstone?
Jill Shumay (Canadian curler) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Milton Wakefield.
What is Maidstone known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Maidstone?
The list takes people born within Maidstone’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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).