#1Sports
Dave Tippett
born 1961Canadian ice hockey player
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Moosomin, Saskatchewan
16 famous people from Moosomin, many of them athletes
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Dave Tippett, with articles in 13 languages. Andrew McNaughton and Jessica Campbell follow. From Fred Lake to Jessica Campbell, the births on the list run from 1883 to 1992. Half or more of the towns in Saskatchewan have no one on record, but this one has 55.1 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
16
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dave Tippett
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1883
Fred Lake
Youngest
1992
Jessica Campbell
Most common field
Sports
10 people
What stands out about Moosomin’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Moosomin is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.6 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Through the years
When Moosomin’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1880s, with 4 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineMilitary
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Moosomin
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#2Science & Medicine
Andrew McNaughton
1887–1966Canadian scientist, diplomat, and general
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Jessica Campbell
born 1992Canadian ice hockey player and coach
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Moosomin
Here are 13 more, born from 1883 to 1966.
Questions about famous people from Moosomin
Who is the most famous person from Moosomin?
Dave Tippett (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Andrew McNaughton and Jessica Campbell.
How many famous people were born in Moosomin?
Wikidata has 19 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Moosomin known for?
63% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Moosomin?
Fred Lake, born in 1883. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Moosomin?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Moosomin’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (6)
- Dave Tippett: Michael Wifall from Tucson, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew McNaughton: LGen_Andrew_McNaughton,_1942.jpg : Unknown Unknown derivative work: Gaius Cornelius, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Campbell: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Lake: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Drew Barnes: Wildrose Caucus, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Hugh Castleden: House of Commons of Canada, Public domain, 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).