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Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Osler, Saskatchewan
2 famous people call Osler their birthplace
Most widely known is Elmer Driedger, the Canadian lawyer, with articles in 4 languages. The other is Arnold Boldt, the Canadian Paralympic athlete. Chad Klassen tops the 2 names on record in Warman, 6 km away. The earliest on the list is Elmer Driedger, born in 1913, and the youngest Arnold Boldt, born in 1957.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Elmer Driedger
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1913
Elmer Driedger
Youngest
1957
Arnold Boldt
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Osler
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Known for
What Osler is known for
The field with the most names is Politics & Law: 1.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Questions about famous people from Osler
Who is the most famous person from Osler?
Elmer Driedger (Canadian lawyer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Arnold Boldt.
What is Osler known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Osler?
Elmer Driedger, born in 1913. The youngest on the list was born in 1957.
Who counts as from Osler?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Osler’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.
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).