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Sports
Dean Kennedy
born 1963Canadian ice hockey defenceman
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Winnipeg Photo. Co. · Public domainFamous people · Redvers, Saskatchewan
3 famous people call Redvers their birthplace
Dean Kennedy, the Canadian ice hockey defenceman, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. Close behind are Val Sweeting and Dan D'Autremont. Births span 1950 to 1987, from Dan D'Autremont to Val Sweeting. No town in Saskatchewan lists more than Regina, with 456.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dean Kennedy
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1950
Dan D'Autremont
Youngest
1987
Val Sweeting
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Redvers
Counted by languages, Dean Kennedy is ahead of Val Sweeting and Dan D'Autremont: 5, 5 and 2.
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DD#3
Politics & Law
Dan D'Autremont
born 1950Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Redvers is known for
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Questions about famous people from Redvers
Who is the most famous person from Redvers?
Dean Kennedy (Canadian ice hockey defenceman) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Val Sweeting and Dan D'Autremont.
What is Redvers known for?
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Redvers?
Dan D'Autremont, born in 1950. The youngest on the list was born in 1987.
Who counts as from Redvers?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Redvers’ 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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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).