#1Military
David Vivian Currie
1912–1986Canadian military officer recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Famous people · University, Saskatoon
4 famous people call University their birthplace
David Vivian Currie leads the list, covered in 5 languages. Second and third on the list are Hal Laycoe and Anne Campbell. Born in 1912, David Vivian Currie is the first name on record, and Hal Laycoe, born in 1922, the most recent. More are athletes than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David Vivian Currie
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1912
David Vivian Currie
Youngest
1922
Hal Laycoe
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in University
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#2Sports
Hal Laycoe
1922–1998Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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Known for
What University is known for
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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Everyone else born in University
1 more, best known first.
Questions about famous people from University
Who is the most famous person from University?
David Vivian Currie (Canadian military officer recipient of the Victoria Cross) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Hal Laycoe and Anne Campbell.
What is University known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from University?
David Vivian Currie, from 1912; the most recent birth on the list is from 1922.
Who counts as from University?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside University’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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 (2)
- David Vivian Currie: Unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hal Laycoe: Unknown author, 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).