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Paul Nicklen
born 1968Canadian photojournalist and conservationist
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Famous people · Tisdale, Saskatchewan
Tisdale counts 13 famous people, first among them Paul Nicklen
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian photojournalist and conservationist Paul Nicklen is the best known. The Canadian comedian Brent Butt ranks second, ahead of Susan Aceron. 2 of them were born since 1970. The largest group, 6, was born between 1946 and 1969.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Paul Nicklen
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1929
Lyall Dagg
Youngest
1973
Dean Schmeichel
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Tisdale’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Tisdale’s famous people were born
The 1940s top the chart, with 4 births in the decade.
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
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Born in Tisdale
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Film, TV & Stage
Susan Aceron
1972–2016Canadian actress
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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What Tisdale is known for
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Everyone else born in Tisdale
Another 10, the earliest born in 1929.
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Questions about famous people from Tisdale
Who is the most famous person from Tisdale?
Paul Nicklen (Canadian photojournalist and conservationist) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Brent Butt and Susan Aceron.
How many famous people were born in Tisdale?
Wikidata places 15 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Tisdale known for?
That is 38% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tisdale?
Lyall Dagg, from 1929; the most recent birth on the list is from 1973.
Who counts as from Tisdale?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Tisdale’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Paul Nicklen: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brent Butt: radiobread, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William King: BC NDP History Group, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne Edwards: BC NDP History Group, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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