CN#1
Sports
Carissa Norsten
born 2003Canadian rugby union and sevens player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Waldheim, Saskatchewan
6 famous people come from Waldheim, Carissa Norsten the best known
Most widely known is Carissa Norsten, the Canadian rugby union and sevens player, with articles in 10 languages. Dave Schultz is second and Erwin N. Hiebert third. Between 1914 and 1945, 3 were born, the most of any period. 2 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Carissa Norsten
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1919
Erwin N. Hiebert
Youngest
2003
Carissa Norsten
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Waldheim
Athletes take two of the three places.
DS#2
Sports
Dave Schultz
born 1949Canadian professional ice hockey player
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
EH#3
Science & Medicine
Erwin N. Hiebert
1919–2012Canadian-American physicist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Waldheim’s famous people were born
SportsPolitics & LawScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Waldheim is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.3 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Waldheim
Still to come: 3 more, from 1938 to 1983.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Waldheim
Who is the most famous person from Waldheim?
Carissa Norsten (Canadian rugby union and sevens player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Dave Schultz and Erwin N. Hiebert.
What is Waldheim known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Waldheim?
Erwin N. Hiebert (1919). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Waldheim?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Waldheim’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.
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).