Chad Klassen
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Articles in 4 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Chad Klassen the best known. The other is Ed Dyck, the Canadian ice hockey player. A short trip away, Osler (6 km) counts 2 famous people, Elmer Driedger among them. Births span 1950 to 1985, from Ed Dyck to Chad Klassen.
Canadian ice hockey player
The top name is Chad Klassen (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Ed Dyck.
That is 100% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
The earliest is Ed Dyck, born in 1950, and the latest birth listed is 1985.
The list takes people born within Warman’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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).