GK#1
Writing & Arts
Guy Gavriel Kay
born 1954Canadian author of fantasy fiction
31 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Guy Gavriel Kay tops a list of 28 famous people born in Weyburn
Most widely known is Guy Gavriel Kay, the Canadian author of fantasy fiction, with articles in 31 languages. Behind the leader come Shirley Douglas and Tiger Williams. 11 of them were born between 1946 and 1969, more than in any other period. Only 8 of the 92 towns in Saskatchewan with anyone on record list more.
Born here
28
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Guy Gavriel Kay
31 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1900
John Probe
Youngest
1994
Tenille Arts
Most common field
Sports
15 people
What stands out about Weyburn’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Weyburn’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1950s, with 5 births.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Weyburn
SD#2
Film, TV & Stage
Shirley Douglas
1934–2020Canadian actress
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Tiger Williams
born 1954Canadian ice hockey player
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Weyburn is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.4 times as common.
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Questions about famous people from Weyburn
Who is the most famous person from Weyburn?
By our measure the best known is Guy Gavriel Kay (Canadian author of fantasy fiction); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Shirley Douglas and Tiger Williams.
How many famous people were born in Weyburn?
Wikidata places 34 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Weyburn known for?
They make up 54% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Weyburn?
John Probe, born in 1900. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Weyburn?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Weyburn’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (10)
- Tiger Williams: Horge, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Marchinko: New York Islanders / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Carla Beck: Profuse Moose, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph Buxton: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tenille Arts: Tommy Lee Kreger, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Jones: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Wanner: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendon LaBatte: Blake Handley, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Probe: MidnightMB, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter McCartney: 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).