TP#1
Film, TV & Stage
Tahmoh Penikett
born 1975Canadian actor
33 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Whitehorse, Yukon
34 famous people were born in Whitehorse, most of them between 1946 and 1969
Articles in 33 languages make the Canadian actor Tahmoh Penikett the best known. The next two names are Pierre Berton and Dylan Cozens. Among the 4 towns in Yukon with anyone listed, none has more. The biggest group are athletes: 13.
Born here
34
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Tahmoh Penikett
33 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1915
Bert Wybrew
Youngest
2007
Gavin McKenna
Most common field
Sports
13 people
What stands out about Whitehorse’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Whitehorse’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1950s than in any other decade: 9.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineMusicFilm, TV & StageFaith
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Whitehorse
PB#2
Writing & Arts
Pierre Berton
1920–2004Canadian author and journalist
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Dylan Cozens
born 2001Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Whitehorse is known for
Set against the usual town, scientists and doctors come out 1.9 times as common.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Whitehorse
31 more, best known first.
Louise Profeit-LeBlanc
born 1951Indigenous/Canadian storyteller, cultural educator, artist, writer
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Whitehorse
Who is the most famous person from Whitehorse?
Tahmoh Penikett (Canadian actor) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Pierre Berton and Dylan Cozens.
How many famous people were born in Whitehorse?
Wikidata counts 49 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Whitehorse known for?
38% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Whitehorse?
Bert Wybrew, born in 1915. The youngest on the list was born in 2007.
Who counts as from Whitehorse?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Whitehorse’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (13)
- Dylan Cozens: CloutsnChara Sports Cards, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gavin McKenna: Kaiser matias, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Emily Nishikawa: Cephas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Currie Dixon: Cross Border Network, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Merrilee Fullerton: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Paterson: Guinness323, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mara Roldan: Kakoula10, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louise Profeit-LeBlanc: De.wong91, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bryn Hoffman: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paulette Steeves: Psteeve1, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Moffatt: Panjarat Bangweak, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ivan Coyote: Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeneen Frei Njootli: Jghampton, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).