49.8841° N, 97.1475° W
WINNIPEG
Most Famous People Born in Winnipeg, Canada
- Notable people
- 1,440
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- Median birth year
- 1947
- Most distinctive
- Curler 67.0×
A prairie city whose distinctive profession, at more than sixty times the global rate, is curler — no other city in the dataset comes close. Winnipeg's bench after that is hockey players at twenty times the global rate, with figure skaters, wrestlers, and songwriters filling out the shelves. Anna Paquin, Louis Riel, Deanna Durbin, Guy Maddin, and Terry Fox all belong to this bench; the 19th-century tail starts with the Métis leadership of the Red River Settlement.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Winnipeg during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1920s with 184 notable births.
What Winnipeg Is Known For
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Hockey is Winnipeg's biggest profession — 25% of all notables (353).
Winnipeg over-indexes on curler — 67.0× the global rate.
Winnipeg under-produces writer — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Winnipeg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Frances Bay
1919 - 2011
George Woodcock
1912 - 1995
Louis Slotin
1910 - 1946
Ralph Brazelton Peck
1912 - 2008
Zara Nelsova
1918 - 2002
Mitchell Sharp
1911 - 2004
James Coyne
1910 - 2012
Barbara Pentland
1912 - 2000
Dufferin Roblin
1917 - 2010
Andrew Mynarski
1916 - 1944
John Loaring
1915 - 1969
Wally Stanowski
1919 - 2015
Eleanor Cameron
1912 - 1996
Frank Pickersgill
1915 - 1944
Jack Sparling
1916 - 1997
Archie Green
1917 - 2009
Ben Metcalfe
1919 - 2003
John A. Kent
1914 - 1985
Eric Gurney
1910 - 1992
Geoffrey Cornish
1914 - 2012
Malcolm Wiseman
1913 - 1993
Irv Robbins
1917 - 2008
Carla Lehmann
1917 - 1990
Terry Reardon
1919 - 1993
Frederick Grinke
1911 - 1987
Billy Reay
1918 - 2004
Alf Pike
1917 - 2009
Hack Simpson
1910 - 1978
Albert Duncanson
1911 - 2000
Stephen Juba
1914 - 1993
Helen Codere
1917 - 2009
Mud Bruneteau
1914 - 1992
Stanley Jackson (filmmaker)
1914 - 1981
Crawford Gordon Jr.
1914 - 1967
Ralph Bowman
1911 - 1990
Alex Shibicky
1914 - 2005
David Orlikow
1918 - 1998
R. E. Munn
1919 - 2013
Billy Taylor (ice hockey, born 1919)
1919 - 1990
Percy Saltzman
1915 - 2007
James Simpkins
1910 - 2004
Miriam Waddington
1917 - 2004
Rudy Pilous
1914 - 1994
Bill MacKenzie
1911 - 1990
Pete Kelly (ice hockey)
1912 - 2004
Ralph Allen (journalist)
1913 - 1966
Richard Spink Bowles
1912 - 1988
Francis Lawrence Jobin
1914 - 1995
Joe Krol (ice hockey)
1915 - 1993
Albert D. Cohen
1914 - 2011
William Francis Mackey
1918 - 2015
John Alexander Hopps
1919 - 1998
Lou Merrill
1912 - 1963
Jim Sutherland
1914 - 1980
Russ Baker (pilot)
1910 - 1958
Joseph-Philippe Guay
1915 - 2001
Ronald Freedman
1917 - 2007
Wallace Douglas
1911 - 1990
Ed Bruneteau
1919 - 2002
Jim Simkin
1919 - 1984
Daniel Spry
1913 - 1989
Dick Kowcinak
1917 - 2011
Catherine Mary Wisnicki
1919 - 2014
Sara Hestrin-Lerner
1918 - 2017
Maurice Gagnon
1912 - 1999
Thomas Coulter (ice hockey)
1911 - 2003
Phil Hergesheimer
1914 - 2004
George Brown (ice hockey)
1912 - 1972
Paul Dojack
1914 - 2007
Mel Wilson
1917 - 2007
Doug McMahon
1917 - 1997
Howard Leeds
1919 - 2017
Morley Cohen
1917 - 2001
Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood
1913 - 2000
Jack Gallagher (oilman)
1916 - 1998
Joe Cooper (ice hockey)
1914 - 1979
Jim Coleman (journalist)
1911 - 2001
Bill Allum
1916 - 1992
John McCreedy
1917 - 1979
Pete Langelle
1917 - 2010
Russell M. Saunders
1919 - 2001
Paul Gauthier (ice hockey)
1915 - 1984
William H. Fishman
1914 - 2001
Cliff Roseborough
1910 - 1984
Charles Hershfield
1910 - 1990
Saul Cherniack
1917 - 2018
Jim Williams (curler)
1916 - 2004
Dona Massin
1917 - 2001
Bernard George Webber
1914 - 2000
Red Carr
1916 - 1990
Bill Nairn
1912 - 1986
Marion Bryden
1918 - 2013
Wilf Field
1915 - 1979
Bert Iannone
1917 - 1996
Bill Boivin
1914 - 2014
Louis Deniset
1919 - 1983
Eddie Kushner
1912 - 1982
Chester McCance
1911 - 1956
Dottie Hunter
1916 - 2005
Marcel Tremblay (ice hockey)
1915 - 1980
Bill Fraser (ice hockey)
1916 - 1997
William Hickson Barton
1917 - 2013
Frank Mulvey
1918 - 1981
Joe Shack
1915 - 1987
Sidney Buckwold
1916 - 2001
Mark Tennant
1913 - 1997
William Brigden
1916 - 2005
Bob Hamerton
1911 - 1990
Clarence Rost
1914 - 2008
Ian David Sinclair
1913 - 2006
Rene Trudell
1919 - 1984
Fraser Sweatman
1913 - 1991
Harold Eidsvig
1915 - 1959
Gerard Amerongen
1914 - 2013
Frank Thorolfson
1914 - 1977
Mary Kardash
1913 - 1990
Bill Ceretti
1912 - 1974
Ken Callis
Born 1911
Andy Bieber
1917 - 1985
Nathaniel Nemetz
1913 - 1997
Alphonse W. Salomone Jr.
1919 - 1993
Staff Barootes
1918 - 2000
Pearl Palmason
1915 - 2006
Hans Georg Andersen
1919 - 1994
Edmund Boyd Osler (Manitoba politician)
1919 - 1987
Audrée Estey
1910 - 2002
George Fairfield
1912 - 1978
Jack Mann (ice hockey)
1919 - 1980
Ab Collings
Born 1916
Norm Yellowlees
1912 - 1991
Val Werier
1917 - 2014
Eric Stefanson Sr.
1913 - 1977
Al Langlois (curler)
1915 - 2005
John Watson (curler)
1914 - 1974
William C. Speare
1915 - 1999
Paul Dumouchel
1911 - 2000