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Notable People
Notable people who were born, grew up in, or lived in Ogema
 * Arleene Johnson (1924 - 2017), All American Girls Professional Baseball League Player
 * Tasha Hubbard (born 1973), Film maker from Ogema known for her documentaries Birth of a Family and Two World's Colliding. After her adopted father died when she was two years old she, along with her adopted mother, moved to Ogema, Sask., where they lived until Hubbard was 11 years old, before moving around Saskatchewan with her adopted family.
 * Alfred Ross Sargent was the first mayor of Ogema. He held office in 1913 and 1914 before moving to Viceroy in 1914. Sargent came to the area in 1909 and operated the first store named Sargent and Brunston.
 * Murdock Matheson was the first teacher in Ogema and taught there from July 3, 1911 to June 1914. Matheson was part of the first Normal School staff in 1927 before moving on to teach at the University of Saskatchewan, where he stayed until he retired in 1946. Matheson wrote a book called "Looking Backwards Over My 50 Years in Saskatchewan," that was published in 1960.
 * Alfred Taylor was born in Leicester England in 1885. He arrived in the area in 1906 where he lived on a quarter of land and worked in Regina as a plumber. Eventually Taylor was forced to sell his quarter of land to the railway in 1910. This Quarter of Land is where the town of Ogema is located. Taylor joined the army in 1916 and while overseas came down with Rheumatic fever while in the trenches and was taken to an England hospital where he met Mable White. In March of 1920 the two were married, and eventually were buried side by side in the town cemetery when he died July 4th 1960. Taylor was a brother to William, and a father to Charlotte, born in 1921, and Doug, born in 1923. In Ogema there is a street named in the honour of Taylor who was the first settler in the area.
 * Layne Jackson grew up in Ogema, Sask. On September 12, 2017 Jackson was named the new Fire Chief of Regina, Sask. Jackson served as the Deputy Chief of the Regina fire department since 2009.