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Politics & Law
Mary John Batten
1921–2015Canadian politician and judge
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Dauphin, Manitoba
Mary John Batten is the only name on the Dauphin list
Mary John Batten, the Canadian politician and judge, was born in 1921. Their birth falls between 1914 and 1945. 2 languages have an article about them. The longest list of any town in Manitoba belongs to Winnipeg, with 1,479.
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Mary John Batten
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
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1921
Mary John Batten
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Politics & Law
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Born in Dauphin
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Famous people from the towns next door
Dauphin leads the towns around it, with 26 names.
Questions about famous people from Dauphin
Who is the most famous person from Dauphin?
Mary John Batten (Canadian politician and judge) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Dauphin?
The list holds 1 born in Dauphin, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Dauphin known for?
leaders lead the list, with 1 of 1. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who counts as from Dauphin?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Dauphin’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. Dauphin is also the name of another municipality in Manitoba: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Dauphin”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
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).
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- Jimmy Ball: 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).