MM#1
Science & Medicine
Maud Menten
1879–1960Canadian physician and chemist
33 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Bhazzard at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Corunna, Ontario
Corunna’s famous people span 140 years: 4 births from 1858 to 1998
The best known is the Canadian physician and chemist Maud Menten, with articles in 33 languages. Behind the leader come Kaden Fulcher and Stan Cassin. Maud Menten was born in 1879. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.5, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Maud Menten
33 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1858
Thomas Neal
Youngest
1998
Kaden Fulcher
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 person
The best known
Born in Corunna
KF#2
SC#3
Through the years
When Corunna’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1870s than in any other decade: 1.
Science & MedicineSportsPolitics & LawBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Corunna is known for
The largest field is Science & Medicine, with 1 people.
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 Corunna
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 2.
Questions about famous people from Corunna
Who is the most famous person from Corunna?
By our measure the best known is Maud Menten (Canadian physician and chemist); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Kaden Fulcher and Stan Cassin.
How many famous people were born in Corunna?
Wikidata places 9 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Corunna known for?
25% here, set against 5% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Corunna?
Thomas Neal (1858). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Corunna?
Born inside Corunna’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here at the next 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 (1)
- Sid Meier: Guerric, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).