JU#1
Politics & Law
John Michael Uhrich
1877–1951Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Mildmay, Ontario
4 famous people were born in Mildmay
Most widely known is John Michael Uhrich, the Canadian politician, with articles in 3 languages. Grant Reuber is second and Harry Johnston third. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 6.4 for every 10,000 residents. Over 50 years of births, the list goes from John Michael Uhrich (1877) to Grant Reuber (1927).
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John Michael Uhrich
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1877
John Michael Uhrich
Youngest
1927
Grant Reuber
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Mildmay
GR#2
Science & Medicine
Grant Reuber
1927–2018Canadian economist, civil servant and businessman
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
HJ#3
Through the years
When Mildmay’s famous people were born
The 1920s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Politics & LawScience & MedicineNotable
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Mildmay is known for
Share of Mildmay’s famous people in each field.
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 Mildmay
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Mildmay, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Mildmay
Who is the most famous person from Mildmay?
John Michael Uhrich (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Grant Reuber and Harry Johnston.
How many famous people were born in Mildmay?
Wikidata places 6 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Mildmay known for?
50% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mildmay?
John Michael Uhrich, born in 1877. The youngest on the list was born in 1927.
Who counts as from Mildmay?
Born inside Mildmay’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?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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)
- Peter Joseph Hundt: Basilica Heritage Foundation, CC BY 3.0, 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).