TS#1
Politics & Law
Thomas Hubert Stinson
1883–1965Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: MikeStnly · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Minden Hills, Ontario
Minden Hills is the birthplace of 2 famous people
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian politician Thomas Hubert Stinson. The other is Orie Loucks. Orie Loucks, born in 1931, is the youngest, and Thomas Hubert Stinson, born in 1883, the first on record. Go 18 km to Algonquin Highlands and the list has one name, Donald "Curly" Phillips.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Thomas Hubert Stinson
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1883
Thomas Hubert Stinson
Youngest
1931
Orie Loucks
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Minden Hills
OL#2
Science & Medicine
Orie Loucks
1931–2016Professor, university teacher and botanical collector
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Minden Hills is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 1 of them.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Minden Hills
Who is the most famous person from Minden Hills?
Thomas Hubert Stinson (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Orie Loucks.
What is Minden Hills known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Minden Hills?
Thomas Hubert Stinson, from 1883; the most recent birth on the list is from 1931.
Who counts as from Minden Hills?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Minden Hills’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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).
Photo credits (1)
- Donald "Curly" Phillips: unknown (pre-1938 - Phillips died in 1938), 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).