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Science & Medicine
Minerva Reid
1871–1957Canadian surgeon
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Mono, Ontario
One famous person was born in Mono
Minerva Reid, the Canadian surgeon, was born in 1871. Their birth falls between Confederation and 1913. Readers can find them written up in 2 languages. A short trip away, Orangeville (7 km) counts 42 famous people, Edge among them.
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Minerva Reid
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1871
Minerva Reid
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Science & Medicine
1 person
The best known
Born in Mono
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Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 3.
Questions about famous people from Mono
Who is the most famous person from Mono?
Minerva Reid (Canadian surgeon) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Mono?
The list holds 1 born in Mono, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata counts 4 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Mono known for?
The largest group is scientists and doctors, 1 in all out of 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 5% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Mono?
The list takes people born within Mono’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (2)
- Edge: zuko1312, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Downey: Dan4th Nicholas, CC BY 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).