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Surname

Philippe de Monte
Philippe de Monte
Philippe de Monte , sometimes known as Philippus de Monte, was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigals than any other composer of the time...

(1521-1603), Renaissance composer
Lou Monte
Lou Monte
Lou Monte born Louis Scaglione, was an Italian American singer best known for a number of best-selling, Italian-themed novelty records which he recorded for both RCA Records and Reprise Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

(1917-89), Italian-American singer

Given name

Monte Attell
Monte Attell
Monte "The Nob Hill Terror" Attell , born in San Francisco, California, United States, was a champion boxer.-Early Career:...

("The Knob Hill Terror"; 1885-1960), American world champion bantamweight boxer
Monte Irvin
Monte Irvin
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin is a former left fielder and right-handed batter in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played with the Newark Eagles , New York Giants and Chicago Cubs .-Biography:Although born in Haleburg, Alabama, Irvin grew up in Orange, New Jersey, one of five...

(b. 1919), Negro League and MLB player, Baseball Hall of Famer
Monte Melkonian
Monte Melkonian
Monte Melkonian was a famed Armenian commander during Nagorno-Karabakh war. Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's army before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war...

(1957-93), Armenian military commander and national hero
Monte Bryan Money, the lead guitarist for the American post-hardcore band Escape the Fate
Escape the Fate
Escape the Fate is an American post-hardcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada formed in 2005 and originally from Pahrump, Nevada. They have released three EPs and three full-length studio albums. Dying Is Your Latest Fashion was the band's debut album and only album to feature vocalist Ronnie Radke...
Monte Scheinblum
Monte Scheinblum
Monte Scheinblum is an American professional golfer, and the son of former Major League Baseball All Star outfielder Richie Scheinblum. While he competed on the Nike Tour, he became known especially for his long driving, where success is achieved by a golfer hitting a golf ball the farthest...

, American golfer, 1992 US & World Long Drive Champion
La Monte Young
La Monte Young
La Monte Thornton Young is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist.Young is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer. His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental, and contemporary music. Young is...

, American composer and musician

Brazil

Barão de Monte Alto
Barão de Monte Alto
Barão de Monte Alto is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2006 is estimated to be 6,247 people living in a total area of 199.105 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Zona da Mata and to the microregion of Muriaé.-See also:* List of...

, Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
Belo Monte
Belo Monte
Belo Monte is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 6,669 and its area is 334 km².-References:...

, Alagoas
Alagoas
Alagoas is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco ; Sergipe ; Bahia ; and the Atlantic Ocean . It occupies an area of 27,767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti...

*Buriti dos Montes
Buriti dos Montes
Buriti dos Montes is a town and municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.-References:...

, Piauí
Piauí
Piauí is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country.Piauí has the shortest coastline of any of the non-landlocked Brazilian states at 66 km , and the capital, Teresina, is the only state capital in the north east to be located inland...
Campina do Monte Alegre
Campina do Monte Alegre
Campina do Monte Alegre is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2003 is 5,876 and the area is 184.67 km². The elevation is 612 m, 2090 ft.- External links :*...

, São Paulo
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
Monte Alegre, Pará
Monte Alegre, Pará
Monte Alegre, Pará is a town and municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.-References:...
Monte Alegre, Rio Grande do Norte
Monte Alegre, Rio Grande do Norte
Monte Alegre is a town and municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.-References:...
Monte Alegre dos Campos
Monte Alegre dos Campos
-See also:*List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul...

, Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...

*Monte Alegre de Goiás
Monte Alegre de Goiás
Monte Alegre de Goiás is a small town and municipality in northeastern Goiás state, Brazil.-Location:Monte Alegre is located in the statistical micro-region of Chapada dos Veadeiros and is 31 kilometers south of the border with Tocantins. G0-118 connects it with Teresina de Goiás and Campos Belos...

, Goiás
Goiás
Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. The name Goiás comes from the name of an indigenous community...
Monte Alegre de Minas
Monte Alegre de Minas
Monte Alegre de Minas is a Brazilian municipality located in the west of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 18,348 living in a total area of 2,593 km². The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba and to the statistical microregion of...

, Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
Monte Alegre do Piauí
Monte Alegre do Piauí
Monte Alegre do Piauí is a town and municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.-References:...

, Piauí
Piauí
Piauí is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country.Piauí has the shortest coastline of any of the non-landlocked Brazilian states at 66 km , and the capital, Teresina, is the only state capital in the north east to be located inland...
Monte Alegre de Sergipe
Monte Alegre de Sergipe
Monte Alegre de Sergipe is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population was 12,839 and its area is 407 km²....

, Sergipe
Sergipe
Sergipe , is the smallest state of the Brazilian Federation, located on the northeastern Atlantic coast of the country. It borders on two other states, Bahia to the south and west and Alagoas to the north, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean...
Monte Alegre do Sul
Monte Alegre do Sul
Alegre do Sul is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population as of January, 2010 is 6,000, and the area is 110,9 km². The elevation is 748 m. The Brazilian website cited here has more information....

, São Paulo
Monte Alto, São Paulo
Monte Aprazível
Monte Aprazível
Monte Aprazível is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The population is of 21,746 inhabitants, and the area is 496.9 km².Known as "The Dream's Dam City", because of a dam located nearby the city center....

, São Paulo
Monte Azul
Monte Azul
Monte Azul is a municipality in the north of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population in 2007 was 23,477 in an area of 992 km². The elevation is 582 meters. It became a municipality in 1878. The postal code is 39500-000....

, Minas Gerais
Monte Azul Paulista
Monte Azul Paulista
Monte Azul Paulista is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 is 18.505 and the area is 264.29 km². The elevation is 611 m....

, São Paulo
Monte Belo
Monte Belo
Monte Belo is a town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.-References:...

, Minas Gerais
Monte Belo do Sul
Monte Belo do Sul
-See also:*List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul...

, Rio Grande do Sul
Monte Carlo, Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina (state)
Santa Catarina is a state in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Its capital is Florianópolis, which mostly lies on the Santa Catarina Island. Neighbouring states are Rio Grande do Sul to the south and Paraná to the north. It is bounded on the east by...
Monte Carmelo
Monte Carmelo
Monte Carmelo is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 44,367 people living in a total area of 1,354 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba and to the microregion of Patrocínio...

, Minas Gerais
Monte Carmo
Monte Carmo
Monte Carmo is a mountain in the Ligurian Apennine, northern Italy, located at the boundary between the three regions of Liguria, Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna. With an altitude of , it is part of the Monte Antola Group...

, Tocantins
Tocantins (state)
Tocantins is one of the states of Brazil. . The state was formed in 1988 out of the northern part of Goiás, and construction began on the capital, Palmas, in 1989, in contrast to most of the other cities in the state which date back to the Portuguese colonial period...
Monte Castelo
Monte Castelo, São Paulo
Monte Castelo is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 is 3,766 and the area is 233.89 km². The elevation is 375 m....

, São Paulo
Monte Castelo
Monte Castelo, Santa Catarina
Monte Castelo, Santa Catarina is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.-References:...

, Santa Catarina
Monte Formoso
Monte Formoso
Monte Formoso is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the IBGE statistical mesoregion of Jequitinhonha and to the microregion of Almenara. As of 2007 the population was 4,709 in an area of 384 km²...

, Minas Gerais
Monte das Gameleiras
Monte das Gameleiras
Monte das Gameleiras is a town and municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.- References :...

, Rio Grande do Norte
Monte Horebe
Monte Horebe
Monte Horebe is a town and municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.-References:...

, Paraíba
Paraíba
Paraíba Paraíba Paraíba (Tupi: pa'ra a'íba: "bad to navigation"; Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east...
Monte Mor
Monte Mor
Monte Mor is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 is 43,384 and the area is 241.49 km². The elevation is 560 m....

, São Paulo
Monte Negro
Monte Negro
Monte Negro is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Its population was 16,233 and its area is 1,931 km²....

, Rondônia
Rondônia
Rondônia is a state in Brazil, located in the north-western part of the country. To the west is a short border with the state of Acre, to the north is the state of Amazonas, in the east is Mato Grosso, and in the south is Bolivia. Its capital is Porto Velho. The state was named after Candido Rondon...
Monte Santo, Bahia
Monte Santo de Minas
Monte Santo de Minas
Monte Santo de Minas is a Brazilian municipality in the south of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population is 21,216 inhabitants, according to the 2000 census. Its area is 592.5 km² and its density is 35.8 inhabitants per square kilometer....

, Minas Gerais
Monte Santo do Tocantins
Monte Santo do Tocantins
Monte Santo do Tocantins is a town and municipality in the state of Tocantins in the Northern region of Brazil.-References:...

, Tocantins
Monte Sião
Monte Sião
Monte Sião is a town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.-References:...

, Minas Gerais
Montes Altos
Montes Altos
Montes Altos is a town and municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.-References:...

, Maranhão
Maranhão
Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil. To the north lies the Atlantic Ocean. Maranhão is neighbored by the states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent...
Montes Claros
Montes Claros
Montes Claros is a city located in northern Minas Gerais state, in Brazil. The estimated population in 2010 was 412,284 inhabitants and the total area of the municipality was 3,470 km²...

, Minas Gerais
Montes Claros de Goiás
Montes Claros de Goiás
Montes Claros de Goiás is a small town and municipality in western Goiás state, Brazil-Location and connections:Montes Claros is located in the extreme west of the state, about 70 km east of the Araguaia River. It is east of Aragarças and west of Jussara.Montes Claros is connected by poor...

, Goiás
Nova Monte Verde
Nova Monte Verde
Nova Monte Verde is a town and municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil.-References:...

, Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest in area, located in the western part of the country.Neighboring states are Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Tocantins, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. It also borders Bolivia to the southwest...
Palmas de Monte Alto
Palmas de Monte Alto
Palmas de Monte Alto is a town and municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.-References:...

, Bahia
Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde
Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde
Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde is a town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.-References:...

, Minas Gerais
Santa Cruz de Monte Castelo, Paraná
Santana dos Montes
Santana dos Montes
Santana dos Montes is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Conselheiro Lafaiete.-See also:* List of municipalities in Minas Gerais...

, Minas Gerais
São Joaquim do Monte
São Joaquim do Monte
São Joaquim do Monte is a city located in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Located at 124.6 km away from Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco...

, Pernambuco
Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...
São Luís de Montes Belos
São Luís de Montes Belos
São Luís de Montes Belos is a small city and municipality in the State of Goiás, Brazil.-Location:It is located in the Anicuns Microregion, 123 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia, to which it is connected by highway GO-060...

, Goiás
Santo Antônio do Monte
Santo Antônio do Monte
Santo Antônio do Monte is a town in the western central part of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Its coordinates are 20.0856/20° 5' 13" S and the longitude is 41.2495/41° 17' 38" W. It has 27,534 inhabitants . The city is located 194 km west of state capital Belo Horizonte...

, Minas Gerais

Canada

Monte Creek, British Columbia
Monte Creek, British Columbia
Monte Creek is a rural locality on the South Thompson River east of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, approximately equidistant from Kamloops and the village of Chase, British Columbia. It is mostly notable as a major highway junction where British Columbia Highway 97 branches off from the...
Monte Lake, British Columbia
Monte Cristo Mountains
Monte Cristo Mountains
The Monte Cristo Mountains are a mountain range in Nye County, Nevada....

, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
Montevista Bay, British Columbia

Italy

Monte Argentario
Monte Argentario
Monte Argentario is a comune and a peninsula belonging to the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 150 km south of Florence and about 35 km south of Grosseto...

, in the province of Grosseto
Province of Grosseto
The Province of Grosseto is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Grosseto.-Geography:It has an area of 4,504 km², and a total population of 227.498...
Monte Berico
Monte Berico
The Church of St. Mary of Mount Berico is a Roman Catholic and minor basilica in Vicenza, northern Italy. The church is a Marian shrine, and stands at the top of a hill which overlooks the city.-Origins:...
Monte Bianco
Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, Italy, c. to the west of the town of Cassino and altitude. St. Benedict of Nursia established his first monastery, the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529. It was the site of Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944...
Montecorvino (disambiguation)
Montecristo
Montecristo
Montecristo is a small Italian islet, approximately 4.3 kilometers across at its widest point, located about halfway between Corsica and mainland Italy; south of Elba and west of Giglio. It is part of the Tuscan Archipelago...
Monte Isola
Monte Isola
Monte Isola is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is located on an island of the same name in Lake Iseo.With a total area of 12.8 km², Monte Isola ranks as the largest lake island not only in Italy, but also in South and Central Europe...

, in the province of Brescia
Province of Brescia
The Province of Brescia is a Province in Lombardy, Italy. It borders with the province of Sondrio in the N and NW, the province of Bergamo in the W, province of Cremona in the SW and S, the province of Mantova to the S, and to the east, the province of Verona and Trentino .Source for statistical...
Monte Milone (disambiguation)
Montemurro
Montemurro
Montemurro is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata.The Italian-American Lucchese crime family mobster brothers Raymond Montemurro and Monte Montemurro share their last name with the town. Monte Montemurro would later play a small part in the...
Monte Pennino (~1570 m), in the Umbria
Umbria
Umbria is a region of modern central Italy. It is one of the smallest Italian regions and the only peninsular region that is landlocked.Its capital is Perugia.Assisi and Norcia are historical towns associated with St. Francis of Assisi, and St...

region
Montepulciano
Montepulciano
Montepulciano is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the province of Siena in southern Tuscany, in Italy. Montepulciano, with an elevation of 605 m, sits on a high limestone ridge. By car it is 13 km E of Pienza; 70 km SE of Siena, 124 km SE of Florence, and...

, in the province of Siena
Province of Siena
The Province of Siena is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Siena.It has an area of 3,821 km² , and a total population of 252,288 . There are 36 comuni in the province...
Monteriggioni
Monteriggioni
Monteriggioni is a comune in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany. It borders on the communes of Casole d'Elsa, Castellina in Chianti, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Poggibonsi, Siena and Sovicille...

, in the province of Siena
Monteroni d'Arbia
Monteroni d'Arbia
Monteroni d'Arbia is a comune in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 60 km south of Florence and about 13 km southeast of Siena in the area known as the Crete Senesi. It takes its names from the Arbia torrent, a tributary of the Ombrone River.-Main...

, in the province of Siena
Monte Rosa
Monte Rosa
The Monte Rosa Massif is a mountain massif located in the eastern part of the Pennine Alps. It is located between Switzerland and Italy...
Monte Vergine (disambiguation)
Monte Vidon (disambiguation)

Portugal

Monte (Fafe), a civil parish in the municipality of Fafe
Monte (Funchal)
Monte (Funchal)
Monte is a civil parish in the municipality and a suburb of Funchal in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. Locally, the parish is also known as Nossa Senhora do Monte . Its population in 2001 was just over 7,444 inhabitants living in an area of approximately 18.59 km²...

, a civil parish in the municipality of Funchal
Monte (Murtosa), a civil parish in the municipality of Murtosa
Murtosa
Murtosa is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 73.3 km² and a total population of 9,550 inhabitants, and 8,282 electors.The municipality is composed of 4 parishes, and is located in the District of Aveiro....
Monte (Terras de Bouro), a civil parish in the municipality of Terras de Bouro
Terras de Bouro
Terras de Bouro is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 277.5 km² and a total population of 7,955 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of 17 parishes, and is located in the district of Braga. The present Mayor is António Ferreira Afonso, elected by the Social Democratic Party...

Switzerland

Monte, in the Canton of Ticino
Monte Ceneri Pass
Monte Ceneri Pass
Monte Ceneri Pass is a mountain pass in the Alps in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.It connects the Magadino plain and the Vedeggio valley....
Monte San Giorgio
Monte San Giorgio
Monte San Giorgio is a wooded mountain located in the south of canton Ticino in Switzerland. Monte San Giorgio became a UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2003, because it "is the single best known record of marine life in the Triassic period, and records important remains of life on land as well."...

Other

Monte (mascot)
Monte (mascot)
Monte, short for Montana, is the University of Montana's award-winning athletics mascot. He is modeled after a grizzly bear, in reference to the nickname of the university's athletic teams, the Grizzlies.-History:...

, the athletics mascot of the University of Montana
Monte, card game also known as Monte Bank
Monte Bank
Monte Bank, Mountebank, Spanish Monte and Mexican Monte, sometimes just Monte, is a Spanish gambling card game and the national card game of Mexico. It ultimately derives from basset, where the banker pays on matching cards...
Three-card Monte
Three-card Monte
Three-card Monte, also known as the Three-card marney, Three-card trick, Three-Way, Three-card shuffle, Menage-a-card, Triplets, Follow the lady, Les Trois Perdants , le Bonneteau, Find the lady, or Follow the Bee is a confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a...
Count of Monte Cristo, the fictional character in the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas, , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world...
Monte (University of Montana mascot), a grizzly bear mascot for the University of Montana since 1993

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