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Jon Montgomery
born 1979Canadian skeleton racer
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Russell, Manitoba
Of the 7 famous people born in Russell, an unusual share are athletes
Jon Montgomery, the Canadian skeleton racer, is the most widely known, written about in 21 languages. The Canadian ice hockey player Cody McLeod ranks second, ahead of Red Dutton. 3 were born in 1970 or later. Over 93 years of births, the list goes from George Hara Williams (1894) to Brodie Dupont (1987).
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jon Montgomery
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1894
George Hara Williams
Youngest
1987
Brodie Dupont
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Russell’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Russell’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 2.
SportsPolitics & Law
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Russell is known for
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Russell
Counted by languages, Jon Montgomery is ahead of Cody McLeod and Red Dutton: 21, 9 and 9.
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Red Dutton
1897–1987Canadian ice hockey player and executive, businessman
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Russell
Another 4, 3 of them leaders.
Richard H. G. Bonnycastle
1903–1968Canadian lawyer, fur trader and adventurer
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Questions about famous people from Russell
Who is the most famous person from Russell?
Jon Montgomery (Canadian skeleton racer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Cody McLeod and Red Dutton.
How many famous people were born in Russell?
Wikidata counts 8 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Russell known for?
57% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Russell?
George Hara Williams (1894). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1987.
Who counts as from Russell?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Russell’s 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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (5)
- Jon Montgomery: thelastminute (Duncan Rawlinson), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cody McLeod: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Red Dutton: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brodie Dupont: Sarah Connors, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Bezan: Paul Shapka of US Embassy Canada, 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).