John Wentworth Russell
1879–1959Canadian artist;
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Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainJohn Wentworth Russell is the best known, going by the number of languages that write about them. The list has one more: the Canadian astronomer Reynold Kenneth Young. The neighbour with the longest list is Sheldon, 7 km away: 2, led by James Walker. From John Wentworth Russell to Reynold Kenneth Young, the births on the list run from 1879 to 1886.
Canadian artist;
Canadian astronomer
Writers and artists 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.
Towns around it with someone on record: 1.
By our measure the best known is John Wentworth Russell (Canadian artist;); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Reynold Kenneth Young.
3 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 12% across Canadian towns.
The earliest is John Wentworth Russell, born in 1879, and the latest birth listed is 1886.
The list takes people born within Binbrook’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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