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Famous people · Binbrook, Hamilton

Binbrook is the birthplace of 2 famous people

John 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.

Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John Wentworth Russell
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1879
John Wentworth Russell
Youngest
1886
Reynold Kenneth Young
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known

Born in Binbrook

JR#1
Writing & Arts

John Wentworth Russell

1879–1959

Canadian artist;

2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RY#2
Science & Medicine

Reynold Kenneth Young

1886–1973

Canadian astronomer

1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for

What Binbrook is known for

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.

Next door

Famous people from the towns next door

Towns around it with someone on record: 1.

Questions about famous people from Binbrook

Who is the most famous person from Binbrook?

By our measure the best known is John Wentworth Russell (Canadian artist;); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Reynold Kenneth Young.

How many famous people were born in Binbrook?

3 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.

What is Binbrook known for?

That is 50% of the town’s list, against 12% across Canadian towns.

Who is the earliest-born famous person from Binbrook?

The earliest is John Wentworth Russell, born in 1879, and the latest birth listed is 1886.

Who counts as from Binbrook?

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.

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.

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).