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Lloyd Cook
1890–1964Canadian ice hockey defenceman
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Famous people · Lynden, Hamilton
4 famous people were born in Lynden from 1856 to 1970
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Lloyd Cook, with articles in 7 languages. The Canadian politician Albert Dyment ranks second, ahead of Dan Muys. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3.8, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. The list’s best known name, Lloyd Cook, dates from 1890.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Lloyd Cook
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1856
Reuben Rupert Jamieson
Youngest
1970
Dan Muys
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Lynden
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Politics & Law
Albert Dyment
1869–1944Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Through the years
When Lynden’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1890s, with 1 people born in that decade.
Politics & LawSports
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Lynden is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 3.4 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Lynden
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Lynden, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Lynden
Who is the most famous person from Lynden?
The top name is Lloyd Cook (Canadian ice hockey defenceman), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Albert Dyment and Dan Muys.
How many famous people were born in Lynden?
Of the 6 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Lynden known for?
They make up 75% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lynden?
Reuben Rupert Jamieson (1856). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1970.
Who counts as from Lynden?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Lynden’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (4)
- Lloyd Cook: Stuart Thomson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Reuben Rupert Jamieson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Elop: luca.sartoni, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Syvret: Remy Connors, 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).