JW#1
Science & Medicine
Julia Grace Wales
1881–1957Canadian academic
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Bury, Quebec
2 famous people were born in Bury
Most widely known is Julia Grace Wales, the Canadian academic, with articles in 7 languages. The only other name is the Canadian politician Aylmer Byron Hunt. Of its neighbours, East Angus, 16 km away, lists the most: 9, Pierre Bourgault first. From Aylmer Byron Hunt to Julia Grace Wales, the births on the list run from 1864 to 1881.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Julia Grace Wales
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1864
Aylmer Byron Hunt
Youngest
1881
Julia Grace Wales
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 person
The best known
Born in Bury
AH#2
Politics & Law
Aylmer Byron Hunt
1864–1925Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Bury is known for
Share of Bury’s famous people in each field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Questions about famous people from Bury
Who is the most famous person from Bury?
Julia Grace Wales (Canadian academic) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Aylmer Byron Hunt.
What is Bury known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 5% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bury?
Aylmer Byron Hunt, from 1864; the most recent birth on the list is from 1881.
Who counts as from Bury?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Bury’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), 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.
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.
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).