List of people from Nova Scotia
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This is a list of notable people who were either born or lived in Nova Scotia, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province.
- Kristin Booth – Canadian actress (born 1974)
- Cory Bowles – Canadian actor
- Lucy DeCoutere – Canadian actress and air force officer
- Richard Donat – Canadian actor
- Ellen Dubin – Canadian actress
- Arlene Duncan – Canadian actress
- Barrie Dunn – Canadian actor, producer and lawyer
- John Dunsworth – Canadian actor and comedian (1946-2017)
- Sarah Dunsworth-Nickerson – Canadian actress and costume designer
- Lex Gigeroff – Television writer and actor
- Leslie Hope – Canadian actress
- Michael Jackson – Canadian actor, grip and gaffer (born 1970)
- Shauna MacDonald – Canadian actress
- Martha MacIsaac – Canadian actress (born 1984)
- Marguerite McNeil – Canadian actress (1935–2021)
- Mary-Colin Chisholm – Canadian actress
- Elliot Page – Canadian actor and producer (born 1987)
- Mona Louise Parsons – Canadian actress
- Gordon Pinsent – Canadian actor and writer (1930–2023)
- Laura Regan – Canadian actress (born 1977)
- Nancy Regan – Canadian actress, journalist, and news anchor
- Patrick Roach – Canadian actor and investor (born 1969)
- Tara Spencer-Nairn – Canadian actress (born 1978)
- Shelley Thompson – Canadian actress
- Jonathan Torrens – Canadian actor and television personality
- Robb Wells – Canadian actor and screenwriter
- Andrew R. Cobb – Canadian-American architect
- David Ewart – Canadian architect (1841–1921)
- Leslie R. Fairn – Canadian architect (1875–1971)
- William Critchlow Harris – Canadian architect (1854–1913)
- Frances Bannerman – Canadian painter and poet (1855-1944)
- Alex Colville – Canadian artist (1920–2013)
- William E. deGarthe – Finnish painter
- Nancy Edell – Canadian artist (1942-2005)
- Gerald Ferguson – Canadian-American conceptual artist and painter
- Tom Forrestall – Canadian realist painter (1936–2024)
- Carol Hoorn Fraser – American-born Canadian artist (1930–1991)
- Jack L. Gray – Canadian artist
- Randolph Hewton – Canadian painter
- Ursula Johnson – Canadian Mi'kmaq artist
- George Lang – Scottish stonemason and master builder (1821-1881)
- Arthur Lismer – English-Canadian painter (1885-1969)
- Maud Lewis – Nova Scotian folk artist
- Maria Morris Miller – Canadian artist (1813–1875)
- Elizabeth Styring Nutt – British-Canadian artist and educator
- John O'Brien – Canadian marine artist
- Henry Mortikar Rosenberg – Canadian artist (1858-1947)
- Edith Smith – Canadian artist (1867-1954)
- William Valentine – Nova Scotian painter (1798–1849)
- Ezra Churchill – Canadian politician
- Enos Collins – Nova Scotian merchant, banker, and privateer
- Samuel Cunard – British-Canadian shipping magnate (1787–1865)
- Cyrus S. Eaton – Canadian-American investment banker, businessman and philanthropist
- Rose Fortune – Canadian businesswoman
- Alfred Fuller – Canada-born American businessman
- Alexander Keith – Canadian politician
- Gilbert McKenna – Canadian politician
- Joseph Salter – Canadian businessman and politician
- Frank H. Sobey – Canadian businessman
- Frank Stanfield – Canadian entrepreneur and politician (1872–1931)
- John Stanfield – Canadian industrialist and politician (1868–1934)
- James McGregor Stewart – Canadian lawyer
- William Stevens Fielding – Canadian politician (1848–1929)
- Sandford Fleming – Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (1827–1915)
- Charles Frederick Fraser – First superintendent of the Halifax School for the Blind
- Kate Beaton – Canadian comics artist (born 1983)
- Bob Chambers – Canadian cartoonist and illustrator
- Hal Foster – Canadian-American illustrator (1892–1982)
- Audri Mukhopadhyay – Canadian diplomat and economist
- William Johnston Almon – Canadian surgeon and politician (1816–1901)
- Maria Louisa Angwin – First woman licensed to practice medicine in Nova Scotia, Canada
- William Bruce Almon – Nova Scotian physician and politician
- Clement Ligoure – Trinidadian doctor in Canada (1887–1922)
- Charles Tupper – Prime Minister of Canada in 1896
- Alfred Waddell – Trinidadian physician (1896–1953)
- Mike Clattenburg – Canadian filmmaker and producer
- Phil Comeau – Canadian film and television director
- Paul Donovan – Canadian television and film writer, director and producer
- Jason Eisener – Canadian film writer, editor and director
- Thom Fitzgerald – American film director
- Daniel MacIvor – Canadian actor and director
- Noah Pink – Canadian screenwriter
- Alexander Graham Bell – Canadian-American inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
- Walter Harris Callow – Canadian veteran and inventor
- Charles Fenerty – Canadian inventor and poet (1821–1892)
- Abraham Pineo Gesner – New Brunswick and Nova Scotian physician and geologist (1797–1864)
Military
[edit]17th-18th century
[edit]- Charles de Menou d'Aulnay – Canadian politician
- Françoise-Marie Jacquelin – Acadian woman
- Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin – French military officer (1652–1707)
- Sébastien Rale – French Jesuit missionary
- Jean-Baptiste Cope – Mi'kmaq leader (1698–1758-60)
- Jean-Louis Le Loutre – Catholic priest, missionary & military leader (1709-1772)
- Charles Lawrence – British Army officer
- Silvanus Cobb – Massachusetts provincial army captain
- Jonathan Eddy – American military officer and politician
- John Allan – Canadian politician and officer with the Massachusetts Militia
- Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste – Famous privateer
- Joseph-Nicolas Gautier – Acadian merchant and leader
- John Gyles – American soldier and interpreter
- John Handfield – British military officer
- Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour – Governor of Acadia 1631–1642 and 1653–1657
- Madockawando – Penobscot Chief during King William's War
- Pierre Maillard – French-born priest
- Charles Morris – Canadian army officer, officeholder and judge
- Pierre II Surette – Acadian man
19th century
[edit]- Provo Wallis – British admiral (1791–1892)
- John Charles Beckwith – British army officer
- Edward Belcher – British naval officer (1799–1877)
- Fenwick Williams – 19th-century Nova Scotian officer of the British Army
- John Eardley Inglis – British army officer
- William Hall (VC) – Canadian Royal Navy hero
- George Augustus Westphal – Royal Navy admiral
Post-Confederation
[edit]- Philip Bent – Recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Harold Lothrop Borden – Canadian military officer
- Walter Harris Callow – Canadian veteran and inventor
- John Croak – Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Leonard W. Murray – Canadian admiral in WW II (1896–1971)
- James Peter Robertson – Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (1883-1917)
- William Grant Stairs – Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer
Musicians
[edit]- People
- Brian Ahern (producer) – Canadian record producer and guitarist (born 1945)
- Carroll Baker – American actress (born 1931)
- Gary Beals – Canadian singer
- Buck 65 – Canadian hip hop artist
- George Canyon – Canadian country music singer
- Wilf Carter – Canadian singer and yodeler (1904–1996)
- Classified – Canadian rapper and record producer (born 1977)
- Holly Cole – Canadian jazz singer
- J. P. Cormier – Canadian musician
- Melanie Doane – Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and music educator.
- Denny Doherty – Canadian singer and musician (1940–2007)
- Todd Fancey – Canadian musician
- Leslie Feist – Canadian musician
- J.D. Fortune – Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1973)
- Bruce Guthro – Canadian singer (1961–2023)
- Rebekah Higgs – Canadian indie rock singer and songwriter
- Ashley MacIsaac – Canadian musician
- Natalie MacMaster – Canadian musician
- Kevin MacMichael – Canadian guitarist (1951–2002)
- Rita MacNeil – Canadian singer-songwriter (1944–2013)
- Matt Mays – Canadian musician
- Sarah McLachlan – Canadian musician (born 1968)
- Matt Minglewood – Canadian musician
- Anne Murray – Canadian singer (born 1945)
- Joel Plaskett – Canadian singer-songwriter
- Steve Poltz – Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Heather Rankin – Canadian singer, songwriter and actor (born 1967)
- Jimmy Rankin – Canadian musician
- Stan Rogers – Canadian folk musician (1949–1983)
- Gordie Sampson – Canadian musician
- Tara Slone – Canadian singer
- Laura Smith – Canadian singer-songwriter (1952–2020)
- Hank Snow – Canadian musician (1914–1999)
- Scott Storch – American record producer and songwriter (born 1973)
- Portia White – Canadian opera singer
- JRDN – Canadian singer
- Jody Upshaw – Canadian musician
- Bands
- April Wine – Canadian rock band
- The Barra MacNeils – Canadian musical group
- The Rankin Family – Canadian music group
- Rawlins Cross – Canadian Celtic band
- Sloan – Canadian rock band
- The Trews – Canadian hard rock band
Politicians
[edit]- Jeremy Akerman – English-Canadian politician, writer and actor (born 1942)
- David H. Armstrong – American politician
- Noël Doiron – Leader of the Acadians
- Myra Freeman – Canadian politician (born 1949)
- Joseph Howe – Canadian politician (1804–1873)
- Gordon Benjamin Isnor – Canadian merchant and politician
- John Savage – Canadian politician
- Michael Savage – Canadian politician
- Robert Stanfield – Canadian premier and opposition leader (1914–2003)
- Charles Tupper – Prime Minister of Canada in 1896
- Richard John Uniacke – Canadian politician
- Henry Alline – American–Canadian minister, evangelist, and writer
- Moses E. Kiley – American prelate
- Robert Ackman – Canadian chemist and professor
- Karen Beauchemin – Canadian agricultural scientist
- Willard Boyle – Canadian physicist (1924–2011)
- Allen C. Eaves – Canadian scientist
- Abraham Pineo Gesner – New Brunswick and Nova Scotian physician and geologist (1797–1864)
- Naomi Ginsberg – American physicist, chemist and engineer
- Dana G. Goski – Material scientist
- Donald O. Hebb – Canadian neuropsychologist (1904–1985)
- Charlotte Keen – Canadian geologist
- William Li – Canadian biological oceanographer (born 1952)
- Alan Longhurst – British-born Canadian oceanographer (1925–2023)
- Kinnon MacKinnon – Canadian researcher (born 1985)
- Glenda MacQueen – Canadian medical researcher (1965–2020)
- Arthur B. McDonald – Canadian astrophysicist
- Thomas Mason – American physicist (born 1964)
- Simon Newcomb – Canadian-American polymath (1835–1909)
- Elizabeth Patton – Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, professor of chemical genetics
- Keith R. Porter – Canadian-American cell biologist (1912–1997)
- Danny Gallivan – Canadian sportscaster
- Paul Hollingsworth – Canadian sports reporter and author
- Vince Horsman – Canadian baseball player
- Fred Lake – Canadian baseball player (1866–1931)
- Richard Dalton – Canadian sprint canoeist
- Stephen Giles – Canadian sprint canoeist
- Michael Scarola – Canadian canoeist
- Jillian D'Alessio – Canadian sprint kayaker
- Karen Furneaux – Canadian sprint kayaker
- Sue Holloway – Canadian retired cross-country skier and sprint canoeist
- Anne Dodge – Canadian sprint kayaker
- Michelle Russell – Canadian sprint kayaker
- Angus MacAskill – Strongman champion
- Chris Clarke – Canadian boxer (born 1956)
- Buddy Daye – Canadian boxer
- George Dixon – Canadian boxer
- Ray Downey – Canadian boxer (born 1968)
- Bryan Gibson – Canadian boxer
- Kirk Johnson – Canadian boxer (born 1972)
- Sam Langford – Canadian boxer (c.1885–1956)
- Carroll Morgan – Canadian boxer (1947–2018)
- Marty O'Donnell – Canadian boxer
- Randall Thompson – Canadian boxer
Men’s Curling
[edit]- Shawn Adams – Canadian curler
- Mark Dacey – Canadian curler
- Andrew Gibson – Canadian curler
- Rob Harris – Canadian curler
- Bruce Lohnes – Canadian curler
Women’s Curling
[edit]- Mary-Anne Arsenault – Canadian curler (born 1968)
- Nancy Delahunt – Canadian curler
- Meredith Harrison – Canadian curler
- Colleen Jones – Canadian curler and television personality
- Kim Kelly – Canadian curler
- Jill Brothers – Canadian curler
- Bill O'Donnell – Canadian harness race driver
- Ian Millar – Canadian equestrian
- Buck MacDonald – Canadian gridiron football player (1894–1985)
- Eddie Murray – Canadian football player (born 1956)
- Tyrone Williams – Canadian gridiron football player (born 1970)
- Tyrone Williams – Canadian gridiron football player (born 1970)
- Morgan Williams – Canadian rugby union player (born 1976)
- Stephen Hart – Trinidad and Tobago footballer and manager
- Ante Jazić – Canadian soccer player
- Jacob Shaffelburg – Canadian soccer player
- Ellie Black – Canadian artistic gymnast (born 1995)
Ice hockey people
[edit]Administrators
[edit]- Frederick E. Betts – Canadian ice hockey administrator and businessman (1870–1942)
- Hanson Dowell – Canadian ice hockey administrator and politician (1906–2000)
Men
[edit]- Paul Andrea – Canadian former ice hockey right winger
- Drake Batherson – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
- Dennis Bonvie – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1973)
- Eric Boulton – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1976)
- David Brine – Canadian-born Croatian ice hockey player
- John Brophy – Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Sidney Crosby – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1987)
- Mal Davis – Canadian ice hockey player
- Ryan Flinn – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1980)
- Danny Gallivan – Canadian sportscaster
- Flash Hollett – Canadian ice hockey player
- Don Koharski – Canadian-American professional ice hockey referee
- Craig MacDonald – Canadian ice hockey player
- Lowell MacDonald – Canadian ice hockey player
- Parker MacDonald – Canadian ice hockey player
- Al MacInnis – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1963)
- Nathan MacKinnon – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)
- Cail MacLean – Canadian lice hockey player and coach
- Paul MacLean – French-born Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Al MacNeil – Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1935–2025)
- Brad Marchand – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
- Mike McPhee – Canadian ice hockey player
- Dean Melanson – Canadian ice hockey player
- Glen Murray – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1972)
- Pokey Reddick – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1964)
- Bill Riley – Canadian ice hockey player
- Jody Shelley – Canadian ice hockey player
- James Sheppard – Canadian ice hockey player
- Zach Sill – Canadian ice hockey player
- Jon Sim – Canadian ice hockey player
- Bobby Smith – Canadian ice hockey player, executive (b. 1958)
- Colin White – Canadian ice hockey player
- Matthew Highmore – Canadian ice hockey player
- Ryan Graves – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Women
[edit]- Jill Saulnier – Canadian ice hockey player
- Blayre Turnbull – Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)
- Carly Jackson – Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Alex J. Walling – Canadian sportscaster (1946–2023)
- Howard Blackburn – Canadian-American fisherman
- Joshua Slocum – 19th-century Canadian-American seaman; first to circumnavigate the world solo
- Angus Walters – Canadian sailor and first captain of Bluenose
- Sue Holloway – Canadian retired cross-country skier and sprint canoeist
- Nancy Garapick – Canadian swimmer (born 1961)
- Sandy Goss – Canadian swimmer (born 1968)
- Duncan Gillis – Canadian hammer and discus thrower
- Aileen Meagher – Canadian athlete (1910–1987)
- Rocky Johnson – Canadian professional wrestler (1944–2020)
- Great Antonio – Croatian-Canadian strongman, photomontage artist and wrestler
- Jackie Barrett – Canadian powerlifter
Suffragettes
[edit]- Anna Leonowens – British educator (1831–1915)
- Edith Archibald – Canadian suffragist and writer
- Eliza Ritchie – Canadian suffragist, writer, and academic
- Laura Borden – Canadian politician
Writers
[edit]- John Boileau – British baronet and archaeologist (1794–1869)
- William Coates Borrett – Nova Scotia radio pioneer and author
- Ernest Buckler – Canadian writer
- Lesley Choyce – Canadian writer and educator
- George Elliott Clarke – Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic (born 1960)
- Darren Greer – Canadian writer (born 1968)
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton – Canadian politician
- Wendy Lill – Canadian politician
- Hugh MacLennan – Canadian writer (1907–1990)
- Alistair MacLeod – Canadian writer and academic (1936-2014)
- Leo McKay Jr. – Canadian writer
- Maria Morris Miller – Canadian artist (1813–1875)
- Thomas Head Raddall – Canadian writer
- Spider Robinson – Canadian science fiction author (born 1948)
- Margaret Marshall Saunders – Canadian author (1861–1947)
- John Stiles – Canadian writer
- Michael Ernest Sweet – Canadian photographer, writer, and educator
- Budge Wilson – Canadian writer (1927–2021)
See also
[edit]- Black Nova Scotians
- List of people from Cape Breton
- List of people from the Halifax Regional Municipality
- List of lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia
- List of people from Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
References
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