| Name |
Famous for |
Birth |
Death |
Other
|
| John Saunders |
politics |
1754 |
1834 |
Chief Justice on N.B. Supreme Court
|
| John Babbitt |
science |
1845 |
1889 |
built the first working phonograph in New Brunswick
|
| Rebecca Agatha Armour |
literature |
1845 |
1891 |
novelist and schoolteacher who lived almost her whole life in the town
|
| Julia O. Henson |
activism |
1852 |
1922 |
A co-founder of the NAACP and the Harriet Tubman house in Boston
|
| Hugh Havelock McLean |
politics |
1854 |
1938 |
general, politician, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
|
| Charles G. D. Roberts |
literature |
1860 |
1943 |
poet, the "father of Canadian poetry"
|
| Bliss Carman |
literature |
1861 |
1929 |
poet
|
| Elizabeth Roberts McDonald |
literature |
1864 |
1922 |
author, suffragette
|
| Theodore Goodridge Roberts |
literature |
1877 |
1953 |
author
|
| R. E. Balch |
academics |
1894 |
1994 |
entomologist
|
| Goodridge Roberts |
art |
1904 |
1974 |
painter, Canadian Official War Artist
|
| Molly Lamb Bobak |
art |
1920 |
2014 |
painter, Canadian Official War Artist
|
| Bruno Bobak |
art |
1923 |
2012 |
painter, Canadian Official War Artist
|
| Gérard La Forest |
law |
1926 |
|
puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
|
| J. W. "Bud" Bird |
politics |
1932 |
|
Provincial Cabinet Minister and member of the House of Commons of Canada
|
| Alden Nowlan |
literature |
1933 |
1983 |
poet, playwright, journalist
|
| Willie O'Ree |
sports |
1935 |
|
first Black NHL player
|
| Raymond Fraser |
literature |
1941 |
2018 |
author
|
| Herb Curtis |
literature |
1946 |
|
author
|
| David Adams Richards |
literature |
1950 |
|
author, Senator
|
| Andy Scott |
politics |
1955 |
2013 |
Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
|
| Mark Anthony Jarman |
literature |
1955 |
|
author, fiction editor of The Fiddlehead
|
| David Coon |
politics |
1956 |
|
conservationist, politician, Leader of the [[Green Party of New Brunswick}}
|
| Gerard Beirne |
literature |
1962 |
|
author, fiction editor of The Fiddlehead
|
| Lisa Alward |
literature |
1962 |
|
author
|
| Mike Eagles |
sports |
1963 |
|
former NHL player
|
| Eilish Cleary |
medicine |
1963 |
2024 |
physician, epidemiologist, Chief Medical Health Officer of New Brunswick
|
| Hal Merrill |
sports |
1964 |
|
three-time bronze medalist at the Paralympic Games, two in the 1992 Summer Paralympics and one in the 1996 Summer Paralympics
|
| Matt Stairs |
sports |
1968 |
|
Major League Baseball player
|
| Anna Silk |
television |
1974 |
|
actor, starred as Bo Dennis on Lost Girl
|
| Measha Brueggergosman |
opera |
1977 |
|
operatic soprano
|
| David Myles |
music |
1981 |
|
musician
|
| Jake Allen |
sports |
1990 |
|
ice hockey goaltender, Stanley Cup winner
|