List of people from Fredericton
This is a list of notable people from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Although not everyone in this list was born in Fredericton, they all live or have lived there, and have had significant connections to the community.
Name | Famous for | Birth | Death | Other |
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Jake Allen | sports | 1990 | ice hockey player for the St. Louis Blues | |
Benedict Arnold | loyalist | 1740 | 1801 | resided in Fredericton for a period of time |
Rebecca Agatha Armour | literature | 1845 | 1891 | novelist and schoolteacher who lived almost her whole life in the town |
John Babbitt | science | 1845 | 1889 | built the first working phonograph in New Brunswick |
R. E. Balch | academics | 1894 | 1994 | entomologist |
Lord Beaverbrook | 1879 | 1964 | Canadian-British business tycoon and politician | |
J. W. "Bud" Bird | 1932 | Provincial Cabinet Minister and member of the House of Commons of Canada | ||
Measha Brueggergosman | arts and entertainment | 1977 | opera singer | |
Ambrose Everett Burnside | 1824 | 1881 | U.S. Senator, spent time in Fredericton[citation needed] | |
Bliss Carman | literature | 1861 | 1929 | poet |
Thomas Carleton | politics | 1735 | 1817 | first lieutenant-governor of the colony of New Brunswick |
Herb Curtis | literature | 1946 | author | |
William Davidson | business | 1740 | 1790 | shipbuilder |
Mike Eagles | sports | 1963 | former NHL player | |
Peter Fraser | politics | 1765 | 1840 | merchant |
Raymond Fraser | literature | 1941 | novelist, poet, biographer | |
Stanton T. Friedman | academics | 1934 | ufologist, nuclear physicist | |
Alexander "Boss" Gibson | business | 1819 | 1913 | industrialist, entrepreneur, mill owner in Marysville |
Danny Grant | sports | 1945 | Calder Memorial Trophy winner and 50-goal scorer in the NHL | |
James R. Hartley | politics | 1833 | 1868 | Carleton MLA and UNB senator |
Walter A. Hurley | religion | 1937 | Roman Catholic bishop | |
Philip Iverson | visual arts | 1965 | 2006 | painter |
Joan Kennedy | arts and entertainment | country music singer | ||
Noël Kinsella | politics | 1939 | leader of the Conservative Party in the Senate of Canada | |
Gérard La Forest | law | 1926 | former Supreme Court judge | |
Walter Learning | arts and entertainment | 1938 | actor, director, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick | |
Marianne Limpert | sports | 1972 | 1996 summer Olympics silver medalist, swimming, 200 individual medley | |
George Duncan Ludlow | academics, politics | 1734 | 1808 | first Chief Justice of New Brunswick |
Manny McIntyre | sports | 1918 | 2011 | only professional hockey player to also play in baseball's Negro Leagues |
Hugh Havelock McLean | politics | 1854 | 1938 | lawyer, MP, general, and Lieutenant Governor |
Joe Medjuck | arts and entertainment | 1943 | Hollywood film producer (Ghostbusters, Twins, Kindergarten Cop) | |
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 | |
Anne Murray | arts and entertainment | 1945 | singer, graduate of the University of New Brunswick | |
Alden Nowlan | literature | 1933 | 1983 | poet, playwright, journalist |
Willie O'Ree | sports | 1935 | first black NHL player | |
Catharine Pendrel | sports | 1980 | 2011 World Mountain Biking Champion | |
Mary Pratt | visual arts | 1935 | 2018 | realist painter |
Charles G. D. Roberts | literature | 1860 | 1943 | poet, the "father of Canadian poetry" |
John Saunders | politics | 1754 | 1834 | Chief Justice on N.B. Supreme Court |
Andy Scott | politics | 1955 | 2013 | former Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development – Fredericton |
Anna Silk | entertainment | 1974 | arts and entertainment | actress best known for work on the television show Lost Girl |
Matt Stairs | sports | 1968 | Major League Baseball player | |
Isaac Stephenson | politics | 1829 | 1918 | U.S. Senator from Wisconsin |
Alexander Stewart | politics | 1829 | 1912 | U.S. Representative from Wisconsin |
Mary Matilda Winslow | academics | first Black Canadian woman to graduate from UNB | ||
Brad Woodside | politics | 1948 | longest-serving mayor in the City of Fredericton's history |
See also
- List of people from New Brunswick