List of people from Fredericton
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This is a list of notable people from Fredericton, New Brunswick. Although not everyone in this list was born in Fredericton, they all live or have lived in Fredericton and have had significant connections to the community.
Full Name | Famous for | Birth | Death | Other |
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Gérard La Forest | Politics | 1926 | former Supreme Court judge | |
R. E. Balch | Academics | 1894 | 1994 | entomologist |
George Duncan Ludlow | Academics | 1734 | 1808 | first Chief Justice of New Brunswick |
Mary Matilda Winslow | Academics | the first Black Canadian woman to graduate from UNB | ||
Stanton T. Friedman | Academics | 1934 | ufologist, nuclear physicist | |
Alexander "Boss" Gibson | 1819 | 1913 | industrialist, entrepreneur, mill owner in Marysville | |
Joe Medjuck | 1943 | Hollywood film producer (Ghostbusters, Twins, Kindergarten Cop) | ||
Danny Grant | 1945 | Calder Memorial Trophy winner and 50-goal scorer in the NHL | ||
Marianne Limpert | 1972 | 1996 summer Olympics silver medalist, swimming, 200 individual medley | ||
Willie O'Ree | 1935 | first black NHL player | ||
Matt Stairs | 1968 | Major League Baseball player | ||
Mike Eagles | 1963 | former NHL player | ||
Lord Beaverbrook | 1879 | 1964 | Canadian-British business tycoon and politician | |
J. W. "Bud" Bird | 1932 | Provincial Cabinet Minister and member of the Canadian House of Commons | ||
Andy Scott | 1955 | 2013 | former Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Fredericton | |
Noël Kinsella | 1939 | Leader of the Conservative Party in the Canadian Senate | ||
Brad Woodside | 1948 | longest-serving mayor in the City of Fredericton's history | ||
Benedict Arnold | 1740 | 1801 | resided in Fredericton for a period of time | |
Thomas Carleton | 1735 | 1817 | first lieutenant-governor of the colony of New Brunswick | |
Ambrose Everett Burnside | 1824 | 1881 | US Senator, spent time in Fredericton[citation needed] | |
Isaac Stephenson | 1829 | 1918 | U.S. Senator from Wisconsin | |
Alexander Stewart | 1829 | 1912 | U.S. Representative from Wisconsin | |
Measha Brueggergosman | 1977 | opera singer | ||
Joan Kennedy | country music singer | |||
Walter Learning | 1938 | actor, director, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick | ||
Anne Murray | 1945 | vocalist, graduate of the University of New Brunswick | ||
Walter A. Hurley | 1937 | Roman Catholic bishop | ||
Alden Nowlan | 1933 | 1983 | poet, playwright | |
Bliss Carman | 1861 | 1929 | poet | |
Charles G. D. Roberts | 1860 | 1943 | poet, the "father of Canadian poetry" | |
Herb Curtis | 1946 | author | ||
Johnathan O'Dell | poet, Loyalist, arranged Benedict Arnold's negotiations with the English[citation needed] | |||
Raymond Fraser | 1941 | novelist, poet, biographer | ||
Alistair MacLeod | 1936 | 2014 | author of No Great Mischief | |
Philip Iverson | 1965 | 2006 | painter | |
Mary Pratt | 1935 | artist | ||
Nick Piers | Author | author of The Armadillo Mysteries | ||
William Davidson | Shipbuilder | 1740 | 1790 | |
Peter Fraser | Politician | 1765 | 1840 | |
George Duncan Ludlow | Politics | 1734 | 1808 | |
Manny McIntyre | Sports | 1918 | 2011 | only professional hockey player to also play in baseball's Negro Leagues |
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 | |
Catharine Pendrel | Sports | 1980 | 2011 World Mountain Biking Champion | |
Drew Josselyn | Entertainment | MTV reality star | ||
Jake Allen | Sports | 1990 | ice hockey player for the St. Louis Blues | |
Stephen Gough | Sports | 1972 | Bronze Medal - 5000m Relay, 1994 World Short Track Championships; 4th - 5000m Relay, 1994 Winter Olympic Games; Coach, 2010 Canadian Olympic Short Track Team; Head Coach, 2014 US Olympic Short Track Team; | |
John Saunders | Politics | 1754 | 1834 | Chief Justice on N.B. Supreme Court |
Dave Durepos | Sports | 1968 | Paralympic and World Champion wheelchair basketball player; three-time gold medalist (2000, 2004, 2012), silver medalist (2008) in five Paralympic Games; World Championship gold medalist in 2006 and bronze medalist in 1994, 1998 and 2002[1] | |
James R. Hartley | Politics | 1833 | 1868 | Carleton MLA and UNB senator |
Hugh Havelock McLean | Politics | 1854 | 1938 | lawyer, MP, general, and Lieutenant Governor. |
Anna Silk | Entertainment | 1974 | actress best known for work on Canadian television show Lost Girl | |
Rebecca Agatha Armour | Literature | 1845 | 1891 | novelist and schoolteacher who lived almost her whole life in the town |