List of people from Nova Scotia

Provincial flag of Nova Scotia

This is a list of notable people who are from Nova Scotia, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province.

Pre-Confederation

• David H. Armstrong, United States Senator from Missouri, born in Nova Scotia^[1]
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Samuel Cunard
• Noel Doiron
• Charles Fenerty, inventor of wood pulp process for papermaking
• Rose Fortune
• Abraham Pineo Gesner, discovered kerosene oil
• Jerome of Sandy Cove
• Joseph Howe
• Gordon Benjamin Isnor
• William Paget^{[2][3][4] [5] [6][7]}
• Angus MacAskill, suffered gigantism, stood 7'9"
• Joshua Slocum, first to sail solo around the world
• Richard John Uniacke
• William Valentine

Post Confederation Military Figures

• 
  Harold Lothrop Borden - Second Boer War
• 
  Margaret Marjory Fraser -World War I
• 
  Walter Harris Callow -World War I, disabled veterans advocate
• 
  Philip Bent, VC - World War I
• 
  John Bernard Croak, VC - WWI
• 
  James Peter Robertson, VC - WWI
• 
  Mona Louise Parsons - World War II
• 
  Leonard W. Murray - World War II

Actors

• Chuck Campbell
• Jeff Douglas
• John Dunsworth
• Mark Farrell
• Peter Flemming
• Lex Gigeroff
• Jeffrey Hirschfield
• Leslie Hope
• Ruby Keeler
• Murray Langston, aka "The Unknown Comic"
• Daniel MacIvor
• David Manners
• Forbes March
• Peter North
• Craig Olejnik
• Ellen Page
• Patrick Roach
• Harold Russell
• Garwin Sanford
• Mike Smith
• John Paul Tremblay
• Robb Wells
• Austin Willis

Architects

• Brian MacKay-Lyons

Artists

• Mark A. Brennan
• Alex Colville
• William E. deGarthe
• Maud Lewis
• Gilbert Stuart Newton
• Edith Smith
• Lewis Smith
• Christopher Webb

Cartoonists

• Hal Foster

Filmmakers

• Mike Clattenburg
• Phil Comeau
• Paul Donovan
• Thom Fitzgerald
• Andrew Hines
• Daniel MacIvor

Industry

• Ezra Churchill
• Cyrus S. Eaton
• Alfred Fuller, founder of the Fuller Brush Company
• Alexander Keith, brewer
• John W. Sobey

Inventors

• Walter Harris Callow, inventor of wheelchair accessible bus
• Charles Fenerty, inventor of wood pulp process for papermaking

Musicians

People

• Brian Ahern (producer)
• Gary Beals
• Buck 65
• George Canyon,born Fredrick George Lays
• Wilf Carter
• Classified
• Holly Cole
• J. P. Cormier
• Melanie Doane
• Denny Doherty
• The Ennis Sisters
• Todd Fancey
• Leslie Feist
• J.D. Fortune
• Bruce Guthro
• Rebekah Higgs
• Ashley MacIsaac
• Natalie MacMaster
• Kevin MacMichael
• Rita MacNeil
• Matt Mays
• Sarah McLachlan
• Matt Minglewood
• Anne Murray
• Joel Plaskett
• Steve Poltz
• Heather Rankin
• Jimmy Rankin
• Stan Rogers, from Ontario but resided in and sang about Nova Scotia
• Gordie Sampson
• Tara Slone
• Laura Smith
• Hank Snow
• Scott Storch
• Portia White

Bands

• April Wine
• The Barra MacNeils
• The Rankin Family
• Rawlins Cross
• Sloan

Religion

• Henry Alline, the Apostle of Nova Scotia
• Moses E. Kiley, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee

Scientists

• Donald O. Hebb
• Abraham Pineo Gesner
• Simon Newcomb
• Willard Boyle

Sports

Suffragettes

• 
  Anna Leonowens
• 
  Edith Archibald
• 
  Eliza Ritchie
• 
  Laura Borden - wife of Prime minister Robert Borden

Writers

F.H. Baker, editor of The Mayflower, ca. 1878. The Acadian Recorder gave a length biography of Baker on the occasion of his death.

• Ernest Buckler
• Lesley Choyce
• George Elliott Clarke
• Darren Greer
• Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• Wendy Lill
• Hugh MacLennan
• Leo McKay, Jr.
• Adriana Porter
• Thomas Head Raddall
• Margaret Marshall Saunders
• John Stiles
• Michael Ernest Sweet
• Budge Wilson
• Maria Frances Ann Morris

See also

• Black Nova Scotians
• List of people from the Halifax Regional Municipality
• List of people from Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia

References

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