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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writer | 1962 | nominee for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction | ||
literature | 1845 | 1891 | novelist and schoolteacher who lived almost her whole life in the town | |
science | 1845 | 1889 | built the first working phonograph in New Brunswick | |
R. E. Balch | academics | 1894 | 1994 | entomologist |
1932 | Provincial Cabinet Minister and member of the House of Commons of Canada | |||
Retail Industry | 1971 | Vice President of Stores GUESS? Inc | ||
literature | 1861 | 1929 | poet | |
literature | 1946 | author | ||
sports | 1963 | former NHL player | ||
Gérard La Forest | law | 1926 | former Supreme Court judge | |
activist | 1852 | A co-founder of the NAACP and the Harriet Tubman house in Boston | ||
politics | 1854 | 1938 | lawyer, MP, general, and Lieutenant Governor | |
sports | 1964 | three-time bronze medalist at the Paralympic Games, two in the 1992 Summer Paralympics and one in the 1996 Summer Paralympics | ||
literature | 1933 | 1983 | poet, playwright, journalist | |
sports | 1935 | first black NHL player | ||
literature | 1860 | 1943 | poet, the "father of Canadian poetry" | |
politics | 1754 | 1834 | Chief Justice on N.B. Supreme Court | |
politics | 1955 | 2013 | former Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development – Fredericton | |