List of people from Nova Scotia

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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
*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  
*Angus MacAskill, suffered gigantism, stood 7'9"
*Joshua Slocum, first to sail solo around the world
* Richard John Uniacke
*William Valentine

### Military Figures
#### 17th-18th century 

File:Charles d'Aulnay.jpg|Charles de Menou d'Aulnay - Acadian Civil War
File:Portrait Françoise-Marie Jacquelin.jpg| Françoise-Marie Jacquelin - Civil War in Acadia
File:BaronDeStCastin1881byWill H Lowe Wilson Museum Archives.jpg|Baron de St. Castin -  Castin's War
File: Old Point Monument, Madison, ME.jpg|Father Sébastien Rale - Father Rale's War
File:Jean-BaptisteCopeSignatureJPEG.jpg| Chief Jean-Baptiste Cope - Father Le Loutre's War
File:Abbe Le Loutre.jpg| Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre- Father Le Loutre's War
File:GovernorOfNovaScotiaCharlesLawrence.jpg|Charles Lawrence - Father Le Loutre's War
File:SylvanusCobbMonumentLiverpoolNS.png|Silvanus Cobb
File:ColonelJonathanEddyFromWilliamDWilliamsonHistoryofPenobscotCountyMaine.jpg|Jonathan Eddy - American Revolution

See also:
* John Allan - American Revolution
* Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste - Queen Anne's War
* Joseph-Nicolas Gautier - Father Le Loutre's War
* John Gyles - King William's War
* John Handfield - Fort Vieux Logis
* Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour - Acadian Civil War
* Chief Madockawando - King William's War
* Father Pierre Maillard - Father Le Loutre's War
* Charles Morris - King George's War
* Pierre II Surette - French and Indian War

#### 19th Century 

File:John Charles Beckwith.png|John Charles Beckwith - Battle of Waterloo
File:Sir Edward Belcher by Stephen Pearce.jpg|Edward Belcher by Stephen Pearce - Franklin's lost expedition
File:WilliamFenswickWilliamsNSHouseOfAssembleyByWilliam Gush.jpg| Nova Scotian Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars by William Gush - Crimean War
File:Welsford-Parker_Monument_at_the_entrance_to_the_Old_Burying_Ground_in_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia,_Canada.jpg|Major Augustus F. Welsford - Crimean War
File:Welsford-Parker_Monument_at_the_entrance_to_the_Old_Burying_Ground_in_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia,_Canada.jpg|Captain William B.C.A. Parker - Crimean War
File:JohnInglisByWilliamGushNSProvinceHouse.JPG|Nova Scotian Sir John Eardley Inglis by William Gush - Indian Mutiny
File:William Hall VC.jpg|William Hall (VC) - Indian Mutiny
File:Lieutenant-Colonel James J. Bremner.png| Lieutenant-Colonel James J. Bremner - Northwest Rebellion

See also:
* George Augustus Westphal - War of 1812

## Post Confederation Military Figures 

File:Harold Lothrop Borden.jpg|Harold Lothrop Borden - Second Boer War
File:Margaret Marjory (Pearl) Fraser.png|Margaret Marjory Fraser -World War I
File:WalterCallow (1917).png|Walter Harris Callow -World War I, disabled veterans advocate 
File:James Peter Robertson.jpg|James Peter Robertson, VC - WWI
File:MonaLouiseParsons1929.jpg|Mona Louise Parsons - World War II
File:Murry, Admiral L.W..jpg|Leonard W. Murray - World War II

## Actors
*Frankie MacDonald
*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
*Elliot 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
*Michael Ernest Sweet
*Christopher Webb

## Cartoonists
*Hal Foster

## Filmmakers
*Mike Clattenburg
*Phil Comeau
*Paul Donovan
*Jason Eisener
*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
*The Trews

## 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
### Sports Announcers
*Danny Gallivan
*Paul Hollingsworth

### Adventurers
*Howard Blackburn
*Joshua Slocum

### Baseball Players
*Vince Horsman
*Fred Lake

### Boat Racers
*Angus Walters

### Canoeists
*Richard Dalton
*Stephen Giles
*Michael Scarola

### Kayakers
*Jillian D'Alessio
*Karen Furneaux
*Sue Holloway
*Ryan Thomas

### Body Builders
*Cindy Phillips
*Ryan Thomas

### Boxers
*Chris Clarke
*Buddy Daye
*George Dixon
*Ray Downey
*Bryan Gibson
*Kirk Johnson
*Sam Langford
*Carroll Morgan
*Marty O'Donnell
*Randall Thompson

### Curlers
#### Men
*Shawn Adams
*Mark Dacey, from Saskatoon but curls out of the Mayflower Curling Club
*Andrew Gibson
*Rob Harris
*Bruce Lohnes

#### Women
*Mary-Anne Arsenault
*Nancy Delahunt, a Montrealer who has resided in Halifax for several years
*Meredith Harrison
*Colleen Jones
*Kim Kelly
*Jill Mouzar

### Equestrians
#### Harness Racing
*Bill O'Donnell

#### Show Jumping
*Ian Millar

### Football Players
#### NFL Players
*Buck MacDonald
*Eddie Murray
*Tyrone Williams

#### CFL Players
*Tyrone Williams

### Rugby Union Players
*Morgan Williams

### Soccer Players
*Stephen Hart
*Ante Jazic

### Gymnasts
*Ellie Black

### Ice Hockey Players
#### Men 
*Paul Andrea, 150 NHL games in the 1960s and 1970s
*Dennis Bonvie
*Eric Boulton
*David Brine
*John Brophy
*Sidney Crosby
*Mal Davis
*Ryan Flinn
*Danny Gallivan
*William Hollett
*Don Koharski
*Craig MacDonald
*Lowell MacDonald
*Parker MacDonald
*Al MacInnis, Hall of Famer
*Nathan MacKinnon
*Cail MacLean
*Al MacNeil
*Brad Marchand
*Mike McPhee
*Dean Melanson
*Glen Murray
*Pokey Reddick
*Bill Riley
*Jody Shelley
*James Sheppard
*Zach Sill
*Jon Sim
*Bobby Smith
*Colin White
*Matthew Highmore
*Ryan Graves

#### Women 
*Jillian Saulnier
*Blayre Turnbull

### Sports Journalists
*Alex J. Walling

#### Cross-Country Skiers
*Sue Holloway

### Swimmers
*Nancy Garapick
*Sandy Goss

### Track and Field Athletes
*Duncan Gillis
*Aileen Meagher

### Professional Wrestlers
*Rocky Johnson
*Great Antonio

## Suffragettes

File:Leonowens Portrait.jpg|Anna Leonowens
File:EdithArchibald.JPG|Edith Archibald
File:ElizaRitchieLibraryArchivesCanada.jpg|Eliza Ritchie
File:Mrs Louise Borden.jpg|Laura Borden - wife of Prime minister Robert Borden

## Writers
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*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

## References