44.6470° N, 63.5721° W
HALIFAX
Most Famous People Born in Halifax, Canada
- Notable people
- 381
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1950
- Most distinctive
- Curler 62.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Halifax during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Halifax Is Known For
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Politician is Halifax's biggest profession — 20% of all notables (78).
Halifax over-indexes on curler — 62.2× the global rate.
Halifax under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Halifax's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Ellen Page
Born 1987
Sarah McLachlan
Born 1968
Oswald Avery
1877 - 1955
Denny Doherty
1940 - 2007
Peter North (actor)
Born 1957
John Sparrow David Thompson
1845 - 1894
Scott Storch
Born 1973
Hal Foster
1892 - 1982
Charles Brenton Huggins
1901 - 1997
Joanna Shimkus
Born 1943
David Manners
1900 - 1998
Erik Demaine
Born 1981
Samuel Cunard
1787 - 1865
Ian Millar
Born 1947
Viola Desmond
1914 - 1965
Cindy Sampson
Born 1978
Henry Beckman
1921 - 2008
Tanya Huff
Born 1957
Holly Cole
Born 1963
Brad Marchand
Born 1988
Nathan MacKinnon
Born 1995
Ellie Black
Born 1995
Joseph Howe
1804 - 1873
George Dixon (boxer)
1870 - 1908
Steve McNiven
Born 1967
Ernest Lawson
1873 - 1939
Ante Jazić
Born 1976
Alex Killorn
Born 1989
Molly Dunsworth
Born 1990
Andrew Gordon (ice hockey)
Born 1985
John Paul Tremblay
Born 1968
Glen Murray (ice hockey)
Born 1972
Eddie Murray (American football)
Born 1956
Budge Wilson
Born 1927
James Sheppard
Born 1988
William Grant Stairs
1863 - 1892
Kate Leth
Born 1988
David Ling
Born 1975
Peter O'Hearn
Born 1963
Richard William Smith
Born 1959
Wendell Young
Born 1963
Eric Boulton
Born 1976
Nancy Garapick
Born 1961
Colleen Jones
Born 1959
William Stevens Fielding
1848 - 1929
Stephen Dixon (ice hockey)
Born 1985
Aileen Meagher
1910 - 1987
Steve Poltz
Born 1960
Sharon Carstairs
Born 1942
Christopher Jackson (musician)
1948 - 2015
John Charles Beckwith (British Army officer)
1789 - 1862
Steve Lund
Born 1989
John Malcolm Brinnin
1916 - 1998
Robert McCall (figure skater)
1958 - 1991
Melanie Doane
Born 1967
Stella Browne
1880 - 1955
Sharon Wood
Born 1957
TJ Grant
Born 1984
Darrell Dexter
Born 1957
James Martin Hayes
1924 - 2016
William Alexander Henry
1816 - 1888
Charles Ritchie (diplomat)
1906 - 1995
Ray Downey
Born 1968
Bill Bissett
Born 1939
Karen Furneaux
Born 1976
Michael Power (bishop)
1804 - 1847
Liam O'Brien (ice hockey)
Born 1994
Vince Coleman (train dispatcher)
1872 - 1917
Faith Nolan
Born 1957
Sue Holloway
Born 1955
Jan Sapp
Born 1954
Wanda Thomas Bernard
Born 1953
Cam Russell
Born 1969
Morgan Williams (Canadian rugby player)
Born 1976
Tyrone Williams (wide receiver)
Born 1970
Lani Ka'ahumanu
Born 1943
Maxwell Wintrobe
1901 - 1986
Robert Mills (rower)
Born 1957
Andrew Joudrey
Born 1984
John Makdessi
Born 1985
Mark Farrell (comedian)
Born 1968
John Erskine Read
1888 - 1973
Joan Fraser
Born 1944
Adrienne Power
Born 1981
Lawrence Johnstone Burpee
1873 - 1946
James Creighton (ice hockey)
1850 - 1930
Shane Bowers (ice hockey)
Born 1999
Benjamin Marra
Born 1977
Peter Aucoin
1943 - 2011
Cory Urquhart
Born 1984
Luke Doucet
Born 1973
Nkem Ezurike
Born 1992
Ria Mae
-
Eville Gorham
1925 - 2020
Marilyn Brain
Born 1959
William Johnston Tupper
1862 - 1947
Mo Kenney
Born 1990
Glenda Braganza
Born 1978
Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley
1807 - 1895
Aman Hambleton
Born 1992
Russell MacLellan
Born 1940
Eliza Ritchie
1856 - 1933
Matthew Highmore
Born 1996
Sarah Conrad
Born 1985
Danielle Fong
Born 1987
Peter Flemming
Born 1967
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
1869 - 1911
Ryan Flinn (ice hockey)
Born 1980
Brian Ahern (producer)
-
Mason McDonald
Born 1996
Bob Boucher (cyclist)
Born 1943
Kim Kelly
Born 1962
Susan Crowe
-
Jason McCoombs
Born 1993
Annie Thompson
1845 - 1913
Hutch (sound engineer)
-
Jillian Saulnier
Born 1992
Michael Scarola
Born 1976
Brian MacLeod (Canadian musician)
1952 - 1992
Owen McCarron
1929 - 2005
Lena Diab
Born 2013
Nat Butler
1870 - 1943
John Valentine Ellis
1835 - 1913
Gilbert Stuart Newton
1795 - 1835
Wayne Maxner
Born 1942
Don Brien
Born 1959
Wordburglar
-
Earle McCurdy
Born 1950
Anthony Sherwood
Born 1949
Brendan Gall
Born 1978
Lawrence Geoffrey Power
1841 - 1921
Patricia Arab
Born 1978
Gérard Pettipas
Born 1950
Iain Rankin (politician)
Born 1983
John Campea
Born 1972
Ryan Cochrane (canoeist)
Born 1983
Kennedy Stewart (Canadian politician)
Born 1966
Jennifer Baxter (curler)
Born 1987
George Jones (Canadian admiral)
1895 - 1946
Michael Donovan (producer)
-
Peter Marsh (ice hockey)
Born 1956
Pinna Nesbit
1896 - 1950
Agnes Sime Baxter
1870 - 1917
Vivien Law
1954 - 2002
Tamara Hickey
-
Ken Schwartz
Born 1969
Robert Boutilier
1953 - 2003
Pokey Reddick
Born 1964
Glenn MacDonald
Born 1952
James Robinson Johnston
1876 - 1915
Geoffrey Harris
Born 1987
Naomi Ginsberg
Born 1979
Denise Djokic
Born 1980
Peter Pringle
Born 1945
Vince Horsman
Born 1967
Martha Louise Rayne
1836 - 1911
Ian MacNeil (ice hockey)
Born 1977
Rodrigue Bourdages
1923 - 1997
Jacob Saunders
Born 1992
Edith Smith
1867 - 1954
James Macdonald Oxley
1855 - 1907
T. A. Goudge
1910 - 1999
Tom Butler (cyclist)
Born 1878
Darren Greer
Born 1968
Rebecca Atkinson (curler)
Born 1982
Mary Jane Katzmann
1828 - 1890
Karen Yeats
Born 1980
Kenneth C.M. Sills
1879 - 1954
Genevieve Orton
Born 1984
Peter McCreath
Born 1943
William James Roué
1879 - 1970
Alice Mary Hagen
1872 - 1972
Tim Houston
Born 2013
Robin Hardy (Canadian writer)
1952 - 1995
Roger Hollett
Born 1978
Brian Mason (ice hockey)
Born 1950
Arthur E. R. Boak
1888 - 1962
Edward Walsh (cyclisme)
Born 1996
Labi Kousoulis
Born 2013
Dale Kavanagh
Born 1958
Aileen Carroll
1944 - 2020
Fly (artist)
-
James Milligan
1928 - 1961
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
-
Tom Coolen
Born 1953
Alan Abraham
1931 - 2020
Beamish Murdoch
1800 - 1876
Edward Joseph McCarthy
1850 - 1931
James E. Lockyer
Born 1949
Frank Dunstone Graham
1890 - 1949
Tony Ince
Born 2013
Patrick Tower
-
Paul Kimball
Born 1967
William Leslie Hooper
1855 - 1918
Nathalie Richard (co-driver)
-
Jim Cowan
Born 1942
Gary Beals
Born 1982
Steve Slaunwhite
Born 1962
Donald MacDonald (Nova Scotia politician)
1909 - 1986
Ashpan Annie
1916 - 2010
Graeme Saunders (sailor)
Born 1990
Matt Robinson (poet)
Born 1974
Cal Lane
Born 1968
David Williams Higgins
1834 - 1917
Sir Thomas Willshire, 1st Baronet
1789 - 1862
William Machin Stairs
1789 - 1865
Coleen Dufresne
Born 1953
Phyllis Blakeley
1922 - 1986
Paul Flemming
Born 1968
John Flemming (racing driver)
Born 1967
Jane Barry
Born 1944
Janique LeBlanc
Born 1997
Chris Norman (flautist)
Born 1963
Derek Gaudet
Born 1989
Rob Harris (curler)
Born 1963
Andrew Gibson (curler)
Born 1979
David Sharpe (swimmer)
Born 1990
Nesbit Wallace
1839 - 1931
Peter J. Kelly
Born 1956
Charles Ramage Prescott
1772 - 1859
Emily Doolittle
Born 1972
Rick Lisi
Born 1956
Ben Meisner
Born 1990
Ariel Nasr
-
Jonathan Savoie
Born 1973
Charles Peter McColough
1922 - 2006
Mary Herbert (1832-1872)
1832 - 1872
William Church Moir
1822 - 1896
Nancy Guptill
1941 - 2020
Mike Backman
Born 1955
Heather Martin
Born 1963
Krista Donaldson
-
Gerry O'Malley
1927 - 2018
Krysta Lynn Scott
Born 1983
Frank McLearn
1885 - 1964
Stephanie Beaumont
Born 1974
Wilfrid Jelf
1880 - 1933
Paul Ledoux (Schriftsteller)
Born 1949
Hans Keirstead
Born 1967
Maria Morris Miller
1813 - 1875
Connor Gaston
-
Peter Thomas McGuigan
1942 - 2017
George Boyd (playwright)
Died 2020
Brody Steele
Born 1967
Michael Ryan Morgan
1833 - 1911
Desmond Piers
1913 - 2005
Stewart McInnes
1937 - 2015
Maegan Chant
Born 1997
Jack Hawkins (politician)
Born 1932
Rowland Frazee
1921 - 2007
Dan Cousineau
Born 1975
Brandon Benedict
Born 1982
Frederick G. Nolan
1927 - 2016
Bucky Adams
1937 - 2012
Heather Rankin (curler)
Born 1965
Wayne Smith (defensive lineman)
1950 - 2016
Bert Hirschfeld
1929 - 1996
Shorty Dee
1889 - 1971
Jackie Barrett
Born 1974
Bill Johnson (blues musician)
-
Pat Hannivan
1866 - 1908
Charles Carroll Wood
1876 - 1899
Kristian Matte
Born 1985
Steve Morley
Born 1981
Linda Johnson (politician)
Born 1958
Ryan Hillier
Born 1988
Victor Alexeeff
-
Kris MacFarlane
Born 1975
Pat Scanlon (outfielder)
1861 - 1913
Logan Kanapathi
-
Gary Crawford (politician)
Born 1960
Harold Taylor Wood Grant
1899 - 1965
Danielle Parsons
Born 1990
William Roche (Nova Scotia politician)
1842 - 1925
Anne Dodge
Born 1958
George Clark Miller
1882 - 1968
Peter Coade
Born 1942
Barbara Fris
Born 1956
Reginald Dawson Hopcraft Lough
1885 - 1958
Jerry Lawrence
Born 1939
Stuart Thompson (curler)
Born 1992
John Holm
Born 1947
Donald MacKeen Smith
1923 - 1998
Suzanne Cowan
-
Kim D'Eon
-
Stephen Binney
1805 - 1872
Henry Pelham (rower)
1908 - 1978
Ken Kempster
Born 1967
Walter Fitzgerald (politician)
1936 - 2014
Fred Sutherland
Born 1942
Lincoln Steen
Born 1982
John Doyle (baseball)
1858 - 1915
Owen Crowe
Born 1982
Gabrielle Trudel
Born 2003
Glenn Sarty
1930 - 2007
Ramona Jennex
Born 1955
Carwai Seto
Born 1973
Gary Garnett
Born 1944
Mark Seale
Born 1960
Don O'Hearn
1928 - 2015