| People from Moncton
|
| Name |
Famous for |
Birth |
Death |
Other
|
| George Carroll |
athlete |
1897 |
1939 |
NHL defenceman
|
| Julie Doiron |
musician |
1972 |
|
indie rock musician with Eric's Trip
|
| France Daigle |
Acadian novelist |
1953 |
|
winner of the Governor General's Literary Prize for French fiction in 2012
|
| Frederick W. Sumner |
was a merchant and political figure |
1855 |
1919 |
was a merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada[1]
|
| Roger Lord |
musician |
|
|
professional pianist, brother of former premier Bernard Lord
|
| Matt Minglewood |
musician |
1947 |
|
rock musician
|
| Marg Osburne |
musician |
1927 |
1977 |
country and gospel singer, television and radio personality; featured on Don Messer's Jubilee and That Maritime Feeling
|
| Mike Plume |
musician |
1968 |
|
country singer
|
| Phil Comeau |
film director |
1956 |
|
directed first theatrical Acadian feature Le secret de Jérôme (Jerome's Secret)
|
| Rhéal Cormier |
athlete |
1968 |
2021 |
baseball player
|
| René-Arthur Fréchet |
architect |
1879 |
1950 |
originally from Montreal
|
| Rick White |
musician |
1970 |
|
indie rock musician (Eric's Trip, Elevator
|
| Jasper Wood |
musician |
1974 |
|
concert violinist
|
| Holly Elissa |
thespian |
1979 |
|
film actor
|
| Viola Léger |
thespian |
1930 |
2023 |
stage actress and retired Canadian Senator, known for her role as La Sagouine
|
| Gordie Drillon |
athlete |
1913 |
1986 |
hockey player
|
| Robert Maillet |
thespian |
1969 |
|
film actor, played "Uber Immortal" in 300; played "Dredger" in 2009's Sherlock Holmes
|
| Robb Wells |
thespian |
1971 |
|
comic actor, played "Ricky" on TV's Trailer Park Boys
|
| Michael de Adder |
cartoonist |
1967 |
|
political cartoonist
|
| Sheree Fitch |
writer |
1956 |
|
children's author
|
| Gérald Leblanc |
writer |
1945 |
2005 |
author and poet
|
| Don Jardine |
professional wrestler |
1940 |
2006 |
known as "The Spoiler" and "The Super Destroyer"; trainer of WWE wrestler The Undertaker
|
| Antonine Maillet |
writer |
1929 |
|
novelist, recipient of the Prix Goncourt, the highest honour in francophone literature
|
| George Steeves |
writer |
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contemporary photographer
|
| Sonja Lang |
linguist |
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linguist and translator
|
| Sandy Ferguson |
athlete |
1879 |
1919 |
heavyweight boxer; fought Jack Johnson five times
|
| Russ Howard |
athlete |
1956 |
|
two-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist men's curler
|
| Travis Jayner |
athlete |
1982 |
|
Olympic bronze and World Championship silver medal-winning short track speed skater
|
| Terry Moore |
athlete |
1958 |
|
soccer player; NASL, Irish League, Olympics, played for Canada at the 1986 World Cup
|
| Daniel Gaudet |
athlete |
1959 |
|
represented Canada in artistic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
|
| Northrop Frye |
writer |
1912 |
1991 |
literary critic and academic; continues to be a prominent figure in Moncton culture, with The Frye Festival, an annual literary festival, bearing his name
|
| James E. Lockyer |
government |
1949 |
|
law professor and former New Brunswick Minister of Justice
|
| Julian LeBlanc |
thespian |
1989 |
|
actor
|
| Michel Bastarache |
government |
1947 |
|
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
|
| Claudette Bradshaw |
government |
1949 |
2022 |
former federal Minister of Labour (1998–2004)
|
| Herménégilde Chiasson |
government |
1946 |
|
artist, academic, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick 2003-2009
|
| Reuben Cohen |
business |
1921 |
2014 |
lawyer and business magnate
|
| Allison Dysart |
government |
1880 |
1960 |
Premier of New Brunswick (1935–1940)
|
| Henry Emmerson |
government |
1853 |
1914 |
Premier of New Brunswick (1897–1900), Federal Minister of Railways and Canals (1904–1907)
|
| Ray Frenette |
government |
1935 |
2018 |
Premier of New Brunswick (1997–1998)
|
| Roméo LeBlanc |
government |
1927 |
2009 |
former federal Minister of Fisheries, Senator and Speaker of the Canadian Senate; Governor-General of Canada (1995–1999)
|
| Bernard Lord |
government |
1965 |
|
Premier of New Brunswick (1999–2006)
|
| Frank McKenna |
government |
1948 |
|
Premier of New Brunswick (1987–1997), former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America
|
| James Alexander Murray |
government |
1864 |
1960 |
Premier of New Brunswick (1917)
|
| Ivan Rand |
government |
1884 |
1969 |
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; creator of the Rand formula, which allows union dues to be automatically subtracted from workers' salaries; member of the UNSCOP, which oversaw the partition of Palestine in 1947
|
| Brenda Robertson |
government |
1929 |
2020 |
first female member of the New Brunswick legislature and the first female cabinet minister in New Brunswick, Canadian Senator (1984–2004)
|
| Brian Gallant |
government |
1982 |
|
Premier of New Brunswick (2014–2018)
|
| Bill "Spaceman" Lee |
athlete |
1946 |
|
American pro baseball pitcher; played four years with the Moncton Mets (1984–1987)
|
| Clifford William Robinson |
government |
1866 |
1944 |
Premier of New Brunswick (1907–1908), Canadian Senator
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