List of personalities of the city of Halifax (Nova Scotia)

This list includes people who were born in the Canadian city ​​of Halifax and those who worked in Halifax but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

sons and daughters of the town

1781-1900

Samuel Cunard
(1787-1865)

John Thompson
(1845-1894)

Oswald Avery
(1877–1955)

• Samuel Cunard (1787–1865), shipowner
• Edward Belcher (1799–1877), British navigator and polar explorer
• Joseph Howe (1804–1873), politician
• William Alexander Henry (1816–1888), politician
• John Thompson (1845-1894), politician
• William Johnston Tupper (1862-1947), politician
• Philip Primrose (1864–1937), politician
• Nat Butler (1870–1943), American cyclist
• George Dixon (1870–1908), bantam and featherweight boxer and first black man to win a world championship belt
• Vincent Coleman (1872–1917), train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways
• Oswald Avery (1877–1955), medic
• Tom Butler (1878–?), American track cyclist
• Arthur Edward Romilly Boak (1888–1962), ancient historian
• John Erskine Read (1888–1973), lawyer
• Hal Foster (1892-1982), comic book author
• David Manners (1900–1998), actor

1901-1950

Harry Wickwire Foster
(1902-1964)

Viola Desmond
(1914-1965)

• Charles Brenton Huggins (1901–1997), surgeon and Nobel Prize winner
• Harry Wickwire Foster (1902-1964), General
• Charles Hermann (1906–1966), track and field athlete and Canadian football player
• Ruby Keeler (1909-1993), actress
• Viola Desmond (1914–1965), activist, civil rights activist and campaigner against racial segregation
• Henry Beckman (1921-2008), actor
• James Martin Hayes (1924-2016), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Halifax
• Budge Wilson (born 1927), writer
• James Milligan (1928–1961), singer
• Bucky Adams (1937–2012), jazz musician
• Denny Doherty (1940-2007), pop singer
• Joanna Shimkus (* 1943), actress
• Alexa McDonough (* 1944), politician
• Ifan Williams (* 1945), cellist and music teacher
• Ian Millar (* 1947), show jumper
• Paul Ledoux (* 1949), writer
• Gérard Pettipas (* 1950), Archbishop

1951-1960

Peter North
(born 1957)

• Sue Holloway (* 1955), canoeist
• Eddie Murray (born 1956), American football player
• Darrell Dexter (born 1957), politician
• Tanya Huff (* 1957), fantasy author
• Robert Mills (born 1957), rower
• Peter North (* 1957), actor and porn actor
• Dale Kavanagh (born 1958), guitarist
• Don Brien (* 1959), canoeist
• Marilyn Brain (born 1959), rower
• Colleen Jones (* 1959), curler

1961-1970

Sarah McLachlan
(* 1968)

• Nancy Garapick (born 1961), swimmer
• Kim Kelly (* 1962), curler
• Kevin Power (* before 1963), singer and actor
• Holly Cole (born 1963), jazz singer
• Wendell Young (* 1963), ice hockey goalkeeper, coach and official
• Leslie Hope (born 1965), actress
• Melanie Doane (* 1967), singer-songwriter
• Sarah McLachlan (* 1968), musician
• Chuck Campbell (born 1969), actor
• Cam Russell (* 1969), ice hockey player, coach and official

1971-1980

John Reardon
(* 1975)

• Glen Murray (* 1972), ice hockey player and official
• Ty Olsson (born 1974), actor
• David Ling (born 1975), ice hockey player
• John Reardon (born 1975), football player and actor
• Eric Boulton (born 1976), ice hockey player
• Karen Furneaux (* 1976), canoeist
• Michael Scarola (* 1976), canoeist
• Laura Regan (born 1977), actress
• Cindy Sampson (born 1978), actress
• Craig Olejnik (born 1979), actor
• Denise Djokic (* 1980), cellist

1981-2000

Ellen Page
(* 1987)

• Erik Demaine (* 1981), mathematician, computer scientist and artist
• Cory Urquhart (* 1984), ice hockey player
• Sarah Conrad (* 1985), snowboarder
• Stephen Dixon (born 1985), ice hockey player
• Andrew Gordon (born 1985), ice hockey player
• Jennifer Baxter (* 1987), curler
• Ellen Page (* 1987), actress
• Brad Marchand (born 1988), ice hockey player
• Alexander Killorn (* 1989), ice hockey player
• Molly Dunsworth (born 1990), actress
• Aman Hambleton (* 1992), chess player
• Ellie Black (* 1995), artistic gymnast
• Nathan MacKinnon (born 1995), ice hockey player
• Matthew Highmore (born 1996), ice hockey player

Personalities related to the city

• John Halliburton (1740-1808), physician
• Abraham Gesner (1797–1864), physician, physicist and geologist
• Gerald Ferguson (1937–2009), painter and conceptual artist
• Paul Halley (* 1952), organist, cantor and composer
• Frederick James Hiltz (* 1954), Primate of the Anglican Church
• Robert McCall (1958–1991), figure skater
• Thom Fitzgerald (* 1968), film director
• Kirk Johnson (born 1972), boxer
• Forbes March (born 1973), actor
• Scott Storch (* 1973), American musician
• Ante Jazić (* 1976), football player
• Sidney Crosby (born 1987), ice hockey player
• James Sheppard (born 1988), ice hockey player
• Eli Goree , actor

Web links

Commons : People of Halifax, Nova Scotia  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Major-General Harry Wickwire Foster, CBE, DSO , lextec.com
2. ↑ Sue Holloway in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
3. ↑ Don Brien in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
4. ↑ Colleen Jones , curlingzone.com
5. ↑ Nancy Garapick in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
6. ↑ Kim Kelly , curlingzone.com
7. ^ Ty Olsson , imdb.com
8. ↑ Karen Furneaux in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
9. ↑ Michael Scarola in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
10. ^ Cindy Sampson , imdb.com
11. ↑ Jenn Baxter , curlingzone.com
12. ↑ Molly Dunsworth , imdb.com
13. ↑ Hambleton, Aman , ratings.fide.com
14. ↑ A transgender twist on Secrets , thestar.com , September 19, 2009