List of people from Halifax Regional Municipality

List of people from Halifax Regional Municipality

This is a list of people who were born in the communities making up the Halifax Regional Municipality or spent a significant part of their lives there.

Business Leaders

*Samuel Cunard (1787-1865), steamship line founder
*William Machin Stairs (1789-1865)
*Alexander Keith (1795-1893), brewer
*John Fitzwilliam Stairs (1848-1904)
*Charles Peter McColough (1922-2006), former Chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation

Criminals

*Alexander Keith, Jr. (1827-??), American Civil War secret agent and later mass man-slaughterer

Cultural Figures

Military Figures

*William Fenwick Williams ((1800-1883)
*William Grant Stairs (1863-1892), Victorian-era explorer

Movies, Television, Visual Artists & Authors

*Ruby Keeler (1909-1993), actress, dancer
*Owen McCarron (1929-2005), cartoonist
*Robert MacNeil (born 1931), former PBS anchorman, journalist
*George Steeves (born 1945), contemporary photographer
*Peter North (born 1957), actor
*George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), Writer and Academic
*Leslie Hope (born 1965), actress
*Mike Clattenburg (born 1968), TV and film director
*Mark Farrell (born 1968), comedian, writer, producer
*Thom Fitzgerald (born 1968), filmmaker
*John Paul Tremblay (born 1968), actor and writer
*Chuck Campbell (born 1969), actor
*Michael Jackson (born 1970), actor
*Joey Comeau (born 1980), Author and co-creator of the Webcomic A Softer World
*Ellen Page (born 1987), Academy Award-nominated actress
*Murray Langston "AKA The Unknown Comic" (birth year unknown), actor/comedian
*Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), artist

Musicians

*Kirk Logan (1921-1997), Fiddler
*Denny Doherty (1940-2007)
*Holly Cole (born 1963)
*Melanie Doane (born 1967)
*Sarah McLachlan (born 1968)
*April Wine (band) Formed in 1969
*Buck 65 (born 1972)
*Scott Storch (born 1973), rap/pop superproducer
*Joel Plaskett (born 1974)
*Matt Mays (born 1979)
*Gary Beals (born 1982)
*Brian Govang (born 1985)
*Sloan (band) Formed in 1991
*Classified (rapper), Active since 1995

Politicians

*Joseph Howe (1804-1873)
*Sir Charles Tupper (1821-1915), Prime Minister of Canada
*John Sparrow David Thompson (1845-1894), Prime Minister of Canada
*Alexa McDonough (born 1944), former leader of the New Democratic Party

cientists

*Oswald Avery (1877-1955), physician and medical researcher
*Walter A. Bell (1889-1969), geologist and paleontologist
*Erik Demaine (born 1981), computer scientist and professor

portspeople

*George Dixon (1870-1908), boxer
*Ian Millar (born 1947), show jumper
*Colleen Jones (born 1959), curler
*Wendell Young (born 1963), hockey player
*Kirk Johnson (born 1972), boxer
*Joe DiPenta (born 1979), Stanley Cup champion, hockey player
*Sidney Crosby (born 1987), hockey player


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