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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

Military figures

17th-18th century

See also:

19th century

See also:

  • George Augustus Westphal - War of 1812

Post-Confederation military figures

Actors

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

Diplomats

  • Audri Mukhopadhyay

Filmmakers

  • Mike Clattenburg
  • Phil Comeau
  • Paul Donovan
  • Jason Eisener
  • Thom Fitzgerald
  • Andrew Hines
  • Daniel MacIvor
  • Noah Pink

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
  • Abraham Pineo Gesner, inventor of kerosene

Media

  • William Coates Borrett, founder of CHNS-FM, the province's first commercial radio station

Musicians

People
  • Brian Ahern (producer)
  • Carroll Baker (singer) Carroll Baker CM
  • Gary Beals
  • Buck 65
  • George Canyon,born Fredrick George Lays
  • Wilf Carter
  • Classified
  • Holly Cole
  • J. P. Cormier
  • Melanie Doane
  • Denny Doherty
  • 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 lived 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

Sports

Sports announcers

  • Danny Gallivan
  • Paul Hollingsworth

Adventurers

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
  • Anne Dodge

Bodybuilders

  • Cindy Phillips

Boxers

Curlers

Nasties

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

Hotties

Equestrians

Harness racing

  • Bill O'Donnell

Show jumping

Football players

NFL players

CFL players

Marty Martinello born in Sydney, N.S. Played in CFL, won Grey Cup with Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Named to N.S. Ports Hall of Fame.

Rugby union players

  • Morgan Williams

Soccer players

  • Stephen Hart
  • Ante Jazic
  • Jacob Shaffelburg

Gymnasts

Ice hockey people

Administrators

  • Frederick E. Betts, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
  • Hanson Dowell, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association

Men

  • Paul Andrea, 150 NHL games in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Drake Batherson
  • 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

Powerlifters

  • John "Jackie" Barrett

Suffragettes

Writers

F.H. Baker, Editor of the Mayflower, ca. 1878
F.H. Baker, editor of The Mayflower, ca. 1878. The Acadian Recorder gave a length biography of Baker on the occasion of his death.
  • John Boileau (born in New Brunswick, but writing career in Nova Scotia)
  • Ernest Buckler
  • Lesley Choyce
  • George Elliott Clarke
  • Darren Greer
  • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • Wendy Lill
  • Hugh MacLennan
  • Alistair MacLeod (born in Saskatchewan, but lived a significant amount of time in, wrote about, and was buried in, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)
  • Leo McKay Jr.
  • Adriana Porter
  • Thomas Head Raddall
  • Spider Robinson (1970s and '80s)
  • Margaret Marshall Saunders
  • John Stiles
  • Michael Ernest Sweet
  • Budge Wilson
  • Maria Frances Ann Morris
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