This is a list of notable people from Moncton, New Brunswick. Although not everyone in this list was born in Moncton, they all live or have lived there, and have had significant connections to the community.
Name | Famous for | Birth | Death | Other |
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athlete | 1897 | 1939 | NHL defenceman | |
musician | 1972 | indie rock musician with Eric's Trip | ||
Acadian novelist | 1953 | winner of the Governor General's Literary Prize for French fiction in 2012 | ||
was a merchant and political figure | 1855 | 1919 | was a merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada[1] | |
musician | professional pianist, brother of former premier Bernard Lord | |||
musician | 1947 | rock musician | ||
musician | 1927 | 1977 | country and gospel singer, television and radio personality; featured on Don Messer's Jubilee and That Maritime Feeling | |
musician | 1968 | country singer | ||
film director | 1956 | directed first theatrical Acadian feature Le secret de Jérôme (Jerome's Secret) | ||
athlete | 1968 | 2021 | baseball player | |
architect | 1879 | 1950 | originally from Montreal | |
musician | 1970 | indie rock musician (Eric's Trip, Elevator | ||
musician | 1974 | concert violinist | ||
thespian | 1979 | film actor | ||
thespian | 1930 | 2023 | stage actress and retired Canadian Senator, known for her role as La Sagouine | |
athlete | 1913 | 1986 | hockey player | |
thespian | 1969 | film actor, played "Uber Immortal" in 300; played "Dredger" in 2009's Sherlock Holmes | ||
thespian | 1971 | comic actor, played "Ricky" on TV's Trailer Park Boys | ||
cartoonist | 1967 | political cartoonist | ||
writer | 1956 | children's author | ||
writer | 1945 | 2005 | author and poet | |
professional wrestler | 1940 | 2006 | known as "The Spoiler" and "The Super Destroyer"; trainer of WWE wrestler The Undertaker | |
writer | 1929 | novelist, recipient of the Prix Goncourt, the highest honour in francophone literature | ||
writer | contemporary photographer | |||
linguist | linguist and translator | |||
athlete | 1879 | 1919 | heavyweight boxer; fought Jack Johnson five times | |
athlete | 1956 | two-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist men's curler | ||
athlete | 1982 | Olympic bronze and World Championship silver medal-winning short track speed skater | ||
athlete | 1958 | soccer player; NASL, Irish League, Olympics, played for Canada at the 1986 World Cup | ||
athlete | 1959 | represented Canada in artistic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles | ||
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 | |
government | 1949 | law professor and former New Brunswick Minister of Justice | ||
Julian LeBlanc | thespian | 1989 | actor | |
government | 1947 | Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | ||
government | 1949 | 2022 | former federal Minister of Labour (1998–2004) | |
government | 1946 | artist, academic, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick 2003-2009 | ||
business | 1921 | 2014 | lawyer and business magnate | |
government | 1880 | 1960 | Premier of New Brunswick (1935–1940) | |
government | 1853 | 1914 | Premier of New Brunswick (1897–1900), Federal Minister of Railways and Canals (1904–1907) | |
government | 1935 | 2018 | Premier of New Brunswick (1997–1998) | |
government | 1927 | 2009 | former federal Minister of Fisheries, Senator and Speaker of the Canadian Senate; Governor-General of Canada (1995–1999) | |
government | 1965 | Premier of New Brunswick (1999–2006) | ||
government | 1948 | Premier of New Brunswick (1987–1997), former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America | ||
government | 1864 | 1960 | Premier of New Brunswick (1917) | |
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 | |
government | 1929 | 2020 | first female member of the New Brunswick legislature and the first female cabinet minister in New Brunswick, Canadian Senator (1984–2004) | |
government | 1982 | Premier of New Brunswick (2014–2018) | ||
athlete | 1946 | American pro baseball pitcher; played four years with the Moncton Mets (1984–1987) | ||
government | 1866 | 1944 | Premier of New Brunswick (1907–1908), Canadian Senator | |