List of people from New Brunswick
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The Province of New Brunswick, Canada gave the world:
- William Maxwell Aitken, aka Lord Beaverbrook, Fleet Street publishing baron
- Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian Prime Minister
- W. A. C. Bennett, British Columbia politician and premier
- Henry A. Braithwaite, noted woodsman and guide
- Thomas Storrow Brown businessman, journalist, officer of the 1837 Rebellion
- Bliss Carman, poet
- Rheal Cormier, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Tom Culligan, co-founder of the Second Cup franchise company
- William Davidson (1740-1790), lumber merchant, shipbuilder
- Sam De Grasse, actor
- Gordie Drillon, Hall of Fame ice hockey player
- Sir James Dunn, financier, industrialist
- Yvon Durelle, champion boxer
- Raymond Fraser, novelist, poet, biographer
- Peter Fraser (1765-1840), merchant, politician
- René Goguen, WWE wrestler
- Danny Grant, hockey player
- William Hoyt (b. 1930), judge, served on the Saville Inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday. Born in Saint John
- John Peters Humphrey (1905-1995), lawyer, diplomat, scholar and principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- K.C. Irving, Industrialist
- Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Romeo LeBlanc, former Governor-General of Canada
- George Duncan Ludlow (1734-1808), politician, judge
- Mary MacIsaac, Canadian supercentenarian; died, aged 112.
- Catherine McKinnon, Singer who popularized many Canadian folk songs such as Farewell to Nova Scotia.
- Antonine Maillet, Acadian author, Prix Goncourt winner
- Louis B. Mayer, a founder of Hollywood's MGM Studios
- Harrison McCain, frozen food business
- Wallace McCain, food business
- Manny McIntyre, sports star
- Willie O'Ree, first Black NHL player
- Walter Pidgeon, actor
- Ivan Cleveland Rand, Supreme Court Justice, creator of the Rand Formula, served on the UN commission which oversaw the creation of the state of Israel.
- David Adams Richards, author
- Charles G. D. Roberts, poet
- John Robinson (1762-1818), businessman, politician
- Natasha Saint-Pier, Francophone chart-topping singer
- Harry Saltzman, creator of the "James Bond" films
- John Saunders (1754-1834), 1st chief justice on N.B. Supreme Court
- Matt Stairs, Major League Baseball player
- Donald Sutherland, actor
- Ron Turcotte, Secretariat's Hall of Fame jockey
- Roch Voisine, singer
- Lyman Ward, actor
- Robb Wells, actor (Ricky from Trailer Park Boys)
