List of people from Halifax Regional Municipality
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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.
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[edit] 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
[edit] Criminals
- Alexander Keith, Jr. (1827-??), American Civil War secret agent and later mass man-slaughterer
[edit] Cultural Figures
[edit] Military Figures
- William Fenwick Williams ((1800-1883)
- William Grant Stairs (1863-1892), Victorian-era explorer
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Scientists
- Oswald Avery (1877-1955), physician and medical researcher
- Walter A. Bell (1889-1969), geologist and paleontologist
- Erik Demaine (born 1981), computer scientist and professor
[edit] Sportspeople
- 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
