List of people from Moncton

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.

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George Carroll | athlete | 1897 | 1939 | NHL defenceman
Julie Doiron | musician | 1972 |  | indie rock musician with Eric's Trip
France Daigle | Acadian novelist | 1953 |  | winner of the Governor General's Literary Prize for French fiction in 2012
Frederick W. Sumner | was a merchant and political figure | 1855 | 1919 | was a merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada[1]
Roger Lord | musician |  |  | professional pianist, brother of former premier Bernard Lord
Matt Minglewood | musician | 1947 |  | rock musician
Marg Osburne | musician | 1927 | 1977 | country and gospel singer, television and radio personality; featured on Don Messer's Jubilee and That Maritime Feeling
Mike Plume | musician | 1968 |  | country singer
Phil Comeau | film director | 1956 |  | directed first theatrical Acadian feature Le secret de Jérôme (Jerome's Secret)
Rhéal Cormier | athlete | 1968 | 2021 | baseball player
René-Arthur Fréchet | architect | 1879 | 1950 | originally from Montreal
Rick White | musician | 1970 |  | indie rock musician (Eric's Trip, Elevator
Jasper Wood | musician | 1974 |  | concert violinist
Holly Elissa | thespian | 1979 |  | film actor
Viola Léger | thespian | 1930 | 2023 | stage actress and retired Canadian Senator, known for her role as La Sagouine
Gordie Drillon | athlete | 1913 | 1986 | hockey player
Robert Maillet | thespian | 1969 |  | film actor, played "Uber Immortal" in 300; played "Dredger" in 2009's Sherlock Holmes
Robb Wells | thespian | 1971 |  | comic actor, played "Ricky" on TV's Trailer Park Boys
Michael de Adder | cartoonist | 1967 |  | political cartoonist
Sheree Fitch | writer | 1956 |  | children's author
Gérald Leblanc | writer | 1945 | 2005 | author and poet
Don Jardine | professional wrestler | 1940 | 2006 | known as "The Spoiler" and "The Super Destroyer"; trainer of WWE wrestler The Undertaker
Antonine Maillet | writer | 1929 |  | novelist, recipient of the Prix Goncourt, the highest honour in francophone literature
George Steeves | writer | c. 1945 |  | contemporary photographer
Sonja Lang | linguist | c. 1978 |  | linguist and translator
Sandy Ferguson | athlete | 1879 | 1919 | heavyweight boxer; fought Jack Johnson five times
Russ Howard | athlete | 1956 |  | two-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist men's curler
Travis Jayner | athlete | 1982 |  | Olympic bronze and World Championship silver medal-winning short track speed skater
Terry Moore | athlete | 1958 |  | soccer player; NASL, Irish League, Olympics, played for Canada at the 1986 World Cup
Daniel Gaudet | athlete | 1959 |  | represented Canada in artistic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
Northrop Frye | 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
James E. Lockyer | government | 1949 |  | law professor and former New Brunswick Minister of Justice
Julian LeBlanc | thespian | 1989 |  | actor
Michel Bastarache | government | 1947 |  | Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Claudette Bradshaw | government | 1949 | 2022 | former federal Minister of Labour (1998–2004)
Herménégilde Chiasson | government | 1946 |  | artist, academic, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick 2003-2009
Reuben Cohen | business | 1921 | 2014 | lawyer and business magnate
Allison Dysart | government | 1880 | 1960 | Premier of New Brunswick (1935–1940)
Henry Emmerson | government | 1853 | 1914 | Premier of New Brunswick (1897–1900), Federal Minister of Railways and Canals (1904–1907)
Ray Frenette | government | 1935 | 2018 | Premier of New Brunswick (1997–1998)
Roméo LeBlanc | government | 1927 | 2009 | former federal Minister of Fisheries, Senator and Speaker of the Canadian Senate; Governor-General of Canada (1995–1999)
Bernard Lord | government | 1965 |  | Premier of New Brunswick (1999–2006)
Frank McKenna | government | 1948 |  | Premier of New Brunswick (1987–1997), former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America
James Alexander Murray | government | 1864 | 1960 | Premier of New Brunswick (1917)
Ivan Rand | 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
Brenda Robertson | government | 1929 | 2020 | first female member of the New Brunswick legislature and the first female cabinet minister in New Brunswick, Canadian Senator (1984–2004)
Brian Gallant | government | 1982 |  | Premier of New Brunswick (2014–2018)
Bill "Spaceman" Lee | athlete | 1946 |  | American pro baseball pitcher; played four years with the Moncton Mets (1984–1987)
Clifford William Robinson | government | 1866 | 1944 | Premier of New Brunswick (1907–1908), Canadian Senator

## See also

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* List of people from New Brunswick

## References

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1. ^ "Marjorie J. Sumner - 1906". On the Rocks: Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia - Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Retrieved 19 July 2015.

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