#1Famous people · Bathurst, New Brunswick
30 famous people were born in Bathurst, more of them leaders than in most towns
Articles in 31 languages make the Canadian singer Natasha St-Pier the best known. The next two names are Joe De Grasse and Sam De Grasse. 10 of them were born between Confederation and 1913, more than in any other period. Stephanie Horner, born in 1989, is the youngest, and Thomas F. Kenny, born in 1847, the first on record.
Born here
30
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Natasha St-Pier
31 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1847
Thomas F. Kenny
Youngest
1989
Stephanie Horner
Most common field
Politics & Law
16 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Bathurst is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 2.4 times the usual share.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Bathurst
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Joe De Grasse
1873–1940Canadian film director
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Film, TV & Stage
Sam De Grasse
1875–1953Canadian actor
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Bathurst’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1950s than in any other decade: 5.
Politics & LawSportsMusicFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsMilitaryBusinessScience & Medicine
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bathurst
Another 27, 16 of them leaders.
Stephanie Horner
born 1989Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games silver medallist
SportsWikipedia ↗
Herman James Good
1887–1969Canadian soldier of World War I recipient of the Victoria Cross
MilitaryWikipedia ↗
Paul Kenny
1932–2013Canadian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1978 to 1991
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 4.
Questions about famous people from Bathurst
Who is the most famous person from Bathurst?
By our measure the best known is Natasha St-Pier (Canadian singer); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Joe De Grasse and Sam De Grasse.
How many famous people were born in Bathurst?
Wikidata counts 52 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Bathurst known for?
That is 53% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bathurst?
Thomas F. Kenny, born in 1847. The youngest on the list was born in 1989.
Who counts as from Bathurst?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Bathurst’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. Bathurst is also the name of another municipality in New Brunswick: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Bathurst”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (10)
- Natasha St-Pier: Ronny Martin Junnilainen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe De Grasse: Motion Picture News, Inc.; Universal Pictures, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam De Grasse: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephanie Horner: JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerald Hannon: Sima Sahar Zerehi, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Herman James Good: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louise Vautour: Nitot, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Branch: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Gray Turgeon: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jennifer Russell: New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).