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Politics & Law
Ray Frenette
1935–2018Premier of New Brunswick from 1997 to 1998
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Beresford, New Brunswick
One famous person was born in Beresford
Ray Frenette came into the world in 1935. That places their birth between 1914 and 1945. Their name appears in articles in 5 languages. Within 9 km, Bathurst lists the most: 30, with Natasha St-Pier first.
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Ray Frenette
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1935
Ray Frenette
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Politics & Law
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Born in Beresford
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Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Beresford, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Beresford
Who is the most famous person from Beresford?
By our measure the best known is Ray Frenette (premier of New Brunswick from 1997 to 1998); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Beresford?
The list holds 1 born in Beresford, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article. 3 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Beresford known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who counts as from Beresford?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Beresford’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. Beresford is also the name of another municipality in New Brunswick: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Beresford”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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).
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- Natasha St-Pier: Ronny Martin Junnilainen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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