#1Film, TV & Stage
Ken Scott
born 1970Canadian screenwriter, director, actor and comedian
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Dalhousie, New Brunswick
16 famous people from Dalhousie, many of them leaders
Best known of all is Ken Scott, written about in 11 languages. The next two names are Gordie Dwyer and Guy Arseneault. 5 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. Kate Simpson Hayes (1856) and Marie-Jo Pelletier (1997) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
16
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ken Scott
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1856
Kate Simpson Hayes
Youngest
1997
Marie-Jo Pelletier
Most common field
Politics & Law
9 people
What stands out about Dalhousie’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Dalhousie is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2.6 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When Dalhousie’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1970s, with 3 births.
Politics & LawSportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Dalhousie
#1
#2Sports
Gordie Dwyer
born 1978Canadian NHL hockey player
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GA#3
Politics & Law
Guy Arseneault
born 1952Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Dalhousie
Another 13, 8 of them leaders.
Kate Simpson Hayes
1856–1945Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet, teacher, milliner, legislative librarian
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Carleton-sur-Mer’s, at 13 names.
Questions about famous people from Dalhousie
Who is the most famous person from Dalhousie?
Ken Scott (Canadian screenwriter, director, actor and comedian) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Gordie Dwyer and Guy Arseneault.
How many famous people were born in Dalhousie?
25 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Dalhousie known for?
56% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dalhousie?
Kate Simpson Hayes, from 1856; the most recent birth on the list is from 1997.
Who counts as from Dalhousie?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Dalhousie’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. Dalhousie is also the name of another municipality in New Brunswick: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Dalhousie”, 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 (3)
- Ken Scott: Alan Langford, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordie Dwyer: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Arseneault: Government of New 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).