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Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Elgin, New Brunswick
A single famous person was born in Elgin: Harry N. Jonah
In 1896, the politician Harry N. Jonah was born. That places their birth between Confederation and 1913. One language has an article about them so far. A short trip away, Petitcodiac (14 km) counts 3 famous people, Frank Ormond Soden among them.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Harry N. Jonah
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1896
Harry N. Jonah
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Elgin
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Questions about famous people from Elgin
Who is the most famous person from Elgin?
By our measure the best known is Harry N. Jonah (politician); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Elgin?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Elgin according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Elgin known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are leaders. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who counts as from Elgin?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Elgin’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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.
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).