SS#1
Politics & Law
Samuel M. Stephenson
1831–1907American politician of Michigan
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Famous people · Hartland, New Brunswick
5 famous people were born in Hartland from 1831 to 1986
At the top of the list is the American politician of Michigan Samuel M. Stephenson, covered in 6 languages. Barbara Oliver Hagerman and Josiah Snelgrove follow. The biggest group are athletes: 3. The list’s best known name, Samuel M. Stephenson, dates from 1831.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Samuel M. Stephenson
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1831
Samuel M. Stephenson
Youngest
1986
Josiah Snelgrove
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Hartland
First, Samuel M.
BH#2
Politics & Law
Barbara Oliver Hagerman
1943–2016Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JS#3
Sports
Josiah Snelgrove
born 1986Canadian soccer player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Hartland’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1830s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
SportsPolitics & Law
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Hartland is known for
Hartland has 1.6× the usual share of athletes.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Hartland
The other 2 span the years 1887 to 1911.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Woodstock has the most on record, with 27.
Questions about famous people from Hartland
Who is the most famous person from Hartland?
Samuel M. Stephenson (American politician of Michigan) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Barbara Oliver Hagerman and Josiah Snelgrove.
What is Hartland known for?
They make up 60% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hartland?
Samuel M. Stephenson (1831). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1986.
Who counts as from Hartland?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Hartland’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (1)
- Blaine Higgs: 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).