LP#1
Science & Medicine
Lily May Perry
1895–1992Canadian-American botanist, botanical collector, curator and teacher
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Havelock, New Brunswick
Lily May Perry tops a list of 3 famous people born in Havelock
Best known of all is Lily May Perry, written about in 12 languages. The politician Gladstone W. Perry ranks second, ahead of Harry A. McMackin. Frank Ormond Soden heads the list in Petitcodiac, 17 km away, which has 3 names. Born in 1880, Gladstone W. Perry is the first name on record, and Lily May Perry, born in 1895, the most recent.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Lily May Perry
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1880
Gladstone W. Perry
Youngest
1895
Lily May Perry
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Havelock
Leaders take two of the three places.
GP#2
HM#3
Politics & Law
Harry A. McMackin
1880–1946Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Havelock is known for
Share of Havelock’s famous people in each field.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Havelock
Who is the most famous person from Havelock?
Lily May Perry (Canadian-American botanist, botanical collector, curator and teacher) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Gladstone W. Perry and Harry A. McMackin.
What is Havelock known for?
67% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Havelock?
Gladstone W. Perry (1880). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1895.
Who counts as from Havelock?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Havelock’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?
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.
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).