MP#1
Sports
Matthieu Proulx
born 1981Canadian football player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Mykola Swarnyk · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Plaster Rock, New Brunswick
Plaster Rock is the birthplace of 3 famous people
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian football player Matthieu Proulx. Close behind are Monica Hitchcock and Robert Nielsen. The list runs from Robert Nielsen, born in 1922, to Matthieu Proulx, born in 1981. The longest list of any town in New Brunswick belongs to Saint John, with 252.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Matthieu Proulx
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1922
Robert Nielsen
Youngest
1981
Matthieu Proulx
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Plaster Rock
MH#2
Sports
Monica Hitchcock
born 1958Canadian volleyball player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RN#3
Writing & Arts
Robert Nielsen
1922–2009Canadian journalist
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Plaster Rock is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Questions about famous people from Plaster Rock
Who is the most famous person from Plaster Rock?
Matthieu Proulx (Canadian football player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Monica Hitchcock and Robert Nielsen.
How many famous people were born in Plaster Rock?
Wikidata counts 4 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Plaster Rock known for?
They make up 67% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Plaster Rock?
Robert Nielsen (1922). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1981.
Who counts as from Plaster Rock?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Plaster Rock’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.
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).