GF#1
Politics & Law
Gordon Fairweather
1923–2008Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Rothesay, New Brunswick
Rothesay’s famous people span 140 years: 6 births from 1846 to 1986
Gordon Fairweather, the Canadian politician, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The Canadian admiral Charles Carter Drury ranks second, ahead of Ryan Sherrard. The list is still growing: 2 were born since 1970. Between 1914 and 1945, 3 were born, the most of any period.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gordon Fairweather
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1846
Charles Carter Drury
Youngest
1986
Ryan Sherrard
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Rothesay
CD#2
Military
Charles Carter Drury
1846–1914Canadian admiral
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RS#3
Sports
Ryan Sherrard
born 1986Canadian-German curler and coach
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Rothesay’s famous people were born
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Rothesay is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.3 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Rothesay
3 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Saint John leads the towns around it, with 252 names.
Questions about famous people from Rothesay
Who is the most famous person from Rothesay?
Gordon Fairweather (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Charles Carter Drury and Ryan Sherrard.
How many famous people were born in Rothesay?
Of the 7 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Rothesay known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rothesay?
The earliest is Charles Carter Drury, born in 1846, and the latest birth listed is 1986.
Who counts as from Rothesay?
The list takes people born within Rothesay’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (3)
- Donald Sutherland: Festival TV Monte-Carlo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Peters Humphrey: Edgar P. Smith [1879-1952], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Burpee Jones: Parliament of Canada, 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).