LC#1
Sports
Lukas Cormier
born 2002Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Saint Mary, New Brunswick
Saint Mary’s famous people span 167 years: 6 births from 1836 to 2003
Articles in 4 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Lukas Cormier the best known. Close behind are Antoine Girouard and Beatrice Trew. Lukas Cormier was born in 2002. 2 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Lukas Cormier
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1836
Antoine Girouard
Youngest
2003
Dominique Cormier
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Saint Mary
AG#2
Politics & Law
Antoine Girouard
1836–1904Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BT#3
Politics & Law
Beatrice Trew
1897–1976Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Saint Mary’s famous people were born
Politics & LawSportsWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Saint Mary is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 2.3 times the usual share.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint Mary
The other 3 span the years 1883 to 2003.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Saint Mary
Who is the most famous person from Saint Mary?
By our measure the best known is Lukas Cormier (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Antoine Girouard and Beatrice Trew.
How many famous people were born in Saint Mary?
Wikidata counts 7 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Saint Mary known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint Mary?
Antoine Girouard, from 1836; the most recent birth on the list is from 2003.
Who counts as from Saint Mary?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Saint Mary’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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)
- Donald J. Savoie: Acadia University, CC BY 2.0, 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).