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Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Saint Marys, New Brunswick
Saint Marys, birthplace of the Canadian politician John Young
In 1854, the Canadian politician John Young was born. That places their birth before Confederation. 2 languages have an article about them. Catharine Pendrel tops the 130 names on record in Fredericton, 13 km away.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John Young
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1854
John Young
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint Marys
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Questions about famous people from Saint Marys
Who is the most famous person from Saint Marys?
John Young (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Saint Marys?
For Saint Marys the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article. 2 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Saint Marys known for?
The largest group is leaders, 1 in all out of 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Saint Marys?
The list takes people born within Saint Marys’ 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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- Catharine Pendrel: Sapin88, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles G. D. Roberts: Credit: Library and Archives Canada / C-006718, 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).