21 famous people were born in Shediac, more of them leaders than in most towns

The top name is Muriel McQueen Fergusson (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Scott Pellerin and Albert James Smith.

Wikidata has 29 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.

62% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.

Edward J. Smith, born in 1819. The youngest on the list was born in 1970.

What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Shediac’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. Shediac is also the name of another municipality in New Brunswick: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Shediac”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.

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.