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Famous people · Tracadie, New Brunswick
17 famous people from Tracadie, many of them leaders
Articles in 4 languages make the Canadian politician Doug Young the best known. Between 1914 and 1945, 7 were born, the most of any period. The list comes to 10.3 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in New Brunswick, at 8.7. 2 of them were born since 1970.
Born here
17
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Doug Young
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1834
Robert Young
Youngest
1971
Louis-Philippe McGraw
Most common field
Politics & Law
13 people
What stands out about Tracadie’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Tracadie is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 3.5 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When Tracadie’s famous people were born
Politics & LawScience & MedicineMusicWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Tracadie
All three are leaders.
HB#2
RL#3
Politics & Law
Rose-Marie Losier-Cool
born 1937Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tracadie
14 more, 10 of them leaders.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Inkerman counts 5 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Tracadie
Who is the most famous person from Tracadie?
Doug Young (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Herb Breau and Rose-Marie Losier-Cool.
How many famous people were born in Tracadie?
Wikidata has 28 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Tracadie known for?
Here the share is 76%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tracadie?
The earliest is Robert Young, born in 1834, and the latest birth listed is 1971.
Who counts as from Tracadie?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Tracadie’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly 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 (1)
- Robert Young: non spécifié, 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).