AW#1
Writing & Arts
Alden Whitman
1913–1990American journalist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Annapolis County, Subdivision D, Nova Scotia
4 famous people call Annapolis County, Subdivision D their birthplace
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the American journalist Alden Whitman is the best known. Buck McNair and Ernest Buckler follow. Births span 1882 to 1919, from Dougald MacPherson to Buck McNair. The list comes to 12.2 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Nova Scotia, at 10.9.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alden Whitman
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1882
Dougald MacPherson
Youngest
1919
Buck McNair
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
The best known
Born in Annapolis County, Subdivision D
Writers and artists take two of the three places.
BM#2
Military
Buck McNair
1919–1971Canadian Second World War flying ace
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
EB#3
Writing & Arts
Ernest Buckler
1908–1984Canadian novelist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Annapolis County, Subdivision D’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1910s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Writing & ArtsMilitaryPolitics & Law
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Annapolis County, Subdivision D is known for
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 Annapolis County, Subdivision D
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Annapolis County, Subdivision B lists the most people: 13.
Questions about famous people from Annapolis County, Subdivision D
Who is the most famous person from Annapolis County, Subdivision D?
Alden Whitman (American journalist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Buck McNair and Ernest Buckler.
How many famous people were born in Annapolis County, Subdivision D?
Of the 7 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Annapolis County, Subdivision D known for?
50% here, set against 12% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Annapolis County, Subdivision D?
Dougald MacPherson (1882). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1919.
Who counts as from Annapolis County, Subdivision D?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Annapolis County, Subdivision D’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.
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.
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).