#1Sports
Appleton Adams Mason
1880–1938American football player and coach, basketball coach, physical education instructor
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Cumberland County, Subdivision A, Nova Scotia
Of the 11 famous people born in Cumberland County, Subdivision A, an unusual share are leaders
Best known of all is Appleton Adams Mason, written about in 4 languages. Eldon George is second and Fred S. Cameron third. Between Confederation and 1913, 8 were born, the most of any period. The list runs from James W. Kirkpatrick, born in 1863, to Mary Ann McGrath, born in 1953.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Appleton Adams Mason
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1863
James W. Kirkpatrick
Youngest
1953
Mary Ann McGrath
Most common field
Politics & Law
5 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Cumberland County, Subdivision A is known for
Cumberland County, Subdivision A has 2.1× the usual share of leaders.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Cumberland County, Subdivision A
Cameron.
#1
#2Science & Medicine
Eldon George
1931–2018Canadian geologist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Notable
Fred S. Cameron
1886–1953Canadian athletics competitor
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Cumberland County, Subdivision A’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1880s, with 3 people born in that decade.
Politics & LawSportsScience & MedicineNotableMilitary
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
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Everyone else born in Cumberland County, Subdivision A
8 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Cumberland County, Subdivision A
Who is the most famous person from Cumberland County, Subdivision A?
Appleton Adams Mason (American football player and coach, basketball coach, physical education instructor) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Eldon George and Fred S. Cameron.
How many famous people were born in Cumberland County, Subdivision A?
15 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Cumberland County, Subdivision A known for?
45% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cumberland County, Subdivision A?
James W. Kirkpatrick, born in 1863. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
Who counts as from Cumberland County, Subdivision A?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Cumberland County, Subdivision A’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?
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 (5)
- Appleton Adams Mason: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eldon George: Bwark, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred S. Cameron: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Chipman Kerr: Canada. Dept. of National Defence, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Harris Callow: Unknown author, 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).