#1Famous people · Bedford, Halifax
Bedford counts 5 famous people, first among them Ante Jazić
At the top of the list is the Canadian soccer player Ante Jazić, covered in 14 languages. The next two names are Andrew Joudrey and Anna Negulic. The largest group, 3, was born since 1970. The list comes to 1.7 for every 10,000 residents, below the 10.9 of the typical town in Nova Scotia.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ante Jazić
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1903
Harry DeWolf
Youngest
1998
Anna Negulic
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Bedford’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Bedford’s famous people were born
The 1970s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Bedford
#1
#2Sports
Andrew Joudrey
born 1984Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AN#3
Known for
What Bedford is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 2.1 times.
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 Bedford
2 more, from 1903 to 1962.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, North End has the most on record, with 71.
Questions about famous people from Bedford
Who is the most famous person from Bedford?
Ante Jazić (Canadian soccer player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Andrew Joudrey and Anna Negulic.
How many famous people were born in Bedford?
Of the 8 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Bedford known for?
80% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bedford?
Harry DeWolf, born in 1903. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Bedford?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Bedford’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (5)
- Ante Jazić: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Joudrey: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry DeWolf: PO Guy J.A. Goulet / Canada. Dept. of National Defence, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elliot Page: PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Dixon: unattributed, 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).