#1Politics & Law
George Monro Grant
1835–1902Canadian church minister, writer, and political activist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Stellarton, Nova Scotia
7 famous people were born in Stellarton
With articles in 4 languages, George Monro Grant is the most widely known. Behind the leader come Charles Fraser and James Peter Robertson. Between Confederation and 1913, 4 were born, the most of any period. George Monro Grant, born in 1835, is the earliest name and Leo McKay, Jr., born in 1964, the latest.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
George Monro Grant
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1835
George Monro Grant
Youngest
1964
Leo McKay, Jr.
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Stellarton
#1CF#2
Sports
Charles Fraser
1897–1970Canadian ice hockey defenceman
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JR#3
Military
James Peter Robertson
1883–1917Recipient of the Victoria Cross
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Stellarton’s famous people were born
The 1830s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Stellarton is known for
3 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Stellarton
4 more, from 1874 to 1964.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, New Glasgow counts 47 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
New Glasgow · 4 kmPeter MacKay & 46 more
Pictou · 14 kmGeorge Mercer Dawson & 33 more
Pictou County, Subdivision C · 8 kmDiego Klattenhoff & 9 more
Pictou County, Subdivision A · 19 kmAnna Sutherland Bissell & 9 more
Pictou County, Subdivision B · 7 kmLeonard W. Murray & 5 moreJMWestville · 4 kmJohn MacLellan & 3 morePDTrenton · 6 kmPat Dunn & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Stellarton
Who is the most famous person from Stellarton?
By our measure the best known is George Monro Grant (Canadian church minister, writer, and political activist); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Charles Fraser and James Peter Robertson.
How many famous people were born in Stellarton?
Wikidata counts 13 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Stellarton known for?
43% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Stellarton?
The earliest is George Monro Grant, born in 1835, and the latest birth listed is 1964.
Who counts as from Stellarton?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Stellarton’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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (7)
- George Monro Grant: Government of Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leo McKay, Jr.: Jody W. O'Brien, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter MacKay: DOD, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Mercer Dawson: William Notman and Son, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Diego Klattenhoff: Thibault, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna Sutherland Bissell: American Historical Socy. - Steel Engraving by Finlay & Conn. (book editor was Winfield Scott Downs (1895-1958)), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leonard W. Murray: 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).