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Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Trenton, Nova Scotia
Trenton is the birthplace of 3 famous people
At the top of the list is the Canadian politician Pat Dunn, covered in 4 languages. The Canadian politician Donald R. MacLeod ranks second, ahead of Ross Landry. The neighbour with the longest list is New Glasgow, 3 km away: 47, led by Peter MacKay. Born in 1902, Donald R. MacLeod is the first name on record, and Pat Dunn, born in 1950, the most recent.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Pat Dunn
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1902
Donald R. MacLeod
Youngest
1950
Pat Dunn
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Trenton
MacLeod (1) and Ross Landry (1).
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Politics & Law
Donald R. MacLeod
1902–1976Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
New Glasgow · 3 kmPeter MacKay & 46 more
Pictou · 9 kmGeorge Mercer Dawson & 33 more
Pictou County, Subdivision C · 6 kmDiego Klattenhoff & 9 more
Pictou County, Subdivision A · 19 kmAnna Sutherland Bissell & 9 more
Stellarton · 6 kmGeorge Monro Grant & 6 more
Pictou County, Subdivision B · 13 kmLeonard W. Murray & 5 moreJMWestville · 9 kmJohn MacLellan & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Trenton
Who is the most famous person from Trenton?
Pat Dunn (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Donald R. MacLeod and Ross Landry.
What is Trenton known for?
100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Trenton?
Donald R. MacLeod, from 1902; the most recent birth on the list is from 1950.
Who counts as from Trenton?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Trenton’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 (6)
- 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
- George Monro Grant: Government of Canada, 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).