Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Nueva Escocia

Gérard Pettipas, C.Ss.R. is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is a member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists). He currently serves as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Grouard-McLennan.

Oswald Theodore Avery,. Médico e investigador canadiense, estudió en la Universidad de Columbia y casi todo su trabajo lo realizó en el hospital del Instituto Rockefeller en Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Fue uno de los primeros biólogos moleculares y un pionero en el campo de la inmunoquímica, aunque es mejor conocido por su descubrimiento en 1944, junto con su colaborador Maclyn McCarty, de que el ADN es el material del que los genes y los cromosomas están formados y de cómo estos definen la sexualidad del ser humano. Anteriormente se creía que las proteínas eran las portadoras de los genes.

Richard William Smith es un religioso católico, profesor y teólogo canadiense. Es el arzobispo de Edmonton, desde mayo de 2007.

William Nelson Edward Hall was the first Black person, first Nova Scotian, and third Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross. He received the medal for his actions in the 1857 Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion. Hall and an officer from his ship continued to load and fire a 24-pounder gun at the walls after the rest of the party had been killed or injured by the defenders.

Bruce Palmer fue un músico canadiense conocido por haber siso el bajista de la banda canadiense-estadounidense de folk-rock Buffalo Springfield, que ingresó en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll en 1997.

Gordon Francis Sampson is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia.

Lawrence Edward Walsh was an American lawyer, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and United States Deputy Attorney General who was appointed Independent Counsel in December 1986 to investigate the Iran–Contra affair during the Reagan Administration.

Edmund Henry (E.H) Horne, was a Canadian businessman and prospector. He was most famous for being the founder of Noranda, a mining and metallurgy company originally from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.

Wallace Archibald MacDonald fue un actor de cine mudo, además de productor y director cinematográfico canadiense.

Simon Hugh Holmes was a Nova Scotia politician, publisher and lawyer. He was the fourth Premier of Nova Scotia for three and a half years.