Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Nueva Escocia

Patrick Vincent Coleman was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways who was killed in the Halifax Explosion, but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop outside the range of the explosion. Today he is remembered as one of the heroic figures from the disaster.

Sarah Ann McLachlan es una cantante y compositora canadiense, conocida por fundar Lilith Fair, un tour de cantantes femeninas a finales de los años 1990. Ganadora de dos Grammy´s por su disco Surfacing.

Harold John Russell fue un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial que se convirtió en uno de los dos únicos intérpretes ajenos a la profesión de actor que han ganado un Premios Óscar en esa modalidad. Russell también tiene el honor de ser la única persona que ha ganado dos Oscar por el mismo papel.

Peter Gordon MacKay es un político canadiense. Diputado en el Parlamento por Central Novoa, Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y Ministro de la Agencia para la Promoción de la Canadá Atlántica.

Joanna Shimkus, Lady Poitier, es una actriz canadiense, casada con el actor y diplomático norteamericano-bahamés Sidney Poitier.

James Tupper es un actor canadiense conocido, principalmente, por interpretar a Jack Slattery en Men in trees (ABC).

Arthur B. McDonald es un astrofísico canadiense, director del Observatorio de Neutrinos de Sudbury. También conserva la cátedra Gordon y Patricia Silla Gray en Astrofísica de Partículas en la Universidad de Queen en Kingston (Ontario). En 2015, le fue otorgado el Premio Nobel en Física, de manera conjunta con Takaaki Kajita.

Michael Smith is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, comedian and musician born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and raised in Thorburn. He is best known for his portrayal of Bubbles and co-writer of the cult classic television program, films and stage production Trailer Park Boys. He was also the guitarist for the Canadian rock band Sandbox. Smith earned a degree in English from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. For a short time in 2006, he was engaged to actress Nichole Hiltz.

Wendy Lee Walsh is a Canadian author, lecturer, radio host and television commentator.

Iain Thomas Rankin is a Canadian politician who served as the 29th premier of Nova Scotia from February 23, 2021, to August 31, 2021. He serves in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for the Nova Scotia Liberal Party, representing the electoral district of Timberlea-Prospect. Rankin was first elected in the 2013 Nova Scotia general election and was re-elected in the 2017 general election. On February 6, 2021, Rankin was announced the Leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.