List of Famous people born in Nova Scotia, Canada

Pierre Collings

First Name Pierre
Last Name Collings
Born on September 22, 1900
Died on December 21, 1937 (aged 37)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Lysander Pierre Collings, known professionally as Pierre Collings, was a writer and filmmaker who, along with Sheridan Gibney, won two Academy Awards in 1936 for The Story of Louis Pasteur. Their screenplay was adapted from their own work, leading to awards for both Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Story.

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Robert Grant Haliburton

First Name Robert
Last Name Haliburton
Born on January 1, 1831
Died on January 1, 1901 (aged 70)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Robert Grant Haliburton Q.C., D.C.L. was a Canadian lawyer and anthropologist. He became famous after founding the Canada First organization that saw English Canadian society as the "heirs of Aryan northmen" and that the French Canadians were a "bar to progress."

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Henry Beckman

First Name Henry
Last Name Beckman
Born on November 26, 1921
Died on June 17, 2008 (aged 86)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Henry Beckman was a Canadian stage, film and television actor.

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Stephen McNeil

First Name Stephen
Last Name McNeil
Born on November 10, 1964 (age 61)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Stephen McNeil is a Canadian politician who is the 28th and current premier of Nova Scotia, having assumed office on October 22, 2013. He has also represented the riding of Annapolis in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 2003 and has been the leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party since 2007.

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Don Burke

First Name Don
Last Name Burke
Born on February 28, 1939
Died on March 1, 2019 (aged 80)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia
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David Manners

First Name David
Last Name Manners
Died on December 23, 1998 (aged 28)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

David Joseph Manners was a Canadian-American actor who plays John Harker in Tod Browning's 1931 horror classic Dracula, which stars Bela Lugosi in the title role. The following year, Manners portrayed the archaeologist Frank Whemple in The Mummy, another pre-Code thriller by Universal Pictures.

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Annie Thompson

First Name Annie
Born on June 26, 1845
Died on April 10, 1913 (aged 67)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Annie Emma Thompson, Lady Thompson was the wife of Sir John Thompson, the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.

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Charles Henry Darling

First Name Charles
Last Name Darling
Born on February 19, 1809
Died on January 25, 1870 (aged 60)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Sir Charles Henry Darling was a British colonial governor.

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Art Hindle

First Name Art
Born on July 21, 1948 (age 77)

Arthur Hindle is a Canadian actor and director.

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Austin-Emile Burke

First Name Austin-Emile
Born on January 22, 1922
Died on August 12, 2011 (aged 89)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Austin-Emile Burke was a Canadian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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