The Province of New Brunswick, Canada gave the world:
- William Maxwell Aitken, Fleet Street publishing baron
- Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian Prime Minister
- W. A. C. Bennett, British Columbia politician
- Bliss Carman, poet
- Albert Gesner, a geologist who invented kerosene and was instrumental in the creation of the early oil industry in Pennsylvania
- K.C. Irving, Industrialist
- Antonine Maillet, Acadian author, Prix Goncourt winner
- Louis B. Mayer, a founder of Hollywood's MGM Studios,
- Harrison McCain, frozen food business
- Wallace McCain, food business
- Willie O'Ree, first Black NHL player
- Walter Pidgeon, actor
- David Adams Richards, author
- Charles G.D. Roberts, poet
- Harry Saltzman, creator of the "James Bond" films
- Matt Stairs, Major League Baseball player
- Donald Sutherland, actor
- Ron Turcotte, Secretariat's Hall of Fame jockey