Notable Citizens
- Robert M. Allan, City Council member in Los Angeles, California, in the 1920s
- Jonathan Bliss, United Empire Loyalist, Chief Justice of New Brunswick
- Laura Calder, chef
- Art Burns, philanthropist see Hampton
- Miller Brittain, artist
- Anne Compton, winner of the Governor General's Award for poetry, director of the Lorenzo Reading Series.
- Stompin' Tom Connors, musician
- James De Mille, novelist and educator
- Mort Garson, an electronic musician
- Abraham Pineo Gesner, the inventor of kerosene; what began as Gesner's Museum in 1842 is now known as the New Brunswick Museum.
- Stuart Howe, operatic tenor
- John Horbury Hunt, architect (Australia )
- George Edwin King, statesman, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Thomas Leavitt, banker, diplomat
- Bill Magee, Major League Baseball player
- Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood producer of MGM fame, was born in the Russian Empire but raised in Saint John.
- Art McGovern, Major League Baseball player
- J. Gordon McNulty, Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles, CA, was born and raised in Saint John.
- William Murdoch, poet
- Arthur J. Nesbitt, cofounder of Nesbitt, Thomson & Co. and Power Corporation of Canada
- Alden Nowlan, poet
- John O'Brien, Major League Baseball player
- Bill O'Neil, Major League Baseball player
- Bill Phillips, Major League Baseball player
- George Frederick Phillips, military hero
- Walter Pidgeon, actor
- Young Pluto, professional boxer
- Donald Sutherland, actor
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