- Brian Tobin
Brian Vincent Tobin, PC (born October 21, 1954 in Stephenville, Newfoundland) is a Canadian politician. Tobin studied political science at Memorial University in St. John's. He worked a brief stint as a TV news announcer before joining the Liberal Party of Canada as a political aide. First elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1980, Tobin became familiar to Canadians in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a member of the so-called opposition "Rat Pack". - Craig Sharpe
Craig Sharpe (born September 23, 1989 in Carbonear but now living in Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland & Labrador) was the runner-up on Canadian Idol 4 and finished a close second behind winner Eva Avila. He came through seven rounds of auditions judged by Canadian Idol's four-member panel. Sharpe is the second contestant from the small community of Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland, Canada (Jason Greeley from Season 2 was the first), … - Daniel Cleary
Daniel Cleary (born 18 December, 1978 in Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a professional ice hockey winger playing for the Detroit Red Wings. He was selected in the first round of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, 13th overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks. A common mistake made by announcers during NHL games is saying Cleary is from Carbonear, Newfoundland. Cleary was born in Carbonear, but he was raised in a nearby town called Riverhead, which is now a part of Harbour Grace, … - Joey Smallwood
Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood, PC, CC (December 24, 1900 - December 18 1991) was the main force that brought Newfoundland into Confederation, and became the first Premier of the province. Smallwood remains a controversial figure in Newfoundland, both for his role in ending its independent status and his acts while serving as its premier. He would dub himself "the last Father of Confederation." Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland to Charles and Minnie May Smallwood. - Ron Hynes
Ron Hynes is a popular folk singer-songwriter from Newfoundland. He was born in St. John's in December 1950, and raised in Ferryland. He is especially known for his composition of Sonny's Dream which has been recorded worldwide by many artists. He was a founding member of The Wonderful Grand Band, one of Newfoundland's most popular performing groups, and has released seven solo albums. Hynes is a seven-time East Coast Music Awards winner, … - Brian Peckford
Alfred Brian Peckford, PC (born August 27, 1942) is a former teacher, politician and premier of Newfoundland. Born in Whitbourne, Newfoundland, Peckford first won election to the House of Assembly in 1972 as a Progressive Conservative. - Clyde Wells
Clyde Kirby Wells (born November 9, 1937) is a Newfoundland and Labrador judge and former politician and Premier of the province. Born in Buchans Junction, Newfoundland, Wells graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a BA in 1959 and Dalhousie Law School with an LL.B in 1962. - Rex Murphy
Rex Murphy (born March, 1947, Carbonear, Newfoundland) is a noted Canadian commentator. Murphy was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland 105 kilometres west of St. John's and is the second of five children of Harry and Marie Murphy. He graduated from Memorial University in 1968, and promptly went to England to study at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar (at the same time as Bill Clinton). - Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston (born 1958 in Goulds, Newfoundland) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. Johnston graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1978 with a degree in English literature. He then worked for three years as a newspaper reporter with the "St. John's Daily News". In 1981, he moved to Ottawa, and pursued writing full-time. - Frank Moores
Frank Duff Moores (February 18, 1933 - July 10, 2005) was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as Newfoundland's second Premier (1972-1979). Born in Carbonear, Newfoundland, educated at St. Andrew's College (Aurora, Ontario), Moores was first elected in 1968 to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative. In 1970, he became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and was asked to form a government in January 1972, … - Michael Ryder
Michael Ryder (Born March 31, 1980, Bonavista, Newfoundland) is a hockey player who plays for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League at right wing. - Jim Payne
Jim Payne (born c.1955) is a Newfoundland folk singer, best known for performing and recording many of the traditional sea shanties of Newfoundland culture. He also composed the song "Wave Over Wave" with Janis Spence and founded the record label SingSong Inc. - Kim Stockwood
Kim Stockwood (born on 11 November 1965 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. She is a member of Atlantic Canadian regional supergroup, Shaye with Tara MacLean and Damhnait Doyle. - Ryane Clowe
Ryane Clowe (born September 30, 1982, Fermeuse, Newfoundland) is a Canadian ice hockey player for the NHL's San Jose Sharks. He was selected by the San Jose Sharks in the 6th round, 175th overall, in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. Clowe is on the first year of a three-year-deal signed in June 2006 worth US$1.625 million, ending in June 2008. The contract is a two-way deal for all but the final year of the contract. - Gordon Pinsent
Gordon Edward Pinsent CC, FRSC LL.D (born July 12, 1930) is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor. - Alex Faulkner
Alex Alexander Faulkner (born on May 21, 1936, in Bishop's Falls, Newfoundland) is a retired professional ice hockey player and was the first National Hockey League player from Newfoundland and Labrador. - E. J. Pratt
Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC (February 4, 1882 - April 26, 1964), who published as E. J. Pratt, was a Canadian poet from Newfoundland. Born in Western Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Pratt grew up in a variety of Newfoundland communities in Newfoundland, as his Methodist minister father was posted to various communities around the colony. Pratt himself was also ordained as a Methodist minister, but never served in the church. - Shaun Majumder
Shaun Majumder (born on January 29, 1972) is a Canadian comedian and actor. Majumder was born in Burlington, Newfoundland to a white Canadian mother and an Indian father. He started his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show "CLIPS", and soon was hosting the network's popular morning kids show on called "Brain Wash", where he was known as Ed Brainbin. He also hosted the "Slime Tour" segments on the popular game show "Uh Oh!". - Shanawdithit
Shanawdithit (1801 - June 6 1829), also referred to as Nancy April, is believed to have been the last surviving member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland. She is thought to have been born in 1801. After the capture of Shanawdithit's aunt, Demasduwit, also Mary March in 1819, the few remaining Beothuk people had fled. In the spring of 1823 her father had died when he fell through the ice while trying to escape from a group of hunters. - Al Pittman
Al Pittman (April 11, 1940 - August 26, 2001) was a poet and playwright from Newfoundland and Labrador. Born in St. Leonard's, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Pittman grew up in Corner Brook. He moved to Montreal in 1964 where he began writing poetry and plays, and in 1966 published his first book of poems, "The Elusive Resurrection". - Michael Harris
Michael Harris is an award-winning Canadian author, investigative journalist, and radio personality who hosts an afternoon radio talk show, "Michael Harris Live", on Ottawa-based CFRA, and is a columnist for "The Ottawa Sun" newspaper. Born in Newfoundland, Harris is a graduate of York University in Toronto, and was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar (University College in Dublin, Ireland). Formerly the publisher of "The Sunday Express" in St. John's, … - Johnny Burke
Johnny Burke (1851 - 1930) was a Newfoundland songwriter and musician. He was nicknamed the 'Bard of Prescott Street'. He wrote many popular songs that artists in the 1930s and 1940s released. Popular songs by Burke include: * The Night Paddy Murphy Died * Cod Liver Oil * Murphy Broke The Pledge * Who Shipped The Moonshine To St. - Gerald Squires
Gerald (Gerry) Leopold Squires (born November 17,1937) is an artist from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Perhaps best known for painting dramatic landscapes in acrylic and oil, Squires has also produced major work in sculpture, lithography, and stained glass. He is also an accomplished portraitist. Much of his work draws its inspiration from the landscape and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. - Beaton Tulk
Beaton Tulk (May 22, 1944 -) was an educator, civil servant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland. Born in Ladle Cove, Newfoundland, he resides in St. John's. Tulk was a Principal for the Carmanville school system from 1974 to 1979. Beaton Tulk was first elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1979 as a Liberal Party of Newfoundland (later Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador) member and was re-elected in 1982, 1985, 1993, 1996 and 1999. - Cluny MacPherson
Cluny MacPherson, MD (1879 in St. John's, Newfoundland - 1966) was a medical doctor and the inventor of the gas mask. MacPherson received his medical education from Methodist College and McGill University. MacPherson started the first St. John's Ambulance Brigade after working with the St. John's Ambulance Association. MacPherson served as the principal medical officer for the St. - Thomas Ricketts
Thomas (Tommy) Ricketts (April 15, 1901 - February 10, 1967) was a Newfoundlander and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. - Ann Harvey
Ann Harvey (1811 - 1860) was a fisher and rescuer born near the small fishing community of Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, Canada. Harvey, called "Grace Darling of Newfoundland", is known for her bravery at the young age of seventeen for rescuing, along with her father, younger brother and a dog, 163 shipwrecked souls from the brig "Despatch" between the twelfth and fifteenth of July, 1828. - Christa Borden
Christa Borden (born 1981) is a Canadian pop singer, known as the winner of "Popstars: The One" in April of 2003. As a child, Christa spent much time performing in public. Starting out singing folk songs and musical theatre and in her teens, operatic repertoire, she won many awards and scholarships from the St. John's Kiwanis Music Festival for both Piano and Voice. She was the runner-up in the Junior Rose Bowl in 1997, … - Max Keeping
Winston Maxwell Keeping, C.M. known as Max Keeping, is the Vice-President of news and public affairs at CTV Ottawa where he is also the long-time male anchor of the 6:00 p.m. local news broadcast. Keeping is a community leader and since the early 1970s one of the most famous public personalities in Ottawa, Canada. - Georgina Stirling
Georgina Ann Stirling (April 3 1866 - April 23 1935) was a Canadian opera singer, known by her stage name Marie Toulinquet. Born in Twillingate, Newfoundland, she became a world-renowned Prima donna soprano who played in opera houses throughout Europe and United States. She was Newfoundland's first opera singer and became known as "The Nightingale of the North." Stirling, daughter of Ann (Peyton) and William Stirling, … - Frances Cluett
Frances Cluett (June 25, 1883 - November, 1969) was an army nurse and educator from Newfoundland, noted for her service during World War I, and especially for her many letters back home beginning in 1916 that conveyed the eye-opening experiences of a young woman leaving home for the first time and explaining in vivid detail the horrors of war. Cluett was born in Belleoram, Newfoundland, and during the war served in the Volunteer Aid Detachment in Europe. - Chuck Connors
Chuck Connors (April 10 1921 - November 10 1992) was an American actor and professional basketball and baseball player. - Rod Snow
Gerald Arthur Rod Snow (born on May 1, 1970 near Come By Chance, Newfoundland) is a Canadian former professional rugby union prop. Reports suggested that he had ended his Canada playing career, but he has been named to the Canada squad for the 2006 Churchill Cup. Snow began his senior club rugby with the Newfoundland amateur club team Dogs RFC. He went on to play professionally in South Africa for Eastern Province in 1995, before joining Newport RFC in 1996, … - Sylvester Joe
Sylvester Joe (unknown - 1839), hunter and explorer, born Baie d'Espoir, Newfoundland, Canada. Joe, a native Mi'kmaq of Newfoundland, was the noted hunter from the south-west coast of the Island of Newfoundland who was engaged by William Cormack to guide hime on his trek across Newfoundland, the first European to do so. In his writings William Cormack refers to him as Joseph Sylvester, it would appear that he had reversed the name inadvertently, … - Demasduwit
Demasduwit (c. 1796 - January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. She was born near the end of the 18th century. The Beothuk were openly hostile to Europeans, and violent conflict between the two groups were common. The conflicts usually took more Beothuks than Europeans which led to their decline. - Daniel Woodley Prowse
Daniel Woodley Prowse (September 12, 1834 - January 27, 1914) was a lawyer, politician, judge, historian, essayist, and office holder. Born in Port de Grave, Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), he was the fourth of the seven children of Robert Prowse and Jane Woodley. Prowse is the author of "A History of Newfoundland" which is considered one of the most complete and meticulous colonial history books in existence. Educated at St. - Walter Learning
Walter John Learning is a Canadian theatre director and actor, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick. He was born in 1938 in the small village of Quidi Vidi in the then-independent nation of Newfoundland. Learning attended the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick. After receiving his BA, he was awarded a Teaching Fellowship to pursue his MA, and a Commonwealth Scholarship to work on his PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra. - William James Emberley
William James Emberley (June 26, 1876 - 10 June 1937) of Bay de Verde, Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada). William son of Joseph Emberley and Jane Emberley (Russell) was a fisherman that experienced the hunger and plight of the Newfoundland fisherman during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The collapse of international markets made it difficult to sell fish at any price, and for years many Newfoundlanders lived on the government dole of six cents a day. - Thomas Rideout
Thomas Gerald Rideout (born June 25, 1948) is a politician and former Premier of Newfoundland. Born in Fleur-de Lys, Newfoundland, Rideout was first elected to the provincial House of Assembly in 1975 as a Liberal but crossed the floor in 1980 to join the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Brian Peckford in its fight with Ottawa for control of offshore mineral resources. - William James Herder
William James Herder, publisher, born Old Perlican, Newfoundland, Canada, was the founder of Newfoundland's first daily newspaper, "The Evening Telegram". Herder was educated at Methodist Academy and in 1863 had apprenticed as a printer for the "Courier". When the "Courier" experienced financial difficulties Herder had bought it and in 1872 began the "Evening Telegram". Herder also started the "Advertisers Gazette" in 1883, …
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