This is a list of notable people from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Although not everyone in this list was born in Fredericton, they all live or have lived there, and have had significant connections to the community.
| Name | Famous for | Birth | Death | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Saunders | politics | 1754 | 1834 | Chief Justice on N.B. Supreme Court |
| John Babbitt | science | 1845 | 1889 | built the first working phonograph in New Brunswick |
| Rebecca Agatha Armour | literature | 1845 | 1891 | novelist and schoolteacher who lived almost her whole life in the town |
| Julia O. Henson | activism | 1852 | 1922 | A co-founder of the NAACP and the Harriet Tubman house in Boston |
| Hugh Havelock McLean | politics | 1854 | 1938 | general, politician, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick |
| Charles G. D. Roberts | literature | 1860 | 1943 | poet, the "father of Canadian poetry" |
| Bliss Carman | literature | 1861 | 1929 | poet |
| Elizabeth Roberts McDonald | literature | 1864 | 1922 | author, suffragette |
| Theodore Goodridge Roberts | literature | 1877 | 1953 | author |
| R. E. Balch | academics | 1894 | 1994 | entomologist |
| Goodridge Roberts | art | 1904 | 1974 | painter, Canadian Official War Artist |
| Molly Lamb Bobak | art | 1920 | 2014 | painter, Canadian Official War Artist |
| Bruno Bobak | art | 1923 | 2012 | painter, Canadian Official War Artist |
| Gérard La Forest | law | 1926 | 2025 | puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada |
| J. W. "Bud" Bird | politics | 1932 | Provincial Cabinet Minister and member of the House of Commons of Canada | |
| Alden Nowlan | literature | 1933 | 1983 | poet, playwright, journalist |
| Willie O'Ree | sports | 1935 | first Black NHL player | |
| Raymond Fraser | literature | 1941 | 2018 | author |
| Herb Curtis | literature | 1946 | author | |
| David Adams Richards | literature | 1950 | author, Senator | |
| Andy Scott | politics | 1955 | 2013 | Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development |
| Mark Anthony Jarman | literature | 1955 | author, fiction editor of The Fiddlehead | |
| David Coon | politics | 1956 | conservationist, politician, Leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick | |
| Gerard Beirne | literature | 1962 | author, fiction editor of The Fiddlehead | |
| Lisa Alward | literature | 1962 | author | |
| Mike Eagles | sports | 1963 | former NHL player | |
| Eilish Cleary | medicine | 1963 | 2024 | physician, epidemiologist, Chief Medical Health Officer of New Brunswick |
| Hal Merrill | sports | 1964 | three-time bronze medalist at the Paralympic Games, two in the 1992 Summer Paralympics and one in the 1996 Summer Paralympics | |
| Matt Stairs | sports | 1968 | Major League Baseball player | |
| Anna Silk | television | 1974 | actor, starred as Bo Dennis on Lost Girl | |
| Measha Brueggergosman | opera | 1977 | operatic soprano | |
| David Myles | music | 1981 | musician | |
| Jake Allen | sports | 1990 | ice hockey goaltender, Stanley Cup winner | |