Canadians Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

are people who are identified with

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

through residential,

legal Law is a set of rules that are created and are law enforcement, enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a Socia ...

historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

, or cultural means. This list groups people by their area of notability.

Architects

* Hans Blumenfeld OC (1892–1988) – architect and city planner * Joan Burt (1930–2021) – architect * Douglas Cardinal OC RAIC (born 1934) – architect of

Canadian Museum of Civilization The Canadian Museum of History () is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of Canada, as well as support related res ...

* Mary Clark (born 1936) – architect and transportation planner * Ernest Cormier OC RAIC (1885–1980) – architect of

Supreme Court of Canada The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; , ) is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada. It comprises nine justices, whose decisions are the ultimate application of Canadian law, and grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants eac ...

building * A. J. Diamond OC RAIC (1934–2022) – architect of Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts * Margaret Synge Dryer (1921–1963) – architect *

Arthur Erickson Arthur Charles Erickson (June 14, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was a Canadian architect and urban planning, urban planner. He studied at the University of British Columbia and, in 1950, received his B.Arch. (Honours) from McGill University. He is kn ...

CC RAIC (1924–2008) – architect of

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Public university, public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, British Columbia, Surrey, and ...

Robson Square Robson Square is a landmark civic centre and public plaza, located in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the site of the Law Courts (Vancouver), Provincial Law Courts, University of British Columbia, UBC Robson Square, government offi ...

, and the Embassy of Canada in Washington *

David Ewart David Ewart, Imperial Service Order, ISO (18 February 1841 – 6 June 1921) was a Canadians, Canadian architect who served as Chief Dominion Architect from 1896 to 1914. As chief government architect he was responsible for many of the federal bu ...

ISO The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Me ...

(1841–1921) – Chief Dominion Architect (1896 to 1914), architect of Dominion Archives Building,

Royal Canadian Mint The Royal Canadian Mint () is the mint of Canada and a Crown corporation, operating under an act of parliament referred to as the ''Royal Canadian Mint Act''. The shares of the mint are held in trust for the Crown in right of Canada. The mi ...

, Victoria Memorial Museum,

Connaught Building The Connaught Building is a historic office building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, owned by Public Services and Procurement Canada. It is located at 555 MacKenzie Avenue, just south of the United States Embassy. To the east, the building looks out o ...

in Ottawa *

Étienne Gaboury Étienne-Joseph Gaboury (April 24, 1930 – October 14, 2022) was a Canadian architect from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was noted for designing key buildings in his hometown, such as the Royal Canadian Mint building, Esplanade Riel, Saint Boniface ...

RAIC OAA (1930–2022) – architect of the Embassy of Canada in

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

and the

building in Winnipeg *

Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry ( ; ; born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions. Gehry rose to prominence in th ...

CC LLD ('' hc'')

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

('' hc'') DEng ('' hc'') DArch ('' hc'') DA ('' hc'')

AIA AIA or A.I.A. or Aia may refer to: Aia * Aia, a small town in the province of Gipuzkoa, Spain * Peñas de Aya, small mountain range in Oiartzun, Gipuzkoa * Aia, current Kutaisi, ancient capital of Colchis * Aia, another name for Aea (Malis), an ...

(born 1929) – architect of

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish a ...

, Experience Music Project,

Walt Disney Concert Hall The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It was opened on October 23, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Av ...

, and the

Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; ) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located on Dundas Street, Dundas Street West in the Grange Park (neighbourhood), Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, the museum complex takes up of phys ...

* Dan Hanganu OQ DArch ('' hc'') RAIC OAQ (1939–2017) – architect of

Pointe-à-Callière Museum Pointe-à-Callière Museum (, ) is a museum of archaeology and history in Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1992 as part of celebrations to mark Montreal's 350th birthday. The museum has collections of artifacts from the First Natio ...

and Montreal Archival Centre * Gregory Henriquez FRAIC OAA

(born 1963) RAIC – architect of the Woodward's Building, TELUS Garden, and redevelopment of

Honest Ed's Honest Ed's was a landmark discount store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was named for its proprietor, Ed Mirvish, who opened the store in 1948 and oversaw its operations for almost 60 years until his death in 2007. The store continued to operat ...

location * Stephen Irwin RAIC

RIBA ''Riba'' (, or , ) is an Arabic word used in Islamic law and roughly translated as " usury": unjust, exploitative gains made in trade or business. ''Riba'' is mentioned and condemned in several different verses in the Qur'an3:130

OAA (1939–2019) – architect of Purdy's Wharf *

Bruce Kuwabara Bruce Bunji Kuwabara, ( OC, B.Arch, OAA, FRAIC, AIA, RIBA) is a Canadian architect and a founding partner of the firm KPMB Architects (formed in 1987). He is an invested Officer of the Order of Canada and recipient of the RAIC Gold Medal. He i ...

FRAIC OAA

(born 1949) RAIC – architect of the

Gardiner Museum The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art (commonly shortened to the Gardiner Museum) is a ceramics museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is situated within University of Toronto's St. George campus, in downtown Toronto. The museum b ...

, and Kitchener City Hall * E. J. Lennox RAIC OAA (1854–1933) – architect of Old City Hall in Toronto, and

Casa Loma Casa Loma (Spanish for "Hill House") is a Gothic Revival castle-style mansion and garden in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is now a historic house museum and landmark. It was constructed from 1911 to 1914 as a residence for financier S ...

* John M. Lyle FRIBA OAA (1872–1945) RAIC – architect of the

New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress a ...

, the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and Toronto's

Union Station A union station, union terminal, joint station, or joint-use station is a railway station at which the tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway company, railway companies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently bet ...

Raymond Moriyama Raymond Junichi Moriyama (October 11, 1929 – September 1, 2023) was a Canadian architect. The private practice in Toronto he co-founded with Ted Teshima, Moriyama & Teshima Architects, was renowned for designing many major buildings across ...

CC OOnt (1929–2023) – architect of the

Ontario Science Centre The Ontario Science Centre (OSC; originally the Centennial Museum of Science and Technology) is a science museum and organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its original location opened to the public in 1969 and was located near the D ...

, Ottawa City Hall, and

Canadian War Museum The Canadian War Museum (CWM) () is a National museums of Canada, national museum on the military history of Canada, country's military history in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum serves as both an educational facility on Canadian military hist ...

* Samuel Oghale Oboh

FAIA Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) is a postnominal title or membership, designating an individual who has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Fellowship is bestowed by the institute on AIA-membe ...

, FRAIC, Architect, AAA (born 1971) – 2015 President of the RAIC – architect of the International Law Enforcement Academy Botswana and the Botswana Police College; Lead Architect of the Alberta Legislature Centre Redevelopment Master Plan * John Ostell (1813–1892) – architect of the

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

Arts Building, and the Montreal Custom House *

Francis Rattenbury Francis Mawson Rattenbury (11 October 1867 – 28 March 1935) was a British architect although most of his career was spent in British Columbia, Canada, where he designed the province's legislative building among other public commissions. Divorc ...

RAIC AIBC (1867–1935) – architect of the

British Columbia Parliament Buildings The British Columbia Parliament Buildings are in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and are home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The Speaker and the Sergeant-at-Arms are amongst those responsible for the legislative precinc ...

, and the Empress Hotel *

Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie (; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He is well known for incorporating principles of socially responsible design throughout his six-decade career. His projects include cultural, ed ...

CC LLD ('' hc'') FRAIC

(born 1938) – architect of

Habitat 67 Habitat 67, or simply Habitat, is a housing complex at Cité du Havre, on the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by Israeli-Canadian- American architect Moshe Safdie. It originated in his master's thesis at the School of Ar ...

, the

National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's National museums of Canada, national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the List of large ...

, and Vancouver Library Square * Fariborz Sahba (born 1948) – Master's degree from Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, architect of Lotus Temple, and

Terraces (Baháʼí) The Baháʼí Terraces, or the Hanging Gardens of Haifa, are garden terraces on Mount Carmel in Haifa, and one of the most popular tourist destinations in Israel. Completed in 2001, there are 19 terraces and more than 1,500 steps ascending the mo ...

* Henry Sears (1929–2003) – Massey medal-winning architect, urban and gallery planner * Brigitte Shim (born 1958) –

Order of Canada The Order of Canada () is a Canadian state order, national order and the second-highest Award, honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ...

for architecture, and Integral House * Bing Thom CM FRAIC AIBC (1940–2016) – architect of Central City Centre *

Ronald Thom Ronald James Thom, (May 15, 1923 – October 29, 1986) was a Canadian architect. He is well known for two works: Massey College and Trent University's riverside campus. Early years He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, the son of James ...

FRAIC AIBC (1923–1986) – architect of

Massey College Massey College is the postgraduate University of Toronto#Colleges, college of the University of Toronto located at the University of Toronto#St. George campus, St. George campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The college was established, built and ...

, the Shaw Theatre, and

Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Founded in 1964, the university is known for its Oxbridge college system, sma ...

Artists

Actors

Animators

* Ryan Larkin (1943–2007) – nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film, ''

Walking Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of terrestrial locomotion among legged animals. Walking is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined as an " inverted pendulum" gait in which the body vaults o ...

'', 1969

Broadcasters

Comedians

Musicians

Photographers

* Ivaan Kotulsky (1944–2008)

Visual arts

Cartoonists

* Michael de Adder (born 1967) – editorial cartoonist and caricaturist *

Danny Antonucci Daniel Edward Antonucci (, ; born February 27, 1957) is a Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer. He created the Cartoon Network animated comedy series '' Ed, Edd n Eddy'' as well as '' Lupo the Butcher'' and ''The Brothers Grunt'' fo ...

(born 1957) – creator of '' Ed Edd n Eddy'' *

Kate Beaton Kathryn Moira Beaton (born 8 September 1983) is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip ''Hark! A Vagrant'', which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other major works include the children's books ''The Princess and the Pon ...

(born 1983) – creator of ''

Hark! A Vagrant ''Hark! A Vagrant'' is a webcomic published by Canadian artist Kate Beaton between 2007 and 2018. It discussed historical and literary topics in a comedic tone and was drawn in black and white. Recurring themes ''Hark! A Vagrant'' is best kn ...

'' * Chester Brown (born 1960) – creator of '' Yummy Fur'', ''

Underwater An underwater environment is a environment of, and immersed in, liquid water in a natural or artificial feature (called a Water, body of water), such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, reservoir, river, canal, or aquifer. Some characteristics of the ...

'' and ''

Louis Riel Louis Riel (; ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis in Canada, Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of ...

'' * John Byrne (born 1950) – influenced

superhero A superhero or superheroine is a fictional character who typically possesses ''superpowers'' or abilities beyond those of ordinary people, is frequently costumed concealing their identity, and fits the role of the hero, typically using their ...

characters like The

Fantastic Four The Fantastic Four, often abbreviated as FF, is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team debuted in '' The Fantastic Four'' #1 ( cover-dated November 1961), helping usher in a new level of realism i ...

and

Superman Superman is a superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, which first appeared in the comic book ''Action Comics'' Action Comics 1, #1, published in the United States on April 18, 1938.The copyright date of ''Action Comics ...

* Andy Donato (born 1937) –

editorial cartoonist An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or current ...

for the ''

Toronto Sun The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid format, tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices are located at Pos ...

'' *

Hal Foster Harold Rudolf Foster, FRSA (August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip '' Prince Valiant''. His drawing style is noted for its high level of draftsmanship ...

(1892–1982) – artist for ''

Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Creat ...

'' comic strip, creator of ''

Prince Valiant ''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', often simply called ''Prince Valiant'', is an American comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history, and the full s ...

'' * J.D. Frazer (born 1965) (moniker: Illiad) – creator of the

webcomic Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on the internet, such as on a website or a mobile app. While many webcomics are published exclusively online, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or ...

User Friendly ''User Friendly'' was a webcomic written by J. D. Frazer, also known by his pen name Illiad. Starting in 1997, the strip was one of the earliest webcomics to make its creator a living. The comic is set in a fictional internet service provider a ...

'' * Gregory Gallant (born 1962) (moniker: Seth) – creator of '' Palookaville'' *

Lynn Johnston Lynn Johnston (born May 28, 1947) is a Canadian cartoonist and author, best known for her newspaper comic strip '' For Better or For Worse''. She was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award. ...

CM OM (born 1947) – creator of ''

For Better or For Worse ''For Better or For Worse'' is a Canadian comic strip by Lynn Johnston that ran originally from 1979 to 2008 chronicling the lives of the Patterson family and their friends, in the town of Milborough, a fictional suburb of Toronto, Ontario. Now ...

'' *

John Kricfalusi Michael John Kricfalusi ( ; born September 9, 1955), known professionally as John K., is a Canadian illustrator, blogger, and former animator and voice actor. He is the creator of the animated television series ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', which ...

(born 1955) (moniker: John K.) – creator of '' Ren and Stimpy'' * Graeme MacKay (born 1968) – editorial cartoonist * Sean Martin (1950–2020) – creator of the print and webcomic "

Doc and Raider ''Doc and Raider'' is a Canadian comic strip, created by Sean Martin. Michael Willhoite, "Review: Caught on Tape: An Anthology of Doc and Raider Cartoons". ''Lambda Book Report'', May/Jun 1995 (Vol. 4 Issue 10). p. 45. Published in newspapers an ...

" * Todd McFarlane (born 1961) – creator of ''

Spawn Spawn or spawning may refer to: * Spawning, the eggs and sperm of aquatic animals Arts, entertainment and media * Spawn (character), a fictional character in the comic series of the same name and in the associated franchise ** ''Spawn: Armageddon' ...

'' * Win Mortimer (1919–1998) – illustrator for

DC Comics DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book seri ...

and

Batman Batman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. Batman was created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in Detective Comics 27, the 27th issue of the comic book ''Detective Comics'' on M ...

* Terry Mosher OC DLitt ('' hc'') (born 1942) (

moniker A nickname, in some circumstances also known as a sobriquet, or informally a "moniker", is an informal substitute for the proper name of a person, place, or thing, used to express affection, playfulness, contempt, or a particular character trait ...

: Aislin) – ''

Montreal Gazette ''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspape ...

'' newspaper * Len Norris (1919–1997) – long-time editorial columnist for the ''

Vancouver Sun The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network, and is the larg ...

'' *

Ryan North Ryan North (born October 20, 1980) is a Canadian writer and computer programmer. He is the creator and author of ''Dinosaur Comics'', and has written for the comic series of ''Adventure Time'' and Marvel Comics' '' The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl'' ...

(born 1980) – creator of the webcomic ''

Dinosaur Comics ''Dinosaur Comics'' is a constrained webcomic by Canadian writer Ryan North. It is also known as "Qwantz", after the site's domain name, "qwantz.com". The first comic was posted on February 1, 2003, although there were earlier prototypes. ''Din ...

'' * Scott Ramsoomair (born 1981) – creator of the webcomic '' VG Cats'' *

Joe Shuster Joseph Shuster ( ; July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992) was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in ''Action Comics'' #1 ( cover-dated June 1938). Shuster was involv ...

(1914–1992) – co-creator of ''

'' *

Dave Sim Dave Sim (born 17 May 1956) is a Canadian cartoonist and publisher, known for his comic book ''Cerebus the Aardvark, Cerebus'', his artistic experimentation, his advocacy of self-publishing and creators' rights, and his controversial political an ...

(born 1956) – creator of ''

Cerebus the Aardvark ''Cerebus'' (; also ''Cerebus the Aardvark'') is a comic book series, created by Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim, which ran from December 1977 until March 2004. The title character of the 300-issue series is an anthropomorphic aardvark who takes ...

'' *

Fiona Staples Fiona Staples is a Canadian comic book artist known for her work on books such as ''North 40'', ''DV8, DV8: Gods and Monsters'', ''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'', ''Archie (comic book), Archie'', and ''Saga (comic book), Saga''. She has been described as ...

(born 1984) – co-creator of ''

Saga Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia. The most famous saga-genre is the (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between ...

'' * Paul Szep (born 1941) – editorial cartoonist for the ''

Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily new ...

'' 1967–2001 * Ben Wicks CM (1926–2000) – illustrator,

comic strip A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics terminology#Captio ...

cartoonist, and humanitarian

Astronauts

* Roberta Bondar OC OOnt ScD ('' hc'') FRCP(C) FRSC (born 1945) – first Canadian woman in space * Marc Garneau CC CD ScD ('' hc'') (born 1949) – first Canadian man in space * Chris Hadfield OOnt MSC LLD ('' hc'') DEng ('' hc'') (born 1959) – first Canadian to walk in space, first Canadian to command the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...

* Steven MacLean ScD ('' hc'') (born 1954) *

Julie Payette Julie Payette (; born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada, the List of governors general of Canada, 29th since Canadian Confederation. Payette holds ...

CQ FMC (born 1963) * David Saint-Jacques (born 1970), B.Eng., Ph.D., M.D. *

Robert Thirsk Robert "Bob" Brent Thirsk, (born August 17, 1953) is a Canadian retired engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian record for the most time spent in space (204 days, 18 hours and 29&nbs ...

(born 1953) – holds Canadian record for longest time spent in space (204 days) *

Bjarni Tryggvason Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (September 21, 1945 – April 5, 2022) was an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a NRC/ CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a nearly 12-day mission to study cha ...

ScD ('' hc'') (born 1945)

Athletes

Businesspeople and entrepreneurs

Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964), was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century ...

, Baron Beaverbrook PC (1879–1964) – publishing baron, entrepreneur * Francesco Aquilini (born 1969) – Chairman of the Aquilini Investment Group and owner of the

Vancouver Canucks The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver. The Canucks compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conferenc ...

David Asper David Asper (born November 26, 1958) is a Canadian lawyer and businessman, and a former acting dean of Robson Hall, the law faculty of the University of Manitoba. Asper is the son of Izzy Asper, the founder of Canwest, and is now the head of ...

(born 1958) – chairman, Canwest Global Communications * Izzy Asper OC QC OM (1932–2003) – chairman, Canwest Global Communications * Meghan Athavale – entrepreneur and visual artist * Jeannine Bailliu – economist, policy advisor at the Bank of Canada *

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, Publishing, newspaper publisher, Investor, financier, and Fraudster, convicted fraudster. Black's father was businessma ...

– Lord Black of Crossharbour

KCSG KCSG (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Cedar City, Utah, United States, airing programming from the classic television network MeTV. Owned and operated by network parent Weigel Broadcasting, the station maintains studios on West 1 ...

LLD ('' hc'') (born 1944) – entrepreneur, publisher * Willard Boyle (1924–2011) – invented

charge-coupled device A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. Under the control of an external circuit, each capacitor can transfer its electric charge to a neighboring capacitor. CCD sensors are a ...

* Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (1929–2013) – head of

Seagram The Seagram Company Ltd. (which trade name, traded as Seagram's) was a Canadian multinational beverage and during the last few years of its existence, entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate formerly headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. ...

's and long-time president of the

World Jewish Congress The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations, founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in August 1936. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress's main purpose is to act as ...

* Samuel Bronfman CC (1889–1971) – founder of

's * Robert Campeau (1923–2017) – real-estate mogul *

Jack Kent Cooke Jack Kent Cooke (October 25, 1912 – April 6, 1997) was a Canadian American businessman in broadcasting and professional sports. Starting in sales, Cooke was very successful, eventually becoming a partner in a network of radio stations and new ...

(1912–1997) – owner of the

Los Angeles Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division (NBA), Pacific Division of the Western Conference (NBA ...

Los Angeles Kings The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles. The Kings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. ...

Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East ...

and the

Chrysler Building The Chrysler Building is a , Art Deco skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, it is the tallest brick building in the world wit ...

* James Alexander Cowan (1901–1978) – public relations consultant and founder of

Stratford Shakespeare Festival The Stratford Festival is a Repertory theatre, repertory theatre organization that operates from April to October in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Founded by local journalist Tom Patterson (theatre producer), Tom Patterson in 1952, th ...

Samuel Cunard Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. ...

Bt (1787–1865) – founder of

Cunard Line The Cunard Line ( ) is a British shipping and an international cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its four ships have been r ...

* William Davidson (1740–1790) – lumberman, shipbuilder, merchant * Christine M. Day (born 1962) – former CEO of the Canadian clothing company Lululemon Athletica * Michael DeGroote OC (1932–2022) – businessman and philanthropist * Paul Desmarais PC CC (1927–2013) – Chairman, Power Corporation of Canada TimothyeatonstatueCommons

* Craig Dobbin OC (1935–2006) – founder, chairman and CEO of

CHC Helicopter CHC Helicopter is a Texas-based helicopter services company. CHC Helicopter maintains its global headquarters in Irving, Texas and operates more than 250 aircraft in 30 countries around the world. CHC's major international operating units are ...

Corporation * Denzil Doyle (born 1932/1933) – founding president of

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until ...

's Canadian subsidiary * James Hamet Dunn Bt (1874–1956) – financier, steel magnate * Timothy Eaton (1834–1907) – founder of

Eaton's The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's g ...

department store A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store under one roof, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store mad ...

s * Bernie Ebbers (1941–2020) – former CEO of

WorldCom MCI, Inc. (formerly WorldCom and MCI WorldCom) was a telecommunications company. For a time, it was the second-largest long-distance telephone company in the United States, after AT&T. WorldCom grew largely by acquiring other telecommunicatio ...

* Sam Feldman (born 1949) – music executive * Alfred Fuller (1885–1973) – Fuller Brush Company * Arcadi Gaydamak (born 1952) – owner of Beitar Jerusalem *

Percy Girouard Sir Édouard Percy Cranwill Girouard, (26 January 1867 – 26 September 1932) was an Empire enthusiast, a Canadians, Canadian railway builder, High Commissioner of Northern Region, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria and the East Africa Protectorate and ...

KSMG (1867–1932) – railway builder, governor * Angèle Grenier –

maple syrup Maple syrup is a sweet syrup made from the sap of maple trees. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in late winter and early spring. Ma ...

producer known for her legal battles with the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers * Elliot Grove, founder of

Raindance Film Festival Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates in major cities including London, Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin, and Brussels. The festival was established in 1992 by Elliot Grove ...

British Independent Film Awards The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) is an organisation that celebrates, supports, and promotes British independent cinema and film-making talent in the United Kingdom. Nominations for the annual awards ceremony are announced in early Nov ...

and the Independent Film Trust. * Charles Guillimin (1676–1739) – shipbuilder, merchant and moneylender * Zabeen Hirji (born 1960) – speaker, writer, former Chief Human Resources Officer,

Royal Bank of Canada Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; ) is a Canadian multinational Financial institution, financial services company and the Big Five (banks), largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 20 million clients and has more than ...

* Janet Holder – business executive, head of Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines * Robin Ingle – CEO and Chairman of the Ingle Group of Companies * K. C. Irving OC ONB (1899–1992) – industrialist * Suresh Joachim (born 1968) – co-founder of WBBAS, No Poverty No Disease No War, World Peace Marathon and Suresh Joachim International Group of Companies * F. Ross Johnson (1931–2016) – former CEO of

RJR Nabisco R. J. Reynolds Nabisco, Inc., doing business as RJR Nabisco, was an American conglomerate, selling tobacco and food products, headquartered in the Calyon Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. R. J. Reynolds Nabisco stopped ...

* Ron Joyce CM (1930–2019) – original partner with Horton in

Tim Hortons Tim Hortons Inc., known colloquially as Tim's, Timmies, or Timmy's, is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain with headquarters in Toronto; it serves coffee, Doughnut, donuts, sandwiches, Breakfast sandwich, breakfast egg mu ...

, primary builder of the chain * Moez Kassam (born 1980) – hedge fund manager, founder of Anson Group * Izaak Walton Killam (1885–1955) – major financier *

James L. Kraft James Lewis Kraft (; December 11, 1874 – February 16, 1953) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor and the founder of Kraft Foods Inc. Kraft immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1902. He developed a patented pasteurization ...

(1874–1953) – entrepreneur and inventor, founder of L. Kraft & Bros. Company, which later became

Kraft Foods Inc Kraft Foods Inc. () was a Multinational corporation, multinational confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate (company), conglomerate. It marketed many brands in more than 170 countries. Twelve of its brands annually earned more than $1 bill ...

* Richard L'Abbé OC (born 1956 or 1957) – co-founder and former CEO of Med-Eng Systems Inc, a company specializing in bomb disposal suits and helmets *

Guy Laliberté Guy Laliberté, (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian billionaire businessman and poker player. Along with Gilles Ste-Croix, he is the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, which was founded in 1984. The Canadian circus company's shows have since be ...

OC CQ (born 1959) – founder and owner of the

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; ) is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Jun ...

* Bernard Lamarre (1931–2016) – Chairman & C.E.O., Lavalin Group, 1972–1991; senior advisor, SNC-Lavalin Inc., 1991–2016 * Cindy Lee – founder of T & T Supermarket * Michael Lee-Chin LLD ('' hc'') (born 1951) – CEO of AIC Diversified Canada Split Corp. and the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica *

Li Ka-shing Sir Ka-shing Li (; born 29 July 1928) is a Hong Kong billionaire business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the senior advisor for CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings, after he retired from the Chairman of the Board in May ...

(born 1928) – Chairman of the Board of

Cheung Kong Holdings Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, is a multinational conglomerate, based in Hong Kong. It was one of Hong Kong's leading multi-national conglomerates. The company merged with its subsidiary Hutchison Whampoa on 3 June 2015, as part of a ma ...

and

Hutchison Whampoa Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL) was an investment holding company based in Hong Kong. It was a Fortune Global 500 company and one of the largest companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. HWL was an international corporation with a dive ...

* Victor Li (born 1964) – deputy chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited * William Secondo Lombardo (1930–2009) – owner of Lombardo Construction and CEO of Peerless-Cascade Plastics * Pete Luckett (born 1953) – owner of Pete's Frootique and host of ''The Food Hunter'' * William Christopher Macdonald (1831–1917) – tobacco manufacturer, education philanthropist *

Terry Matthews Sir Terence Hedley Matthews (born 6 June 1943) is a Welsh-Canadian business magnate, serial high-tech entrepreneur, and Wales' first billionaire. He was the richest man in Wales until 2012, when he was surpassed by Sir Michael Moritz. He ha ...

OC FREng (born 1943) – entrepreneur, chairman of Mitel and Wesley Clover *

Louis B. Mayer Louis Burt Mayer (; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884Mayer maintained that he was born in Minsk on July 4, 1885. According to Scott Eyman, the reasons may have been: * Mayer's father gave different dates for his birthplace at different times, so ...

(1885–1957) – co-founder of

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM or MGM Studios) is an American Film production, film and television production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered ...

(MGM) Studios *

Harrison McCain Harold Harrison McCain (3 November 1927 – 18 March 2004) was a Canadian businessman and co-founder, along with his three brothers, of international frozen foods giant McCain Foods. Early life McCain was born in Florenceville-Bristol, New ...

CC ONB (1927–2004) – New Brunswick potato magnate * Colonel

Samuel McLaughlin Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, (September 8, 1871 – January 6, 1972) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He started the McLaughlin Motor Car Company in 1907, one of the first major automobile manufacturers in Canada, which e ...

CC CD ED (1871–1972) – Buick automobile manufacturer * Simon McTavish (1750–1804) – fur trader * Hartland Molson OC GOQ OBE (1907–2002) –

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or Legislative chamber, chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ...

, President of

Molson The Molson Brewery is a Canada-based brewery based in Montreal and was established in 1786 by the Molson family. In 2005, Molson merged with the Adolph Coors Company to become Molson Coors. Molson Coors maintains some of its Canadian operati ...

Breweries *

John Molson John Molson (28 December 1763 – 11 January 1836) was an English people, English-born brewer and entrepreneur in colonial Province of Quebec (1763–91), Quebec, which during his lifetime became Lower Canada. In addition to founding Molson Brewe ...

(1763–1836) – founder of Molson Breweries * Peter Munk OC (1927–2018) – founder of Barrick Gold * Saadia Muzaffar – entrepreneur, author and founder of TechGirls Canada * Stephan Ouaknine – businessman in telecommunications and renewable energy * Jim Pattison CM OBC (born 1928) – chairman, president, CEO, and owner of the

Jim Pattison Group The Jim Pattison Group is a Canadian conglomerate based in Vancouver. Jim Pattison, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur, is the chairman, CEO, and sole owner of the company. The Jim Pattison Group, Canada's second largest privately held company, h ...

* Pierre Péladeau CM OQ (1925–1997) – founder of

Quebecor Quebecor Inc. is a Canadian diversified media and telecommunications company serving Quebec based in Montreal. It was spelled Quebecor in both English and French until May 2012, when shareholders voted to add the acute accent, Québecor, in ...

Inc. *

Pierre Karl Péladeau Pierre Karl Péladeau (; born 16 October 1961), also known by his initials PKP, is a Canadian businessman, billionaire and former politician. He was also the MNA ( Member of the National Assembly) for Saint-Jérôme. Péladeau is the president ...

(born 1961) – President, CEO of Quebecor Inc., Québecor Média Inc. and

Sun Media Corporation Sun Media Corporation was the owner of several tabloid and broadsheet newspapers in Canada and the 49% owner of the now defunct Sun News Network. It was a subsidiary of Quebecor Media. On October 6, 2014, Quebecor Media announced the sale of ...

Marie Penny Marie Penny (born 1896, 1970), also spelled Penney, was a Canadian businesswoman who owned and operated one of the largest frozen-fish companies in Newfoundland during the 20th century. She operated John Penny & Sons in Ramea from 1949 until her d ...

(died 1970) – owner and operator of one of the largest 20th-century frozen fish companies in

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of . As of 2025 the population ...

* John Draper Perrin (1890–1967) – entrepreneur, financier, mining executive * Richard Porritt OC (1901–1985) – mining industry executive * Jean Pouliot (1923–2004) – founder of CFCF et Télévision Quatre Saisons * John Redpath (1796–1869) – canal builder, sugar refinery founder * Paul Reichmann (1930–2013) – developer of

Canary Wharf Canary Wharf is a financial area of London, England, located in the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Greater London Authority defines it as part of London's central business district, alongside Central London. Alongside ...

* Edward Samuel Rogers OC (1933–2008) – president and CEO of

Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media ass ...

* John Roth (born 1942) – former CEO of

Nortel Networks Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel), formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in Montreal, Quebec in 1895 ...

Lino Saputo Emanuele "Lino" Saputo, (; born June 10, 1937) is an Italian-Canadian billionaire businessman. He is the founder of the Canadian cheese manufacturer Saputo Inc. According to ''Forbes'', he has an estimated net worth of US$4.7 billion as ...

(born 1937) – founder of Saputo *

Isadore Sharp Isadore "Issy" Sharp, (born October 8, 1931) is a Canadian hotelier and philanthropist. He is founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. He founded the Terry Fox Run. Early life and education Sharp was born in Toronto, the son of ...

OC (born 1931) – founder of the Four Seasons Hotel chain * E. D. Smith (1858–1943) – founder of E. D. Smith & Sons Ltd * Levy Solomons (1730–1792) – merchant and fur trader * John F. Stairs (1848–1904) – entrepreneur, statesman * Frank Stronach CM (born 1932) – entrepreneur, founder of

Magna International Magna International Inc. is a Canadian parts manufacturer for automakers. It is one of the largest companies in Canada and was recognized on the 2020 ''Forbes'' Global 2000. The company is the largest automobile parts manufacturer in North Amer ...

* E. P. Taylor (1901–1989) – entrepreneur, thoroughbred horse breeder *

Nat Taylor Nathan A. Taylor (1906 – February 29, 2004) was a Canadian inventor and film producer who co-founded Cineplex with Garth Drabinsky. Biography Taylor was born and raised in a Canadian Jews, Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario and began his busines ...

(1906–2004) – originator of

Cineplex Entertainment Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Entertainment and Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian operator of movie theater and family entertainment centers, headquartered in Toronto. It is the largest cinema chain in Canada; as of 2019, it operated 165 loc ...

Kenneth Thomson Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet (September 1, 1923 – June 12, 2006), known in Canada as Ken Thomson, was a Canadian/British businessman and art collector. At the time of his death, he was listed by ''Forbes'' as the richest pe ...

, Baron Thomson of Fleet (1923–2006) * Roy Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet GBE (1894–1976) – entrepreneur, publisher *

William Cornelius Van Horne Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, (February 3, 1843September 11, 1915) was an American businessman, industrialist and railroad magnate who spent most of his career in Canada. He is famous for overseeing the construction of the first Canadian Tran ...

KCMG (1843–1915) – constructed the

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway () , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Canadian Pacific Ka ...

Jack L. Warner Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-born American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's ca ...

(1892–1978) – founder of

Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bro ...

Studios * Galen Weston OC OOnt (1940–2021) – owner of Loblaws,

Holt Renfrew Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited (Trade name, doing business as Holt Renfrew and Colloquialism, colloquially Holt's) is a Economy of Canada, Canadian luxury department store chain founded in 1837 by William S. Henderson. The original William Ashton ...

, and

Selfridges Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upmarket department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908. The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Self ...

* Chip Wilson (born 1956) – founder of

Lululemon Athletica Lululemon, commonly styled as lululemon ( ; all lowercase), is a Canadian-American multinational athletic apparel retailer headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, and incorporated in Delaware, United States, as Lululemon Athletica Inc. ...

* Walter Wolf (born 1939) – oil drilling equipment supplier and Formula 1 team owner * Bob Young (born 1953/1954) – self-publishing website, owner of CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats

Criminals and suspects

* Marie-Joseph Angélique (1710–1734) – executed for setting the city of Montreal on fire * Johnson Aziga (born 1956) – first person to be charged with first-degree murder in Canada for spreading

HIV The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of '' Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the im ...

* Paul Bernardo (born 1964) – serial killer, serial rapist * Richard Blass (1945–1975) – multiple murderer * Edwin Alonzo Boyd (1914–2002) – bank robber * Alfonso Caruana (born 1946) – mobster * Paul Joseph Cini (born 1944) – Canada's first skyjacker, sentenced to life imprisonment * John Etter Clark (1915–1956) – provincial politician, teacher, farmer, mass murderer * Robert Cook (1937–1960) – mass murderer * Jacques Cossette-Trudel (1947–2023) – FLQ terrorist * Louise Cossette-Trudel (born 1947) – FLQ terrorist * Vincenzo Cotroni (1911–1984) – mobster * Frank Cotroni (1931–2004) – mobster * John Martin Crawford (1962–2020) – serial killer * Raynald Desjardins (born 1953) – mobster * Evelyn Dick (born 1920) – convicted of infanticide; convicted and acquitted of having murdered her husband * Terry Driver (1965–2021) – murderer * Valery Fabrikant (born 1940) – former university professor and

mass murderer Mass murder is the violent crime of murder, killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity. A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more ...

* Larry Fisher (1949–2015) – convicted of the murder for which David Milgaard (see "Wrongfully convicted", below) was originally convicted and subsequently exonerated * Charles Guité (born c. 1943) – fraud * John Hamilton (1899–1934) – bank robber, killer * Victor Hoffman (1946–2004) – mass murderer * Karla Homolka (born 1970) – serial killer *

Bindy Johal Bhupinder "Bindy" Singh Johal (14 January 1971 – 20 December 1998) was an Indo-Canadian gangster from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A self-confessed drug trafficker, he was known for his outspoken nature, blatant disregard for authorit ...

(1971–1998) – Vancouver gangster * Jacques Lanctôt (born 1945) – FLQ terrorist * Yves Langlois (born 1947) – FLQ terrorist * Robert Latimer (born 1953) – convicted of second-degree murder * Allan Legere (born 1948) – serial killer * Blake Leibel (born 1981) – murderer *

Marc Lépine Marc Lépine (; born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi; October 26, 1964 – December 6, 1989) was a Canadian mass murderer. On December 6, 1989, he murdered fourteen women and wounded another ten women and four menNote: Many sources state thirt ...

(1964–1989) – mass murderer * Denis Lortie (born 1959) – murderer * Luka Rocco Magnotta (born 1982) – murderer * Grace Marks (c. 1828–after c. 1873) – convicted of murder in 1843 * Lucien Marmette (1853–1935) – Forger and petty criminal * Bruce McArthur (born 1951) – serial killer * Allan McLean (1855–1881) – son of Fort Kamloops Chief Trader and leader and eldest of the group known as the Wild McLean Boys, who went on a killing spree with his brothers and accomplice Alex Hare in the

British Columbia Interior The British Columbia Interior, popularly referred to as the BC Interior or simply the Interior, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. While the exact boundaries are variously defined, the British Columbia Interior ...

in 1876 *

Paddy Mitchell Patrick Michael "Paddy" Mitchell (June 26, 1942 – January 14, 2007) of Ottawa, Ontario, was leader of the notorious "Stopwatch Gang" of Bank robbery, bank robbers. Mitchell was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitiv ...

(1942–2007) – bank robber, leader of The Stopwatch Gang * Kenneth Murdock (born 1963) – hitman * Dale Nelson (1939–1999) – cannibal and mass murderer * Clifford Olson (1940–2011) – serial child murderer * Johnny Papalia (1924–1997) – mobster * Rocco Perri (1887–c. 1944) – gangster, bootlegger *

Robert Pickton Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 – May 31, 2024), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian serial killer and pig farmer. After dropping out of school, he left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full- ...

(1949–2024) – serial murderer * Monica Proietti (1940–1967) – bank robber * Kenneth Ratte (born 1963) – career criminal *

(1844–1885) – executed for treason * Lucien Rivard (c. 1915–2002) – narcotics smuggler * Nicolo Rizzuto (1924–2010) – mobster * Vito Rizzuto (1946–2013) – mobster * Paul Rose (1943–2013) – FLQ terrorist * Frank "Dunie" Ryan (1942–1984) – gangster * Pietro Scarcella (born 1950) – mobster * Jeffrey Shuman (born 1962) – bank robber * Francis Simard (1946–2015) – FLQ terrorist * Slumach (died 1891) –

Katzie The Katzie First Nation or Katzie Nation (Hunquminum: ) is a First Nation whose traditional territory lies in the Lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada. According to their oral tradition, the Katzie people are the descendants of the ...

man convicted and hung for the murder of Louis Bee, a Kanaka (Hawaiian) half-breed * Cathy Smith (1947–2020) – convicted of manslaughter in death of

John Belushi John Adam Belushi ( ; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, singer and musician. He was one of seven ''Saturday Night Live'' cast members of the first season. He was arguably the most popular member of the ''Satur ...

* Stanley James Tippett – kidnapper and rapist * Colin Thatcher (born 1938) – murderer * Mark Twitchell (born 1979) – murderer * Paolo Violi (1931–1978) – mobster * Paul Volpe (1927–1983) – mobster * Elizabeth Wettlaufer (born 1955) – serial killer * Russell Williams (born 1963) – former RCAF military pilot and wing commander; convicted murderer, rank and decorations revoked upon conviction * Gabriel Wortman (1968–2020) – mass murderer * Thomas Young (1931–1959) – rapist and mass murderer * Rocco Zito (1928–2016) – mobster

Wrongfully convicted or lynched

* Robert Baltovich (born 1965) – wrongfully convicted of murder * Donald Marshall, Jr. (1953–2009) – wrongfully convicted of murder * David Milgaard (1952–2022) – wrongfully convicted of murder * Guy Paul Morin (born 1961) – wrongfully convicted of murder * Louie Sam (c. 1870–1884) – wrongfully accused of murder and hanged by lynch mob in Whatcom County, Washington * Steven Truscott (born 1945) – wrongfully convicted of murder

Directors

Educators

* J. Willis Ambrose (1911–1974) – Professor at the

Queen's University at Kingston Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public university, public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and ...

* Sonia Aïssa – Professor at the

Institut national de la recherche scientifique The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (; "National Institute for Scientific Research") is the research-oriented constituent university of the Université du Québec system that offers only graduate studies. INRS conducts research in ...

* Richard Lee Armstrong FRSC (1937–1991) –

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

professor, geochemist * Martha Black – art historian, curator and author * Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700) – founder of the

Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal The Congrégation de Notre Dame (CND) is a religious community for women founded in 1658 in Ville Marie (Montreal), in the colony of New France, now part of Canada. It was established by Marguerite Bourgeoys, who was recruited in France to creat ...

* Stephen E. Calvert FRSC (born 1935) –

emeritus professor, geologist, oceanographer * Petr Cerny (1934–2018) ScD ('' hc'') FRSC –

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of Western Canada. Both by total student enrolment and campus area, the University of ...

professor, mineralogist and crystallographer * Aleksis Dreimanis (1914–2011) –

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

emeritus professor, quaternary geologist * George Georgiou (living) – university professor * James E. Gill (1901–1980) –

professor, geologist * Henry C. Gunning ScD ('' hc'') FRSC (1901–1991) – University of British Columbia professor, geologist * James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965) – Professor at Queen's, geologist (

Hawleyite Hawleyite is a rare sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group, dimorphous and easily confused with greenockite. Chemically, it is cadmium sulfide, and occurs as a bright yellow coating on sphalerite or siderite in vugs, deposited by meteoric wate ...

) * Frank Hawthorne OC FRSC (born 1946) –

professor, mineralogist and crystallographer * Adelaide Hoodless (1858–1910) – education and women's activist *

Michael Ignatieff Michael Grant Ignatieff ( ; born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has ...

(born 1947) –

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

and

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

professor, political science *

Sue Johanson Susan Avis Bailey Johanson (; July 29, 1930 – June 28, 2023) was a Canadian registered nurse and sex educator. She operated a birth control clinic in Toronto and hosted a series of radio and television programmes on birth control, safer sex ...

CM (1930–2023) –

sex educator Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, Human sexual activity, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, safe sex, birth ...

* Michael John Keen (1935–1991) –

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus ...

professor, marine geoscientist * Sean Kelly (born 1940) –

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has an additional campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The institute was founded in 18 ...

, NYC, Humanities & Media Studies, writer * J. Ross Mackay OC FRSC (1915–2014) –

professor, geologist * Eric W. Mountjoy FRSC (1931–2010) – McGill University professor, geologist * Gerard V. Middleton FRSC (1931–2021) –

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood, Ontario, Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Ontario, Westd ...

professor, geologist * Anthony J. Naldrett FRSC (1933–2020) –

emeritus professor, geologist * Santa J. Ono FCAHS (born c. 1962) –

15th President & Vice-Chancellor, professor, medical scientist * William Richard Peltier ScD ('' hc'') FRSC (born c. 1942) – University of Toronto professor, physicist *

Jordan Peterson Jordan Bernt Peterson (born 12 June 1962) is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He received widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues. Often described as Conservatism, conservativ ...

(born 1962) – Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto * Paula Rochon – Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022 *

Egerton Ryerson Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 – 19 February 1882) was a Canadian educator, author, editor, and Methodist minister who was a prominent contributor to the design of the Canadian public school system. Ryerson is considered to be the fo ...

(1803–1882) –

public education A state school, public school, or government school is a primary school, primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state. State-f ...

advocate * Dora Sakayan (born 1931) – full professor, Department of German Studies, McGill University; Armenology, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Translation, Genocide Studies * Colin Simpson (born c. 1965) –

George Brown College The George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public, fully accredited college (Canada), college of applied arts and technology with three campuses in downtown Toronto (Ontario, Canada). Like many other colleges in Ontario, George ...

, best-selling author * Charles R. Stelck OC ScD ('' hc'') FRSC (1917–2016) –

University of Alberta The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta, ) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, t ...

professor, petroleum geologist, paleontologist, stratigrapher * David Strangway OC ScD ('' hc'') FRSC (1934–2016) – geophysicist and university administrator * Thomas Symons CC OOnt (1929–2021) – founding president of Trent University, Professor of Canadian Studies * Claude Vivier (1948–1983) –

organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...

pedagogue and professor at Collège Montmorency * Roger G. Walker FRSC – McMaster University emeritus professor * William Winegard PC OC (1924–2019) – educator, engineer, scientist and former Member of Parliament

Environmentalists

''See Canadian environmentalists''.

Fashion

* Jeanne Beker (born 1952) – reporter * Sahar Biniaz (born November 17, 1985) – model *

Dean and Dan Caten Dean and Dan Caten (née Catenacci; born December 19, 1964) are Canadian people, Canadian fashion designers, radio personalities, and businessmen. They are identical twin brothers and the founders and owners of Dsquared², an Italian luxury fash ...

(born 1965) – designers known as Dsquared * Keshia Chanté (born 1988) – model and singer * Steven Cojocaru (born 1970) (known as Cojo) – critic and correspondent on ''

Entertainment Tonight ''Entertainment Tonight'' (or simply ''ET'') is an American Broadcast syndication, first-run syndicated news broadcasting news magazine, newsmagazine program that is distributed by CBS Media Ventures throughout the United States and owned by Par ...

'' * Taryn Davidson (born 1991) – model * Linda Evangelista (born 1965) – model * Shalom Harlow (born 1973) – model and actress * Winnie Harlow (born 1994) – model * Irina Lazareanu (born 1982) – model * Jay Manuel (born 1972) – expert on ''

America's Next Top Model ''America's Next Top Model'' (abbreviated ''ANTM'' and ''Top Model'') is an American reality television series and interactive competition in which a number of aspiring models compete for the title of "America's Next Top Model" and a chance to b ...

'' and '' Canada's Next Top Model'' * Heather Marks (born 1988) – model * Kenneth G. Mills (1923–2004) – designer * Peter Nygard (born 1941) – designer * Lana Ogilvie (born 1968) – model * Coco Rocha (born 1988) – model * Monika Schnarre (born 1971) – model * Jessica Stam (born 1986) – model * Daria Werbowy (born 1983) – Polish-born Canadian model * Jason Wu (born 1982) – fashion designer, dolls artist

Humanitarians

Louise Arbour Louise Arbour, (born February 10, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist. Arbour was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario and a former Chief Pr ...

(born 1947) – former

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Univer ...

, former justice of the

, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and

Rwanda Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...

* J. Esmonde Barry (1923–2007) – healthcare activist and political commentator in

New Brunswick New Brunswick is a Provinces and Territories of Canada, province of Canada, bordering Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to ...

* Norman Bethune (1890–1939) – physician and medical innovator *

Richard Maurice Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke (18 March 1837 – 19 February 1902) was a Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century. An adventurer during his youth, Bucke later studied medicine. Eventually, as a psychiatrist, he headed the provincial Asylum for the ...

FRSC (1837–1902) – psychiatrist, philosopher, early author on human development and human potentials * Steve Fonyo OC Rescinded 2010 (born 1966) – retraced and completed Terry Fox's cross country cancer research fundraising marathon *

Terry Fox Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, having had one leg amputated due to cancer, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for can ...

CC OD (1958–1981) – attempted one-legged cross country run for cancer research *

Marc Kielburger Marc Kielburger (born 1977) is a Canadians, Canadian author, social entrepreneur, columnist, humanitarian and activist for children's rights. He is the co-founder, along with his brother Craig Kielburger, Craig, of the WE (organization), We M ...

(born 1977) – author, social entrepreneur, columnist, humanitarian and activist for children's rights; co-founder, with his brother Craig, of the We Movement *

Grey Owl Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (September 18, 1888April 13, 1938), commonly known as Grey Owl, was an English-Canadian popular writer, public speaker and conservationist. Born an Englishman, in the latter years of his life he passed as half-Indi ...

(1888–1938) (real name Archibald Stanfield Belaney) – conservationist who falsely presented himself as an Aboriginal person and worked to save the

beaver Beavers (genus ''Castor'') are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers are the second-large ...

s of

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...

and

Manitoba Manitoba is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population ...

Rick Hansen Richard Marvin Hansen (born August 26, 1957) is a Canadian track and field athlete (Paralympic Games and Olympic Games), activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. When Rick was 15, he was riding in the back of a pickup truck ...

CC OBC LLD ('' hc'') DLitt ('' hc'') (born 1957) – paraplegic athlete who completed an around-the-world marathon for spinal cord injury research *

Stephen Lewis Stephen Henry Lewis (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster, and diplomat. He was the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations in the 1980s and was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democr ...

CC (born 1937) –

AIDS The HIV, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. Without treatment, it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is a Preventive healthcare, pr ...

activist,

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...

special envoy for

HIV/AIDS The HIV, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. Without treatment, it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is a Preventive healthcare, pr ...

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

* Harold A. Rogers OC OBE (1899–1994) – founder of Kin Canada * Jean Vanier CC GOQ (1928–2019) – activist for the mentally disabled, founder of

L'Arche L'Arche ("The Ark") is an international federation of non-profit organisations working to create networks of community where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together. Founded in 1964 by Jean Vanier, Raphaël Si ...

Inventors

* Scott Abbott – co-inventor of

Trivial Pursuit ''Trivial Pursuit'' is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question the ...

* Thomas Ahearn PC (1855–1938) – invented the electric cooking range and the electric car heater * Anthony R. Barringer (1925–2009) – holds 70 patents for

mineral exploration Mining engineering is the extraction of minerals from the ground. It is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying. A mining engineer m ...

technology * Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995) – co-invented rodeo's side-delivery chute, invented reverse-opening side-delivery chute, hornless bronc saddle, one-hand bareback rigging and high-cut chaps *

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian Americans, Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He als ...

(1847–1922) – born in Scotland, invented the telephone in Canada and developed it in the United States *

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Joseph-Armand Bombardier (; April 16, 1907 – February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was a snowmobile. Biography Born in Valcourt, Quebec, Joseph-Armand Bombard ...

(1907–1964) – invented the

snowmobile A snowmobile, also known as a snowmachine (chiefly Alaskan), motor sled (chiefly Canadian), motor sledge, skimobile, snow scooter, or simply a sled is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow. Their engines normally ...

Gerald Bull Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a space gun, huge artillery piece, to which ...

(1928–1990) – invented the

G5 howitzer The G5 is a South African towed howitzer of 155 mm calibre developed in South Africa by Denel Land Systems. The G5 design was based on the Canadian GC-45 howitzer, GC-45 155 mm gun which was highly modified to suit southern African conditio ...

and the Iraqi supergun *

Herbert Henry Dow Herbert Henry Dow (February 26, 1866 – October 15, 1930) was an American chemical industrialist who founded the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical. A graduate of the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a p ...

(1866–1930) – invented a method of bromine extraction known as the Dow process *

Mathew Evans Matthew Evans is one of two Canadians who developed and patented an incandescent light bulb, on July 24, 1874, five years before Thomas Alva Edison's U.S. patent on the device. Evans, from Toronto, Ontario Ontario is the southernmost Provi ...

– co-inventor of the first electric

light bulb Electric light is an artificial light source powered by electricity. Electric Light may also refer to: * Light fixture, a decorative enclosure for an electric light source * ''Electric Light'' (album), a 2018 album by James Bay * Electric Light ( ...

Charles Fenerty Charles Fenerty ( January 1821 – 10 June 1892) was a Canadian inventor who invented the wood pulp process for papermaking, which was first adapted into the production of newsprint. Fenerty was also a poet, writing over 32 known poems. Early li ...

(c. 1821–1892) – inventor of the

wood pulp Pulp is a fibrous Lignocellulosic biomass, lignocellulosic material prepared by chemically, semi-chemically, or mechanically isolating the cellulose fiber, cellulosic fibers of wood, fiber crops, Paper recycling, waste paper, or cotton paper, rag ...

process for making

paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, Textile, rags, poaceae, grasses, Feces#Other uses, herbivore dung, or other vegetable sources in water. Once the water is dra ...

Reginald Fessenden Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of List of Reginald Fessenden patents, patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936 ...

(1866–1932) –

radio Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connec ...

inventor who made the first radio-transmitted audio transmission and the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission; also invented

sonar Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances ( ranging), communicate with or detect objects o ...

and patented the first

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

system * Sir

Sandford Fleming Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, ...

KCMG

DSc DSC or Dsc may refer to: Education * Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) * District Selection Committee, an entrance exam in India * Doctor of Surgical Chiropody, superseded in the 1960s by Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Educational institutions * Dyal Sin ...

('' hc'') FRSC (1827–1915) – inventor of the system of

Standard Time Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical region to a single time standard, rather than a local mean time standard. Generally, standard time agrees with the local mean time at some meridian that passes through the r ...

zones * Wilbur R. Franks OBE (1901–1986) – invented the anti-black-out-suit (the

G-suit A g-suit, or anti-''g'' suit, is a flight suit worn by aviators and astronauts who are subject to high levels of acceleration force ( g). It is designed to prevent a black-out and g-LOC (g-induced loss of consciousness) caused by the blood poo ...

) * Abraham Pineo Gesner (1797–1864) – inventor of kerosene; known as the "father of the petroleum industry" *

James Gosling James Arthur Gosling (born 19 May 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java (programming language), Java programming language. Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of E ...

OC (born 1955) – invented Java computer language * Chris Haney (1950–2010) – co-inventor of

* Sam Jacks (1915–1975) – inventor of

ringette Ringette is a winter team sport played on an ice rink using ice hockey skates, straight sticks with drag-tips, and a blue, rubber, pneumatic ring designed for use on ice surfaces. While the sport was originally created exclusively for female c ...

* George Klein OC MBE LLD ('' hc'') (1904–1992) – developed: electric wheelchairs, microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor, and the Canadarm * James L Kraft (1874–1953) – entrepreneur and inventor, founder of L. Kraft & Bros. Company, which later became

; patented processed cheese (AKA American cheese) * Thomas Edvard Krogh ScD ('' hc'') FRSC (1936–2008) – developed technique of

radiometric Radiometry is a set of techniques for measuring electromagnetic radiation, including visible light. Radiometric techniques in optics characterize the distribution of the radiation's power in space, as opposed to photometric techniques, which ch ...

uranium Uranium is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Ura ...

lead Lead () is a chemical element; it has Chemical symbol, symbol Pb (from Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a Heavy metal (elements), heavy metal that is density, denser than most common materials. Lead is Mohs scale, soft and Ductility, malleabl ...

dating to further the precision of

geochronology Geochronology is the science of Chronological dating, determining the age of rock (geology), rocks, fossils, and sediments using signatures inherent in the rocks themselves. Absolute geochronology can be accomplished through radioactive isotopes, ...

Hugh Le Caine Hugh Le Caine (May 27, 1914 – July 3, 1977) was a Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument builder. Le Caine was brought up in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) in northwestern Ontario. At a young age, he began making musical instruments. In y ...

(1914–1977) – invented the music synthesizer in 1945 * Cluny MacPherson (1879–1966) – invented the first general-issue

gas mask A gas mask is a piece of personal protective equipment used to protect the wearer from inhaling airborne pollutants and toxic gases. The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft ...

used by the British Army in

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

* Wilson Markle (1938–2020) – invented

film colorization Film colorization (American English; or colourisation/colorisation [both British English], or colourization [Canadian English and Oxford English]) is any process that adds color to black-and-white, sepia tone, sepia, or other mo ...

process in 1983 *

Elijah McCoy Elijah J. McCoy (May 2, 1844 – October 10, 1929) was a Canadian-American engineer of African Americans, African-American descent who invented lubrication systems for steam engines. Born free on the Ontario shore of Lake Erie to parents ...

(1844–1929) – developed automatic machinery lubricator, lawn sprinkler, the "Real McCoy" *

James Naismith James Naismith (; November 6, 1861November 28, 1939) was a Scottish-Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United State ...

(1861–1939) – invented

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

* P. L. Robertson (1879–1951) – invented the Robertson screw * Henry Ruttan (1792–1871) – invented air-conditioned railway coach * Thomas F. Ryan (1872–1971) – invented

five-pin bowling Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is played in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised around 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario, at his Toronto Bowling Clu ...

* Arthur Sicard (1876–1946) – invented the

snowblower A snow blower or snowblower or snow thrower is a machine for removing snow from an area where it is problematic, such as a driveway, sidewalk, roadway, railroad track, ice rink, or runway. The commonly used term "snow blower" is a misnomer, a ...

in 1925 * Lewis Urry (1927–2004) – invented the long-lasting

alkaline battery An alkaline battery (IEC code: L) is a type of primary battery where the electrolyte (most commonly potassium hydroxide) has a pH value above 7. Typically, these batteries derive energy from the reaction between zinc metal and manganese diox ...

* Harry Wasylyk (1925–2013) – invented the disposable green polyethylene garbage bag in 1950 * Thomas Willson (1860–1915) – invented

arc lamp An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc between carbon electrodes in air, invented by Humphry Davy in the first decade of the 1800s, ...

s and process for creating

calcium carbide Calcium carbide, also known as calcium acetylide, is a chemical compound with the chemical formula of . Its main use industrially is in the production of acetylene and calcium cyanamide. The pure material is colorless, while pieces of technica ...

* Henry Woodward – co-inventor of the first electric

Law

* J. S. Ewart (1849–1933) – lawyer, advocate for Canadian independence * Frances Fish (1888–1975) – first woman to be called to the bar of Nova Scotia * Mabel French (1881– 1955) – the first woman to practice law in two separate Canadian provinces:

and

British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...

* Catherine Latimer – lawyer and criminologist * Alfred Scow (1927–2013) – First Nations judge

Media

* Samantha Bee (born 1969) – host of '' Full Frontal with Samantha Bee'' * Stephen Brunt (born 1959) – lead sports columnist for ''

The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...

'' since 1989 *

Stevie Cameron Stevie Cameron (née Dahl; October 11, 1943 – August 31, 2024) was a Canadian investigative journalist and author. She worked for various newspapers such as the ''Toronto Star'' and ''The Globe and Mail''. She co-hosted the investigative new ...

(born 1943) – journalist, author * Richard Gizbert (born 1960) cable network journalist of ''

Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English (AJE; , ) is a 24-hour English-language News broadcasting, news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is funded by the government of Qatar. Al Jazeera introduced an English-language division in 2006. It is ...

'' *

Gordon Donaldson Gordon Donaldson (13 April 1913 – 16 March 1993) was a Scottish historian. Life He was born in a tenement at 140 McDonald RoadEdinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory, 1912 off Leith Walk in northern Edinburgh on 13 April 1913 the so ...

(1926–2001) – amateur historian, journalist * Barbara Frum OC LLD ('' hc'') (1937–1992) –

CBC CBC may refer to: Media * Cadena Baja California or Grupo Cadena, a radio and television broadcaster in Mexico * Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's radio and television public broadcaster ** CBC Television ** CBC Radio One ** CBC Music ** ...

radio and television journalist * Jian Ghomeshi (born 1967) – former musician and radio broadcaster * Ken Hechtman (born 1967) – maverick journalist jailed by

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

Taliban , leader1_title = Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, Supreme leaders , leader1_name = {{indented plainlist, * Mullah Omar{{Natural Causes{{nbsp(1994–2013) * Akhtar Mansour{{Assassinated (2015–2016) * Hibatullah Akhundzada (2016–present) ...

government as a suspected United States spy in 2001 * Kenny Hotz (born 1967) – only registered Canadian journalist to cover the

Gulf War , combatant2 = , commander1 = , commander2 = , strength1 = Over 950,000 soldiers3,113 tanks1,800 aircraft2,200 artillery systems , page = https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-PEMD-96- ...

* Mark Irwin CSC/ASC (born 1950) – Hollywood Director of Photography *

Peter Jennings Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings (July 29, 1938August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor of ''ABC World News Tonight'' from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 200 ...

CM (1938–2005) – ABC news anchor * Jason Jones (born 1967) – senior correspondent for ''

The Daily Show ''The Daily Show'' is an American late-night talk show, late-night talk and news satire television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United States, with extended episodes released shortly after on Paramount+ ...

'' * Pat Kiernan (born 1968) – morning anchor of NY1 since 1997 * Michael Kesterton (1946–2018) – ''

'' columnist * Lisa LaFlamme (born 1964) – journalist, occasional chief anchor, and senior editor for

CTV National News ''CTV National News'' is the flagship newscast of CTV News, the news division of the CTV Television Network, which airs at 11:00 pm local time on the CTV stations across Canada, and is produced from CTV's facilities at 9 Channel Nine Court in Sc ...

L. Ian MacDonald L. (Lawrence) Ian MacDonald (born 1947) is a Canadians, Canadian writer, columnist, broadcaster, public speaker, and diplomat.

(born 1947) – author, columnist, broadcaster, and diplomat * Neil Macdonald (born 1957) – CBC reporter * Robert MacNeil (1931–2024) – journalist, author, longtime co-anchor of '' The MacNeil/Lehrer Report'' on

PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educat ...

* Peter Mansbridge OC LLD ('' hc'') (born 1948) – news anchor of CBC's '' The National'' *

Rick Mercer Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer (born October 17, 1969) is a Canadian comedian, television personality, Political satire, political satirist, and author. He is best known for his work on the CBC Television comedy shows ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' ...

OC (born 1969) – comedian, TV personality, political satirist and author * Mosha Michael (c. 1948–2009) – Canada's first

Inuk Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labr ...

filmmaker * Cory Morgan (born 1971) – blogger, Alberta independence politician and activist, and columnist * Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray (1888–1982) – editor and co-publisher of the ''Bridge River-Lillooet News'' * Peter C. Newman CC CD LLD ('' hc'') (born 1929) – eminent journalist and writer *

Sydney Newman Sydney Cecil Newman (; April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian producer and screenwriter who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, he was app ...

OC (1917–1997) – supervisor of drama at the

, head of drama at the

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

, creator of the ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...

'' television series, chairman of the NFB * David Oancia (1929–1995) – journalist *

Steve Paikin Steven Hillel Paikin (born June 9, 1960) is a Canadian journalist, author, and documentary producer. Paikin has primarily worked for TVOntario (TVO), Ontario's public broadcaster, and is anchor of TVO's flagship current affairs program ''The Ag ...

(born 1960) – journalist, film producer and author, best known for hosting

TVOntario TVO (stylized in all lowercase as tvo), formerly known as TVOntario, is a Canadian Public broadcasting, publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It operates ...

's '' Studio 2'' * Pete Parker (1895–1991) – made the first ever broadcast of a professional hockey game * Sandie Rinaldo (born 1950) – journalist and occasional news anchor for

John Roberts John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American jurist serving since 2005 as the 17th chief justice of the United States. He has been described as having a Moderate conservatism, moderate conservative judicial philosophy, thoug ...

(born 1956) –

Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City, U.S. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ow ...

reporter, previously a

CNN Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable ne ...

reporter and host of '' The New Music'' on

MuchMusic Much is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. through its Bell Media subsidiary that airs programming aimed at teenagers and young adults. It is headquartered at 299 Queen Street West in what was o ...

* Lloyd Robertson OC LLD ('' hc'') (born 1934) – senior editor and former longtime anchor for CTV National News *

Morley Safer Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine ''60 Minutes'', whose cast he joined in 1970 af ...

(1931–2016) – investigative journalist for

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainme ...

News and ''

60 Minutes ''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who distinguished it from other news programs by using a unique style o ...

'' * Linus Sebastian (born 1986) – owner and founder of Linus Media Group * Shane Smith (born 1969) – founder of

Vice A vice is a practice, behaviour, Habit (psychology), habit or item generally considered morally wrong in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character trait, a defect, an infirmity, or a bad or unhe ...

* George Stroumboulopoulos (born 1972) – television journalist * Scott Taylor (born 1960) – publisher, Esprit de Corps Magazine * Peter Trueman OC (1934–2021) – original newsman on Global TV * Robyn Urback (born 1988) – journalist and political commentator *

Jan Wong Jan Wong (; born August 1952) is a Canadian academic, journalist, and writer. Wong worked for ''The Globe and Mail'', serving as Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994, when she returned to write from Canada. At the turn of the 21st century she ...

(born 1952) – journalist

Medical

Evan Adams Evan Tlesla Adams (born November 15, 1966) is an Indigenous Canadian actor, playwright, and physician. A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films ...

(born 1966) – First Nations medical doctor, medical advisor, Deputy Provincial Health Advisor (BC), and actor * Maria Louisa Angwin (1849–1898) – first woman licensed to practice medicine in Nova Scotia * Elizabeth Bagshaw CM (1881–1982) – physician and birth control activist *

Frederick Banting Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physi ...

KBE MC LLD ('' hc'') ScD ('' hc'') FRSC (1891–1941) –

Nobel laureate The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in th ...

, co-discoverer of

insulin Insulin (, from Latin ''insula'', 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the insulin (''INS)'' gene. It is the main Anabolism, anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabol ...

* John Cameron Bell (born 1953) – pioneer of oncolytic virus therapies for cancer * Norman Bethune (1890–1939) – surgeon, inventor, socialist, battlefield doctor in Spain and China * Wilfred Bigelow OC LLD ('' hc'') FRSC (1913–2005) – inventor of the first artificial pacemaker * Yvette Bonny (born 1938) – pediatrician * Basil Boulton (1938–2008) – pediatrician and child health advocate * John Callaghan OC AOE (1923–2004) – pioneer of open-heart surgery * John Dick FRSC (born 1954) – credited with discovery of

cancer stem cell Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are cancer cells (found within tumors or hematological cancers) that possess characteristics associated with normal stem cells, specifically the ability to give rise to all cell types found in a particular cancer sample ...

Tommy Douglas Thomas Clement Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Bap ...

PC CC SOM LLD ('' hc'') (1904–1986) – introduced

publicly funded health care Publicly funded healthcare is a form of health care financing designed to meet the cost of all or most healthcare needs from a publicly managed fund. Usually this is under some form of democratic accountability, the right of access to which are se ...

in Canada; commonly known as the " father of Medicare" * Carl Goresky OC (1932–1996) – physician and scientist *

David H. Hubel David Hunter Hubel (February 27, 1926 – September 22, 2013) was an American Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Pr ...

(1926–2013) – Nobel Prize winner in medicine for mapping the visual cortex * Harold E. Johns OC (1915–1998) – medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer * Doreen Kimura (1933–2013) – behavioural psychologist, world expert on sex differences in the brain * William Harding le Riche (1916–2010) – epidemiologist *

Jeanne Mance Jeanne Mance (; November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hos ...

(1606–1673) – established the first hospital in

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– the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal – in 1644 * Ernest McCulloch CM OOnt FRSC FRS (1926–2011) – cellular biologist credited with the discovery of

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with James Till * Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959) – pioneering

forensic pathologist Forensic pathology is pathology that focuses on determining the cause of death by examining a corpse. A post mortem examination is performed by a medical examiner or forensic pathologist, usually during the investigation of criminal law cases an ...

and criminologist *

Henry Morgentaler Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler (March 19, 1923 – May 29, 2013), was a Polish-born Canadian physician, and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a Jewish youth during World War ...

CM LLD ('' hc'') (1923–2013) –

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care provider who helped legalize abortion in Canada and strengthen the power of

jury nullification Jury nullification, also known as jury equity or as a perverse verdict, is a decision by the jury in a trial, criminal trial resulting in a verdict of Acquittal, not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law. The jury's reas ...

William Osler Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, (; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first Residency (medicine), residency program for speci ...

Bt (1849–1919) – physician, called the "father of modern medicine"; wrote ''Principles and Practice of Medicine'' *

Daniel David Palmer Daniel David Palmer (March 7, 1845 – October 20, 1913) was a Canadian-born American spiritualist and activist best known for creating chiropractic. Palmer was born in Pickering Township, Canada West, but emigrated to the United States in 186 ...

(1845–1913) – founded the chiropractic profession * Edgar Randolph Parker (1871–1951) (known as "Painless" Parker) – flamboyant dentist *

Wilder Penfield Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. ...

OM CC CMG FRS (1891–1976) – neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain * Jack Pickup (1919–1996) – general practitioner and surgeon, also known as the "Flying Doctor of British Columbia" * Octavia Ritchie (1868–1948) – physician, suffragist and the first woman to receive a medical degree in Québec * David Sackett CC FRSC (1934–2015) – founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at

* Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott (1865–1941) – physician and missionary in Ceylon * Sydney Segal (1920–1997) – pediatrician and neonatologist particularly known for his work with

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* James Till OC OOnt FRSC FRS (born 1931) – biophysicist, credited for the discovery of

with Ernest McCulloch * A. Ross Tilley (1904–1988) MD FRCS(C) OBE OC – plastic surgeon * Irene Ayako Uchida OC (1917–2013) – cytogenticist, Down Syndrome researcher * Amelia Yeomans (1842–1913) – physician and suffragist, first female physician in

Military figures

* General Maurice Baril OMM CD (born 1943) – military advisor to the

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, head of the Military Division of the

Department of Peacekeeping Operations The Department of Peace Operations (DPO) (French: ''Département des opérations de maintien de la paix'') is a department of the United Nations charged with the planning, preparation, management, and direction of United Nations peacekeeping, ...

of the

, and Chief of the Defence Staff * Gustave Biéler DSO MBE (1904–1944) –

Special Operations Executive Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local Resistance during World War II, resistance movements during World War II. ...

agent, executed by the Nazis * Louis-Nicolas-Emmanuel de Bigault d'Aubreville – head of the nightwatch in Montreal * Air Commodore Leonard Birchall CM OBE DFC OOnt CD DMSc ('' hc'') LLD ('' hc'') (1915–2004) – war hero * Air Marshall

Billy Bishop Air Marshal William Avery Bishop, (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war, and a ...

VC CB DSO* MC DFC ED (1894–1956) (commonly known as Billy Bishop) –World War I flying ace * Brigadier-General Jean Boyle CMM CD (born 1947) – fighter pilot, and businessman * Major General Sir

Isaac Brock Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB (6 October 1769 – 13 October 1812) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Guernsey. He is best remembered for his victory at the Siege of Detroit and his death at the Battle of Quee ...

KB (1769–1812) –

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general * Captain Roy Brown DSC* RNAS (1893–1944) –

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officially credited with shooting down the

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* Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO* (1890–1971) – Canadian signatory to the

Japanese Instrument of Surrender The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in World War II. It was signed by representatives from the Empire of Japan and from the Allied n ...

* General Harry Crerar CH CB DSO CD PC (1888–1965) – "leading field commander" in

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

* Lieutenant-General Sir

Arthur Currie General Sir Arthur William Currie, (5 December 187530 November 1933) was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war ...

KCB GCMG (1875–1933) – first Canadian commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force * Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire OC CMM GOQ Meritorious Service Decoration (Canada), MSC CD LLD ('' hc'') Doctor of Science, ScDHum ('' hc'') Doctor of Humane Letters, DHL ('' hc'') (born 1946) – UN peacekeeping General, attempted to prevent the Rwandan genocide * Guy D'Artois DSO George Medal, GM (1917–1999) – SOE agent, recipient of the ''Croix de Guerre'' * General John de Chastelain CH OC CMM CD LLD ('' hc'') Doctor of Science, ScDMil ('' hc'') Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, FLMH (born 1937) – head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning * Peter Dmytruk (1920–1943) – WWII Flight Sergeant and member of the French Resistance * Brigadier-General Charles Drury, Dury, Charles PC OC QC Order of the British Empire, CBE DSO (1912–1991) – soldier, businessman, and politician * John Weir Foote VC CD (1904–1988) – military chaplain, Ontario cabinet minister, and recipient of the Victoria Cross * Captain Nichola Goddard Meritorious Service Medal (Canada), MSM (1980–2006) – first female Canadian soldier killed in combat * William Hall (VC), William Hall VC (1827–1904) – first Nova Scotian recipient of the Victoria Cross * John Kenneth Macalister (1914–1944) – Special Operations Executive, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis * Vice-Admiral Bruce MacLean CMM, CD – Chief of the Maritime Staff 2004–2006 * Captain Simon Mailloux (born 1983) – first Canadian soldier with an amputation to deploy on a combat mission; recipient of the Sacrifice Medal * Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (1872–1918) – soldier, poet, author of ''In Flanders' Fields'' * Alan Arnett McLeod VC (1899–1918) – fighter pilot, youngest Canadian-born winner of the Victoria Cross * General Andrew McNaughton CH CB Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, CMG DSO CD PC (1887–1966) – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II * Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Meighen (1905–1979) – lawyer and philanthropist * Lieutenant Colonel Charles Merritt VC (1908–2000) – recipient of the Victoria Cross * Major General Sydney Chilton Mewburn PC (1863–1956) – lawyer and politician, Minister of Militia and Defence * Jerri Mumford, Minnie "Jerri" Mumford (1909–2002) – serving member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) during World War II * Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray (1896–1971) – Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Northwest Atlantic during

* Henry Norwest Military Medal, MM & Bar (1884–1918) – sniper in

* Lieutenant-Colonel George Pearkes VC PC CC CB DSO MC CD (1888–1984) – recipient of the Victoria Cross, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia * Francis Pegahmagabow Military Medal, MM** (1891–1952) – the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of

* Frank Pickersgill (1915–1944) – Special Operations Executive, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis * Rear Admiral Desmond Piers CM Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom), DSC CD Doctor of Science, ScDMil ('' hc'') (1913–2005) – war hero * George Lawrence Price (1898–1918) – last soldier killed in

* Tommy Prince Military Medal, MM (1915–1977) – one of

's most decorated soldiers, member of the First Special Service Force, Devil's Brigade * James Ralston PC (1881–1948) – Co-Minister of Defence during

* Thomas Ricketts (VC), Thomas Ricketts VC (1901–1967) – recipient of the Victoria Cross (Newfoundlander at the time of his award) * Harold A. Rogers OC OBE (1889–1994) – founder of Kin Canada * Roméo Sabourin (1923–1944) – Special Operations Executive, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis * General Guy Simonds CC CB Order of the British Empire, CBE DSO CD (1903–1974) – commander of the II Canadian Corps * Ernest Smith (1914–2005) – VC, CM, OBC, CD, Seaforth Highlander Private/ Sergeant, the last living Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, awarded for gallantry in actions at the River Savio, Northern Italy 1944 * Sam Steele CB KCMG Royal Victorian Order, MVO (1851–1919) – member of the North-West Mounted Police, commander of Yukon detachment * William Stephenson CC MC DFC (1897–1989) (codename: ''Intrepid'') – senior representative of British intelligence for the Western Hemisphere in

* Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart CB DSO MC (1891–1945) – Chief of the General Staff 1941–1943, educator * Tecumseh (1768–1813) – Leader of First Nations British Allies, War of 1812, died defeating American invasion * Rear Admiral Robert Timbrell CMM Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom), DSC CD (1920–2006) – first Canadian to be decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom), Distinguished Service Cross * General Christopher Vokes CB Order of the British Empire, CBE DSO CD (1904–1985) – General Officer commanding the Canadian Army Occupation Force in Europe * Brigadier Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler (1890–1962) – Corps of Royal Engineers surveyor * General Ramsey Muir Withers CMM CD LLD ('' hc'') (1930–2014) – Chief of the Defense Staff * Sir James Lucas Yeo (1782–1818) – commander of Royal Navy forces in Canada during the War of 1812

Monarchs and Canadian Royal Family

''Main articles:'' * List of Canadian monarchs * Monarchy of Canada#Canada's royal family and house, Canadian Royal Family

Magicians

* Shawn Farquhar (born 1962) – magician, winner of the Grand Prix Close Up at the 2009 FISM World Championship of Magic * Doug Henning (1947–2000) – credited with reviving the magic show in North America * Leon Mandrake (1911–1993) – Mandrake the Great; and his sons Lon and Ron, born in 1948 and 1949, respectively * James Randi (1928–2020) – magician, writer, skeptical investigator of paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation * Dai Vernon (1894–1992) – magician, known as "the man who fooled Houdini"

Musicians

Politicians

* Lloyd Axworthy PC OC OM (born 1939) – former Cabinet minister * Thomas Bain (1834–1915) – former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons * Robert Baldwin (1804–1858) * Maude Barlow LLD ('' hc'') Doctor of Humane Letters, DHL ('' hc'') (born 1947) – activist, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians * Perrin Beatty PC (born 1950) – former cabinet minister, president of CBC * Monique Bégin PC OC ScD ('' hc'') FRSC (born 1936) – former cabinet minister * Thomas R. Berger OC OBC (1933–2021) – jurist * Ethel Blondin-Andrew PC (born 1951) – former Cabinet minister * Henri Bourassa (1868–1952) – Quebec politician * Pierre Bourgault (1934–2003) – President of Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale * Ed Broadbent PC CC (1936–2024) – former New Democratic Party (Canada), New Democratic Party leader * George Brown (Canadian politician), George Brown (1818–1880) * Rosemary Brown (Canadian politician), Rosemary Brown PC CC OBC LLD ('' hc'') (1930–2003) * Tim Buck (1891–1973) – leader of the Canadian Communist Party * George-Étienne Cartier Bt KSMG PC (1814–1873) – Cabinet minister * Brock Chisholm CC Military Cross, MC* LLD ('' hc'') (1896–1971) – first Director-General of the World Health Organization * Joe Clark (born 1939) – 16th Prime Minister of Canada, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 1976–1983, and again 1998–2003 * Sheila Copps PC (born 1952) * Victor Copps (1919–1988) – Mayor of Hamilton * John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Earl of Durham Order of the Bath, GCB PC (1792–1840) * Ellen Fairclough PC CC OOnt (1905–2004) – first female member of the Canadian Cabinet * The Famous Five (Canada), The Famous Five – 1920s women's rights activists * Janice Filmon (born 1943) – Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba since 2015 * Iqwinder Singh Gaheer (born 1993) – member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga—Malton * Jennifer Granholm (born 1959) – first female governor of Michigan * Gurmant Grewal (born 1957) – the "Ironman of Canadian Parliament" * Nina Grewal (born 1958) – first South Asian and Sikh woman elected to Parliament; with her husband Gurmant, the Grewals are the first married couple to concurrently serve in Canadian Parliament * Elijah Harper (1949–2013) – Cree chief (Red Sucker Lake Nation), MLA Manitoba, successfully blocked the Meech Lake Accord (proposed Constitutional amendment) * C. D. Howe PC (1886–1960) – Cabinet minister * Joseph Howe PC (1804–1873) – "father of Confederation" *Michael Kerzner – Solicitor General of Ontario * Stan Keyes PC (born 1953) * Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bt (1807–1864) – co-premier of the United Province of Canada * Franklin K. Lane (1864–1921) – 1910s United States Secretary of the Interior (1913–1920) * Jack Layton PC (1950–2011) – leader of the New Democratic Party (Canada), New Democratic Party * William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861) – Mayor of Toronto * Allan MacNab Bt (1798–1862) – Prime Minister of Upper Canada * Thomas D'Arcy McGee PC (1825–1868) * Agnes Macphail (1890–1954) – first female Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament (MP) * Beverley McLachlin PC LLD ('' hc'') (born 1943) – Chief Justice of Canada * James McMillan (Senator), James McMillan (1838–1902) – US Senator from Michigan * Cory Morgan (born 1971) – Alberta independence politician * John Munro (Canadian politician), John Munro PC (1931–2003) * Louis-Joseph Papineau, Papineau (1786–1871) – reformer and 1837 rebellion leader * Pierre Poilievre (born 1979) – Member of Parliament, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada), leader of the Official Opposition * Allan Studholme (1846–1919) * Nathan Eldon Tanner (1898–1982)

Provincial premiers

:''Main articles'': * ''List of premiers of Alberta'' * ''List of premiers of British Columbia'' * ''List of premiers of Manitoba'' * ''List of premiers of New Brunswick'' * ''List of premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador'' * ''List of premiers of Nova Scotia'' * ''List of premiers of Ontario'' * ''List of premiers of Prince Edward Island'' * ''List of premiers of Quebec'' * ''List of premiers of Saskatchewan''

Territorial premiers

:''Main articles'': * ''List of premiers of the Northwest Territories'' * ''List of premiers of Nunavut'' * ''List of premiers of Yukon''

Indigenous leaders

* Shawn Atleo (born 1967) * William Beynon (1888–1958) * Big Bear (1825–1888) – Cree leader * Joseph Brant (1742–1807) – Mohawk leader * Mary Brant (1736–1796) – leader of Six Nations women's federation * Frank Calder (1877–1943) – Nisga'a * Joe Capilano (c. 1854–1910) – Squamish * Rose Charlie (1930–2018) * Arthur Wellington Clah (1831–1916) * Heber Clifton (1871–1964) * Cumshewa – 18th-century Haida chief at the inlet now bearing his name * Harley Desjarlais * Alfred Dudoward (ca. 1850–1914) * Dan George (1899–1981) – Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, Tsleil-Waututh (Burrard) * Joseph Gosnell (1936–2020) – Nisga'a * Simon Gunanoot (1874–1933) – Gitxsan * Guujaaw (born 1953) – modern-day Haida leader * Elijah Harper (1949–2013) – Cree * Chief Hunter Jack (died 1905) – St'at'imc * Mary John, Sr. (1913–2004) * August Jack Khatsahlano (1877–1971) – Squamish people, Squamish * Klattasine (died 1864) – Tsilhqot'in war chief, surrendered on terms of amnesty in times of war, hanged for murder * Koyah (fl. 1787–1795) – 18th-century chief of the Haida * George Manuel (1921–1989) * Maquinna – 18th-century Nuu-chah-nulth chief (Yuquot/Mowachaht) * Harriet Nahanee (1935–2007) – Squamish and Nuu-chah-nulth people, Nuu-chah-nulth (Pacheedaht First Nation, Pacheedaht) * Nicola (chief), Nicola (1780/1785–c. 1865) – Grand chief of the Okanagan people, and jointly chief of the Nlaka'pamux-Okanagan-Nicola Athapaskans, Nicola Athapaskan alliance in the Nicola Valley and of the Kamloops group of the Secwepemc * Andy Paull (1892–1959) – Squamish * Stewart Phillip * Chief Poundmaker (c. 1842–1886) – Cree chief * Piapot (c. 1816–1908) – Cree chief * Steven Point (born 1951) – modern Sto:lo leader, current Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia *

(1844–1885) – leader of two Métis people (Canada), Métis rebellions before being hung for treason * James Sewid (1913–1988) – Kwakwaka'wakw * Tecumseh (1768–1813) – Shawnee leader * Alec Thomas (1894–?) * Wickanninish – 19th-century Nuu-chah-nulth chief (Opitsaht/Tla-o-qui-aht) * Walter Wright (oral historian), Walter Wright (died 1949)

Producers

Religious figures

Martyrs

* St. Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700) – first Canadian saint * St. Noël Chabanel (1613–1649) – Jesuit missionary * St. Anthony Daniel (1601–1648) – Jesuit missionary * St. Jean de Brébeuf (1593–1649) – Jesuit missionary * St. Jean de Lalande (died 1646) – Jesuit missionary * St. Saint Charles Garnier (1606–1649) – Jesuit missionary * St. René Goupil (1608–1642) – first North American martyr of the Roman Catholic Church * St. Isaacs Jogues (1607–1646) – Jesuit missionary * St. Gabriel Lallemant (1610–1649) – Jesuit missionary

Religious community leaders

* Alexis André (1832–1893) – Catholic missionary priest, spiritual advisor to

* Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (1930–2011) – Roman Catholic Archbishops of Toronto, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto * André Besette (1845–1937) – Holy Cross Brother known as the "Miracle Man of Montreal" * Linda Bond (born 1946) – Generals of the Salvation Army, General of The Salvation Army, 2011–2013 * Arnold Brown (General of The Salvation Army), Arnold Brown (1913–2002) – Generals of the Salvation Army, General of The Salvation Army, 1977–81 * Hugh B. Brown (1883–1975) – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Latter-day Saint Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church), apostle * Ranj Dhaliwal (born 1976) – Sikh, writer, activist and co-founder of the Sikh Youth orthodox political party in Surrey, British Columbia * Lionel Groulx (1878–1967) – Roman Catholic priest, historian, nationalist, and traditionalist * Albert Lacombe (1827–1916) – Roman Catholic missionary * John G. Lake (1870–1935) – leader of the Pentecostal Movement, born in St. Marys, Ontario * Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger (1904–1991) – Catholic clergyman and humanitarian * Merlin Lybbert (1926–2001) – general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * David Mainse (1936–2017) – broadcaster, founder of 100 Huntley Street and CITS-TV * Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) – founder of the Foursquare Church * William D. Morrow – General Superintendent of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada * Bishop Michael Power (Canadian bishop), Michael Power (1804–1847) – Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto * Alexandre-Antonin Taché (1823–1894) – Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Oblate order * Nathan Eldon Tanner (1898–1982) – Latter-day Saint apostle * John Taylor (Latter Day Saints), John Taylor (1808–1887) – President of the Church (LDS Church), president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680) – "The Lily of the Mohawks", first Native American canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church * Rúhíyyih Khanum (1910–2000) – wife of Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Baháʼí Faith until 1957; she was appointed as a Hands of the Cause, Hand of the Cause; in 2004,

viewers voted her number 44 on the list of "greatest

" on the television show ''The Greatest Canadian'' * Bramwell Tillsley (1931–2019) – Generals of the Salvation Army, General of The Salvation Army, 1993–94 * Clarence Wiseman (1907–1985) – Generals of the Salvation Army, General of The Salvation Army, 1974–77

Religious cult figures

* Roch Thériault (1947–2011) – cult leader * Brother XII (1878–1934) – cult leader

Scholars

(born 1947) – jurist * Marc Van Audenrode, Marc van Audenrode (born 1961) – economist * Pratima Bansal – economist * Timothy Brook (historian), Timothy Brook (born 1951) – professor, historian and writer * Joseph-Alphonse-Paul Cadotte (1897–1979) – professor, author * Jack Chambers (linguist), Jack Chambers (born 1938) – linguist * T. H. Clark, Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996) – McGill University, McGill geology professor, namesake of Thomasclarkite * Gerald Cohen (1941–2009) – Oxford University, Oxford Philosopher * Northrop Frye (1912–1991) – influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar * John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) – economist * George Grant (philosopher), George Grant (1918–1988) – philosopher * John Peters Humphrey (1905–1995) – legal scholar, principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights * Harold Innis (1894–1952) – political economist; author of seminal works on Canadian economic history, media and communications * Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) – communications theorist, coined phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village" * Steven Pinker (born 1954) – psychologist, cognitive scientist, writer of popular science * John Ralston Saul (born 1947) – businessman, essayist, diplomat * F. R. Scott (1899–1985) – law professor, philosopher, poet * Guy Sylvestre (1918–2010) – literary critic * David Sztybel (born 1967) – philosopher * Charles Taylor (philosopher), Charles Taylor (born 1931) – philosopher * William White (economist), William R. White (born 1943) – economist * Marc Zender – Mayanist

Scientists

*Robert Campbell Aitken (born 1963) – electrical engineer *Judie Alimonti (1960–2017) – immunologist * Sidney Altman (1939–2022) – molecular biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry *Brenda Andrews (born 1957) – academic, researcher and biologist specializing in systems biology and molecular genetics. * Albert Bandura (1925–2021) – psychologist * Neil Banerjee – earth scientist * Karen Bailey – plant pathologist * Karen Beauchemin (born 1956) – livestock ruminant nutrition * Robert Bell (Canadian geologist), Robert Bell FRSC (1841–1917) – geologist * Walter A. Bell (1889–1969) – geologist, paleontologist * Manjul Bhargava (born 1974) – mathematician and Fields Medal, Fields medallist * Selwyn G. Blaylock ScD ('' hc'') (1879–1945) – chemist and mining executive * Stewart Blusson OC (born 1939) – geologist, diamond prospector, multimillionaire and philanthropist * Adolfo J. de Bold (born 1942) – biomedical scientist, discoverer of hormone secreted by heart muscle cells * Willard Boyle (1924–2011) – inventor of the charge coupled device, winner of nobel prize in physics * Bertram Brockhouse CC FRSC (1918–2003) – designer of the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectrometer, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics * Georges Brossard CM CQ ScD ('' hc'') (1940–2019) – entomologist, television personality and founder of the Montreal Insectarium * Moira Brown – North Atlantic Right Whale researcher and conservationist * Vernon Douglas Burrows, Vernon Burrows (1930–2020) – oat breeder * John J. Clague FRSC (born 1946) – authority in quaternary and environmental earth sciences * Kate Crooks (botanist), Kate Crooks (1833–1871) – botanist * Claire Cupples – microbiologist * Philip J. Currie (born 1949) – palaeontologist * John William Dawson Order of St Michael and St George, CMG FRS FRSC (1820–1899) – first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation * Duncan R. Derry LLD ('' hc'') (1906–1987) – Economic geology, economic geologist * Raymond L. Desjardins, Raymond Desjardins – agrometeorologist * Donald B. Dingwell – earth scientist * Martine Dorais – plant physiologist, organic horticulture * R. J. W. Douglas, Robert John Wilson Douglas FRSC (1920–1979) – petroleum geologist * Eugenia Duodu – chemist * Lorne Elias – chemist, inventor of the explosives vapour detector EVD-1 * John Charles Fields FRS FRSC (1863–1932) – mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal * J. Keith Fraser (born 1922) – geographer * Hu Gabrielse (1926–2024) – geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada * William Giauque (1895–1982) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry * Anne-Claude Gingras – molecular geneticist * Cynthia Grant (soil scientist), Cynthia Grant – soil fertility and crop nutrition specialist * Donald O. Hebb Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (1904–1985) – neuroscientist, published his theory of Hebbian learning * Gerhard Herzberg PC CC ScD ('' hc'') LLD ('' hc'') FRSC FRS (1904–1999) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for molecular spectroscopy * James Hillier OC (1915–2007) – inventor of the electron microscope * Vanessa M. Hirsch – veterinary pathologist and virologist * Paul F. Hoffman OC FRSC (born 1941) – geologist noted for research into Snowball Earth events * Edward A. Irving CM ScD ('' hc'') FRSC FRS (1927–2014) – provided the first physical evidence of continental drift * Charles Legge (1829–1881) – civil engineer * Victor Ling CC (born 1944) – medicine, drug resistance in cancer * Sir William Edmond Logan FRS (1798–1875) – founded the Geological Survey of Canada * Mary MacArthur – botanist, cytologist, horticulturalist * John Macoun (1831–1920) – botanist * Tak Wah Mak (born 1946) – immunologist who discovered the T-cell receptor * Claude Hillaire-Marcel FRSC (born 1943) – world leader in quaternary research * Rudolph A. Marcus (born 1923) – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for electron transfer reactions * Jerrold E. Marsden (1942–2010) – applied mathematician, founder of the Fields Institute * Ernest McCulloch CC FRSC FRS (1926–2011) – cellular biologist who, with James Till, demonstrated the existence of stem cells * Maud Menten (1879–1960) – medical scientist, made groundbreaking work in enzyme chemical kinetics, kinetics * Robert Mundell (1932–2021) – economist and Nobel laureate * John Charles Polanyi PC CC FRSC FRS (born 1929) – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for infrared chemiluminescence * Isabella Preston (1881–1965) – ornamental horticulturalist * Raymond A. Price OC ScD ('' hc'') FRSC (1933–2024) – geologist * Hubert Reeves CC OQ (1932–2023) – astrophysicist and science popularizer *Soon Jai Park (1937–2018) – dry bean breeder * Elizabeth Pattey – agricultural micrometeorologist * Henry de Puyjalon (1841–1905) – biologist and ecologist * Carmelle Robert (born 1962) – astrophysicist *Laurie Rousseau-Nepton – astrophysicist, first Indigenous peoples in Canada, indigenous woman in Quebec to obtain a PhD in astrophysics * Donald F. Sangster LLD ('' hc'') ScD ('' hc'') FRSC – geologist * Charles E. Saunders (1867–1937) – agronomist * Arthur Schawlow (1921–1999) – Nobel Prize winner in physics (for lasers) * David Schindler OC (1940–2021) – limnologist * Myron Scholes (born 1941) – Nobel Prize winner in economics * Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein – animal ethologist * Hans Selye CC (1907–1982) – pioneering stress researcher * Michael Smith (chemist), Michael Smith CC OBE (1932–2000) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for site-based mutagenesis * Ralph M. Steinman (1943–2011) – Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity * Peter A Stewart (1921–1993) – physiologist, quantitative acid-base physiology *Donna Strickland (born 1959) – Nobel Prize winner in Physics, optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers * Richard Summerbell (born 1956) – mycologist * David Suzuki CC OBC LLD ('' hc'') ScD ('' hc'') Doctor of Science, ScDEnv ('' hc'') Doctor of Science, ScDComm ('' hc'') Doctor of Humane Letters, DHL ('' hc'') (born 1936) – geneticist and science popularizer * Felicitas Svejda (1920–2016) – horticulturalist * Henry Taube FRSC (1915–2005) – Nobel Prize in chemistry for electron transfer reactions * Richard Taylor (physicist), Richard Taylor CC FRSC FRS (1929–2018) – Nobel Prize in physics recipient for verifying the quark theory * James Till CC FRS (born 1931) – biophysicist who, with Ernest McCulloch, demonstrated the existence of stem cells * Joseph Tyrrell (1858–1957) – geologist, cartographer, discoverer of dinosaur bones in Alberta * William Vickrey (1914–1996) – Nobel Prize winner in economics * Harold Williams (geologist), Harold Williams FRSC (1934–2010) – geologist, expert on the Appalachian Mountains * John Tuzo Wilson CC OBE ScD ('' hc'') FRSC FRS Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (1908–1993) – geophysicist, expert in plate tectonics

Singers

Viceroys

* List of governors general of Canada ** List of lieutenant governors of Alberta ** List of lieutenant governors of British Columbia ** List of lieutenant governors of Manitoba ** List of lieutenant governors of New Brunswick ** List of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador ** List of lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia ** List of lieutenant governors of Ontario ** List of lieutenant governors of Prince Edward Island ** List of lieutenant governors of Quebec ** List of lieutenant governors of Saskatchewan

Writers

Other personalities

* Alexandre Trudeau (born 1973) – author, filmmaker and journalist * Janis Babson (1950–1961) – organ donor, subject of two books * Great Antonio, Antonio Barichievich (1925–2003) (known as The Great Antonio) – strongman, showman, and eccentric * Grant Bristow (born 1958) – Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS undercover agent who started the Heritage Front, planted as political operative within Reform Party of Canada, Reform Party * René Lepage de Sainte-Claire (1656–1718) – lord-founder of Rimouski, Quebec * Black Donnellys, Donnelly family (known as the Black Donnellys) – participants and/or victims of a vicious community feud * Josiah Henson (1789–1883) – former slave, believed to be the inspiration for ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' * Trevor James (traveler), Trevor James (born 1988) – YouTuber * Harold Kandel (1906–1995) – legendary theatregoer from Toronto, Ontario known for speaking out during theatre events, now commemorated through the Harold Awards * Marc Karam (born 1980) – professional poker player * Anna Ruth Lang Cross of Valour (Canada), CV – recipient of the Cross of Valour (Canada), Cross of Valour * Sunny Leone (born 1981) – Canadian and Indian people, Indian pornographic actress; Bollywood actress * Bat Masterson (1853–1921) – gunfighter, fight promoter, sports journalist * Charles Vance Millar (1853–1926) – lawyer, financier, and posthumous practical joker * Sorel Mizzi (born 1986) – professional poker player * John Wilson Murray (1840–1906) – Canada's first major detective * Daniel Negreanu (born 1974) – professional poker player * Minnie Patterson (died 1911) – heroine noted for her daring rescue of men from the Barquentine, barkentine (barque) ''Coloma (barquentine), Coloma'' during a severe storm in 1906 * Sue Rodriguez (1950–1994) – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) sufferer and right to die advocate * Alexander Milton Ross (1832–1897) (known as The Birdman) – pre-American Civil War Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist and participant in the Underground Railroad * Craig Russell (Canadian actor), Craig Russell (1948–1990) – Drag queen, female impersonator and actor * Laura Secord (1775–1868) – heroine of the

, warned the British of a surprise American attack at Battle of Beaver Dams * Chris Sky (born 1983) – conspiracy theorist * Joshua Slocum (1844–1909) – first man to sail around the world solo * Margaret Trudeau (born 1948) – widow; former wife of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Fictional characters

* Amuro Ray – main character in the mecha anime ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' and varying roles in subsequent sequels * Ike Broflovski – character on ''South Park'' * Gerald and Sheila Broflovski on ''South Park'' * Captain Canuck, Tom Evans (known as Captain Canuck) – cartoon character * Benton Fraser – Mountie on the 90s television show ''Due South'' * Wolverine (character), James Howlett (aka "Logan", aka "Wolverine") – member of the X-Men * Justin Jones from ''Justin Time (TV series), Justin Time'' * Rodney McKay – character on ''Stargate SG-1'' and ''Stargate Atlantis'' * Bob and Doug McKenzie – characters on ''Second City Television, SCTV'' * Captain Canuck, Darren Oak (known as Captain Canuck) – cartoon character * Trevor Philips – one of the three protagonists of ''Grand Theft Auto V'' * Scott Pilgrim – from the graphic novel series of the same name * Sergeant William Preston – heroic Mountie of radio and TV series from the 1950s * Peter Puck – ''Hockey Night in Canada'' symbol from the 1970s * Robin Scherbatsky – supporting character on the sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'' * Captain Canuck, Dave Semple (known as Captain Canuck) – cartoon character * Anne Shirley – known as ''Anne of Green Gables'' * Terrance and Phillip – characters on ''South Park'' * Deadpool, Wade Wilson (aka "Deadpool") – comic book anti-hero

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References

External links

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
– biographies of Canadians from 1000 to 1930 CE
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada
– biographies of Canadian architects and lists of their buildings from 1800 to 1950
"Canada Questions and Answers: Everything You Need to Know About Canada"
by canadafaq.ca
The Canadian Encyclopedia
– click on "people" for links to articles about Canadians; English/French availability {{DEFAULTSORT:Canadians