List of Canadian Shia Muslims
| Total population | |
|---|---|
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300,000 (2001) Census results | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| British Columbia · Ontario · Alberta · Quebec | |
| Languages | |
| English · French · Persian · Gujarati · Arabic · Pashtu · Dari · Punjabi · Swahili · Azeri |
The Shia Eid Prayer by Grand Ayatollah Reza Hosseini Nassab in Toronto, Canada.
There are around 300,000 Shia Muslims (including Twelvers and Ismailis) in Canada out of approximately 850,000 Muslims in Canada. Most of them are Iranians, Pakistanis (also from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda), Indians (also from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda), Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Lebanese and Azeris.
Notable Canadian Shia Muslims
- Reza Hosseini Nassab - Grand Ayatollah
- Amir Attaran - Canadian lawyer, immunologist, and law professor
- Leyla Milani - Canadian model, actress, TV host and fashion designer
- Anisa Mehdi - an Emmy Award winning film director and journalist
- Hassan Khosrowshahi - founder of Canadian electronics retailer, Future Shop
- Amir Khadir - politician in the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA), Canada
- Maziar Bahari - Canadian journalist, film maker and human rights activist
- Farid Haerinejad - documentary maker and blogger
- Mobina Jaffer - Canadian Senator representing British Columbia
- Rahim Jaffer - former Canadian politician and a former Member of Parliament
- Rizwan Manji - notable for his role as Rajiv in the now cancelled NBC Universal TV series Outsourced
- Farah Nasser - Canadian journalist with CablePulse24
- Naheed Nenshi - current mayor of Calgary, Alberta
- Taleeb Noormohamed - President & CEO of Serebra
- Yasmin Ratansi - Canadian politician and a Member of Parliament
- Omar Sachedina - Canadian television journalist, currently a news anchor and reporter for the CTV Television Network.
- Aliza Vellani - Canadian television actress, who played the role of Layla Siddiqui in Little Mosque on the Prairie
- Ali Velshi - Canadian-American television journalist best known for his work on CNN
- Alykhan Velshi - lawyer, policy analyst, and ministerial assistant
- Murad Velshi - former politician in Ontario, Canada.
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