List of Canadians

This is a list of Canadians, people who are identified with Canada through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.

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Architects

• Douglas Cardinal OC RAIC (born 1934) – architect of Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Ernest Cormier OC RAIC (1885–1980) – architect of Supreme Court of Canada building
• A.J. Diamond OC RAIC (born 1934) – architect of Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
• Arthur Erickson CC RAIC (1924–2008) – architect of Simon Fraser University, Robson Square, and the Embassy of Canada in Washington
• David Ewart ISO (1841–1921) – Chief Dominion Architect (1896 to 1914), architect of Dominion Archives Building, Royal Canadian Mint, Victoria Memorial Museum, Connaught Building in Ottawa^[1]
• Étienne Gaboury RAIC OAA (born 1930) – architect of the Embassy of Canada in Mexico and the Royal Canadian Mint building in Winnipeg
• Frank Gehry CC LLD (hc) PhD (hc) DEng (hc) DArch (hc) DA (hc) AIA (born 1929) – architect of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Experience Music Project, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Art Gallery of Ontario
• Dan Hanganu OQ DArch (hc) RAIC OAQ (born 1946) – architect of Pointe-à-Callière Museum and Montreal Archival Centre
• Stephen Irwin RAIC RIBA OAA (born c. 1944) – architect of Purdy's Wharf
• Bruce Kuwabara FRAIC OAA AIA (born 1949) RAIC – architect of the Gardiner Museum, and Kitchener City Hall
• E.J. Lennox RAIC OAA (1854–1933) – architect of Old City Hall in Toronto, and Casa Loma
• John M. Lyle FRIBA OAA (1872–1945) RAIC – architect of the New York Public Library, the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and Toronto's Union Station
• Raymond Moriyama CC OOnt (born 1929) – architect of the Ontario Science Centre, Ottawa City Hall, and Canadian War Museum
• John Ostell (1813–1892) – architect of the McGill University Arts Building, and the Montreal Custom House
• Francis Rattenbury RAIC AIBC (1867–1935) – architect of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, and the Empress Hotel
• Moshe Safdie CC LLD (hc) FRAIC FAIA (born 1938) – architect of Habitat 67, the National Gallery of Canada, 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 (Bahá'í)
• Bing Thom CM FRAIC AIBC (born 1940) – architect of Central City Centre
• Ronald Thom FRAIC AIBC (1923–1986) – architect of Massey College, the Shaw Theatre, and Trent University
• Bob Topping RAIC OAA (born 1954) – Accessibility and Universal Design specialist

Artists

Actors

Broadcasters

Musicians

Visual arts

Cartoonists

• Danny Antonucci (born 1957) – creator of Ed Edd n Eddy, Lupo the Butcher
• Kate Beaton – creator of Hark! A Vagrant
• Chester Brown (born 1960) – creator of Yummy Fur, Underwater and Louis Riel
• John Byrne (born 1950) – influenced superhero characters like The Fantastic Four and Superman
• Andy Donato (born 1937) – editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Sun
• Hal Foster (1892–1982) – artist for Tarzan comic strip, creator of Prince Valiant
• J.D. Frazer (born 1965) (moniker: Illiad) – creator of the webcomic User Friendly
• Gregory Gallant (born 1962) (moniker: Seth) – creator of Palookaville
• Lynn Johnston CM OM (born 1947) – creator of For Better or For Worse
• John Kricfalusi (born 1955) (moniker: John K.) – creator of Ren and Stimpy
• Graeme MacKay (born 1968) – editorial cartoonist
• Todd McFarlane (born 1961) – creator of Spawn
• Win Mortimer (1919–1998) – illustrator for DC Comics' Superman and Batman
• Terry Mosher OC DLitt (hc) (born 1942) (moniker: Aislin) –Montreal Gazette newspaper
• Len Norris (1919–1997) – long-time editorial columnist for the Vancouver Sun
• Ryan North (born 1980) – creator of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics
• Scott Ramsoomair (born 1981) – creator of the webcomic VG Cats
• Joe Shuster (1914–1992) – co-creator of Superman
• Dave Sim (born 1956) – creator of Cerebus the Aardvark
• Fiona Staples (born 1984) – co-creator of the comic Saga
• Paul Szep (born 1941) – editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe from 1967 to 2001
• Ben Wicks CM (1926–2000) – illustrator, comic strip cartoonist, and humanitarian

Astronauts

Roberta Bondar

• 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
• Steven MacLean ScD (hc) (born 1954)
• Julie Payette CQ FMC (born 1963)
• Robert Thirsk (born 1953) – holds Canadian record for longest time spent in space
• Bjarni Tryggvason ScD (hc) (born 1945)

Athletes

Businesspeople and entrepreneurs

• Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Baron Beaverbrook PC (1879–1964) – publishing baron, entrepreneur
• Francesco Aquilini – Chairman of the Aquilini Investment Group and owner of the Vancouver Canucks
• David Asper (born 1958) – chairman, Canwest Global Communications
• Izzy Asper OC QC OM PhD (hc) LLD (hc) (1932–2003) – chairman, Canwest Global Communications
• Conrad Black – Lord Black of Crossharbour OC PC KCSG LLD (hc) (born 1944) – entrepreneur, publisher
• Willard Boyle (born 1924) – invented charge-coupled device
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (1929–2013) – head of Seagram's and long-time president of the World Jewish Congress
• Samuel Bronfman CC (1889–1971) – founder of Seagram's
• Robert Campeau (born 1923) – real-estate mogul
• Jack Kent Cooke (1912–1997) – owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, Washington Redskins and the Chrysler Building
• James Alexander Cowan (1901–1978) – public relations consultant and founder of Stratford Shakespeare Festival
• Samuel Cunard Bt (1787–1865) – founder of Cunard Line
• William Davidson (1740–1790) – lumberman, shipbuilder, merchant
• Christine M. Day – former CEO of the Canadian clothing company Lululemon Athletica
• Michael DeGroote OC (born 1932) – businessman and philanthropist
• Paul Desmarais PC CC LLD (hc) (1927-2013) – Chairman, Power Corporation of Canada

Timothy Eaton

• Craig Dobbin OC ScD (hc) LLD (hc) (1935–2006) – founder, chairman and CEO of CHC Helicopter Corporation
• James Hamet Dunn Bt (1874–1956) – financier, steel magnate
• Timothy Eaton (1834–1907) – founder of Eaton's department stores
• Bernie Ebbers LLD (hc) (born 1941) – former CEO of WorldCom
• Alfred Fuller (1885–1973) – Fuller Brush Company
• Arcadi Gaydamak (born 1952) – owner of Beitar Jerusalem
• Percy Girouard KSMG (1867–1932) – railway builder, governor
• Zabeen Hirji (born 1960) – Chief Human Resources Officer, Royal Bank of Canada
• 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
• F. Ross Johnson (born 1931) – former CEO of RJR Nabisco
• Ron Joyce CM DComm (hc) (born 1930) – original partner with Horton in Tim Hortons, primary builder of the chain
• Moez Kassam – hedge fund manager, founder of Anson Group
• Izaak Walton Killam (1885–1955) – major financier
• Guy Laliberté OC CQ (born 1959) – founder and owner of the Cirque du Soleil
• Cindy Lee – founder of T&T Supermarket^[2]
• Michael Lee-Chin LLD (hc) (born 1951) – CEO of AIC Diversified Canada Split Corp. and the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica
• Li Ka-shing (born 1928) – Chairman of the Board of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa
• Victor Li (born 1964) – deputy chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited
• Pete Luckett – owner of Pete's Frootique and host of The Food Hunter
• William Christopher Macdonald (1831–1917) – tobacco manufacturer, education philanthropist
• Terry Matthews KBE FIEE FREng (hc) (born 1943) – entrepreneur, chairman of Mitel and Wesley Clover
• Louis B. Mayer (1885–1957) – co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios
• Harrison McCain CC ONB (1927–2004) – New Brunswick potato magnate
• Colonel Samuel McLaughlin CC CD ED LLD (hc) (1871–1972) – Buick automobile manufacturer
• Simon McTavish (1750–1804) – fur trader
• Hartland Molson OC GOQ OBE DCL (hc) (1907–2002) – Senator, President of Molson Breweries
• John Molson (1763–1836) – founder of Molson Breweries
• Peter Munk OC LLD (hc) (born 1927) – founder of Barrick Gold
• Jim Pattison CM OBC (born 1928) – chairman, president, CEO, and owner of the Jim Pattison Group
• Pierre Péladeau CM OQ (1925–1997) – founder of Quebecor Inc.
• Pierre Karl Péladeau (born 1961) – President, CEO of Quebecor Inc., Québecor Média Inc. and Sun Media Corporation
• John Draper Perrin (1890-1967) – entrepreneur, financier, mining executive
• Richard Porritt OC LLD (hc) (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 (born 1930) – developer of Canary Wharf
• Edward Samuel Rogers OC ScD (hc) (1933–2008) – president and CEO of Rogers Communications
• John Roth (born 1942) – former CEO of Nortel Networks
• Lino Saputo (born 1937) – founder of Saputo
• Isadore Sharp OC LLD (hc) DComm (hc) (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
• E. P. Taylor (1901–1989) – entrepreneur, thoroughbred horse breeder
• Nat Taylor – originator of Cineplex Entertainment
• Kenneth Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet (1923–2006)
• Roy Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet GBE DLitt (hc) DCL (hc) LLD (hc) DHL (hc) (1894–1976) – entrepreneur, publisher
• William Cornelius Van Horne KCMG (1843–1915) – constructed the Canadian Pacific Railway
• Jack L. Warner (1892–1978) – founder of Warner Bros. Studios
• Galen Weston OC OOnt (born 1940) – owner of Loblaws, Holt Renfrew, and Selfridges
• Chip Wilson (born 1956) – founder of Lululemon Athletica
• Bob Young – 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
• Paul Bernardo (born 1964) – murderer, rapist
• Richard Blass (1945–1975) – multiple murderer
• Edwin Alonzo Boyd (1914–2002) – bank robber
• Jacques Cossette-Trudel (born 1947) – FLQ terrorist
• Louise Cossette-Trudel (born 1947) – FLQ terrorist
• Evelyn Dick (born 1920) – convicted of infanticide; convicted and acquitted of having murdered her husband
• Larry Fisher (born 1949) – convicted of the murder for which David Milgaard (see "Wrongfully convicted", below) was originally convicted and subsequently exonerated
• Charles Guité (born c. 1943) – fraud
• Karla Homolka (born 1970) – murderer
• Bindy Johal (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
• Marc Lépine (1964–1989) – mass murderer
• Bernard Lortie (born 1951) – FLQ terrorist
• Denis Lortie – murderer
• Grace Marks (born 1828) — convicted of murder in 1843
• 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 in 1876
• Paddy Mitchell – bank robber, leader of The Stopwatch Gang
• Clifford Olson (1940–2011) – serial child murderer
• Rocco Perri (1887 – c. 1944) – gangster, bootlegger
• Robert Pickton (born 1949) – serial murderer
• Inderjit Singh Reyat – terrorist
• Louis Riel (1844–1885) – executed for treason
• Lucien Rivard (c. 1915–2002) – narcotics smuggler
• Paul Rose (born 1943) – FLQ terrorist
• Frank "Dunie" Ryan (born 1942) – gangster
• Francis Simard (born 1946) – FLQ terrorist
• Slumach (died 1891) – Katzie man convicted and hung for the murder of Louis Bee, a Kanaka (Hawaiian) half-breed
• Cathy Smith (born 1948) – convicted of manslaughter in death of John Belushi
• Colin Thatcher (born 1938) – murderer
• Mark Twitchell (born 1979) – murderer
• Russell Williams (born 1963) – former RCAF military pilot and wing commander; convicted murderer, rank and decorations revoked upon conviction

Wrongfully convicted or lynched

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

Educators

• J. Willis Ambrose (born c. 1911) – Queen's University professor
• Richard Lee Armstrong FRSC (1937–1991) – University of British Columbia professor, geochemist
• Martha Black (art historian) – Art historian, curator and author.
• Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) - founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal
• Stephen E. Calvert FRSC (born 1962) – University of British Columbia emeritus professor, geologist, oceanographer
• Petr Cerny ScD (hc) FRSC – University of Manitoba professor, mineralogist and crystallographer
• Henry C. Gunning ScD (hc) FRSC (1901–1991) – University of British Columbia professor, geologist
• Aleksis Dreimanis (born 1914) – University of Western Ontario emeritus professor, quaternary geologist
• James E. Gill (1901–1980) – McGill University professor, geologist
• James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965) – Queen's professor, geologist (Hawleyite)
• Frank Hawthorne OC FRSC (born 1946) – University of Manitoba professor, mineralogist and crystallographer
• Adelaide Hoodless (1858–1910) – education and women's activist
• Michael Ignatieff (born 1947) – University of Toronto, Harvard University, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge professor, political science
• Sue Johanson CM (born 1930) – sex educator
• Michael John Keen (1935–1991) – Dalhousie University professor, marine geoscientist
• Sean Kelly (born 1940) – Pratt Institute, NYC, Humanities & Media Studies, writer
• J. Ross Mackay OC FRSC (born 1915) – University of British Columbia professor, geologist
• Michael D. Mehta (born 1965) – Thompson Rivers University Dean and Professor, environmental sociologist
• Eric W. Mountjoy FRSC (born c. 1930) – McGill University professor, geologist
• Gerard V. Middleton FRSC (born 1931) – McMaster University professor, geologist
• Anthony J. Naldrett FRSC (born c. 1930) – University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist
• William Richard Peltier ScD (hc) FRSC (born c. 1942) – University of Toronto professor, physicist
• Egerton Ryerson (1803–1882) – public education advocate
• Dora Sakayan – full professor, Department of German Studies, McGill University; Armenology, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Translation, Genocide Studies
• Colin Simpson (born c. 1965) – George Brown College, best-selling author
• Charles R. Stelck OC ScD (hc) FRSC (born 1917) – University of Alberta professor, petroleum geologist, paleontologist, stratigrapher
• David Strangway OC ScD (hc) FRSC (born c. 1935) – geophysicist and university administrator
• Thomas Symons CC OOnt (born c. 1929) – Founding President of Trent University, Professor of Canadian Studies
• Roger G. Walker FRSC – McMaster University emeritus professor
• William Winegard PC OC (born 1924) – educator, engineer, scientist and former Member of Parliament

Environmentalists

See Canadian environmentalists.

Fashion

• Jeanne Beker (born 1952) – reporter
• Dean and Dan Caten (born 1965) – renowned designers known as Dsquared, honoured on the Canadian Walk of Fame
• Keshia Chante (born 1988) – model and singer
• Steven Cojocaru (born 1962) (known as Cojo) – critic and correspondent on Entertainment Tonight
• Meghan Collison (born 1988) – model
• Taryn Davidson (born 1991) – model
• Linda Evangelista (born 1965) – model
• Shalom Harlow (born 1973) – model and actress
• Irina Lazareanu (born 1982) – model
• Jay Manuel (born 1972) – expert on America's Next Top Model and Canada's Next Top Model
• Heather Marks (born 1988) – model
• Kenneth G. Mills (1923–2004) – designer
• Andi Muise (born 1987) – model
• Peter Nygard (born 1943) – designer
• Lana Ogilvie – model
• Coco Rocha (born 1988) – model
• Monika Schnarre (born 1971) – model
• Jessica Stam (born 1986) – model
• Daria Werbowy (born 1983) – Polish-born Canadian model
• Alana Zimmer (born 1987) – model

Humanitarians

• Louise Arbour (born 1947) – former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
• J. Esmonde Barry (1923–2007) – healthcare activist and political commentator in New Brunswick
• Norman Bethune – physician and medical innovator
• Richard Maurice Bucke 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 CC OD (1958–1981) – attempted one-legged cross country run for cancer research
• Grey Owl (1888–1938) (real name Archibald Stanfield Belaney) – conservationist who falsely presented himself as an Aboriginal person and worked to save the beavers of Saskatchewan and Manitoba
• Rick Hansen CC OBC LLD (hc) DLitt (hc) (born 1957) – paraplegic athlete who completed an around-the-world marathon for spinal cord injury research
• Stephen Lewis CC (born 1937) – AIDS activist, United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Harold A. Rogers OC OBE (1899–1994) – founder of Kin Canada
• Jean Vanier CC GOQ (born 1928) – activist for the mentally disabled, founder of L'Arche

Inventors

• Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
• Thomas Ahearn PC(1855–1938) – invented the electric cooking range and the electric car heater
• Anthony R. Barringer (born 1925) – holds 70 patents for mineral exploration 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 (1847–1922) – born in Scotland, invented the telephone in Canada and developed it in the United States
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907–1964) – invented the snowmobile
• Gerald Bull (1928–1990) – invented the G5 howitzer and the Iraqi supergun
• Thomas Carroll (1888–1868) – developed first self-propelled combine harvester^[3]
• Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930) – invented a method of bromine extraction known as the Dow process
• Mathew Evans – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb
• Charles Fenerty (c. 1821–1892) – inventor of the wood pulp process for making paper
• Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932) – radio inventor who made the first radio-transmitted audio transmission and the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission; also invented sonar and patented the first television system
• Sir Sandford Fleming KCMG DSc (hc) FRSC (1827–1915) – inventor of the system of Standard Time zones
• Wilbur R. Franks OBE (1901–1986) – invented the anti-black-out-suit (the G-suit)
• Abraham Pineo Gesner (1797–1864) – inventor of kerosene; known as the "father of the petroleum industry"
• James Gosling OC (born 1955) – invented Java computer language
• Chris Haney (1950–2010) – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
• Sam Jacks (1915–1975) – inventor of ringette
• George Klein OC MBE LLD (hc) (1904–1992) – developed: electric wheelchairs, microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor, and the Canadarm
• Thomas Edvard Krogh ScD (hc) FRSC (born 1936) – developed technique of radiometric uranium-lead dating to further the precision of geochronology
• Hugh Le Caine (1914–1977) – invented the music synthesizer in 1945
• Cluny MacPherson (1879–1966) – invented the first general-issue gas mask used by the British Army in World War I
• Wilson Markle (born 1938) – invented film colorization process in 1983
• Elijah McCoy (1844–1929) – developed automatic machinery lubricator, lawn sprinkler, the "Real McCoy"
• James Naismith (1861–1939) – invented basketball
• 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
• Arthur Sicard (1876–1946) – invented the snowblower in 1925
• Simon Sunatori (born 1959) – engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; created the MagneScribe and the Magic Spicer
• Lewis Urry (1927–2004) – invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
• Harry Wasylyk (born 1925) – invented the disposable green polyethylene garbage bag in 1950
• Thomas Willson (1860–1915) – invented arc lamps and process for creating calcium carbide
• Henry Woodward – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb

Law

• Sandra Chapnik – Justice, Ontario Superior Court of Justice for the Toronto
• Alfred Scow (1927-2013) – First Nations Judge

Media

• Samantha Bee (born 1969) – senior correspondent for The Daily Show
• Stephen Brunt (born 1959) – lead sports columnist for The Globe and Mail since 1989
• Stevie Cameron (born 1943) – journalist, author
• Gordon Donaldson (1926–2001) – amateur historian
• Barbara Frum OC LLD (hc) (1937–1992) – CBC radio and television journalist
• Jian Ghomeshi (born 1967) – radio broadcaster
• Ken Hechtman – maverick journalist jailed by Afghanistan's Taliban government as a suspected United States spy in 2001
• Kenny Hotz (born 1973) – the only registered Canadian journalist to cover the Gulf War
• Mark Irwin CSC/ASC (born 1950) – Hollywood Director of Photography
• Peter Jennings CM (1938–2005) – ABC news anchor
• Jason Jones – senior correspondent for The Daily Show
• Firdaus Kharas (born 1955) – human rights activist, founder of Chocolate Moose Media
• Pat Kiernan (1968) – morning anchor of NY1 since 1997
• Michael Kesterton (born 1945) – The Globe and Mail columnist
• Neil Macdonald (born 1957) – CBC reporter
• Robert MacNeil (born 1931) – journalist, author, longtime co-anchor of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS
• Peter Mansbridge OC LLD (hc) (born 1948) – news anchor of CBC's The National
• Rick Mercer OC (born 1969) - comedian, TV personality, political satirist & author
• Mosha Michael – Canada's first Inuk filmmaker
• Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray – 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 OC (1917–1997) – supervisor of drama at the CBC, head of drama at the BBC, creator of the Doctor Who television series, chairman of the NFB
• Steve Paikin (born 1960) – journalist, film producer and author, best known for hosting TVOntario's Studio 2
• Pete Parker (1895–1991) – made the first ever broadcast of a professional hockey game
• John Roberts (born 1956) – Fox News Channel reporter, previously a CNN reporter and host of The New Music on MuchMusic
• Lloyd Robertson OC LLD (hc) (born 1934) – chief anchor and senior editor for CTV National News
• Morley Safer (born 1931) – investigative journalist for CBS News and 60 Minutes
• George Stroumboulopoulos (born 1972) – television journalist
• Peter Trueman OC (born 1934) – original newsman on Global TV
• Jan Wong (born 1952) – journalist

Medical

• Evan Adams – 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 KBE MC LLD (hc) ScD (hc) FRSC (1891–1941) – Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of insulin
• 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
• Basil Boulton (1938-2008) – pediatrician and child health advocate
• John Callaghan OC AOE (1923–2004) – pioneer of open-heart surgery
• John Dick FRSC (born 1957) – credited with discovery of cancer stem cell
• Tommy Douglas PC CC SOM LLD (hc) (1904–1986) – introduced publicly funded health care in Canada; commonly known as the "father of Medicare"
• Carl Goresky OC (1932–1996) – physician and scientist
• David H. Hubel (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
• Jeanne Mance (1606–1673) – established the first hospital in North America – the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal – in 1644
• Ernest McCulloch CM OOnt FRSC FRS (1926-2011) – cellular biologist credited with the discovery of stem cell with James Till
• Henry Morgentaler CM LLD (hc) (1923-2013) – abortionist who helped legalize abortion in Canada and strengthen the power of jury nullification
• William Osler Bt (1849–1919) – physician, called the "father of modern medicine"; wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine
• Daniel David Palmer (1845–1913) – founded the chiropractic profession
• Edgar Randolph Parker (1871–1951) (known as "Painless" Parker) – flamboyant dentist
• Wilder Penfield OM CC CMG FRS (1891–1976) – neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
• David Sackett CC FRSC (born 1934) – founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University
• James Till OC OOnt FRSC FRS (born 1931) – biophysicist, credited for the discovery of stem cell 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

Military figures

Billy Bishop

John McCrae

• General Maurice Baril OMM CD (born 1943) – Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General, head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations, and Chief of the Defence Staff
• Gustave Biéler DSO MBE (1904–1944) – Special Operations Executive agent, executed by the Nazis
• Air Commodore Leonard Birchall CM OBE DFC OOnt CD DMSc (hc) LLD (hc) (1915–2004) – war hero
• Air Marshall Billy Bishop 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 KB (1769–1812) – War of 1812 general
• Captain Roy Brown DSC* RNAS (1893–1944) – World War I fighter pilot officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron
• Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO* (1890–1971) – Canadian signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
• General Harry Crerar CH CB DSO CD PC (1888–1965) – "leading field commander" in World War II
• Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie KCB GCMG (1875–1933) – first Canadian commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
• Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire OC CMM GOQ MSC CD LLD (hc) ScDHum (hc) DHL (hc) (born 1946) – UN peacekeeping General, attempted to prevent the Rwandan Genocide
• Guy D'Artois DSO GM (1917–1999) – SOE agent, recipient of the Croix de Guerre
• General John de Chastelain CH OC CMM CD LLD (hc) ScDMil (hc) 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 Dury, Charles PC OC QC 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 MSM (1980–2006) – first female Canadian soldier killed in combat
• William Hall VC (1827–1904) – first Nova Scotian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Kenneth Macalister (1914–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Vice-Admiral Bruce MacLean CMM, CD – Chief of the Maritime Staff from 2004 to 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 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
• Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray (1896–1971) – Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Northwest Atlantic during World War II
• Henry Norwest MM & Bar (1884–1918) – sniper in World War I
• 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 MM** (1891–1952) – the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
• Frank Pickersgill (1915–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Rear Admiral Desmond Piers CM DSC CD ScDMil (hc) (1913–2005) – war hero
• George Lawrence Price (1898–1918) – last soldier killed in World War I
• Tommy Prince MM (1915–1977) – one of Canada's most decorated soldiers, member of the Devil's Brigade
• James Ralston PC (1881–1948) – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
• 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) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• General Guy Simonds CC CB CBE DSO CD (1903–1974) – commandee 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 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 World War II
• Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart CB DSO MC (1891–1945) – Chief of the General Staff 1941–1943, educator
• Rear Admiral Robert Timbrell CMM DSC CD (1920–2006) – first Canadian to be decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross
• General Christopher Vokes CB 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) (born 1930) – Chief of the Defense Staff
• Sir James Lucas Yeo (1782–1818) – commander of Royal Navy forces in Canada during the War of 1812
• Tecumseh (1768-1813) - Leader of First Nations British Allies - War of 1812 - died defeating American Invasion.

Monarchs and Canadian Royal Family

Main articles:

• List of Canadian monarchs
• Canadian Royal Family

Magicians

• 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 (born 1928) – 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"

Politicians

Jean Chrétien

• 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) 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 (born 1933) – 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 (born 1936) – former New Democratic Party leader
• George Brown (1818–1880)
• 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 MC* LLD (hc) (1896–1971) – first Director-General of the World Health Organization
• Joe Clark – 16th Prime Minister of Canada, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1976 to 1983, and again from 1998 to 2003
• Sheila Copps PC (born 1952)
• Victor Copps (1919–1988) – Mayor of Hamilton
• Ted Cruz (1970-) – US Senator from Texas and Candidate for Republican Nominee for President in 2016 election
• John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Earl of Durham GCB PC (1792–1840)
• Ellen Fairclough PC CC OOnt (1905–2004) – first female member of the Canadian Cabinet
• The Famous Five – 1920s women's rights activists
• 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"
• Stan Keyes PC (born 1953)
• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bt (1807–1864) – co-premier of the United Province of Canada
• Franklin K. Lane – 1910s United States Secretary of the Interior (1913–1920)
• Jack Layton PC (1950–2011) – leader of the 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
• Beverley McLachlin PC LLD (hc) (born 1943) – Chief Justice of Canada
• James McMillan (1838–1902) – US Senator for Michigan
• John Munro PC (1931–2003)
• Papineau (1786–1871) – reformer and 1837 rebellion leader
• 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

First Nations leaders

Aatsista-Mahkan, taken by Edward Curtis

Louis Riel, leader of the Red River Rebellion and North-West Rebellion

• Shawn Atleo
• William Beynon
• 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 – Nisga'a
• Joe Capilano – Squamish
• Rose Charlie
• Arthur Wellington Clah
• Heber Clifton
• Cumshewa – 18th-century Haida chief at the inlet now bearing his name
• Harley Desjarlais
• Alfred Dudoward
• Dan George – Tsleil-Waututh (Burrard)
• Joseph Gosnell – Nisga'a
• Simon Gunanoot – Gitxsan
• Guujaaw – modern-day Haida leader
• Elijah Harper – Cree
• Chief Hunter Jack (died 1905) – St'at'imc
• Mary John, Sr.
• August Jack Khatsahlano – Squamish
• Klattasine – Tsilhqot'in war chief, surrendered on terms of amnesty in times of war, hanged for murder
• Koyah – 18th-century chief of the Haida
• George Manuel
• Maquinna – 18th-century Nuu-chah-nulth chief (Yuquot/Mowachaht)
• Harriet Nahanee – Squamish and Nuu-chah-nulth (Pacheedaht)
• Nicola (1780/1785 — c. 1865) – Grand chief of the Okanagan people, and jointly chief of the Nlaka'pamux-Okanagan-Nicola Athapaskan alliance in the Nicola Valley and of the Kamloops group of the Secwepemc
• Andy Paull – Squamish
• Stewart Phillip
• Piapot (c. 1816–1908) – Cree chief
• Steven Point – modern Sto:lo leader, current Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
• Louis Riel (1844–1885) – leader of two Métis rebellions before being hung for treason
• James Sewid – Kwakwaka'wakw
• Tecumseh (1768–1813) – Shawnee leader
• Alec Thomas
• Wickanninish – 19th-century Nuu-chah-nulth chief (Opitsaht/Tla-o-qui-aht)
• Walter Wright

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 (1539–1649) – Jesuit missionary
• St. Jean de Lalande – 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 Louis Riel
• Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (1930-2011) – Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto
• André Besette (1845–1937) – Holy Cross Brother known as the "Miracle Man of Montreal"
• Linda Bond (born 1946) – General of The Salvation Army, 2011–present
• Arnold Brown (1913–2002) – General of The Salvation Army, 1977–81
• Hugh B. Brown (1883–1975) – Latter-day Saint 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
• 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 (born 1936) – 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 (1804–1847) – Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto
• Alexandre-Antonin Taché (1823–1894) – Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order
• Nathan Eldon Tanner (1898–1982) – Latter-day Saint apostle
• John Taylor (1808–1887) – 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 Bahá'í Faith until 1957; she was appointed as a Hand of the Cause; in 2004, CBC viewers voted her number 44 on the list of "greatest Canadians" on the television show The Greatest Canadian^[4]
• Bramwell Tillsley (born 1931) – General of The Salvation Army, 1993–94
• Clarence Wiseman (1907–1985) – General of The Salvation Army, 1974–77

Religious cult figures

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

Scholars

• Louise Arbour (born 1947) – jurist
• Timothy Brook – professor, historian and writer
• Jack Chambers (born 1938) – linguist
• Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996) – McGill geology professor, namesake of Thomasclarkite
• Gerald Cohen (1941–2009) – Oxford Philosopher
• Northrop Frye (1912–1991) – influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
• John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) – economist
• 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 (born 1918) – literary critic
• David Sztybel (born 1967) – philosopher
• Charles Taylor (born 1931) – philosopher

Scientists

• Sidney Altman (born 1939) – molecular biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Albert Bandura (born 1921) – psychologist
• Robert Bell FRSC (1841–1917) – geologist
• Walter A. Bell (1889–1969) – geologist, paleontologist
• Selwyn G. Blaylock ScD (hc) (1879–1945) – chemist and mining executive
• Stewart Blusson OC (born 1939) – geologist, diamond prospector, multimillionaire and philanthropist
• Willard Boyle (born 1924) – 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) (born 1940) – entomologist, television personality and founder of the Montreal Insectarium
• Moira Brown – North Atlantic Right Whale researcher and conservationist
• John J. Clague FRSC (born 1946) – authority in quaternary and environmental earth sciences
• Philip J. Currie – palaeontologist
• John William Dawson CMG FRS FRSC (1820–1899) – first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation
• Duncan R. Derry LLD (hc) (1906–1987) – economic geologist
• Robert John Wilson Douglas FRSC (1920–1979) – petroleum geologist
• John Charles Fields FRS FRSC (1863–1932) – mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal
• J. Keith Fraser (born 1922) – geographer
• Hu Gabrielse – geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada
• William Giauque (born 1949) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
• 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
• Paul F. Hoffman OC FRSC (born 1941) – geologist noted for research into Snowball Earth events
• Edward Irving CM ScD (hc) FRSC FRS (born 1927) – provided the first physical evidence of continental drift
• Victor Ling CC (1944–) – medicine, drug resistance in cancer
• Sir William Edmond Logan FRS (1798–1875) – founded the Geological Survey of Canada
• John Macoun (1831–1920) – botanist
• Tak Wah Mak (born 1946) – immunologist who discovered the T-cell receptor
• Claude Hillaire-Marcel FRSC (born 1944) – 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 (born 1926) – cellular biologist who, with James Till, demonstrated the existence of stem cells
• Maud Menten (1879–1960) – medical scientist, made groundbreaking work in enzyme kinetics
• John Charles Polanyi PC CC FRSC FRS (born 1929) – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for infrared chemiluminescence
• Raymond A. Price OC ScD (hc) FRSC (born 1933) – geologist
• Hubert Reeves CC OQ (born 1932) – astrophysicist and science popularizer
• Henry de Puyjalon (born 1841) – biologist and ecologist
• 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 (born 1940) – limnologist
• Myron Scholes (born 1941) – Nobel Prize winner in economics
• Hans Selye CC (1907–1982) – pioneering stress researcher
• 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
• Richard Summerbell (born 1956) – mycologist
• David Suzuki CC OBC LLD (hc) ScD (hc) ScDEnv (hc) ScDComm (hc) DHL (hc) (born 1936) – geneticist and science popularizer
• Henry Taube FRSC (1915–2005) – Nobel Prize in chemistry for electron transfer reactions
• Richard Taylor CC FRSC FRS (born 1929) – 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 FRSC (born 1934) – geologist, expert on the Appalachian Mountains
• John Tuzo Wilson CC OBE ScD (hc) FRSC FRS FRSE (1908–1993) – geophysicist, expert in plate tectonics

Viceroys

Main articles:

• 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

Daniel Negreanu

Sunny Leone

• Janis Babson (1950–1961) – organ donor, subject of two books
• Antonio Barichievich (1925–2003) (known as The Great Antonio) – strongman, showman, and eccentric
• Grant Bristow (born 1958) – CSIS undercover agent who started the Heritage Front, planted as political operative within Reform Party
• René Lepage de Sainte-Claire (1656–1718) – lord-founder of Rimouski, Quebec
• Donnelly family (known as the Black Donnellys) – the 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
• 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 CV – recipient of the Cross of Valour
• Sunny Leone (born 1981) – Canadian and 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 barkentine (barque) Coloma during a severe storm in 1906.
• Ariel Rebel (born 1985) – French softcore pornographic model, currently living in Quebec
• 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 abolitionist and participant in the Underground Railroad
• Craig Russell (1948-1990) – female impersonator and actor
• Laura Secord (1775–1868) – heroine of the War of 1812, warned the British of a surprise American attack at Battle of Beaver Dams
• Joshua Slocum (1844–1909) – first man to sail around the world solo
• Margaret Trudeau (1948) – former wife of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Fictional

• Amuro Ray – main character in the mecha anime Mobile Suit Gundam and varying roles in subsequent sequels
• Ike Broflovski – character on South Park
• Tom Evans (known as Captain Canuck) – cartoon character
• Benton Fraser – Mountie on the 90s television show Due South
• James Howlett (aka "Logan", aka "Wolverine") – member of the X-Men
• Justin Jones from Justin Time
• Rodney McKay – character on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
• 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
• Terrance and Phillip – characters on South Park
• Dave Semple (known as Captain Canuck) – cartoon character
• Anne Shirley – known as Anne of Green Gables
• Wade Wilson (aka "Deadpool") – comic book anti-hero

Other

National

• Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
• List of Companions of the Order of Canada
• List of inductees of Canada's Walk of Fame
• The Greatest Canadian

Groupings and articles of relevance

• Aboriginal Canadian personalities
• Asian Canadians
• Black Canadians
• European Canadians
• List of First Nations people
• List of Canadian Jews
• List of Canadians by net worth

Lists by city

List of people from Canada by city

Lists by province/territory

References

1. Fulton, Gordon W. (2005). "David Ewart". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
2. Werb, Jessica (November 4, 2009). "Cindy Lee". BC Business. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
3. "Carroll, Thomas (Tom) (1888–1968)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
4. "The Greatest Canadian - Top 100 - 11 to 100". CBC. 2004. Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2008-07-05.

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