List of Canadians

Artists

• The Group of Seven - male painters
• The Beaver Hall Group - female painters
• Robert Bateman (1930-), painter
• Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter
• Emily Carr (1871-1945), painter
• Jack Chambers
• Susan M. Cohen Watercolour artist, Thornhill, Ontario
• Greg Curnoe (1936-1992)
• Charles Daudelin (1920-2001), sculptor
• Marcelle Ferron (1924-2001), glazier
• Pierre Granche (1948-1997), sculptor
• Jack Harman, (1927-2001), sculptor
• Jean-Paul Mousseau, (1927-1991), muralist
• Lauren Harris - group of seven, early Canadian abstraction
• A.Y. Jackson - last member of Group of Seven (artists)
• Karen Kain - ballerina
• Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), photographer
• Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872), painter
• Robert Markle (1936-1990, painter
• Norval Morrisseau - founded 'Woodland' school of art
• Jack Reid
• Jean-Paul Riopelle, (1923-2002), painter
• Tom Thomson - ill fated wilderness painter
• Jeff Wall - photographer

See also List of Canadian painters

Astronauts

• Roberta Bondar - first Canadian woman in space
• Marc Garneau, (born 1949), first Canadian in space
• Chris Hadfield, (born 1959), first Canadian to walk in space
• Steven MacLean, astronaut
• Julie Payette, (born 1963), astronaut
• Robert Thirsk, astronaut
• Bjarni Tryggvason, astronaut

Authors

• Milton Acorn, (1923-1986), poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
• Gilles Archambault - novelist, essayist, critic
• Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
• Margaret Avison, (born 1918), poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry
• Pierre Berton, (born 1920), popularizer of Canadian history, TV personality, columnist
• Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
• Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
• Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
• Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990), novelist, short story writer
• Barry Callaghan, (born 1937), author/poet
• Bliss Carman, (1861-1929), poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
• Roch Carrier, (born 1937), author
• Anne Carson, (born 1950), writer
• Wayson Choy, (born 1939), writer, novelist
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
• Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), author
• Robertson Davies, (1913-1995), author
• William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
• Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), author
• Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
• Mavis Gallant, (born 1922), author
• William Gibson, (born 1948), author, The Neuromancer
• Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic; The White Bone and short stories
• Arthur Hailey, (born 1920), author
• Louis Hémon, (1880-1913), novelist and journalist, Maria Chapdelaine
• Jack Hodgins, writer, novelist
• Nancy Huston, (born 1953), author
• J. Robert Janes, (born 1932), writer
• Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy genre fiction
• Margaret Laurence, (1926-1987), author
• Stephen Leacock, (1869-1944), author/humorist
• Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
• Hugh MacLennan, (1907-1990), novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
• Alistair MacLeod, (born 1936), writer, novelist
• Yann Martel, (born 1963), 2002 Booker Prize Winner
• John Metcalf, writer
• Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), author
• W.O. Mitchell, author, Who has Seen the Wind
• Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
• Susanna Moodie, (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush
• Farley Mowat, (born 1921), Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
• Alice Munro, (born 1931), short story writer
• Robert Munsch - American-born writer of children's books
• Emile Nelligan, (1879-1941), poet
• B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988), poet
• Michael Ondaatje, (born 1943), author
• Jean Baptiste Proulx, (1846-1904), dramatist and essayist
• Nino Ricci, (born 1959), novelist; winner of the 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction
• David Adams Richards, (born 1950), writer, novelist
• Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001), author
• Sinclair Ross, author, As for Me and My House
• Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983), author
• Robert W. Service, Author, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Cremation of Sam McGee","Songs of a Sourdough"
• Carol Shields, (1935-2003), author
• Elizabeth Smart, Author, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"
• Samuel Strickland, (1804-1867), Twenty-seven Years in Canada West
• Catharine Parr Traill, (1802-1899), Life in the Backwoods of Canada
• Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
• Jane Urquhart, (born 1949), novelist
• George Woodcock, (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism

See also List of Canadian writers for a much more extensive list

Business Personalities

• Max Aitken, (1879-1964), "Lord Beaverbrook" - publishing baron, entrepreneur
• Izzy Asper, (1932-2003)
• Conrad Black, (born 1944), "Lord Black of Crossharbour", entrepreneur, publisher
• Roy Thomson, (1894-1976), "Lord Thomson of Fleet", entrepreneur, publisher
• Samuel Bronfman - founded the "Seagrams" distillery empire
• Robert Campeau - bankrupted Bloomingdale's Department Store, NYC
• Jack Kent Cooke - owner of the Washington Redskins
• Samuel Cunard, (1787-1865), Cunard Steamship Lines
• Paul Desmarais - Chairman: Power Corporation of Canada
• Timothy Eaton, (1834-1907), founder of T.Eaton Company of Canada department stores
• Bernie Ebbers - CEO (former) of WorldCom - largest bankruptcy in world history
• Alfred Fuller, (1885-1973), Fuller Brush Company
• Tim Horton (1930-1974) - NHL player and founder of Tim Hortons doughnut shops (now owned by Wendy's)
• Victor Li, Deputy chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, son of Li Ka Shing
• Milton and Nelson Good - first Canadian Automobile
• K.C. Irving - Industrialist
• Izaak Walton Killam, (1885-1955)
• Louis B. Mayer, (1885-1957), co-founder: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios
• Harrison McCain - New Brunswick potato magnate
• Sam McLaughlin - Buick Automobile Manufacturer
• John Molson, (1763-1836), founder of Molson Breweries
• Jimmy Pattison -West Coast billionaire
• Paul Reichmann - sunk by Canary Wharf
• John Roth - CEO (former) Nortel Networks - "the most successful businessman in modern Canadian history"....Time Europe 12/25/00
• John F. Stairs, (1848-1904), entrepreneur, statesman
• Belinda Stronach - entrepreneur, stated as second most powerful businesswoman in the world, candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada
• E. P. Taylor - entrepreneur, thoroughbred horse breeder
• Nat Taylor - movie theatre mogul, originator of the multi auditorium movie theatre or cineplex
• Jack Warner, (1892-1978), founder of Warner Bros. Studios
• Moses Znaimer - television mogul Citytv, Bravo, MuchMusic

Cartoonists

• Chester Brown - comic book creator, Yummy Fur, Underwater and Louis Riel
• John Byrne - cartoonist/writer best known for his work on superhero characters like The Fantastic Four and Superman.
• Jennifer Cuthbert - The Adventures of Lollipop
• Lynn Johnston - writer/cartoonist, For Better or For Worse
• Joe Matt - comic book creator, Peep Show
• Todd McFarlane, (born 1961), cartoonist/writer, Spawn, Spider-Man
• Seth - comic book creator, Palookaville
• Joe Shuster, (1914-1992), creator of Superman
• Ben Wicks, illustrator and comic strip cartoonist, as well as humanitarian

Criminals

• Paul Bernardo (born 1964), murderer
• Edwin Alonzo Boyd, bank robber
• Marc Carbonneau, terrorist
• Jacques Cossette-Trudel, terrorist
• Louise Cossette-Trudel, terrorist
• Karla Homolka, murderer (Mrs. Paul Bernardo)
• Jacques Lanctôt (died 1980), terrorist
• Yves Langlois, FLQ Terrorist
• Bernard Lortie, FLQ Terrorist
• Clifford Olson, serial child killer
• Paul Rose, terrorist
• Jacques Rose, terrorist
• Francis Simard, terrorist
• Colin Thatcher, murderer

Alleged criminals

• Robert Pickton -- charged with largest number of serial killings in Canadian history, and still counting
• Nicholas Ribic -- charged with having taken UN hostages during the war in the Balkans

Wrongfully convicted

• David Milgaard - served 23 years for a murder he did not commit
• Donald Marshall Jr. - wrongfully convicted of murder; subject of a Supreme Court of Canada case regarding First Nations rights to natural resources
• Guy Paul Morin - was not only tried twice for the same crime but spent 10 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

Educators

• Sue Johanson, sex educator

Explorers

• Louis Joliet, (1645-1700), explorer
• John Rae, (1813-1893), travelled widely through the Canadian Arctic
• Charles de Salaberry, (1778-1829), soldier
• Alexander Mackenzie, first to reach the Pacific north of Mexico via an overland route
• William Grant Stairs, (1863-1892), Victorian explorer, discovered one source of the Nile River, first non-African to ever climb Mt.Ruwenzori
• Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, (1685-1749), explored Lake Superior and Lake Winnipeg

Humanitarians

• Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney) - Fur Trapper and Conservationist who posed as a Native American
• Norman Bethune, (1890-1939), surgeon,inventor, socialist, battlefield doctor in Spain and China
• Steve Fonyo, Retraced and completed Terry Fox's cross country cancer research fundraising marathon.
• Terry Fox, (1958-1981), attempted one-legged cross country run for cancer research, Canadian Hero
• Rick Hansen, Parapelegic athlete who completed an around the world marathon for spinal cord injury research.

Inventors

• Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Invented the telephone in Canada, developed it in US. (Canadian/American/Scot)
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier - invented the snowmobile
• J. Brown - invented the washing machine
• Thomas Carroll - first self-propelled combine harvester
• Mathew Evans - co-inventor of the first electric light bulb
• Charles Fenerty - pulp to paper process
• Reginald Fessenden - inventor the Radiotelephone and sonar - produced 1st radio broadcast
• Sir Sandford Fleming, (1827-1915), inventor of the system of standard time zones in use today
• James Gosling, (born 1956), invented Java computer language
• Larry Hanson - co-inventor of green plastic garbage bag
• Rasmus Lerdorf - invented PHP computer language used on internet
• Elijah McCoy, (born 1844), Black inventor, automatic machinery lubricator, lawn sprinkler, the "real McCoy"
• Samuel McKeen - invented the Odometer
• Gideon Sundback - invented the zipper
• Harry Wasyluk - co-inventor of green plastic garbage bag
• Henry Woodward - co-inventor of the first electric light bulb

Military Figures

• Gustave Biéler (1904-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Billy Bishop WW1 and WW2 Flying Ace
• Arthur Currie The nation's greatest general responsible for the WW1 victory at Vimy Ridge
• Peter Dmytruk (1920-1943), WW II Flight Sergeant and member of the French Resistance
• John Kenneth Macalister (1914-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• John McCrae (1872-1918), soldier, poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
• Andrew McNaughton, Minister of Defense during World War II
• Henry Norwest (1884-1918), one of the most famous snipers of World War I
• Francis Pegahmagabow (1891-1952), the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
• Frank Pickersgill (1915-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Tommy Prince (1915-1977), one of Canada's most decorated soldiers, a member of the joint US/Canada special commando unit known as the Devil's Brigade
• James Ralston, Minister of Defense during World War II
• Roméo Sabourin (1923-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Sam Steele (1851-1919), A member of the North West Mounted Police

Motion Pictures, Radio, & Television

• See also: List of Canadian entertainers, Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood
• Pamela Anderson, (born 1967), model, actress
• Dan Aykroyd, (born 1952), actor/comedian
• James Cameron, (1954-), director
• Neve Campbell, (born 1973), actor (Scream series, Party of Five)
• John Candy, (1950-1994), actor/comedian
• Jim Carrey, (born 1962), actor/comedian
• Leslie Cheung, (1956-2003), Hong Kong-based actor/singer
• Sidney M. Cohen, (born 1947), TV Director and program creator
• David Cronenberg, (born 1943), director
• Richard Day, art director, winner of seven Academy Awards
• Yvonne De Carlo, actress
• Marie Dressler, actress, Academy Award winner
• Atom Egoyan - director (The Sweet Hereafter)
• Michael J. Fox, (born 1961), actor/comedian (Back to the Future trilogy, Spin City, Family Ties)
• Tom Green, (born 1971), actor/comedian
• Lorne Greene, (1915-1987), actor (Pa Cartwright on Bonanza), TV news anchor
• Peter Gzowski -- radio personality
• Foster Hewitt, (1902-1985), broadcaster
• Peter Jennings, (born 1938), News anchor
• Norman Jewison, (born 1926), director, received The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
• Margot Kidder, Lois Lane in Superman
• Eugene Levy - actor/comedian
• Rick Mercer - actor/comedian, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
• Lorne Michaels, (born 1944), originator of Saturday Night Live
• Rick Moranis, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
• Louis B. Mayer, co-founder MGM
• Mike Myers, (born 1963), actor (Austin Powers series, Saturday Night Live)
• Leslie Nielsen, (born 1926), actor
• Mary Pickford, (1892-1979), actress and producer
• Christopher Plummer, (born 1927), actor
• Keanu Reeves, (born 1964), actor
• Mack Sennett, {1880-1960) film producer
• William Shatner, (born 1931), actor
• Norma Shearer, actress, Academy Award winner
• Martin Short - actor/comedian, Saturday Night Live
• Donald Sutherland, (born 1934), actor
• Kiefer Sutherland, (born 1966), actor (24), son of Donald
• Alex Trebek, (born 1940), game show host (Jeopardy!)
• Jack Warner, co-founder Warner Brothers
• Estella Warren, supermodel, actress
• Moses Znaimer, (born 1942), television magnate

Musicians

• Bryan Adams, (born 1959), singer
• Paul Anka, (born 1941), singer
• Talena Atfield, bassist and vocalist of Kittie
• Randy Bachman, (born 1943), singer
• The Band (excepting Levon Helm)
• Leslie Cheung, (1946-2003), Hong Kong-based actor/singer
• Bruce Cockburn, (born 1945), singer
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), singer, songwriter
• Stomping Tom Conners, Canadian country/folk singer/songwriter
• Andy Creeggan, the Barenaked Ladies
• Celine Dion, (born 1968), singer
• Georges Dor, chansonnier, composer and singer of "La Manic", novelist, playwright
• Percy Faith, (1908-1976), band leader
• Maynard Ferguson, (born 1928), band leader, trumpet
• Nelly Furtado, pop singer
• Glenn Gould, (1932-1982), pianist, composer
• Paul Horn, flute player
• Colin James,(b. 1964), singer/songwriter
• Chantal Kreviazuk, singer
• k.d. lang, (born 1961), singer
• Avril Lavigne, (born 1984), singer/songwriter
• Geddy Lee, (born 1953), singer, bassist, keyboardist Rush
• Gordon Lightfoot, (born 1938), singer/songwriter
• Guy Lombardo, (1902-1977), his band's instumental version of Auld Lang Syne brought in the new year across North America for more than a generation.
• Loreena McKennitt (born 1957), singer
• Sarah McLachlan, (born 1968), singer/songwriter
• Joni Mitchell, (born 1943), singer/songwriter
• Alanis Morissette, (born 1974), singer/songwriter
• Anne Murray, (born 1945), singer/songwriter
• Geoffrey O'Hara, (1882-1967), songwriter
• Walter Ostanek - Polka, three-time Grammy Award winner
• Oscar Peterson - (1925- ) jazz pianist
• Stan Rogers, (died 1983), folk musician
• Paul Shaffer, (born 1949), Musical director "Letterman" show
• Jane Siberry, (born 1955), singer entrepreneur
• Sarah Slean, singer, songwriter, pianist
• Hank Snow, (1914-1999), country & western singer
• Salli Terri, (1922-1996), mezzo soprano
• Devin Townsend, (born 1972), singer/songwriter/producer
• Shania Twain, (born 1965), singer
• Gilles Vigneault - his song Mon pays has been a significant rallying song among the Québécois.
• Hawksley Workman, singer/songwriter/producer/performer
• Neil Young, (1945-), singer/songwriter

• See also: List of Canadian musicians

Political Leaders

• William Aberhart, (1878-1943), premier of Alberta 1935-09-03 to 1943-05-23
• Robert Baldwin, (1804-1858)
• Maude Barlow, activist, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
• Henri Bourassa, (1868-1952), Quebec politician
• Rosemary Brown, (1930-2003), Canadian politician
• John E. Brownlee, (1884-1961), premier of Alberta 1925-11-23 to 1934-07-10
• Gordon Campbell, premier of British Columbia 2001-06-05 to ...
• Sir George-Étienne Cartier, (1814-1873), French-Canadian statesman
• Jean Charest, (born 1958) elected premier of Quebec in 2003.
• Glen Clark, (born 1957), premier of British Columbia1996-02-22 to 1999-08-25
• David Collenette, Canadian politician
• Amor De Cosmos, (1825-1897), premier of British Columbia 1872-12-23 to 1874-02-11
• Ujjal Dosanjh, (2000-2001), premier of British Columbia 2000-02-24 to 2001-06-05
• Tommy Douglas (1904-1986) premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961.
• Maurice Duplessis, (1890-1959), premier of Quebec
• Lord Durham, (1792-1840), (John George Lambton)
• Andrew Charles Elliott, premier of British Columbia 1876-02-01 to 1878-06-25
• Donald Getty, premier of Alberta 1985-11-01 to 1992-12-13
• Herbert Greenfield, (1869-1949), premier of Alberta 1921-08-13 to 1925-11-23
• Michael Harcourt, (born 1943), premier of British Columbia 1991-11-05 to 1996-02-22
• C. D. Howe
• Joseph Howe
• Rita Johnston, (born 1935), premier of British Columbia 1991-04-02 to 1991-11-05
• William Lyon Mackenzie King, (1874-1950), Canadian prime minister
• Ralph Klein, (born 1942), premier of Alberta 1992-12-14 to ...
• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, (1807-1864)
• Wilfrid Laurier, (1896-1911), Canadian prime minister
• René Lévesque, (1922-1987)
• Peter Lougheed, (born 1928), premier of Alberta 1971-09-10 to 1985-11-01
• William Lyon Mackenzie
• Ernest C. Manning, (1908-1996), premier of Alberta 1943-05-31 to 1968-12-12
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, (1825-1868), promoter of a federal union for the Canadian provinces
• Agnes Macphail - Canada's first female Member of Parliament and subsequently a leader in penal reform for Canada
• Beverley McLachlin - Current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Louis-Joseph Papineau, (1786-1871)
• Richard G. Reid, (1879-1980), premier of Alberta 1934-07-10 to 1935-09-03
• Louis Riel, (1844-1885), controversial Canadian figure (hanged for treason)
• Alexander C. Rutherford, (1857-1941), premier of Alberta 1905-09-02 to 1910-05-26
• Louis Stephen St. Laurent, (1882-1973), prime minister
• Jeanne Sauvé, (1922-1993), governor general
• Arthur L. Sifton, (1858-1921), premier of Alberta 1910-05-26 to 1917-10-30
• Charles Stewart (1868-1946), premier of Alberta (1868-1946), 1917-10-30 to 1921-08-13
• Harry E. Strom, (1914-1984), premier of Alberta 1968-12-12 to 1971-09-10
• W. Ross Thatcher, (1917–1971), premier of Saskatchewan 1964-May 2 to 1971-June 30
• John Sparrow David Thompson, (1845-1894), prime minister
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (1919-2000), Prime minister of Canada 1968-1979; 1980-1984.
• William N. Vander Zalm, (born 1934), premier of British Columbia 1986-08-06 to 1991-04-02
• The Valiant Five, 1920's Rights Group

(See also lists: Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Confederation, Members of the Canadian House of Commons)

Religious personalities

• St. Marguerite Bourgeoys - first Canadian saint
• St. Marie-Marguerite d'Youville - founder of the Grey Nuns
• St. Jean de Brébeuf - martyr
• St. Isaacs Jogues - martyr
• St. Charles Garnier - martyr
• St. Anthony Danile - martyr
• St. Gabriel Lallemant - martyr
• St. Noel Chabanel - martyr
• St. John de Lalande - martyr
• St. Rene Goupil - martyr
• Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
• Blessed Frère André
• Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger
• Abbé Lionel Groulx

Scholars

• Louise Arbour, (born 1947), jurist, controversialist
• Northrop Frye, (1912-1991), influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
• John Kenneth Galbraith, (born 1908), economist
• Marshall McLuhan, (1911-1980), communications theorist, "The medium is the message"
• John Peters Humphrey, (1905-1995), legal scholar, principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• John Ralston Saul, businessman, essayist, diplomat
• F. R. Scott, (1899-1985), law professor, philospher, poet
• Charles Taylor, philosopher

Scientists

• Sid Altman - Molecular Biology
• Frederick Banting, (1891-1941), medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
• Charles Best, (1899-1978), medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
• Wilfred Bigelow - first artificial pacemaker
• Bertram Brockhouse - designed the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope
• William Francis Giauque - 1949 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
• James Gosling - Programmer, inventor of Java
• Gerhard Herzberg - 1971 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for Molecular Spectroscopy
• David Hubel - 1981 Novel Prize winner in Medicine for mapping the visual cortex
• Doreen Kimura - Behavioural Psychologist: World expert on sex differences in the brain
• Julia Levy - Microbiologist: co-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer drugs
• William Logan, (1798-1875), founded the Geological Survey of Canada, knighted by Queen Victoria, awarded the French Legion of Honor.
• Rudolph Marcus - 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for electron transfer reactions (e.g. rust)
• Henry Morgentaler - abortionist
• Sir William Osler - Physician, "most influential physician in history"
• Wilder Penfield - Neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
• John Polanyi - 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Chemi-luminescence
• Charles Edward Saunders - Marquis Wheat
• Arthur Schawlow - 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (for lasers)
• Myron Scholes - 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Economics
• Hans Selye - (1907-1982) - pioneering stress researcher
• Michael Smith (1932-2000), 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for site-based mutagenesis
• David Suzuki, (born 1936), geneticist and science popularizer
• Henry Taube - 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for electron transfer reactions
• Richard Taylor - 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for verifying the Quark Theory
• Irene Ayako Uchida - Cytogenticist: World-famous Down syndrome researcher
• William Vickrey - 1996 Nobel Prize winner in economics
• Tuzo Wilson - Geophysicist. plate tectonics

For a more detailed list of renowned Canadian scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, see the outside link:

• http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientists.php

Sports Personalities

• Donovan Bailey, (born 1967), sprinter
• Jean Béliveau, (born 1931), ice hockey player
• Marilyn Bell, first person to swim Lake Ontario
• Tommy Burns, (1881-1955), World Heavyweight boxing Champion
• Myriam Bédard, (born 1969), Olympic Gold Medal
• Don Cherry, ice hockey coach and commentator
• George Dixon (1870-1909), first black World boxing champion; first Canadian-born World boxing champion
• Catriona LeMay Doan, (born 1970), two-time Olympic gold medalist in speed skating
• Eric Gagne, (born 1976), baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers closer, 2003 National League Cy Young Award
• Marc Gagnon, (born 1975), Olympic Gold medalist
• Nancy Greene, (born 1943), Olympic Gold Medal in Downhill Skiing
• Wayne Gretzky, (born 1961), ice hockey legend
• Ned Hanlan, world champion sculler
• Sandy Hawley, (born 1949), Hall of Fame jockey
• John Hayes, (1917-1998), harness racing driver
• Paul Henderson, ice hockey player, scored winning goal in 1972 Canada/Russia match
• Clara Hughes, (born 1972), speed skating and cycling medalist in both summer and winter olympics
• Bobby Hull, (born 1939), The "Golden Jet" first player in the NHL to score more than 50 goals in a season.
• Russ Jackson, Canadian footballer
• Ferguson Jenkins, (born 1943), baseball pitcher, MLB Hall of Fame member
• Gordie Howe, (born 1928), ice hockey player
• Ben Johnson, (born 1961), sprinter, disqualified from Olympic gold medal for doping
• Joe Krol, Canadian footballer
• Joseph Lannin, owner of the Boston Red Sox who signed Babe Ruth
• Lucien Laurin, (1912-2000), Hall of Fame trainer of Secretariat
• Mario Lemieux, (born 1965), ice hockey player
• Greg Moore, (1975-1999)
• Bronko Nagurski, (1908-1990), player with Chicago Bears
• James Naismith, (1861-1939), YMCA instructor who invented the game of Basketball
• Steve Nash, (born 1974), NBA star with Dallas Mavericks
• Willie O'Ree, (born 1935), first black ice hockey player in the NHL
• Bobby Orr, (born 1948), ice hockey player, considered by many to be the best ever, revolutionized the role of a defenceman
• Scott Patterson, (born ~1970), curler, killed in a vehicle accident at age 34
• Jacques Plante, (1929-1986), pioneer ice hockey goaltender
• Terry Puhl, baseball player
• Maurice Richard, (1921-2000), ice hockey player, "The Rocket," first player to score 50 goals in a season
• Patrick Roy, (born 1965), legendary ice hockey goalie
• Sandra Schmirler, (1963-2000), curler
• Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater, Olympic Gold Medal
• Matt Stairs, (born 1968), professional baseball player
• Paul Tracy, (born 1968), CART racing Champion
• Ron Turcotte, (born 1941), jockey of Secretariat
• Mike Vanderjagt, (born 1970), placekicker for Indianapolis Colts
• Gilles Villeneuve, (1950-1982), race car driver
• Jacques Villeneuve, (born 1971), race car driver, son of Gilles
• Larry Walker, (born 1966), baseball star for the Colorado Rockies
• Mike Weir, (born 1970), golfer, Masters tournament winner
• Percy Williams, (1908-1982), sprinter
• Steve Yzerman, (born 1965), ice hockey player

See also:

• List of famous Canadian sports personalities
• Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century

Other Personalities

• Scott Abbott - co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
• Marie-Joseph Angélique, (died 1734), African slave
• The Great Antonio - strongman, showman, and eccentric
• Linda Evangelista, (born 1965), supermodel
• Bret Hart, (born 1957), professional wrestler
• Owen Hart, (1965-1999), professional wrestler, brother of Bret
• Chris Haney - co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
• Bat Masterson - (1853-1921) gunfighter, fight promoter, sports journalist
• Edgar Randolph Parker - better known as "Painless" Parker - flamboyant dentist
• Winnie the Pooh - aka Winnipeg the Bear who inspired Milne
• Sue Rodriguez, (-1994), ALS sufferer and right to die advocate
• Margaret Trudeau (born 1948), former wife of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

See also: Asian-Canadian, Richest Canadians, List of people by nationality, List of Canadian Heroes and Heroines

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