List of Famous people born in Canada
Flora Martínez
Flora Martinez is a Canadian-Colombian film and television actress and singer, best known for her title role in the film Rosario Tijeras. Martinez was nominated for Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film in 2005.
Dakota Goyo
Dakota Avery Goyo is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Max Kenton in the film Real Steel (2011) and Jesse Barrett in the film Dark Skies (2013). He also voices Jamie in the DreamWorks Animation film Rise of the Guardians (2012).
Grant Fuhr
Grant Scott Fuhr is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League and former goaltending coach for the Arizona Coyotes. In 2003, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He is best remembered for a decade of stellar play for the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s. He won a total of five Stanley Cups and was a six time All-Star. In 2017 Fuhr was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. He set a number of firsts for black hockey players in the NHL, including being the first to win the Stanley Cup and being the first inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Jim Hillyer
James Nation Hillyer was a federal Canadian politician who served as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Lethbridge and later Medicine Hat–Cardston–Warner. Hillyer was first elected to the House of Commons for the federal Conservative Party of Canada in the 2011 election and then re-elected in 2015. He served his community in this role until his death in March 2016.
Ryan Strome
Ryan Edward Gaston Strome is a Canadian ice hockey forward for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected fifth overall in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders and began playing with the team during their 2013–14 season. Previously, Strome played in the major junior level as a member of the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) before being traded to the Niagara IceDogs during his first season in the league. He is the brother of Chicago Blackhawks forward Dylan Strome and Philadelphia Flyers prospect Matthew Strome.
Brandon Tanev
Brandon T. Tanev is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Richard E. Taylor
Richard Edward Taylor,, was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."
Claudine Monfette
Claudine Monfette, nicknamed Mouffe, is a Quebec actress, screenwriter and lyricist born on 13 January 1945 at Montreal (Canada).
Ariel Helwani
Ariel Helwani is a Canadian journalist who primarily covers mixed martial arts (MMA).
Jeananne Goossen
Jeananne Goossen is a Canadian actress.