List of Famous people born in Canada

Evelyne Brochu

First Name Evelyne
Born on November 17, 1982 (age 43)
Born in Canada, Quebec
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Evelyne Brochu is a Canadian actress. In 2013, she became well known for her English-speaking role as Delphine Cormier, a French scientist on the hit Canadian science fiction thriller TV series Orphan Black.

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Yannick Bisson

First Name Yannick
Born on May 16, 1969 (age 57)
Born in Canada, Quebec
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Yannick D. Bisson is a Canadian film and television actor and director best known to international audiences for playing Detective William Murdoch on the series Murdoch Mysteries.

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Kayla Sanchez

First Name Kayla
Born on April 7, 2001 (age 25)
Born in Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Kayla Noelle Sanchez is a Canadian swimmer. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

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Norman Jewison

Norman Frederick Jewison
First Name Norman
Last Name Jewison
Born on July 21, 1926 (age 99)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Norman Frederick Jewison is a retired Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. He has directed numerous feature films and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Moonstruck (1987). Other highlights of his directing career include The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Rollerball (1975), F.I.S.T. (1978), ...And Justice for All (1979), A Soldier's Story (1984), Agnes of God (1985), Other People's Money (1991), The Hurricane (1999), and The Statement (2003).

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Jesse Ronson

First Name Jesse
Last Name Ronson
Born on December 24, 1985 (age 40)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Jesse Allen Ronson is a Canadian mixed martial artist who is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship's (UFC) Lightweight division. A professional fighter since 2009, he has previously competed in promotions such as UFC, Aggression FC and Score Fighting Series. He was previously signed with TKO MMA, the largest mixed martial arts promotion in Canada, where he was the former Lightweight and Welterweight Champion.

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John Horgan

First Name John
Last Name Horgan
Born on August 7, 1959 (age 66)

John Joseph Horgan is a Canadian politician who has served as the 36th and current premier of British Columbia since 2017. He has been leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party since 2014 and the member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the constituency of Langford-Juan de Fuca and its predecessors since 2005.

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Jordan Mein

First Name Jordan
Last Name Mein
Born on October 10, 1989 (age 36)
Born in Canada, Alberta
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Jordan Taylor Mein is a Canadian professional mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Welterweight division of Bellator MMA. A professional competitor since 2006, Mein has also formerly competed for Ultimate Fighting Championship, Strikeforce and King of the Cage.

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Sarah Blackwood

First Name Sarah
Last Name Blackwood
Born on October 18, 1980 (age 45)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Sarah Nicole Blackwood, also known as Sarah Sin, is a Canadian singer-songwriter. In 2012, she joined the indie rock band Walk off the Earth.

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Charles Coughlin

First Name Charles
Last Name Coughlin
Born on October 25, 1891
Died on October 27, 1979 (aged 88)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest who was based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience: during the 1930s, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts.

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Alexis Smith

First Name Alexis
Last Name Smith
Born on June 8, 1921
Died on June 9, 1993 (aged 72)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Margaret Alexis Smith was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972 for the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies.

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