List of Famous people born in Canada
Luce Guilbeault
Luce Guilbeault was a Canadian actress and director from Quebec. She was one of the leading figures of Quebec repertory theatre of the 1960s and one of the most-sought actresses of Quebec cinema in the 1970s. She received a Canadian Film Award in 1975 and the first Prix Iris from the National Film Board of Canada in 1991 for her life's work.
Megan Follows
Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels. From 2013 to 2017, she starred as Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France, in the television drama series Reign.
Peter Chiarelli
Peter Chiarelli is a former Canadian ice hockey executive and former player. He is the former president of hockey operations and former general manager of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He also previously worked as a general manager with the Boston Bruins and won the Stanley Cup with them in 2011.
Jia Tolentino
Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino is an American writer and editor. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She has previously worked as deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork. In 2019, she published an essay collection called Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.
Pierre Lapointe
Pierre Lapointe is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His work largely follows in the tradition of French chanson, though he is influenced by modern pop music. Defining himself as a "popular singer", he has built an egocentric persona of a dandy onstage, but says he does this mostly to deflect attention from himself. His records have found critical and commercial success in Canada.
Jake Virtanen
Jacob "Jake" Virtanen is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Shotgun Jake" by Canucks fans, Virtanen was drafted by the Canucks sixth overall in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.
Dick Assman
Richard Arthur "Dick" Assman was a Canadian gas station employee whose name propelled him to celebrity status across North America for four months in 1995.
Paul Bissonnette
Paul Albert Bissonnette, nicknamed "Biznasty", is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Phoenix Coyotes.
Yvonne Brill
Yvonne Madelaine Brill was a Canadian-American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today. During her career she was involved in a broad range of national space programs in the United States, including NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization.
Lyman Ward
Lyman Ward is a Canadian actor.