List of Famous people born in Canada

Clé Bennett

First Name Clé
Born on July 13, 1981 (age 44)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Clé Bennett is a Canadian television, film, and stage actor.

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Alexandra Stréliski

First Name Alexandra
Last Name Stréliski
Born on January 15, 1985 (age 41)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Alexandra Stréliski is a Canadian neo-classical composer and pianist based in Quebec. She has released two albums: Pianoscope (2010) and Inscape (2018).

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Deborah Chow

First Name Deborah
Born on January 1, 1971 (age 55)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Deborah Chow is a Canadian filmmaker, television director and screenwriter. Two of her first short films, Daypass (2002) and The Hill (2004) have both won awards at various international film festivals. She is best known for her first feature film, which she wrote and directed, The High Cost of Living. Chow directed various projects for television, including the TV movie adaption of Flowers in the Attic and episodes of the series Copper, Murdoch Mysteries, Reign, Beauty and the Beast, and Mr. Robot. Chow is also a director on the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and the Obi-Wan Kenobi series for Disney+.

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Aimee Semple McPherson

First Name Aimee
Last Name McPherson
Born on October 9, 1890
Died on September 27, 1944 (aged 53)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of modern media in religious services, using radio to draw on the growing appeal of popular entertainment and incorporating stage techniques into her weekly sermons at Angelus Temple, an early megachurch.

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Naomi Klein

First Name Naomi
Last Name Klein
Born in Canada, Quebec

Naomi A. Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism. On a three-year appointment from September 2018, she is the Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.

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Luce Dufault

First Name Luce
Last Name Dufault
Born on August 19, 1966 (age 59)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Luce Dufault is a Canadian singer. She is of French descent. She performed in two musicals from Luc Plamondon, La Légende de Jimmy and Starmania. She recorded a few hits including Soirs de scotch, Au delà des mots and Ce qu'il reste de nous.

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Tamara Vrooman

First Name Tamara
Last Name Vrooman
Born on January 1, 1968 (age 58)

Tamara Vrooman,, is a Canadian businesswoman. From 2007 until July 2020, she served as the CEO of Vancity Credit Union. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Vrooman left Vancity to accept a position as the President and CEO of Vancouver International Airport and the 12th Chancellor of Simon Fraser University. Vrooman has previously served as British Columbia's first and youngest female deputy Minister of Finance.

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Kennedy Stewart

First Name Kennedy
Last Name Stewart
Born on November 8, 1966 (age 59)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Edward Charles Kennedy Stewart is a Canadian politician and academic serving as the 40th and current mayor of Vancouver since 2018. He previously was the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Burnaby—Douglas (2011–2015) and Burnaby South (2015–2018), serving in the House of Commons as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP) caucus.

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Alys Robi

First Name Alys
Born on February 3, 1923
Died on May 28, 2011 (aged 88)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Alice Robitaille, from Quebec City, "petite Alys", was a French Canadian singer mainly remembered for her later French interpretations of Latin American songs, who performed under the stage name Alys Robi.

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Marguerite Blais

First Name Marguerite
Last Name Blais
Born on September 12, 1950 (age 75)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Marie Josephine Marguerite Blais is a Canadian politician, journalist, radio host and television host from Quebec. She is currently a Coalition Avenir Québec Member of the National Assembly of Québec and is the current Minister Responsible for Seniors and Informal Caregivers and Member of the Comité ministériel des services aux citoyens since October 2018. She was a Liberal Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the electoral division of Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne in Montreal from 2007 to 2015, and served as the Minister responsible for Seniors, vice-chair of the Comité ministériel du développement social, éducatif et culturel and member of the Conseil du trésor.

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