List of Famous people born in Canada

Martin Deschamps is a Canadian rock singer from Quebec. He records and performs both as a solo artist and as the lead vocalist for the reunited Offenbach.

Jim Corcoran is a Canadian singer-songwriter and former broadcaster.

Marie-Eve Proulx is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Côte-du-Sud as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and served as the Minister for Regional Economic Development from October 18, 2018 until her resignation on May 4, 2021 following several harassment complaints from her cabinet staff.

Donald Pilon is a Canadian film and television actor. He won the Canadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1972 for his role in The True Nature of Bernadette , and was a Genie Award nominee in the same category in 1985 for The Crime of Ovide Plouffe .

Lise Thibault is a Canadian politician who served as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1997 to 2007 and later spent six months in jail for misuse of public funds and ordered to repay the government.

George Stephen Ferguson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 797 career National Hockey League games for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins and Minnesota North Stars. He was selected in the first round of the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft from the Toronto Marlboros. Ferguson coached the Trenton Sting, a junior A level hockey team based in his hometown of Trenton, Ontario. He died in 2019 at the age of 67.

Donald Lautrec is a Canadian (Quebec) singer and actor.

José Nicolas Théodore is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, Minnesota Wild and Florida Panthers.

Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their investigations during the McCarthy-era 'Red scare'. They all served time in prison for contempt of Congress. In 1951, however, Dmytryk did testify to HUAC and rehabilitated his career. First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing The Caine Mutiny (1954), a critical and commercial success. The second-highest-grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars. Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.

Richard Winston "Dickie" Moore was a Canadian professional hockey player, successful businessman and community philanthropist. He twice won the Art Ross Trophy as the National Hockey League's leading scorer and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Moore spent much of his career with the Montreal Canadiens, but also played briefly with the Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues. In 2017 Moore was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.