List of Famous people born in Canada

Louis-Nazaire Bégin was a Canadian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. Begin held a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and was later appointed Archbishop of Quebec by Pope Leo XIII (1898) and created cardinal by Pope Pius X (1914).

Sonia Vachon is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performance in the film 5150 Elm's Way , for which she was both a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 30th Genie Awards and a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 12th Jutra Awards.

Éric Serge Gagné is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. After signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) as a free agent in 1995, Gagné began his career as a starting pitcher. After he struggled in that role, the Dodgers converted Gagné from a starter to a reliever, where for three years (2002–2004) he was statistically the most outstanding closer in the game, winning the Cy Young Award in 2003. During that period, he set a major league record by converting 84 consecutive save opportunities. The phrase "Game Over" was heavily used by the Dodgers and the media in connection with his appearances to finish close games.

Martine St. Clair is a Canadian singer from the province of Quebec. She has released numerous albums in a career that has spanned over two decades.

Pénélope McQuade is a French Canadian radio and television host.

Pierre Lacroix was a Canadian ice hockey executive. He was the president and general manager of the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche from 1994 to 2006. After the Nordiques moved to Colorado in 1995, he built teams that won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1996 and 2001.

Henry Taube, was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University.

Aimee Chan or Chan Yan-mei is a Canadian born actress based in Hong Kong. She was the winner of Miss Hong Kong 2006 and was offered a TVB contract shortly after.

Joey Scarpellino is an actor from Quebec. After 4 years studying drama arts at La Bulle college, he got his first role on TV in the Ici Radio-Canada Télé show Les Parent.

Samuel Tremblay, better known by his stage name Samian, is a Canadian rapper who performs in both French and Algonquian.