List of Famous people born in Canada

Howard Shore

First Name Howard
Last Name Shore
Born on October 18, 1946 (age 79)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer and conductor noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with one being for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.

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John Merivale

First Name John
Last Name Merivale
Born on December 1, 1917
Died on February 6, 1990 (aged 72)
Born in Canada, Ontario

John Herman Merivale, also known as Jack Merivale, was a British theatre actor, and occasional supporting player in British films.

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Andrea Lindsay

First Name Andrea
Last Name Lindsay
Born on November 30, 1949 (age 76)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Andrea Lindsay is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter, who won the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2010 for her album Les Sentinelles dorment.

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Koriass

Emmanuel Dubois
Born on March 12, 1984 (age 42)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Koriass is the stage name of Emmanuel Dubois, a Canadian rapper from Quebec. He is a two-time winner of the Prix Félix for Best Hip Hop Album, in 2014 for Rue des Saules and in 2016 for Love Suprême, was a shortlisted finalist for the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017 for Love Suprême, and won the Echo Songwriting Prize in the French division in 2012 for his song "St-Eustache".

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Konrad Sioui

First Name Konrad
Last Name Sioui
Born on January 1, 1953 (age 73)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Konrad Sioui was the Grand Chief of Wendake, a native reserve that is an enclave within what is now Quebec City, Canada. He succeeded Max Gros-Louis in 2008.

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J. David Molson

First Name J.
Last Name Molson
Born on June 1, 1928
Died on May 8, 2017 (aged 88)
Born in Canada, Quebec

John David Molson was a Canadian businessman and sports executive. A member of the Molson family, he served as the president of the Montreal Canadiens for eight years.

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Arnaud Gascon-Nadon

First Name Arnaud
Last Name Gascon-Nadon
Born on July 10, 1988 (age 37)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Arnaud Gascon-Nadon is a Canadian football defensive lineman who played for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 2018. He was selected 17th overall by the Tiger-Cats in the 2012 CFL Draft. After the 2011 CIS season, he was ranked as the 13th best player in the Canadian Football League's Amateur Scouting Bureau January rankings for players eligible in the 2012 CFL Draft, and ninth by players in Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Gascon-Nadon played CIS football with the Laval Rouge et Or and for the Rice University Owls in 2008. Before Playing for Edmonton, Gascon-Nadon was with the Hamilton Tiger Cats from 2013 to 2015 and with the Ottawa Red and Blacks in 2016 and 2017, winning the Grey Cup with them in 2016.He officially announced his retirement in the summer of 2019.

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David Shore

First Name David
Last Name Shore
Born on July 3, 1959 (age 67)
Born in Canada, Ontario

David Shore is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South, also producing many episodes of the latter. He created the critically acclaimed series House and more recently, Battle Creek, Sneaky Pete and The Good Doctor.

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Sol Zanetti

First Name Sol
Last Name Zanetti
Born on August 11, 1982 (age 43)

Sol Zanetti is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Jean-Lesage as a member of Québec solidaire.

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Stéphan Bureau

First Name Stéphan
Last Name Bureau
Born on July 2, 1964 (age 62)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Stéphan Bureau is a Canadian journalist, TV interviewer and producer of TV shows and documentary series.

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