List of Famous people born in Canada

Matchewan Noël was a Canadian civil servant and award-winning writer of Algonquin descent from the Outaouais region of Quebec.

Suzanne Tremblay was a Canadian politician from Quebec who served as a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2004.

Micheline Bernard is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performances in the films Small Blind , for which she received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Actress at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013, and Matthias & Maxime, for which she won the Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actress at the 22A Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.

Louis Joseph "Leapin' Louie" Fontinato was a Canadian defenceman in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers from 1954 to 1961 and the Montreal Canadiens from 1961 to 1963.

Élaine Zakaïb was a Canadian politician. She was member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Richelieu, first elected in the 2012 election and re-elected in 2014.

Ernest Leo Kolber, was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and Senator.

Jean Gagnon was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaspé, Quebec, Canada.

Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two children's fantasy series. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy.