List of Famous people born in Canada

Nathalie Gadouas

First Name Nathalie
Born on October 24, 1958 (age 67)
Born in Canada, Quebec
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Marc Staal

First Name Marc
Last Name Staal
Born on January 13, 1987 (age 39)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 193 cm | 6'4

Marc Staal is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League (NHL) after having played nearly 900 regular season games with the New York Rangers.

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Geills Turner

Geills McCrae Kilgour
First Name Geills
Born on December 23, 1937 (age 88)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Geills Turner is a Canadian businesswoman and the widow of John Turner, the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.

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Daniel Gadouas

First Name Daniel
Last Name Gadouas
Born on October 1, 1947 (age 78)
Born in Canada, Quebec
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Peter Thomson

First Name Peter
Last Name Thomson
Born on April 25, 1965 (age 61)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Peter John Thomson is a Canadian rally race car driver with Thomson Motorsport, and a venture capitalist.

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Zal Yanovsky

Zalman Yanovsky
First Name Zal
Last Name Yanovsky
Born on December 19, 1944
Died on December 13, 2002 (aged 57)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Zalman Yanovsky was a Canadian folk-rock musician. Born in Toronto, he was the son of political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky. He played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful, a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996. He was married to actress Jackie Burroughs, with whom he had one daughter, Zoe.

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Hubert Aquin

First Name Hubert
Last Name Aquin
Born on October 24, 1929
Died on March 15, 1977 (aged 47)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Hubert Aquin was a Quebec novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor.

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Nathaniel Branden

Nathan Blumenthal
First Name Nathaniel
Born on April 9, 1930
Died on December 3, 2014 (aged 84)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Nathaniel Branden was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and romantic partner of Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent role in the 1960s in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Rand and Branden split acrimoniously in 1968, after which Branden focused on developing his own psychological theories and modes of therapy.

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François Létourneau

First Name François
Last Name Létourneau
Born on March 30, 1974 (age 52)

François Létourneau is a Canadian actor and writer, best known as co-creator and star of the television series Les Invincibles and Série noire.

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François Bonnardel

First Name François
Last Name Bonnardel
Born on November 8, 1967 (age 58)
Born in Canada, Quebec

François Bonnardel is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada, for the riding of Granby. He previously represented the now-defunct Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) party, but now represents the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), following the merger of the ADQ with the CAQ. On October 18, 2018, he was appointed as Minister of Transport in Quebec Premier Francois Legault's cabinet.

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