List of Famous people born in Canada
Leila Josefowicz
Leila Bronia Josefowicz is an American-Canadian classical violinist.
Jack Underhill
Roman Sadovsky
Roman Sadovsky is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 2020 Canadian national champion, the 2019 NHK Trophy bronze medalist, and a three-time ISU Challenger Series medalist. He also won five medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, including two gold medals.
Dani Kind
Dani Kind is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her role as Anne Carlson in the television series Workin' Moms, for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.
Stephen Bosustow
Stephen Reginald Bosustow was a Canadian-born American film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of United Productions of America (UPA) and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live-action shorts. He is chiefly remembered for producing a string of Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing-Boing cartoons in the 1950s, three of which earned Academy Awards. He is the only film producer in history who received all the Oscar nominations in one category (1957), guaranteeing him the winning Oscar. Magoo's Puddle Jumper was the eventual winner.
Daniel Johnson
Francis Daniel Johnson Sr.,, was a Quebec politician and the 20th Premier of Quebec from 1966 to his death in 1968.
Ayisha Issa
Ayisha Issa is an actress and martial arts practitioner born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has played a number of roles in both English- and French-language television series and films, such as Dark Matter, Unité 9, and Brick Mansions (2014). She is a practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu who won the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation World Championships twice, once in 2010 as a white belt, and again in 2014 as a blue belt; currently she holds the rank of brown belt and owns a dojo in Toronto named 4Points. She also did voice acting for Ubisoft's Far Cry Primal (2016) and The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (2019), which was developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
Frances Hyland
Frances Hyland was a Canadian stage, film and television actress. She earned recognition for roles on stage and screen. Honoured with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award in 1994, she was called "the first lady of Canadian theatre".
Huguette Oligny
Huguette Oligny, was a Canadian actress active in theatre, film and television.
Myriam Bédard
Myriam Bédard, is a Canadian retired biathlete. She represented Canada at two Winter Olympics winning gold medals, and a bronze medal. As of 2018, Bédard is the only Canadian biathlete, male or female, ever to win an Olympic medal, and the only North American biathlete ever to win Olympic gold.