List of Famous people born in Canada

Peggy Cartwright was a Canadian silent film actress and the leading lady of the Our Gang comedy series during the silent film era. She appeared in four short films released in 1922. Cartwright is confirmed as having starred in these first four Our Gang shorts: One Terrible Day premiered on September 10, 1922; Fire Fighters premiered on October 8, 1922; Young Sherlocks premiered on November 26, 1922; and Saturday Morning premiered on December 3, 1922.

Stevie Cameron,, is an award-winning Canadian investigative journalist and best-selling author.

Jacob Guay, better known as just Jacob, is a Canadian singer dubbed as the French language answer to fellow Canadian Justin Bieber singing in both French and English.

Jules Léger was a Canadian diplomat and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 21st since Canadian Confederation.

Anne Heggtveit, is a former alpine ski racer from Canada. She was an Olympic gold medallist and double world champion in 1960.

Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc was a Canadian journalist, politician and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 25th since the Canadian Confederation.

Joyce Wieland was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist. Wieland found success as a painter when she began her career in Toronto in the 1950s. In 1962, Wieland moved to New York City and expanded her career as an artist by including new materials and mixed media work. During that time, she also rose to prominence as an experimental filmmaker and soon, renowned institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York were showing her films. In 1971, Wieland's True Patriot Love exhibition was the first solo exhibition by a living Canadian female artist at the National Gallery of Canada. In 1982, Wieland received the honour of the Order of Canada and in 1987, she was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation's Visual Arts Award. She was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Marcel Sabourin, OC is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the central character in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's trilogy of Don't Let It Kill You , The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died and Now or Never , and his performance as Professor Mandibule in the children's television series Les Croquignoles and La ribouldingue.

Jordan Prentice is a Canadian actor. A self-described "person of short stature", he is known for his portrayal of Rock in American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Jimmy in In Bruges, and for appearing in the music videos for Vengaboys' "Shalala Lala" and The Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch." He was also one of the actors to play Howard the Duck. He is the lead actor in Toronto Playwright, Eric Woolfe's Revenger's Medicine Show which is currently in development by Eldritch Theatre.

Gaétan Boucher was a Canadian-born Swiss ice hockey centre. He spent the majority of his career playing for HC Villars in Switzerland.