List of Famous people born in Canada

Barbara Kelly

First Name Barbara
Last Name Kelly
Born on October 5, 1924
Died on January 15, 2007 (aged 82)

Barbara Kelly was a Canadian-British actress, best known for her television roles in the United Kingdom opposite her husband Bernard Braden in the 1950s and 1960s, and for many appearances as a panelist on the British version of What's My Line?

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Manuela Testolini

First Name Manuela
Born on September 19, 1976 (age 49)
Born in Canada, Ontario
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Roger Spottiswoode

John Roger Spottiswoode
First Name Roger
Last Name Spottiswoode
Born on January 5, 1945 (age 81)
Born in Canada, Ontario

John Roger Spottiswoode is a Canadian-British director, editor and writer of film and television.

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Denise Robert

First Name Denise
Last Name Robert
Born on November 30, 1953 (age 72)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Denise Robert,, is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films.

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Dave Thomas

First Name Dave
Last Name Thomas
Born in Canada, Ontario

David William Thomas is a Canadian comedian, actor and television writer. He is best known for being one half of the duo Bob and Doug McKenzie with Rick Moranis. He appeared as Doug McKenzie on SCTV, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award out of two nominations, and in the film Strange Brew (1983), which he also co-directed. As a duo, they made two albums, The Great White North and Strange Brew, the former gaining them a Grammy Award nomination and a Juno Award.

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Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière

First Name Michel
Last Name Lotbinière
Born on April 23, 1723
Died on January 1, 1798 (aged 74)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Michel-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière (1723–1798), Seigneur of Vaudreuil, Lotbinière and Rigaud, Quebec etc. In 1757, on his advice at the Siege of Fort William Henry, the Marquis de Montcalm successfully attacked Fort William Henry. In 1758, Lotbinière again advised Montcalm to await rather than attack the British Army, at Fort Carillon, the fort that Lotbinière had built, which led to the French victory at the Battle of Carillon. In 1784, Louis XVI of France created Lotbinière a Marquis, the only Canadian by family and birth to have attained that rank, and the last such creation made by Louis XVI. He was the last private owner of Château Vaudreuil in Montreal.

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Dale Begg-Smith

Dale Nygel Begg-Smith
First Name Dale
Last Name Begg-Smith
Born on January 18, 1985 (age 41)

Dale Begg-Smith is an Australian-Canadian businessman and former Olympic freestyle skier. Begg-Smith won the gold medal for Australia in the men's moguls event at the 2006 Winter Olympics and silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

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Feist

Born on February 13, 1976 (age 50)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Leslie Feist, better known by her stage name Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.

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David Steinberg

First Name David
Last Name Steinberg
Born on August 9, 1942 (age 83)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the best-known comics in the United States. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson more than 130 times and served as guest host 12 times, the youngest person ever to guest-host. Steinberg directed several films and episodes of television situation comedies, including Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Golden Girls, and Designing Women.

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Jean Paul Riopelle

First Name Jean
Last Name Riopelle
Born on October 7, 1923
Died on March 12, 2002 (aged 78)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Jean-Paul Riopelle, was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the Refus Global, the 1948 manifesto that announced the Quebecois artistic community's refusal of clericalism and provincialism. He is best known for his abstract painting style, in particular his "mosaic" works of the 1950s when he famously abandoned the paintbrush, using only a palette knife to apply paint to canvas, giving his works a distinctive sculptural quality. He became the first Canadian painter to attain widespread international recognition.

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