List of Famous people born in Canada

Wilfred Lucas

First Name Wilfred
Born on January 30, 1871
Died on December 13, 1940 (aged 69)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Wilfred Van Norman Lucas was a Canadian American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter.

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Roger Avary

First Name Roger
Last Name Avary
Born on August 23, 1965 (age 60)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Roger Roberts Avary is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. Avary directed Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction, Lucky Day, and wrote the screenplays for Silent Hill and Beowulf.

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Len Blum

First Name Len
Born on January 1, 1951 (age 75)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Leonard Solomon Blum is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer.

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Claude Robinson

First Name Claude
Last Name Robinson
Born on March 2, 1952 (age 74)
Born in Canada, Quebec
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Jean-Luc Pépin

First Name Jean-Luc
Born on November 1, 1924
Died on September 5, 1995 (aged 70)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Jean-Luc Pepin, was a Canadian academic, politician and Cabinet minister.

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Michel Lamarche

First Name Michel
Last Name Lamarche
Born on February 9, 1947
Died on January 5, 2019 (aged 71)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Michel Lamarche was a Canadian professional wrestler, known by his ringnames Alexis Smirnoff and Michel "Justice" Dubois, who competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance, including the Mid-South, Central States, Georgia and San Francisco territories, as well as brief stints in International Wrestling Enterprise, the American Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Federation during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Alphonse Desjardins

First Name Alphonse
Last Name Desjardins
Born on November 5, 1854
Died on October 31, 1920 (aged 65)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins, born in Lévis, Quebec, was the co-founder of the Caisses Populaires Desjardins, a forerunner of North American credit unions and community banks. For his contribution to the advancement of agriculture in the province of Quebec, he was posthumously inducted to the Agricultural Hall of Fame of Quebec in 1994

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John Murray

First Name John
Last Name Murray
Born on March 3, 1841
Died on March 16, 1914 (aged 73)
Born in Canada

Sir John Murray was a pioneering Canadian-born Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. He is considered to be the father of modern oceanography.

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Doris Piché

First Name Doris
Last Name Piché
Born on October 14, 1965 (age 60)
Born in Canada, Quebec
Height 164 cm | 5'5

Doris Piché is a Canadian badminton player. She competed in women's singles and women's doubles at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and in women's singles and mixed doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

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Tante Gaby

Pierre Lauzon
First Name Tante
Born on November 30, 1961
Died on June 8, 2020 (aged 58)
Born in Canada
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