List of Famous people born in Canada

Jeff Skoll

First Name Jeff
Last Name Skoll
Born on January 16, 1965 (age 61)
Born in Canada, Quebec
Net Worth $6.0B

Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first employee and subsequently first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from University of Toronto in 1987 and left Canada to attend Stanford University's business school in 1993.

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Kerrin Lee-Gartner

First Name Kerrin
Born on September 21, 1966 (age 59)
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada.

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Nick Cvjetkovich

First Name Nick
Last Name Cvjetkovich
Born on August 29, 1973 (age 52)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Nicholas Cvjetkovich is a Serbo-Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his stint in World Wrestling Entertainment, where he worked on its SmackDown brand as Kizarny. He currently works the independents as Sinn Bodhi.

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Kay Hawtrey

First Name Kay
Last Name Hawtrey
Born on November 8, 1926
Died on June 11, 2021 (aged 94)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Kay Hawtrey is a retired Canadian actress. She was born in Toronto, Ontario.

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Keith Holyoak

First Name Keith
Last Name Holyoak
Born on January 16, 1950 (age 76)

Keith James Holyoak is a Canadian-American researcher in cognitive psychology and cognitive science, working on human thinking and reasoning. Holyoak's work focuses on the role of analogy in thinking. His work showed how analogy can be used to enhance learning of new abstract concepts by both children and adults, as well as how reasoning breaks down in cases of brain damage.

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Andrew Miller

First Name Andrew
Last Name Miller
Born on February 25, 1969 (age 57)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Andrew Miller is a Canadian actor, writer, and director. He is known for his role as Kazan in the 1997 science fiction horror film Cube and for playing Creon in the 2020 PBS adaptation of Oedipus Rex.

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John Swainson

First Name John
Last Name Swainson
Born on July 31, 1925
Died on May 13, 1994 (aged 68)
Born in Canada, Ontario

John Burley Swainson was a Canadian-American politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Michigan and the 42nd Governor of Michigan.

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Alastair G. W. Cameron

First Name Alastair
Born on June 21, 1925
Died on October 3, 2005 (aged 80)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Alastair G. W. Cameron was an American-Canadian astrophysicist and space scientist who was an eminent staff member of the Astronomy department of Harvard University. He was one of the founders of the field of nuclear astrophysics, advanced the theory that the Moon was created by the giant impact of a Mars-sized object with the early Earth, and was an early adopter of computer technology in astrophysics.

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Jay Triano

First Name Jay
Last Name Triano
Born on September 21, 1958 (age 67)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 193 cm | 6'4

Howard James "Jay" Triano is a Canadian basketball coach and former professional player, who is currently the lead assistant coach of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously served as the head coach of the NBA's Toronto Raptors and the interim head coach of the Phoenix Suns. A former Canadian national team player who competed in two Olympics, he has also had two stints as head coach of the national team.

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Kathy Kreiner

First Name Kathy
Last Name Kreiner
Born on May 4, 1957 (age 69)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Katharine Kreiner-Phillips is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada. She won the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. First out of the gate on Friday the 13th, Kreiner prevented double gold medallist Rosi Mittermaier from sweeping the women's alpine events, as Mittermaier won the silver medal. It was Canada's only gold medal in Innsbruck.

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