List of Famous people born in Canada

Gerald Emmett Carter

First Name Gerald
Last Name Carter
Born on March 1, 1912
Died on April 6, 2003 (aged 91)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter (1912–2003) was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1978 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.

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Al Waxman

First Name Al
Last Name Waxman
Born on March 2, 1935
Died on January 18, 2001 (aged 65)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Albert Samuel Waxman, was a Canadian actor and director of over 1000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is best known for his starring roles in the television series King of Kensington (CBC) and Cagney & Lacey (CBS).

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Anne McLellan

First Name Anne
Last Name McLellan
Born on August 31, 1950 (age 75)
Born in Canada

A. Anne McLellan is a Canadian academic and politician. She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, serving most recently as the ninth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006.

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David Alvarez

First Name David
Last Name Alvarez
Born on May 11, 1994 (age 32)
Born in Canada, Quebec

David Alvarez is a Canadian dancer and actor, best known for being one of the original Billys in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot the Musical and becoming one of the youngest winners of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical. He trained as a dancer with American Ballet Theatre and plays Bernardo in Steven Spielberg's 2021 film version of West Side Story.

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Bruce Fairbairn

Bruce Earl Fairbairn
First Name Bruce
Last Name Fairbairn
Born on December 30, 1949
Died on May 17, 1999 (aged 49)

Bruce Earl Fairbairn was a Canadian musician and international record producer from Vancouver, British Columbia. He was active as a producer from 1976 to 1999, and is considered one of the best of his era. His most successful productions are Slippery When Wet and New Jersey by Bon Jovi, Permanent Vacation, Pump, and Get a Grip by Aerosmith, The Razors Edge by AC/DC, and Balance by Van Halen, each of which sold at least five million copies. He was originally a trumpet player, then started a career as a record producer for Canadian rock band Prism. Fairbairn won the Canadian music industry Producer of the Year Juno Award three times. He produced albums for many well-known international artists such as Loverboy, Blue Öyster Cult, Bon Jovi, Poison, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Scorpions, Van Halen, Chicago, The Cranberries, INXS, Kiss and Yes. His style was notable for introducing dynamic horn arrangements into rock music productions. Fairbairn died suddenly on May 17, 1999 due to unknown causes.

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Jack Hodgins

First Name Jack
Last Name Hodgins
Born on October 3, 1938 (age 87)

Jack Hodgins is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Critically acclaimed, among his best received works is Broken Ground (1998), a historical novel set after the First World War, for which he received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and many other accolades.

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Carrie Best

First Name Carrie
Born on March 4, 1903
Died on July 24, 2001 (aged 98)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Carrie Mae Best, was a Canadian journalist and social activist.

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Jerrold E. Marsden

First Name Jerrold
Born on August 17, 1942
Died on September 21, 2010 (aged 68)

Jerrold Eldon Marsden was a Canadian mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.

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Angèle Coutu

First Name Angèle
Last Name Coutu
Born on February 6, 1946 (age 80)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Angèle Coutu is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Borderline, for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, and her long-running television role in the series Two's a Crowd .

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Jean-Louis Roux

First Name Jean-Louis
Last Name Roux
Born on May 18, 1923
Died on November 28, 2013 (aged 90)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Jean-Louis Roux, was a Canadian politician, entertainer and playwright who was briefly the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

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