List of Famous people born in Canada

Roberta Bondar is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine research team collaborating with NASA, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific, and medical communities.

Douglas L. Coleman was a scientist and professor at The Jackson Laboratory, in Bar Harbor, Maine. His work predicted that the ob gene encoded the hormone leptin, later co-discovered in 1994 by Jeffrey Friedman, Rudolph Leibel and their research teams at Rockefeller University. This work has had a major role in our understanding of the mechanisms regulating body weight and that cause of human obesity.

Harry Hemley Plaskett FRS was a Canadian astronomer who made significant contributions to the fields of solar physics, astronomical spectroscopy and spectrophotometry. From 1932 to 1960, he served as the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford, and in 1963 was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché was a Canadian doctor, politician, and Father of Confederation.

Robert William Miller was a retired professional ice hockey player who played 95 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Montreal Maroons and Montreal Canadiens. His name is engraved on the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Maroons in 1935.

Sara Botsford is a Canadian television and film actress. She plays Marilla in the 2016 Anne of Green Gables TV movie, opposite Martin Sheen, and plays Lady Covington in the Nickelodeon YTV series RIDE. She is probably best known for her role of Ann Hildebrand in the television series E.N.G. for which she won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. Before this role, her most remembered role is the wickedly evil character of Lillith McKechnie, AKA Isabella, on the daytime drama As the World Turns from 1988 to 1990. In Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story (1996), she portrayed Marlene Moore's lawyer. In 2002, she portrayed Kathleen Sinclair in the TV movie Trudeau about the life of the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In 2003 she appeared in Burn: The Robert Wraight Story.

Nanci Chambers is a Canadian-born American actress.

Bruce Flatt is a Canadian businessman and the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management. He joined Brookfield in 1990 and became CEO in 2002. He has been referred to as "Canada's Warren Buffett" due to his "value" investment style, extended tenure as CEO, and large investment in Brookfield. In 2019 he was ranked #1717 on Forbes' Billionaires list with a net worth of US$1.3 billion.

Lisa Vultaggio is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Hannah Scott on General Hospital.