List of Famous people born in Canada

J. Carson Mark

Jordan Carson Mark
First Name J.
Last Name Mark
Born on July 6, 1913
Died on March 2, 1997 (aged 83)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Jordan Carson Mark was a Canadian-American mathematician best known for his work on developing nuclear weapons for the United States at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mark joined the Manhattan Project in 1945, and continued to work at Los Alamos under the leadership of Norris Bradbury after World War II ended. He became the leader of the Theoretical Division at the laboratory in 1947, a position he held until 1973. He oversaw the development of new weapons, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. On the hydrogen bomb project he was able to bring together experts like Edward Teller, Stanislaw Ulam and Marshall Holloway despite their personal differences.

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Frank Schorpion

First Name Frank
Last Name Schorpion
Born on January 1, 1953 (age 73)
Born in Canada, Manitoba
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Philip J. Currie

First Name Philip
Last Name Currie
Born on March 13, 1949 (age 77)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Philip John Currie is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the 1980s, he became the director of the Canada-China Dinosaur Project, the first cooperative palaeontological partnering between China and the West since the Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s, and helped describe some of the first feathered dinosaurs. He is one of the primary editors of the influential Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, and his areas of expertise include theropods, the origin of birds, and dinosaurian migration patterns and herding behavior. He was one of the models for palaeontologist Alan Grant in the film Jurassic Park.

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Mark Osborne

First Name Mark
Last Name Osborne
Born on August 13, 1961 (age 64)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Mark Anatole Osborne is a Canadian former ice hockey player. Osborne played in the National Hockey League (NHL) primarily as a checking winger between 1981 and 1995. Osborne played in 919 games, tallying 212 goals and 531 points.

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Shannon Chan-Kent

First Name Shannon
Last Name Chan-Kent
Born on September 23, 1988 (age 37)

Shannon Chan-Kent is a Canadian voice and stage actress. She is known for her roles as Silver Spoon and Smolder and the singing voice of Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Misa Amane in the English dub of Death Note, and the Biskit twins and Youngmee Song on Littlest Pet Shop. She also portrays Joy Pepper in the rebooted Superbook, the Chief in Pucca, and Courtney's best friend Janet in Spectacular!.

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James Hillier

First Name James
Last Name Hillier
Born on August 22, 1915
Died on January 15, 2007 (aged 91)
Born in Canada, Ontario

James Hillier, was a Canadian-American scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938.

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Marie-Josée Longchamps

First Name Marie-Josée
Born on August 16, 1947 (age 78)
Born in Canada, Quebec
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Shawn Drover

First Name Shawn
Last Name Drover
Born on May 5, 1966 (age 60)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Shawn Drover is a Canadian musician, best known for his work with the American heavy metal band Megadeth.

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Louis Henry Davies

First Name Louis
Last Name Davies
Born on May 4, 1845
Died on May 1, 1924 (aged 78)

Sir Louis Henry Davies was a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician, and judge from the province of Prince Edward Island. In a public career spanning six decades, he served as the third premier of Prince Edward Island, a federal Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister, and as both a Puisne Justice and the sixth Chief Justice of Canada.

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Michel Brault

First Name Michel
Last Name Brault
Born on June 25, 1928
Died on September 21, 2013 (aged 85)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.

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