List of Famous people born in Canada

John Stanley Plaskett was a Canadian astronomer.

Gordon Sim is a Canadian set decorator.

Claire Lovett was a Canadian badminton and tennis player who competed from the 1940s to 1990s. As a badminton player, Lovett won singles and doubles titles at the Canadian National Badminton Championships from 1947 to 1949. She later won at the mixed doubles event during the 1963 Canadian Open. Apart from badminton, Lovett won sixteen Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club championships between 1946 and 1967. She was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1972 and BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.

Pierre St-Jean is a Canadian weightlifter who competed from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. He competed for Canada at the 1964, 1968 and 1976 Summer Olympics, with a best finish of 10th in 1968.

Jules-Édouard Prévost was a Laurier Liberal and Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec and became a journalist and publisher.

Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc is a Canadian actress from Chicoutimi, Quebec. She is most noted for her performances in the films Aurore, for which she was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Actress at the 8th Jutra Awards in 2006, and Je me souviens, for which she was a Jutra nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010.

Sir Auguste-Réal Angers was a Canadian judge and parliamentarian, holding seats both as a member of the House of Commons of Canada, and as a Senator. He was born in 1837 probably in Quebec City and died in Westmount, Quebec, in 1919.

Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Higgins 18–16 in the final to become the first world champion in the sport's modern era from outside the United Kingdom.

Theodore Lionel Sourkes, was a Canadian biochemist and neuropsychopharmacologist who helped advance the treatment of Parkinson's disease and hypertension.

Wilma Helen Hunley, OC, AOE was a Canadian former politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, the first woman to serve in that post.