List of Famous people born in Canada

Wesley "Wes" Williams is a Canadian rapper, record producer, actor, and author. He is known professionally by his stage names Maestro Fresh Wes or Maestro as a musician, and is credited by his birth name as an actor. One of the earliest Canadian rappers to achieve mainstream success, he is credited as the "Godfather of Canadian hip hop". His debut album, Symphony in Effect (1989), was the first certified platinum album by a Black Canadian artist.

Valérie Marcoux is a Canadian former pair skater. With partner Craig Buntin, she is a three-time Canadian national champion. Prior to teaming up with Buntin in 2002, she skated with Bruno Marcotte. Marcoux announced her retirement from competitive figure skating on April 24, 2007.

Nobu McCarthy was a Japanese Canadian actress, fashion model, and stage director. She received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in the film The Wash.

Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician and educator. Born in Saskatchewan in 1913, he became a teacher in the early 1930s. He worked as a teacher and school principal until 1944 and was involved with the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, eventually becoming its president.

Guy Thauvette is a Canadian actor from Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film Infiltration , for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, as well as his performance as Gen. Roméo Dallaire in the film A Sunday in Kigali .

Robert William Boyle was a physicist and one of the most important early pioneers in the development of sonar.

Robert Stanley Weir was a Montreal, Quebec judge and poet most famous for writing the English lyrics to "O Canada", the national anthem of Canada. He was educated as a teacher and lawyer and considered one of the leading experts of the day on Quebec's municipal civil law. He was appointed a municipal court judge and a judge for the Exchequer Court of Canada.

Robert Lee Nadeau is a retired American professor in the English Department at George Mason University, where he began working in 1975 and from which he retired in 2012. His recent research focuses on integration between economic and environmental thinking. At George Mason, he founded the Global Environmental Network Center, and has argued vehemently against climate change-deniers, whom he said are on a "genocidal campaign".