List of Famous people born in Canada

Henry Burr was a Canadian singer, radio performer and producer. He was born Harry Haley McClaskey and used Henry Burr as one of his many pseudonyms, in addition to Irving Gillette, Henry Gillette, Alfred Alexander, Robert Rice, Carl Ely, Harry Barr, Frank Knapp, Al King, and Shamus McClaskey. He produced more than 12,000 recordings, by his own estimate, and some of his most popular recordings included "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight", "Till We Meet Again" with Albert Campbell, "Beautiful Ohio", "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" "When I Lost You" and "In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree". A tenor, he performed as a soloist and in duets, trios and quartets.

George James McIlraith, was a lawyer and Canadian Parliamentarian.

Charmaine Reid is a badminton player from Canada. Her home is in Calgary. Her coaching has been by Bryan Moody, Ardy Wiranata, and Ken Poole. In 2004, she competed at the Summer Olympics in Athens in both singles and doubles. Reid won five Canadian National Championships between 2005 and 2007, two of them in women's singles, and three in women's doubles. She has won one gold and four silver medals at the Pan American Games. In 2016, she was inducted into Niagara Falls Sports Wall of Fame in recognition of her accomplishments and contribution to the sport of badminton around the world.

David Sobolov is a Canadian voice actor and director, best known for his roles as Depth Charge in Beast Wars: Transformers, Gorilla Grodd in The Flash, Drax the Destroyer in various media, Shockwave in Transformers: Prime and Blitzwing in Bumblebee. He was born in Windsor, Ontario.

Robbyn Hermitage is a badminton player from Canada, who won the gold medal in the women's doubles competition at the 1999 Pan American Games alongside Milaine Cloutier. She also took away silver from that tournament, winning in the mixed doubles competition partnering Brent Olynyk. A resident of Surrey, British Columbia, she represented Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

David Branch is a Canadian ice hockey administrator. His lengthy involvement in junior ice hockey includes serving as commissioner of the Ontario Hockey League since September 15, 1979, and serving as president of the Canadian Hockey League from 1996 to 2019. He received the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2016.

Jack Cowin is a Canadian-Australian businessman and entrepreneur with a long-term involvement in franchised fast food chains in Australia and Canada. Cowin brought KFC to Australia, founded and owns Hungry Jack's, the Burger King franchise in Australia, has at various stages controlled the Domino's Pizza franchise in Australia prior to its 2005 listing on the ASX, and has an ownership stake in the Lone Star Texas Grill restaurant chain in Canada, with upstream Australian investments in cattle stations and food processing. Cowin is the Executive Chairman of Competitive Foods Australia, one of Australia's largest privately held businesses. Cowin has also been an investor in Australia's Ten Network, serving as a non-executive director.