List of Famous people born in Canada
Michael Donovan
Michael Patrick Donovan is a Canadian film producer, executive, and screenwriter.
Paul Peel
Paul Peel was a Canadian figure painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime.
Caroline Cruikshank
Jeremy Podeswa
Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses (1999) and Fugitive Pieces (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific. He has also written several films.
Barthélemy Joliette
Barthélemy Joliette was a notary, businessman, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East. He was a descendant of Louis Jolliet.
Archibald J. McLean
Archibald James "Archie" McLean was a cattleman and politician from Ontario, Canada. He was one of the Big Four who helped found the Calgary Stampede in 1912.
Isabelle Delorme
Isabelle Delorme was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. As a composer, her works are lyrical in nature and follow more traditional ideas of harmony as opposed to the avant-garde music that was in vogue in her day. She was an active recitalist but is best remembered for her impact as a teacher of music theory.
Arthur B. Sleigh
Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, also known as Burrowes Willcocks Arthur Sleigh was a Canadian-born British Army officer, travel writer and the original founder of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
Jesse Capelli
Joseph E. Seagram
Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canadian distillery founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.