List of Famous people born in Canada
James Garfield Gardiner
James Garfield "Jimmy" Gardiner, was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician. He served as the fourth Premier of Saskatchewan, and as a minister in the Canadian Cabinet.
Norm Hiscock
Norm Hiscock is a screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for his work on Saturday Night Live, King of the Hill, The Kids in the Hall, Corner Gas, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and most recently as an executive producer on People of Earth and Trailer Park Boys Animated. He was also a writer on The Kids in the Hall film, Brain Candy. He has a character named after him on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Palmer Cox
Palmer Cox was a Canadian illustrator and author, best known for The Brownies, his series of humorous verse books and comic strips about the mischievous but kindhearted fairy-like sprites. The cartoons were published in several books, such as The Brownies, Their Book (1887). Due to the popularity of Cox's Brownies, one of the first popular handheld cameras was named after them, the Eastman Kodak Brownie camera.""
Vince D'Amato
Del Lord
Delmar "Del" Lord was a Canadian film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films.
Richard Eden
Richard Eden is a Canadian actor, best known as Alex Murphy / RoboCop in the television series RoboCop: The Series and voicing Mongor in the Stan Lee Media web series The 7th Portal. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 1987 for his role as Brick Wallace on Santa Barbara.
Gerry Bean
Gerald William Bean, a native of Vancouver, is a Canadian former actor, who had television and film roles under the names Gerry Bean and John Oliver. He is not to be confused with John Oliver, the Emmy award-winning British comedian and actor.
Gary Kovacs
Gary Kovacs is a San Francisco Bay Area technologist. He was the Chief Executive Officer of AVG Technologies. Kovacs has worked for Mozilla Corporation, Adobe, SAP, and IBM, and led Zi Corporation, a mobile text messaging company.
Raymond Clare Archibald
Raymond Clare Archibald was a prominent Canadian-American mathematician. He is known for his work as a historian of mathematics, his editorships of mathematical journals and his contributions to the teaching of mathematics.
Garth Richardson
Garth "GGGarth" Richardson is a Canadian record producer and music engineer. He is the son of music producer Jack Richardson, a pioneer of the music recording industry in the 1960s and 1970s. Garth Richardson has done music engineering work for the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nickelback, and Mötley Crüe, and produced for Kittie, Biffy Clyro, Rage Against the Machine, Mudvayne, Melvins, Shihad, Kensington, and many others. He cofounded the Nimbus School of Recording Arts in Vancouver, British Columbia together with Bob Ezrin and Kevin Williams. The school was named after Richardson's father's production company, Nimbus 9, and offers courses in production, recording, and audio. Richardson has the nickname 'GGGarth' due to his mild stutter.