List of Famous people born in Canada

Brennan Clost

First Name Brennan
Last Name Clost
Born on October 20, 1994 (age 31)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Brennan Clost is a Canadian actor and dancer, known for portraying the role of Daniel on the Family series The Next Step. In 2020, he starred in the Netflix dance drama series Tiny Pretty Things.

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Bill Morneau

First Name Bill
Last Name Morneau
Born on October 7, 1962 (age 63)
Born in Canada, Ontario

William Francis Morneau Jr. is a Canadian businessman and former Liberal Party politician who served as minister of finance and member of Parliament (MP) for Toronto Centre from 2015 to 2020.

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Chris Kunitz

First Name Chris
Last Name Kunitz
Born on September 26, 1979 (age 46)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Christopher Kunitz is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Dillon Brooks

First Name Dillon
Last Name Brooks
Born on January 22, 1996 (age 30)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 201 cm | 6'7

Dillon Brooks is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks, where he was named a consensus second-team All-American and earned conference player of the year honours in the Pac-12 in 2017. He is a member of the Canada national team.

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Robbie Robertson

First Name Robbie
Last Name Robertson
Born in Canada, Ontario

Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson, OC, is a Canadian musician, songwriter, film composer, producer, actor, and author. Robertson is best known for his work as lead guitarist and songwriter for The Band, and for his career as a solo recording artist.

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Diane Dufresne

First Name Diane
Last Name Dufresne
Born on September 30, 1944 (age 81)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Diane Dufresne, is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs.

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Stéphane Richer

First Name Stéphane
Last Name Richer
Born on June 7, 1966 (age 59)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Stéphane Joseph Jean-Jacques Richer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger.

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Sid Meier

First Name Sid
Born on February 24, 1954 (age 72)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Sidney K. Meier is a Canadian-American programmer, designer, and producer of several strategy video games and simulation video games, including the Civilization series. Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and is the Director of Creative Development of Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996. For his contributions to the video game industry, Meier was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.

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Dan Markel

First Name Dan
Last Name Markel
Born on October 9, 1972
Died on July 19, 2014 (aged 41)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Daniel Eric Markel was an attorney and a law professor in the United States who wrote important works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing, with a focus on the role of punishment in the criminal justice system. A native of Toronto, he earned a J.D. degree from Harvard in 2001 and after working briefly as a law clerk and junior associate at a law firm, joined the faculty of Florida State University in 2005.

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Kim Coates

First Name Kim
Last Name Coates
Born on February 21, 1958 (age 68)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Kim F. Coates is a Canadian-American actor who has worked in both Canadian and American films and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He is best known for his role as Alexander "Tig" Trager in the FX series Sons of Anarchy and as Declan Gardiner in the Citytv series Bad Blood, as well as his recurring roles in Prison Break, Cold Case, CSI and CSI: Miami. He has also had film roles in The Last Boy Scout (1991), Bad Boys (1995), King of Sorrow (2006), Goon (2011).

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