List of Famous people born in Canada
Pierre Nantel
Pierre Nantel is a Canadian politician and a former member of the House of Commons of Canada. First elected in the 2011 federal election as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he succeeded Jean Dorion of the Bloc Québécois in the district of Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher; in the 2015 election, he was reelected in the redistributed riding of Longueuil—Saint-Hubert.
Rheal Cormier
Rhéal Paul Cormier was a Canadian-American professional baseball left-handed relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox (twice), Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies, and Cincinnati Reds for 16 seasons, between 1991 through 2007.
Henry Czerny
Henry Czerny is a Canadian stage, film, and television actor. He is known for his roles in the films The Boys of St. Vincent, Mission: Impossible, Clear and Present Danger, The Ice Storm, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Fido, Remember, and Ready or Not and has appeared in numerous television programs in both guest and starring roles, including a regular role as Conrad Grayson on the ABC primetime soap opera Revenge.
Cas Anvar
Cas Anvar is a Canadian actor and writer.
Catherine McKenna
Catherine Mary McKenna is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Ottawa Centre in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. She served as Minister of Environment and Climate Change in the Cabinet headed by Justin Trudeau and was then moved to Minister of Infrastructure and Communities in the reshuffle following the 2019 federal election.
Melissa Humana-Paredes
Melissa Humana-Paredes is a female Canadian beach volleyball player, who is partnered with Sarah Pavan. She plays as a left-side defender. The pair won the women's gold medal at the 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships.
Roch Voisine
Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host who lives in Montreal and Paris. He writes and performs material in both English and French. He won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year in 1994. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Devon Bostick
Devon Bostick is a Canadian actor known for playing Rodrick Heffley in the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies, the lead role of Simon in the Atom Egoyan-directed film Adoration, Brent in Saw VI, and Jasper Jordan on The CW television series The 100 from 2014 to 2017.
Pascale Hutton
Pascale Hutton is a Canadian actress. She was born in Creston, British Columbia. Hutton attended the conservatory acting program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Arthur B. McDonald
Arthur Bruce McDonald, P.Eng, is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 2006 to 2013. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.