List of Famous people born in Canada

Donnelly Rhodes

First Name Donnelly
Last Name Rhodes
Died on January 8, 2018 (aged 48)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Donnelly Rhodes Henry was a Canadian character actor with many American television and film credits, probably best known to American audiences as the hapless escaped convict Dutch Leitner on the ABC soap opera spoof Soap and as Phillip Chancellor II on The Young and the Restless. Rhodes was well known to Canadian audiences as Sgt. Nick Raitt in the CBC TV series Sidestreet (1975–1978) and as Grant "Doc" Roberts in another CBC TV series called Danger Bay (1985–1990). He also starred as Doctor Cottle ("Doc") on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009).

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Jeannie Chan

First Name Jeannie
Born on October 22, 1989 (age 36)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Jeannie Chan is a Canadian-born Hong Kong actress and model based in Hong Kong. She is currently signed to Shaw Brothers management and has an artiste contract with TVB.

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Daniel Cudmore

First Name Daniel
Last Name Cudmore
Born on January 20, 1981 (age 45)
Height 199 cm | 6'6

Daniel Cudmore is a Canadian actor and stuntman. He is perhaps best known for his roles as the superhero Peter Rasputin / Colossus in the X-Men film series, and as the Volturi Felix in The Twilight Saga film series.

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Santino Marella

First Name Santino
Born on March 14, 1974 (age 52)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Anthony Carelli is a Canadian professional wrestler, sports analyst, web series host, trainer, former mixed martial artist and occasional actor. He most recently worked for Impact Wrestling under his real name. He is perhaps best known for his 11-year tenure with WWE where he wrestled under the ring name Santino Marella. He is the founder of Canadian martial arts and professional wrestling training facility Battle Arts Academy.

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Buddy Roberts

First Name Buddy
Died on November 29, 2012 (aged 42)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Dale Hey was a Canadian-American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Buddy Roberts. Primarily a tag team wrestler, Roberts is known for his appearances as one of The Hollywood Blonds in the 1970s and as one of The Fabulous Freebirds in the 1980s. He was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2015 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016.

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James Neal

First Name James
Last Name Neal
Born on September 3, 1987 (age 38)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 187 cm | 6'2

James Neal, nicknamed "The Real Deal", is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). While playing junior ice hockey with the Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), he was selected in the second round, 33rd overall, by the Dallas Stars in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.

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Rick MacLeish

First Name Rick
Last Name MacLeish
Born on January 3, 1950
Died on May 30, 2016 (aged 66)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Richard George MacLeish was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers, Hartford Whalers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Detroit Red Wings. He played 12 seasons in Philadelphia, winning two Stanley Cups with the Flyers in 1974 and 1975.

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Stéphane Rousseau

First Name Stéphane
Last Name Rousseau
Born on September 17, 1966 (age 59)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Stéphane Rousseau is a Canadian actor and comedian. He starred in the Academy Award-winning film The Barbarian Invasions. He has also been in Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008). His latest movies is the French comedy Fatal, a Zoolander-type spoof of the music industry focusing on the character Fatal Bazooka created by Michaël Youn.

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Tyler Labine

First Name Tyler
Last Name Labine
Born on April 29, 1978 (age 48)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 181 cm | 5'11

Tyler Sean Labine is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for starring in the television series Breaker High, Invasion, Reaper, Deadbeat and as Dr. Iggy Frome, head of psychiatry, in the NBC medical drama New Amsterdam, and the film Tucker & Dale vs Evil.

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Lois Maxwell

Lois Ruth Hooker
First Name Lois
Last Name Maxwell
Born on February 14, 1927
Died on September 29, 2007 (aged 80)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Lois Ruth Maxwell was a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Miss Moneypenny in all the first fourteen Eon-produced James Bond films (1962–1985). She was the first actress to play the part. The films in which she played Miss Moneypenny were Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), and A View to a Kill (1985). She did not appear in the 1967 adaptations of Casino Royale, nor in the 1983 remake of Thunderball, Never Say Never Again, as the production was not Eon's, though she did, as a similar character, in the spoof O.K. Connery.

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