List of Famous people born in Canada
Adam van Koeverden
Adam Joseph van Koeverden is a Canadian sprint kayaker and politician. He is an Olympic gold medallist in the K-1 500m category (2004) and a two-time world champion in K-1 500 (2007) and K-1 1000 (2011), winning four Olympic and eight world championship medals. His home club is the Burloak Canoe Club in Oakville, Ontario.
Rodrigo Sáenz
Jeremy Colliton is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He serves as the head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played in the NHL for the New York Islanders.
Carrie Derick
Carrie Matilda Derick was a Canadian botanist and geneticist, the first female professor in a Canadian university, and the founder of McGill University's Genetics Department.
Robert MacNeil
Robert Breckenridge Ware "Robin" MacNeil, OC is a Canadian-American journalist and writer. He is a retired television news anchor who partnered with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.
Derek Sloan
Derek Sloan is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Hastings—Lennox and Addington in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Sloan ran as a candidate for the Conservative Party leadership in 2020 and was eliminated after the first ballot. In 2020, he made national news coverage for his controversial views on LGBTQ issues and making allegedly racist remarks.
Trevor Daley
Trevor Daley is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who currently serves as a hockey operations advisor for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played sixteen seasons in the NHL for the Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings. He won two Stanley Cups both with the Penguins in 2016, and 2017.
Serinda Swan
Serinda Swan is a Canadian actress. She is known for her work on television. In 2017, she starred in Marvel's Inhumans and HBO's Ballers, and also portrayed Anne Bancroft in the first season of Feud (2017). Previously, she guest starred on the Warner Bros. television series Smallville as Zatanna Zatara, she also starred as Paige Arkin in the USA Network series Graceland (2013–2015) and as Erica Reed in the A&E series Breakout Kings (2011–2012). She currently stars as Jenny Cooper in the CBC series Coroner.
Claude Jutra
Claude Jutra was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter.
Devon Toews
Devon Toews is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Toews was drafted 108th overall by the New York Islanders in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.
Joely Collins
Joely Collins is a Canadian-English actress and producer. She is the daughter of Andrea Bertorelli and English musician Phil Collins.