List of Famous people born in Canada
Haralabos Voulgaris
Haralabos "Bob" Voulgaris is a Greek Canadian former professional gambler, primarily a sports bettor and current Director of Quantitative Research and Development for the Dallas Mavericks. Voulgaris was considered one of the most prolific NBA sports bettors in the world.
Keish
Keish, legally James Mason, best known by his nickname Skookum Jim Mason, was a member of the Tagish First Nation in what became the Yukon Territory of Canada. He was born near Bennett Lake on what is now the British Columbia and Yukon border, to a Tahltan woman. He lived in Caribou Crossing, now Carcross, Yukon, Canada.
Rosie MacLennan
Rosannagh "Rosie" MacLennan is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. She is the 2013 and 2018 World Trampoline champion, 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, and 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games champion in the individual trampoline event. MacLennan was the Canadian National Women's champion in 2005, 2009 and 2011, and in 2007 was the World Champion in synchronized trampoline with Karen Cockburn. She has also won five silver and four bronze medals in World Championship competition in both the individual and synchro events. MacLennan trains at Skyrider's Trampoline Place in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with coach David Ross, who has coached all of Canada's Olympic trampolinists.
Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson is a Canadian curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is the reigning women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to victory at the 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, she previously won silver in 2018. She has also won two provincial mixed curling championships in 2010 and 2013. Einarson won two Grand Slam of Curling events on the World Curling Tour, winning the 2016 Boost National and most recently the 2019 Players' Championship.
Andrew Ladd
Andrew Locklan Ladd is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Macha Grenon
Macha Grenon is a Canadian film and television actress.
Sim Bhullar
Gursimran "Sim" Bhullar is a Canadian professional basketball player who plays for Yulon Luxgen Dinos of the Taiwanese Super Basketball League. He played college basketball for New Mexico State University and is the first player of Indian descent to play in the NBA. At 7'5", he also became the sixth-tallest player in NBA history, being tied with Chuck Nevitt and Pavel Podkolzin for that record.
Heather Bansley
Heather Bansley is a Canadian beach volleyball player, playing as a left-side defender. Bansley has qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Andrée Lachapelle
Andrée Lachapelle, was a French Canadian actress. Born in Montreal, she trained at age 14 at the Studio XV theatre school under Gerard Vleminckx, later attended teacher's college and taught elementary school for a few years. In 1952 she met actor Robert Gadouas, performed with him, and had three children before his death in 1969. She later appeared in plays by Michel Tremblay, Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams and in the films Laura Laur, Léolo, Cap Tourmente, Route 132, The Last Escape and Don't Let the Angels Fall.
Luke Kirby
Luke Farrell Kirby is an American-Canadian screen and stage actor. In 2019, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Lenny Bruce on the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.