List of Famous people born in Canada

Eliza Sam

First Name Eliza
Last Name Sam
Born on November 17, 1984 (age 41)

Eliza Sam is a Canadian actress based in Hong Kong, currently under contract in TVB. She won the Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant in 2009, and went on to win the 2010 Miss Chinese International Pageant. After winning the Miss Chinese Vancouver title 2010, Sam was involved supporting organizations such as the Canadian Cancer Society and S.U.C.C.E.S.S.. She won the World Chinese Entrepreneur Scholarship in January 2010, hosted by The 4th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention, Canada Founding & Development Society.

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Marie-Philip Poulin

First Name Marie-Philip
Born on March 28, 1991 (age 35)
Born in Canada, Quebec
Height 169 cm | 5'7

Marie-Philip Poulin-Nadeau is a Canadian ice hockey forward, currently with the PWHPA and who serves as captain of the Canadian national team. Having scored the game-winning goal in the gold medal games in the first two Olympics in which she competed, in 2010 and 2014, and having captained Canada to a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, she is widely considered to be among the best women's hockey stars of all-time. In addition to her international achievements, she has also won the Clarkson Cup twice and was named CWHL MVP three times.

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Adnan Virk

First Name Adnan
Last Name Virk
Born in Canada, Ontario

Adnan Virk is a Canadian sportscaster for MLB Network and DAZN, who previously worked for ESPN and TSN. He also produces and hosts the weekly podcast Cinephile with Adnan Virk show covering cinema news and interviews with entertainment celebrities, as well as co-hosts the football podcast The GM Shuffle with former NFL executive Michael Lombardi.

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Daniel Dale

First Name Daniel
Last Name Dale
Born on January 1, 1985 (age 41)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Daniel Dale is a Canadian journalist who served as the Toronto Star's Washington bureau chief from 2015 to 2019. Dale was hired in June 2019 as a CNN reporter based in Washington.

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Al Mulock

First Name Al
Last Name Mulock
Died on May 1, 1968
Born in Canada, Ontario

Alfred Mulock Rogers, better known as Al Mulock or Al Mulloch, was a Canadian character actor.

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Calvin Griffith

First Name Calvin
Last Name Griffith
Died on January 1, 1999 (aged 29)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Calvin Robertson Griffith, born Calvin Griffith Robertson, was a Canadian-born American Major League Baseball team owner. As president, majority owner and de facto general manager of the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League from 1955 through 1984, he orchestrated the transfer of the Senators after 60 years in Washington, D.C., to Minneapolis–Saint Paul in the autumn of 1960 to create the Twins. He was famous for his devotion to the game and for his sayings.

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Jonathan de Guzmán

Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán
First Name Jonathan
Last Name Guzmán
Born on September 13, 1987 (age 38)
Born in Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Greek club OFI and the Netherlands national team.

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Sophie Desmarais

First Name Sophie
Last Name Desmarais
Born on July 24, 1986 (age 39)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Sophie Desmarais is a Canadian actress, best known for her role in the 2013 film Sarah Prefers to Run, written and directed by Chloé Robichaud.

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Harvey Atkin

Elliot Harvey Atkin
First Name Harvey
Last Name Atkin
Born on December 18, 1942
Died on July 17, 2017 (aged 74)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Elliot Harvey Atkin was a Canadian actor, who worked in feature films and television.

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Todd Sampson

First Name Todd
Last Name Sampson
Born on November 30, 1969 (age 56)
Born in Canada, Nova Scotia

Todd Sampson is a Canadian-born Australian award-winning documentary-maker and television presenter. He appears as a co-host on the marketing discussion program Gruen and as a guest host on The Project. He wrote, produced and presented the science documentary series, Redesign My Brain which won Documentary of the Year. He is the host and producer of the ABC documentary series, Life on the Line. Sampson also writes, produces and hosts Body Hack, an adventure documentary series for Discovery International and Channel TEN which was nominated for Best Factual Series and Most Outstanding Documentary of the Year. In 2016, Sampson also acted a small part as Provost in the Oscar-nominated feature film Lion. In 2018, he won Television Personality of the Year at the GQ Men of the Year Awards. Sampson is an adventurer and has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.

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