List of Famous people born in Manitoba, Canada

Dorothy Patrick

First Name Dorothy
Last Name Patrick
Born on June 3, 1921
Died on May 31, 1987 (aged 65)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Dorothy Patrick was a Canadian-American film actress and a John Robert Powers model.

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Tom Cochrane

Thomas William Cochrane
First Name Tom
Last Name Cochrane
Born on May 14, 1953 (age 72)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Thomas William Cochrane is a Canadian musician best known as the frontman for the rock band Red Rider and for his work as a solo singer-songwriter. Cochrane has won eight Juno Awards. He is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, an officer of the Order of Canada, and has an honorary doctorate from Brandon University. In September 2009, he was inducted onto the Canadian Walk of Fame.

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Bobby Clarke

First Name Bobby
Last Name Clarke
Born on August 13, 1949 (age 76)
Born in Canada, Manitoba
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Robert Earle Clarke, also known as Bob Clarke and Bobby Clarke, is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played his entire 15-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Philadelphia Flyers and is currently an executive with the team. Clarke is acknowledged by some as being one of the greatest hockey players and captains of all time. He was captain of the Flyers from 1973 to 1979, winning the Stanley Cup with them in both 1974 and 1975. He was again captain of the Flyers from 1982 to 1984 before retiring. A three-time Hart Trophy winner and 1987 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, Clarke was rated number 24 on The Hockey News' list of The Top 100 NHL Players of All-Time in 1998. In 2017 Clarke was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

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Randall Wright

First Name Randall
Last Name Wright
Born on August 4, 1956 (age 69)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Randall D. Wright is a Canadian academic macroeconomist who advanced the fields of monetary economics and labor economics through his role in the development of matching theory.

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Susan Auch

First Name Susan
Born on March 1, 1966 (age 60)
Born in Canada, Manitoba
Height 172 cm | 5'8

Susan Auch is a speed skater who competed in several Winter Olympics games, winning the bronze in the 3000m relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver in the 500 m events at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and the 1998 games at Nagano, Japan. In 1999, Auch announced her retirement from competition, but changed her mind and competed in a fifth Winter Olympics, the 2002 games at Salt Lake City, but failed to win a medal; afterwards, she again announced her retirement.

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Len Cariou

First Name Len
Born on September 30, 1939 (age 86)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian actor and stage director, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and for playing the patriarch Henry Reagan, NYPD Police Commissioner (retired), in the multi-generational television series Blue Bloods on CBS.

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Gerard Kennedy

First Name Gerard
Last Name Kennedy
Born on July 24, 1960 (age 65)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Gerard Michael Kennedy is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as Ontario's Minister of Education from 2003 to 2006, when he resigned to make an unsuccessful bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. Kennedy previously ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, losing to future premier Dalton McGuinty on the final ballot. He lost the 2013 Ontario Liberal leadership race.

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Russell M. Saunders

First Name Russell
Last Name Saunders
Born on May 21, 1919
Died on May 29, 2001 (aged 82)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Russell Maurice Saunders was a stunt man and acrobat.

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Jon Montgomery

First Name Jon
Last Name Montgomery
Born on May 6, 1979 (age 46)
Born in Canada, Manitoba
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Jonathan Riley "Jon" Montgomery is a Canadian skeleton racer and television host. He won the gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Despite hosting The Amazing Race Canada since 2013, he is best known in Canada for his spontaneous celebration after winning the gold medal in 2010, when he was caught on camera being handed a pitcher of beer by a fan while a crowd surrounding him cheered and sang O Canada. Writing for CBC in 2020, Montgomery stated "If the beer is all I’m ever remembered for, I consider myself the luckiest fella on Earth."

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Rick Skene

First Name Rick
Last Name Skene
Born on February 28, 1958 (age 68)
Born in Canada, Manitoba
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