List of Famous people born in Manitoba, Canada
Donnelly Rhodes
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).
Andrew Harris
Andrew Harris is a professional Canadian football running back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Harris is a two-time Grey Cup champion and was named the Most Valuable Canadian of the 99th Grey Cup following a BC Lions' win, and won both the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player and Most Valuable Canadian in his Blue Bombers' 107th Grey Cup win. He is a five-time CFL All-Star and a six-time CFL West All-Star. He played for the Lions for six seasons before joining the Blue Bombers in 2016 as a free agent. As a Bomber, he was named the 2017 Most Outstanding Canadian after leading the league in rushing and setting an all-time record for single-season receptions by a running back, he is the CFL leader in career rushing yards by a Canadian. He played junior football for the Vancouver Island Raiders of the Canadian Junior Football League.
Jordin Tootoo
Jordin John Kudluk Tootoo is a Canadian former professional hockey player, who played for the Nashville Predators, Detroit Red Wings, New Jersey Devils and Chicago Blackhawks. Of Inuit and Ukrainian descent, he is both the first Inuk player and the first player to grow up in Nunavut to participate in an NHL game. Tootoo was widely regarded as one of the NHL's best agitators and was able to annoy, fight, and distract other players to help his team win. At the end of the 2016–17 NHL season, Tootoo had accumulated 65 goals, 96 assists and 1010 PIMs in 723 career NHL games since entering the league in 2003.
Frances Gertrude McGill
Frances Gertrude McGill was a Canadian forensic pathologist, criminologist, bacteriologist, allergologist and allergist. Nicknamed "the Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan" for her deductive skills and public fame, McGill influenced the development of forensic pathology in Canadian police work and was internationally noted for her expertise in the subject.
Patrick Sharp
Patrick Sharp is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks and Dallas Stars. After his retirement as a player, Sharp joined NBC Sports as an analyst.
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.
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.
Don Callis
Donald Callis is a Canadian former professional wrestling, color commentator and executive. He is the current co-executive vice president of Impact Wrestling. He is also a former professional wrestler and manager. For most of his career he has been known as either Cyrus or Don Callis. He first gained international attention working under the name The Jackyl working for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). He also worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as an English language commentator on NJPW World.
Tracy Spiridakos
Tracy Spiridakos is a Canadian actress. She starred as Becky Richards on the Teletoon children's comedy series Majority Rules! from 2009–2010. She then starred as Charlotte "Charlie" Matheson on the NBC post-apocalyptic science fiction series Revolution from 2012–2014, for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television. She played Annika Johnson on the A&E television drama Bates Motel. Since 2017, Spiridakos has starred on the NBC police drama Chicago P.D. playing the role of Detective Hailey Upton.
Ralph Krueger
Ralph Krueger is a Canadian-born German professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League, and former chairman of Southampton Football Club. Since April 2019, he has held a Swiss passport.