List of Famous people born in Saskatchewan, Canada

Meaghan Mikkelson Reid

Meaghan Mikkelson
First Name Meaghan
Born on January 4, 1985 (age 41)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Meaghan Mikkelson is a Canadian ice hockey player and a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team and plays for Luleå HF in the Swedish Women's Hockey League. Mikkelson also won gold medals during the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic Games. She was selected third overall by Team Alberta CWHL in the 2011 CWHL Draft. Also she was a player for the Edmonton Chimos (WWHL).

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Fergie Olver

First Name Fergie
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan

Fergie Olver is a Canadian former game show host and sportscaster. He is best known for co-hosting the 1980s children's game show Just Like Mom with his wife Catherine Swing, and his work as a broadcaster and dugout reporter for the Toronto Blue Jays. Olver's daughter, Carrie Olver, is known for her work on shopping channels and The Weather Network.

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Valerie Sweeting

First Name Valerie
Last Name Sweeting
Born on July 9, 1987 (age 38)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan

Valerie Sweeting is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. She currently plays third for Team Kerri Einarson. Sweeting skipped Alberta to a silver medal at the 2014 and 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts and won the tournament in 2020 as third for Manitoba.

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Thomas Strothotte

First Name Thomas
Last Name Strothotte
Born on October 23, 1959 (age 66)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan

Thomas Strothotte is a German-Canadian computer scientist and university administrator living in Germany. He is the President of the Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg.

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John Vernon

Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz
First Name John
Last Name Vernon
Born on February 24, 1932
Died on February 1, 2005 (aged 72)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan
Height 188 cm | 6'2

John Keith Vernon was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. He was best known for playing Dean Wormer in Animal House, the Mayor in Dirty Harry and Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales.

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Henry Taube

First Name Henry
Last Name Taube
Born on November 30, 1915
Died on November 16, 2005 (aged 89)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan

Henry Taube, was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University.

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Jon Vickers

First Name Jon
Last Name Vickers
Born on October 29, 1926
Died on July 10, 2015 (aged 88)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan

Jonathan Stewart Vickers,, known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a Canadian heldentenor.

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Buffy Sainte-Marie

Beverly Sainte-Marie
First Name Buffy
Born on February 20, 1941 (age 85)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan

Buffy Sainte-Marie, is an Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, Oscar-winning composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues facing Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism. She has won recognition, awards and honours for her music as well as her work in education and social activism. Among her most popular songs are "Universal Soldier", "Cod'ine", "Until It's Time for You to Go", "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", and her covers of Mickey Newbury's "Mister Can't You See" and Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game". Her music has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Roberta Flack, Janis Joplin, and Glen Campbell.

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Michael Eklund

First Name Michael
Last Name Eklund
Born on July 31, 1972 (age 53)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Michael Eklund is a Canadian television and film actor who is known for playing the role of the villain or antihero. His characters are often described as being "creepy".

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Doug Wickenheiser

First Name Doug
Last Name Wickenheiser
Born on March 30, 1961
Died on January 12, 1999 (aged 37)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan

Douglas Peter Wickenheiser was a Canadian ice hockey player, who was drafted first overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft.

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