List of Famous people born in Winnipeg, Canada
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.
Mark Stone
Mark Daniel Stone is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger and captain of the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Ottawa Senators in the sixth round, 178th overall, of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.
Nolan Patrick
Nolan James Patrick is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted second overall by the Flyers in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
Burton Cummings
Burton Lorne Cummings, is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.
Gerry Schwartz
Gerald W. Schwartz, OC is the founder, chairman and CEO of Onex Corporation. Schwartz has a net worth of US$1.4 billion, according to Forbes.
Andy Frost
Andrew J. Frost is a Canadian radio personality currently employed by 94.3 The Drive in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is best known for his work with Q107 and AM 640 in Toronto, Ontario from 1985 to 2018 and as the public address announcer for the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre from 1999 to 2016. He replaced long-time PA announcer, Paul Morris who retired at the end of the 1998–99 hockey season. Earlier in his radio career, Frost worked at 92 CITI-FM and 58 CKY-AM in Winnipeg.
Larissa Waters
Larissa Joy Waters is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Greens and has served as a Senator for Queensland since 2018. She previously served in the Senate from 2011 to 2017, resigning during the parliamentary eligibility crisis due to her holding Canadian citizenship in violation of Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia. Waters serves as her party's Senate leader, in office since February 2020, and has been a co-deputy leader since December 2018. She previously held the latter position from May 2015 to July 2017.
Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Judith Jones OM is a Canadian curler. She was the Olympic champion in curling as skip of the Canadian team at the 2014 Sochi Games. Jones is the first female skip to go through the Games undefeated. The only male skip to achieve this was fellow Canadian Kevin Martin in 2010. Jones and her squad were the first Manitoba based curling team to win an Olympic gold medal. They won the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship, and were the last Canadian women's team to do so until Rachel Homan in 2017. She won a second world championship in 2018.
Joshua Henry
Joshua Anthony Charlton Henry is an American actor and singer of stage and screen. He is best known for portraying Haywood Patterson in Kander and Ebb's 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He portrayed the lead role of Aaron Burr in the first U.S. tour of Hamilton, previously playing the role in the Chicago production that began performances in late September 2016. After Hamilton, Henry portrayed the lead role of Billy Bigelow in a Broadway revival of Carousel.