List of Famous people born in Winnipeg, Canada

Hack Simpson

First Name Hack
Last Name Simpson
Born on June 26, 1910
Died on March 30, 1978 (aged 67)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Harold Alfred "Hack" Simpson was a Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics. He was born in Winnipeg. In 1932 he was a member of the Canadian ice hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played in five matches and scored six goals.

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Paul Maxwell

First Name Paul
Last Name Maxwell
Born on November 12, 1921
Died on December 19, 1991 (aged 70)
Born in Canada, Manitoba
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Paul Maxwell was a Canadian actor who worked mostly in British cinema and television, in which he was usually cast as American characters. In terms of audience, his most notable role was probably that of Steve Tanner, the ex-GI husband of Elsie Tanner in the soap opera Coronation Street in 1967.

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Ryan Kennedy

First Name Ryan
Last Name Kennedy
Born on December 6, 1982 (age 43)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Ryan Kennedy is a Canadian actor and model. He is best known for his role "Travis Hollier" in the 2006 TV series Whistler and "Jake Harrow" in The CW 2010 TV series Hellcats. He also appeared in season 4 episode 5 of The Good Doctor in 2020.

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Tal Bachman

Talmage Charles Robert Bachman
First Name Tal
Last Name Bachman
Born on August 13, 1968 (age 57)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Talmage Charles Robert Bachman is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his late 1998 hit, "She's So High", a pop rock tune from his self-titled 1999 album that led to a BMI award.

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John F. Allen

First Name John
Last Name Allen
Born on May 6, 1908
Died on April 22, 2001 (aged 92)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

John Frank Allen, FRS FRSE was a Canadian-born physicist. At the same time as Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa in Moscow, Don Misener and Allen independently discovered the superfluid phase of matter in 1937 using liquid helium in the Royal Society Mond Laboratory in Cambridge, England.

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Randy Bachman

First Name Randy
Last Name Bachman
Born on September 27, 1943 (age 82)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Randolph Charles Bachman, is a Canadian musician, lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of classic rock band The Guess Who and hard rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of Brave Belt, Union and Ironhorse, and has recorded as a solo artist. He is a national radio personality on CBC Radio, hosting the weekly music show, Vinyl Tap. Bachman was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016.

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Tom McCamus

First Name Tom
Last Name McCamus
Born on July 25, 1955 (age 70)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Tom McCamus is a Canadian film and theatre actor. He is most widely known for his works on the television show Mutant X and drama film Room.

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Cameron Bancroft

First Name Cameron
Last Name Bancroft
Born on May 17, 1967 (age 58)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Cameron Bancroft, sometimes credited as Cam Bancroft, is a Canadian television actor from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Clara Hughes

First Name Clara
Last Name Hughes
Born on September 27, 1972 (age 53)
Born in Canada, Manitoba
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Clara Hughes, is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater who has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the 1996 Summer Olympics and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics. She is tied with Cindy Klassen as the Canadian with the most Olympic medals, with six medals total.

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Tina Fontaine

First Name Tina
Born on January 1, 1999
Died on August 17, 2014 (aged 15)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Tina Michelle Fontaine was a First Nations teenage girl who was reported missing and died in August 2014. Her case is considered among the high number of missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada. Her death renewed calls by activists for the government to conduct a national inquiry into the issue.

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