- Kazzer
Kazzer, born Mark Kasprzyk, is a hip hop-influenced alternative rock musician and auto sports television personality from Canada. He grew up in Binbrook, Ontario, near Hamilton. So far a one-hit wonder in Canada, he is best-known for his hit "Pedal to the Metal", which was aired regularly on MuchMusic and MTV Europe, played on contemporary hit radio, hot adult contemporary, alternative rock and mainstream rock radio stations in Canada. - George Stroumboulopoulos
George Paul Stroumboulopoulos (born August 16, 1972 in Malton, now part of the City of Mississauga, Ontario), commonly nicknamed Strombo, is a Canadian television and radio personality. He was born in Malton, Ontario to a Greek father from Egypt and a Ukrainian mother. Stroumboulopoulos studied radio broadcasting at Humber College. He was a board operator at Toronto sports radio station The Fan 590 when he first emerged as an on-air personality, … - Gerard Kennedy
Gerard Kennedy, (born July 24 1960 in The Pas, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. While attending the University of Alberta in Edmonton, he became involved in the local food bank, eventually becoming its first executive director in 1983. In 1986, he moved to Toronto to run the Daily Bread food bank, which he did until entering politics in 1996. - Steve Peters
Stephen J. "Steve" Peters (born January 19, 1963) is a Canadian politician. He is currently a Member of Provincial Parliament of the Ontario legislature, and serves as a Cabinet Minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty. Peters was born in St. Thomas, in the southwestern section of Ontario. Both of his parents were the children of Ukrainian immigrants. He was educated at the University of Western Ontario, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1985. - Raynell Andreychuk
Anita Raynell Andreychuk (born August 14 1944) is a Canadian Senator, lawyer, and former judge and diplomat. A native of Saskatoon, Andreychuk graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BA in 1966 and a law degree in 1967 after which she began her legal practice in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. In 1976, she was appointed a judge of the Saskatchewan provincial court after having initiated Regina's first family court. - James Bezan
James Bezan (born May 19, 1965 in Russell, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. In 2004, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative. Bezan attended Olds College in Alberta (on a basketball scholarship), where he majored in livestock technology and received a degree in Agricultural Production. Bezan worked in the livestock and cattle industries in the 1980s and 1990s, and started his own company in 1996. - Alex Trebek
George Alexander Trebek (born as Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek on July 22, 1940) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American television personality and game show host who's best known as the host of the game show "Jeopardy!" since September 10, 1984. He has hosted numerous game/quiz shows and has appeared in television series, usually as himself. Though a native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998. - Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles Bachman, OM, D.Mus (hon.) (born September 27, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) was lead guitarist and songwriter of the 1970s rock bands, The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of the band Brave Belt with Chad Allan and has recorded numerous solo albums. - Gary Filmon
Gary Albert Filmon, PC, P.Eng.(Ret) (born August 24, 1942) is a Manitoba politician. He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1983 to 2000, and served as Premier from 1988 to 1999. - William Kurelek
William Kurelek (March 3, 1927 - November 3, 1977) was a Canadian artist and writer. He was born near Whitford, Alberta in 1927, the oldest of seven children in an Ukrainian immigrant family: Will, John, Winn, Nancy, Sandy, Paul, Iris. His family lost the farm during the Great Depression and moved to Stonewall, Manitoba. He developed an early interest in art which was not encouraged by his hard-working parents. - Jill Hennessy
Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress, known for her television roles on "Law & Order" and "Crossing Jordan". - Ray Hnatyshyn
Ramon John "Ray" Hnatyshyn, PC, CC, CMM, CD, BA, LL.B, QC FRHSC (hon) (March 16, 1934 – December 18, 2002) was Canada's twenty-fourth governor general, serving from 1990 to 1995. Ray Hnatyshyn, a Ukrainian Canadian, was born the son of Canadian senator John Hnatyshyn in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As a youth he was an Air Cadet in #107 Spitfire Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in Saskatoon. - Nikki Benz
Nikki Benz (born December 11, 1981) is a Canadian porn star and pornographic films director. She is from Toronto, Canada and of Ukrainian descent. She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Nikki Benz was born in Ukraine. At a young age, she moved to Toronto, Canada. She started modeling before the age of 18 and posed in bikini and fashion shows, beauty pageants, and landed the cover of a calendar which sold through out her homeland, Canada. - Tal Bachman
Talmage "Tal" Bachman is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is best known for his late 1999 hit, "She's So High," from his self-titled 1999 album. - Jacqueline Hennessy
Jacqueline Hennessy (born November 25, 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian journalist, television host, and occasional actress. She is the identical twin sister of actress Jill Hennessy. Hennessy is of Irish, Italian, Swedish, French, and Ukrainian descent. She has a doctorate in French Literature and her sister has a high school diploma. Hennessy currently hosts the current affairs program "Medical Intelligence" for Rogers Cable in Toronto, Ontario. - Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk (born May 18, 1973) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music. - Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura (born December 4, 1925 in Mundare, Canada) is a psychologist famous for his work on social learning theory and, more recently, social cognitive theory and self efficacy. Bandura graduated from the University of British Columbia with the Bolocan Award in psychology, and then obtained his M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Iowa. He is generally acknowledged as America's greatest living psychologist. - Bronko Nagurski
Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski (November 3, 1908 - January 7, 1990) was an American football player of Ukrainian Canadian origin. He was also a famous professional wrestler, being one of the first football players to succeed as a professional wrestler. In professional wrestling, he was a multiple-time World Heavyweight Champion. - Percy Saltzman
Percy Saltzman, CM, BA (1915-January 15, 2007) was a meteorologist and television personality best remembered for being the first weatherman in Canadian television history. As a pioneer in weather forecasting, he was the first Canadian to present the weather in satellite and radar images,and to give road reports and forest fires. He also hosted numerous public affairs programs on CBC and, in 1969, along with Lloyd Robertson, … - Ray Muzyka
Dr. Ray Muzyka is the Chairman/CEO and Co-Executive Producer at BioWare Corp. He co-founded BioWare in 1994 with the other co-founder and President of BioWare, Dr. Greg Zeschuk. Muzyka and Zeschuk were the co-executive producers on Shattered Steel, the Baldur's Gate series (PC), MDK2, MDK2: Armageddon, the Neverwinter Nights series, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox and PC), and Jade Empire (XBox). - Ed Ewasiuk
Ed W. Ewasiuk was a labour activist, a city councilor in Edmonton, Alberta and a NDP Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was born on September 24, 1933 in Vegreville, Alberta. Ewasiuk, a native of Edmonton of Ukrianian descent was a labour activist with what is now the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. He served as a president of his local and then as a national vice-president. - Filip Konowal
Filip Konowal VC (September 15, 1888 – June 3, 1959) was a Ukrainian Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is the only Ukrainian recipient of the VC. Konowal was born in Kutkivtsi, Ukraine, in the Russian Empire. He is the patron of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 360 (Konowal Branch) in Toronto. - John Sopinka
John Sopinka, QC (March 19 1933 - November 24 1997) was a Canadian lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, the first Ukrainian-Canadian appointed to the high court. Sopinka was born in Broderick, Saskatchewan and lived there until his family moved to Hamilton, Ontario. He completed secondary school at Saltfleet High School in Stoney Creek. He earned Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of laws degrees at the University of Toronto. - Terry Sawchuk
Terrance Gordon Sawchuk (December 28, 1929 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-May 31, 1970 in New York City, New York, United States) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, and New York Rangers. - Walter Gretzky
Walter Gretzky, O.Ont, (born October 8, 1938 in Canning, Ontario, Canada) is the father of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky, as well as Brent Gretzky and Keith Gretzky. The son of immigrants from Mogilev, Belarus (father) and Pidhaitsy, Ukraine (mother), immigrating via Krakow, Poland, he played ice hockey for much of his youth, but never made it beyond juniors. He met his wife Phyllis Hockin (October 14, 1941 in Paris, Ontario - December 19, 2005), … - Daria Werbowy
Daria Werbowy (born November 19, 1983 in Poland) is a Ukrainian-Canadian supermodel. - Mike Bossy
Michael Dean "Mike" Bossy (born in Montreal, Quebec, on January 221957), is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played for the New York Islanders during their four-year reign as Stanley Cup champions in the early 1980s. He was reknowned for his rapid, powerful, and accurate shot, his consistency in scoring goals, and his sportsmanlike play. Bossy was perenially among the league's goal scoring leaders during his career, and although his career was cut short by injuries, … - Metropolitan Wasyly
His Beatitude Metropolitan Wasyly was the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) from 1985 until his death in 2005. Metropolitan Wasyly was born Wasyl’ Fedak on November 1, 1909 in Kadobivtsy, Ukraine. Together with his parents and five siblings, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Sheho, Saskatchewan. In young adulthood, he became a teacher: a career that lasted 14 years. He then studied at a seminary of the UOCC from 1941 to 1944. - Leo Mol
Leo Mol (born January 15, 1915) is a Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor. He was born Leonid Molodozhanyn in Polonne near Shepetivka, Ukraine. Mol studied sculpture at the Leningrad Academy of Arts from 1936 to 1940. In 1943, he studied in The Hague, and in December, 1948, he and his wife, Magareth (whom he married in 1943), emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba. - Steven Staryk
Steven (Sam) Staryk is a Canadian violin virtuoso. He is of Ukrainian descent. He went to Harbord Collegiate Institute when he was young. As a renown teacher, orchestral and chamber musician, and international soloist, he is considered to be the leading Canadian-born violinist of his generation. "The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada" describes him as “one of the most assured” technical players of the 20th century. In 1951, he was one of the symphony six, … - Andrew Shandro
Andrew S. Shandro (born April 3, 1886 at Russ Banilla, Bukowina, which was then a province of the Austria-Hungary Empire; died January 13, 1942 at Edmonton, Alberta), was the first Ukrainian-Canadian to be elected to the Alberta Legislature. Shandro was the son of Stefan Shandro and his wife, Nostansi (née Ostasheko). He was of Ukrainian descent and a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada. - Grant Bristow
Grant Bristow (born February 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) was a mole for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) working inside the Heritage Front for six years, who was exposed by Toronto Sun reporter Bill Dunphy in August 1994 (several months after ending his work). His time inside the Heritage Front was extremely controversial in Canada when exposed, … - Robbie Bachman
Robbie Bachman (born Robin Bachman, 18 February 1953, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a drummer and the youngest brother of Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter Randy Bachman. The latter was a founding member of The Guess Who, Brave Belt and Bachman-Turner Overdrive). Robbie Bachman was the original drummer in Brave Belt and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Bachman had practiced at home with his other brother, Randy. Randy offered him the Brave Belt drumming job, … - Orest Subtelny
Orest Subtelny - is a Canadian historian of Ukrainian descent. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973. Since 1982 he is professor at the Department of History and Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. Subtelny's major work is the general textbook "Ukraine: A History" (1988), a work of Ukrainian historiography. - Stacie Mistysyn
Stacie Mo-ana Mistysyn (born July 23, 1971 in Los Angeles, California), is a Canadian/American actress best known for her work as Caitlin Ryan on "Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High", which ran from 1987 to 1991, and for reprising her role as Caitlin on "Degrassi: The Next Generation", which has been on the air since 2001 and which she joined as a full-time cast member in 2003. - Roman Danylo
Roman Danylo (born Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian comedian, improviser and actor based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. He currently stars in the CTV television network show "Comedy Inc." - Savella Stechishin
Savella Stechishin, née Wawryniuk (August 19, 1903 – April 22, 2002), was a Ukrainian-Canadian home economist and writer, recipient of the Order of Canada. She has been described as "an ethnocultural social maternal feminist" (Ostryzniuk, 1999). Stechishin was born in Tudorkovychi, Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine (Galicia), and her family emigrated to Canada in 1913, settling in Krydor, Saskatchewan. - Paul Popowich
Paul Popowich (born March 2, 1973 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian actor of Ukrainian and Slovakian origin. Popowich was born in Hamilton and was raised in Stoney Creek, Ontario. In high school, he studied dramatic art and played classical piano. He made his beginning in the cinematography at age of 15, when he received his first professional role as Cass in the movie Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller. - Paul Brandt
Paul Brandt, born July 21, 1972 as Paul Rennee Belobersycky in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is the most awarded male Country singer in Canadian history. Brandt's music has been used by Dave Matthews and Johnny Cash on the epic Mel Gibson "We Were Soldiers" soundtrack, a duet of the song written by Paul Brandt and Steve Rosen called "For You." Growing up in Airdrie, he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break. - David Chernushenko
David Chernushenko (b. June 1963, Calgary, Alberta) is a businessman, politician and environmentalist in Ontario, Canada. He currently serves as Senior Deputy to the Leader of the Green Party of Canada. A graduate of Queen's University (political science) and alumnus of Cambridge University (international relations), Chernushenko has worked for CIDA, DFAIT and the United Nations Environment Programme.
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