- Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB, LLD (h.c.) (born August 28, 1938) was the 21st Prime Minister of Canada and a former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded Jean Chrétien as leader of the Liberal Party and became Prime Minister on December 12, 2003. The 2004 election yielded a minority government in which the Liberals under Martin remained in power. - Omar Khadr
Omar Ahmed Khadr born September 19, 1986 in Ottawa, is a Canadian who was captured by American forces in Afghanistan when he was 15 years of age. His case has drawn considerable attention as a child soldier, and he is among the youngest prisoners held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. - Dalton McGuinty
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr., MPP (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and only the second Roman Catholic to hold this office. The first was John Sandfield Macdonald, who served as premier from 1867 to 1871. McGuinty is generally regarded as a moderate fiscal conservative, … - Bob Rae
Robert Keith (Bob) Rae, PC, OC, O.Ont, QC, B.A., LL.B, B.Phi., LL.D (h.c.) (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. A former member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from February 7 1982 to June 22 1996, and the 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1 1990 to June 26 1995. He is the only NDP member to serve as premier of a province east of Manitoba. - John Baird
John Russell Baird, PC, MP (born May 26, 1969) is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for Ottawa West—Nepean in the 2006 federal election, and currently serves in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as Minister of the Environment. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Baird previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2005, … - Maher Arar
Maher Arar (born 1970 in Syria) is a Canadian software engineer who is perhaps the most well-known victim of the United States policy of extraordinary rendition, a process where detainees are transferred from one country to another, with the expectation that they may be tortured in the country to which they are rendered. - John Manley
John Paul Manley, (born January 5, 1950, in Ottawa, Ontario) PC, BA, LL.B is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician. He is a former Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004 and a Cabinet Minister from 1993 to 2003. - Elizabeth May
Elizabeth Evans May, LL.B, DHumL (h.c.), OC (born June 9, 1954) is the current leader of the Green Party of Canada. She is also an environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer. She was the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. May lives in Ottawa, Ontario with her daughter, Victoria Cate May, born in 1991. - Michael Jackson
Michael (Mike) Jackson (born November 8, 1970 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. Jackson grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia where he currently lives. In addition to his acting role on "Trailer Park Boys", Jackson has contributed to the local music scene with many group and solo projects,including Moral Support, Aimless, Thruster, The Thursday Toads, Pink Kitten, Defense Andrew, The Sycamores, Rick of The Skins, El Groupo De Rock, Vavoom, T-Bag, … - Larry O'Brien
Larry O'Brien (born July 19, 1949 in Ottawa) is the current mayor of Ottawa, Canada, as well as the current director of Calian Technologies and its former CEO and chairman. O'Brien attended Elmdale Public School, Fisher Park Public School, and graduated from Merivale High School in 1968. He continued his post-secondary studies at Algonquin College School of Technology and graduated with a diploma in Technology in 1972. - Frank Clair
Frank J. Clair (May 12 1917, Hamilton, Ohio - April 3 2005, Sarasota, Florida) was a coach in the Canadian Football League, nicknamed "the Professor" for his ability to recognize and develop talent. Clair played end for the Ohio State University Buckeyes, lettering in 1938, 1939, and 1940. As a receiver, he was quarterback Don Scott's favorite target. In 1941 Clair played in seven games for the Washington Redskins. Clair found his greatest success in coaching. - Jim Bryson
Jim Bryson is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Briefly a founding member of the band Punchbuggy, he moved to a musical life under his own name with the release of his debut album, "The Occasionals", in 2000. A member of country singer Kathleen Edwards's touring band, Bryson has also toured and/or recorded with many other artists, including Howe Gelb, Lynn Miles and Sarah Harmer. - Allan Rock
Allan Michael Rock, PC, BA, LL.B (born August 30, 1947) is a lawyer and former Canadian politician and diplomat. He was Canada's ambassador to the United Nations (2004-2006) and had previously served in the Cabinet of Jean Chrétien, most notably as Justice Minister (1993-1997) and Health Minister (1997-2002). - Margaret Atwood
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years, Atwood has written more than twenty volumes of verse, novels, and nonfiction. Although she is noted for all of these volumes, she is better known for her novels. In these work of fiction, themes such as feminism, mythology and power of language pervade. - Marc Savard
Marc Savard (born July 17, 1977, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey player, currently playing for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. - Jane Taber
Jane Taber is a Canadian journalist and current co-host of CTV's "Question Period" with Craig Oliver. Taber is also the Senior Parliamentary Writer in the Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau, since 2003. She has also worked for the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post. She has covered the Hill since 1986, working as a parliamentary reporter and columnist for The Ottawa Citizen, the National Post, and finally for the Globe. - Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson (née Poy, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD, LL.D "(honoris causa)" (born February 10, 1939) is an accomplished Canadian journalist. From October 7, 1999 to September 27, 2005 she served as the 26th Governor General of Canada (representing Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada): she was the first Chinese Canadian (although she does not speak Chinese) and second woman to hold this position, the first being Jeanne Sauvé. - David McGuinty
David Joseph McGuinty (born February 25, 1960 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian politician and the brother of Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty. He is also the son of former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Dalton McGuinty Sr.. He is a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Ottawa South. He was first elected in the 2004 federal election and was re-elected in the 2006 federal election. - Ed Broadbent
Ed Broadbent holds back tears as he announces he's leaving politics for family reasons, May 4, 2005. (CP Photo/Fred Chartrand) Ed Broadbent was, for a brief while in the 1980s, the most popular politician in Canada, scoring higher in public opinion polls than then prime minister Pierre Trudeau. He stepped down as leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 1989 after what he called a disappointing election result. - Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her blend of country, folk and pop music made her a favourite of music critics, and a rising star on radio in 2003 with her debut album, "Failer", made popular by her hit singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates". Her style of music is sometimes placed in the music genre "alt country". - Alexa McDonough
Alexa Ann McDonough, MP (born August 11, 1944) is a Canadian politician who led the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia from 1980 to 1994, later to be elected leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1995. She was succeeded by Jack Layton as NDP leader after she stepped down in 2003. McDonough is currently a Member of Parliament for Halifax. McDonough was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Her father, Lloyd Shaw, was a wealthy businessman, … - Robert Fife
Robert Fife is a Canadian journalist and author who has been the CTV News Ottawa bureau chief since February 2005. Fife has been covering national politics since 1978 beginning his career in the parliamentary bureau of NewsRadio and United Press International of Canada. Fife has also authored A Capital Scandal: Politics, Patronage and Payoff, Why Parliament Must Be Reformed and Kim Campbell: The Making of Prime Minister. - Craig Oliver
Craig Oliver (born 1938) is a reporter for Canada's CTV television network. He is currently variously identified as chief political correspondent and chief parliamentary correspondent, and is co-anchor of the weekly public affairs series "Question Period". Oliver was born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Oliver was previously CTV's Ottawa bureau chief. He was a personal friend to the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau. - Dan Boyle
Daniel "Dan" Boyle (born July 12, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a professional hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Florida Panthers in 1998. He won the Stanley Cup with the Lightning in 2004, after being traded from the Panthers during the 2001-02 NHL season. He played college hockey for the Redhawks of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. - Steve Yzerman
Stephen Gregory Yzerman (born May 9, 1965, in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada) is a former professional hockey player who played his entire career with the Detroit Red Wings. Yzerman led the Wings to three Stanley Cup championships (1997, 1998 and 2002). Prior to the 1986-87 season at the age of 21, Yzerman was named captain of the Red Wings and continuously served as captain until his retirement two decades later. - Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau (born December 25, 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is the eldest son of the late former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair Trudeau Kemper. Trudeau has recently won the federal Liberal Party nomination in the Montreal riding of Papineau. - Scott Reid
Scott Jeffrey Reid is a Canadian politician. He has served in the Canadian House of Commons since 2000, and currently represents the Ontario riding of Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington as a member of the Conservative Party. - Peter Mansbridge
Peter Mansbridge (born July 6, 1948) is a British born Canadian journalist, CBC's "Chief Correspondent" and anchor of "The National," CBC Television's flagship nightly newscast. Mansbridge was born in London, England and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, where he attended Glebe Collegiate Institute, but dropped out before graduating. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1966 and 1967. While working as an airport announcer in Churchill, Manitoba in 1968, … - Belly
Belly is a rapper and hip hop artist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and his origins are from Palestine. His real name is Ahmad Balshe, and he is a Muslim from Jenin, Palestine. He first appeared on Massari's third single "Rush the Floor", and his first solo single "Pressure" featuring Ginuwine premiered in January 2007. His second single "Don't Be Shy", features Nina Sky and premiered in April 2007, and the video will be shot in May, and later released. - Michaëlle Jean
Michaëlle Jean, CC, CMM, COM, CD, DUniv ("honoris causa"), DLitt ("honoris causa"), LLD ("honoris causa"), (born September 6, 1957, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is the current Governor General of Canada. Jean was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Paul Martin, to succeed Adrienne Clarkson and become the 27th governor general of Canada since Confederation in 1867. - Paul Dewar
Paul W. Dewar (born January 25, 1963 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian NDP Member of Parliament, teacher and former elected representative of the Ottawa Carleton Elementary School Teachers' Federation. In the 2006 federal election, Dewar defeated the Liberal candidate, lawyer Richard Mahoney, by over 5,000 votes in Ottawa Centre, an urban riding in Ontario. The son of former Ottawa mayor, Marion Dewar, … - Brendan Fraser
Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a American-Canadian film actor. He is known for having starred in several major Hollywood films, including 1999's "The Mummy". - Tom Green
Tom Green (born Michael Thomas Green on July 30, 1971) is a Canadian comedian, actor and a television host who is currently hosting "Tom Green Live". Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, Green grew up in suburban Ottawa. He pioneered a type of "shock humor" that begat "Jackass", "Fear Factor", and other reality shows. - Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1990. Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s, with hits songs like "Diana," "Lonely Boy," and "Put Your Head on my Shoulder." He went on to write such well-known music as the theme for "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", Tom Jones' biggest hit, "She's A Lady", … - Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen's advocacy organization as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization. - Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 - August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of America's most prominent journalists. Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at the age of nine. - Michael Harris
Michael Harris is an award-winning Canadian author, investigative journalist, and radio personality who hosts an afternoon radio talk show, "Michael Harris Live", on Ottawa-based CFRA, and is a columnist for "The Ottawa Sun" newspaper. Born in Newfoundland, Harris is a graduate of York University in Toronto, and was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar (University College in Dublin, Ireland). Formerly the publisher of "The Sunday Express" in St. John's, … - Eugene Melnyk
Melnyk, who founded Biovail almost 20 years ago and held numerous positions in the company before stepping down last year, said late on Friday that he bought about 4.7 million shares, or 2.9 percent, of the outstanding shares, at C$10.86 each for a total value of C$50.7 million. - Peter Chiarelli
Peter Chiarelli is the current general manager of the Boston Bruins. He was hired on May 26, 2006. He was signed to a four-year contract. He previously worked as an assistant general manager for the Ottawa Senators over the last two years, including the Lockout season. The Senators were given a conditional draft pick for acquiring Chiarelli. He played for Harvard University between 1983 and 1987, serving as the captain of the team. - Brendan Bell
Brendan Bell (born on March 31,1983 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a defenceman currently playing for the Phoenix Coyotes. Bell was originally drafted in the 3rd round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by Toronto. In his first season with St. John's (2003-2004), Bell scored 7 goals and 19 assists for 26 points. He also had 55 penalty minutes. February 27,2007 Bell was traded to the Phoenix Coyotes along with a draft pick for Yanic Perreault In 1998, …
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