- Neil Young
Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Omemee, Ontario. His work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and an instantly recognizable nasal tenor (and frequently alto) singing voice. - Gary Doer
Gary Albert Doer, MLA (born March 31, 1948) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has been the province's premier since 1999, leading a New Democratic Party government. - Burton Cummings
Burton Cummings (aka The Cumman), OM, D.Mus (Hon.) (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician--- and songwriter. A gifted showman, he was the lead singer for the Canadian rock band The Guess Who, and during his 10 years in The Guess Who from 1965 to 1975, he sang and wrote or co-wrote many well known songs, including "American Woman," "No Time," "Share the Land," "Hand Me Down World," "Undun," "Laughing", and "These Eyes." - Guy Maddin
Over the course of a career that has spanned nearly two decades and 25 films, both short and feature, filmmaker Guy Maddin has provided his viewers with more than their fair share of unique, cinematic moments. - 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. - Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox, CC (July 28, 1958 - June 28, 1981) was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He became famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, running with one prosthetic leg. He is considered one of Canada's greatest heroes of the 20th century and is celebrated internationally every September as people participate in the Terry Fox Run, … - Chris Jericho
Christopher Keith Irvine (born November 9, 1970), better known by the ring name Chris Jericho, is an American-Canadian actor, radio host, rock musician and inactive professional wrestler. Jericho is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), … - Pat Martin
Patrick "Pat" Martin (born December 13, 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. He has been a member of the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, representing the riding of Winnipeg Centre for the New Democratic Party. Martin graduated from Argyle High School in 1974. He worked as a journeyman carpenter for several years, and was employed in forest service, mines and construction. - Jonathan Toews
Jonathan Toews (pronunciation: [tayvz]) (born April 29, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a professional ice hockey player. He was selected third overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, by Chicago. Toews was the selected first overall in the 2003 WHL Bantam Draft after having been chosen by the Tri-City Americans, but chose instead to go the collegiate route. Toews played two years of prep school hockey at Shattuck-Saint Mary's. - Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement Douglas, PC, CC, SOM, MA, LL.D (hc) (October 20, 1904 - February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public medicare to Canada. - Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones (born July 7, 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler. After finishing 8-4 at the 1993 Canadian Junior championships, Jones went on to win the 1994 Canadian Junior championships. This would have ordinarily meant a berth in the following year's World Junior Championships, but a change in the ruling forced her to play in a playoff the following year for the right to attend, which she lost. - Cindy Klassen
Cindy Klassen (born August 12, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian skater and Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian. Klassen is a descendant of Mennonite immigrants to Manitoba and is a graduate of Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg. She started her sports career as an ice hockey player; in her youth she played for the Canadian National Youth Team. When she wasn't selected for the 1998 Winter Olympics, … - Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk (born May 18, 1973) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music. - John K. Samson
John Kristjan Samson is a rock musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a singer-songwriter and is currently front man for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans. He played bass in the punk band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s but is probably best known for his current role fronting The Weakerthans. - Bill Blaikie
William Alexander "Bill" Blaikie, PC, BA, M.Div. (born June 19, 1951) is the current Deputy Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1979, representing the Winnipeg riding of Elmwood—Transcona and its antecedents as a member of the New Democratic Party. He has the longest continuous record of service of any current member of the House of Commons, and in this capacity serves as the Dean of the House. - Scott Young
Scott Young (April 14, 1918 - June 12, 2005) was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musician Neil Young. Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences. - Venetian Snares
Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for making experimental electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures. He is a prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels. - 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. - Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel "The Stone Diaries", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award - Marcel Dzama
Marcel Dzama (born 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Lives and works in New York, NY) is an artist well known for his small-scale, ink and watercolour drawings of human figures, animals and imaginary hybrids which he has exhibited since 1996. A recent departure for Dzama is the move into larger polyptychs, video and sculpture. - Christine Fellows
Christine Fellows is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. - Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes (born September 27, 1972 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. She is very involved with Right To Play, an athlete-driven international humanitarian organization that uses sports to encourage the development of children and youth in the most disadvantaged areas of the world. - Scott Smith
Scott Smith (born on August 13, 1972 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former field hockey player from Canada, who earned his first senior cap for the Men's National Team in India in 1995. The ex-resident of Boston, United States who was working as a NCAA Field Hockey Coach. - Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". - Harry Colebourn
Harry Colebourn was born in Birmingham, England on April 12th, 1887, and immigrated to Canada in 1905. He attended the Ontario Veterinary College, receiving his degree in Veterinary surgery, and moved west to Winnipeg, Manitoba. - John Harvard
John Harvard, PC, OM (born June 4, 1938 in Glenboro, Manitoba) is a journalist, politician and office holder in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a federal MP from 1988 to 2004, and was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba just before Canada's 2004 federal election. Harvard was a broadcast journalist from 1957 to 1988. He worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for eighteen years and was for many years the host of a popular call-in show in Winnipeg. - Anita Neville
Anita Neville, MP, BA (born July 22, 1942 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. She was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal in the general election of 2000, and was re-elected in 2004 and 2006. She is now the Liberal Critic for Indian Affairs. - Stanley Knowles
Stanley Howard Knowles, PC, OC, BA, BD, LL.D (June 18, 1908 - June 9, 1997) was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party (NDP). Knowles was widely regarded and respected as the foremost expert on parliamentary procedure in Canada, … - Lenny Breau
Lenny Breau (August 5, 1941-August 12, 1984) was a brilliantly innovative American-born Canadian jazz guitarist who brought together country, classical, flamenco and jazz guitar techniques. Breau developed a great deal of technical ability; inspired by country guitarists like Chet Atkins, Breau used a fingerstyle not often used in Jazz guitar. Largely unknown in popular music, he is known today as a musician's musician. - Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson is a Canadian radio broadcaster and author. Richardson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1955 and received his B.A. from the University of Winnipeg in 1976. After spending a year in Montpellier, he moved to Vancouver, where he completed a Master of Library Science. Richardson has been a broadcaster on CBC Radio One, beginning in 1992 as a regular contributor and guest host on Vicki Gabereau's show. When Gabereau left to host a television show on CTV in 1997, … - Hugh John MacDonald
Sir Hugh John Macdonald, PC, BA (March 13, 1850 – March 29, 1929) was the only surviving son of the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, and was a politician in his own right, serving as a member of the Canadian House of Commons and a federal cabinet minister, and briefly as Premier of Manitoba. Born in Kingston, Ontario, Macdonald received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1869 and studied law in Toronto and Ottawa. - John Morris
John Morris (born December 16, 1978 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. As of April 26, 2006 Morris currently plays third for Kevin Martin. Morris, the son of Earle Morris, inventor of the "stabilizer" curling broom, grew up in Ottawa and began curling at age 5. After finishing second at the 1997 Canadian Junior Championships, Morris, who at the time curled out of the Ottawa Curling Club, … - Bif Naked
Bif Naked (born Beth Torbert on June 15, 1971) is a Juno Award-winning Canadian punk rock singer. - Fred Penner
Frederick (Fred) Ralph Cornelius Penner (born November 6, 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian children's entertainer who gives appearances throughout North America. He also had a CBC show called "Fred Penner's Place", which aired from 1985-1997 and also once aired on Nickelodeon. Fred's musical career practically began as soon as he could harmonize. As early as the age of four, he would make up songs while travelling on the bus with his mother. - Clifford Sifton
Sir Clifford Sifton, PC (March 10, 1861 - April 17, 1929) was a Canadian politician best known for being Minister of the Interior under Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He was responsible for encouraging the massive immigration to Canada which occurred in the first decade of the 20th Century. Born in Middlesex County, Upper Canada (now Ontario), Sifton moved with his family to Manitoba as a boy. He trained as a lawyer, and graduated from Victoria College in 1875. - Remy Shand
Remy Shand (born in 1978 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian R&B/soul singer, who released his debut album, "The Way I Feel", on Motown Records in 2002. - Brian Williams
Brian Williams (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba) and raised in Hamilton, Ontario is a Canadian sportscaster who is best known for his coverage of the Olympic Games. Williams was long associated with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's sports coverage since joining the network in 1974, after radio employment at Toronto's CFRB and CHUM. On June 5, 2006, he announced plans to move to rival CTV, and its sports network TSN, in December 2006. - Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC (March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author. Born in Saint Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy. After training as a teacher at The Winnipeg Normal School, she taught in rural schools in Marchand and Cardinal and was then appointed to Provencher School in Saint Boniface. With her savings she was able to spend some time in Europe, … - Monty Hall
Maurice "Monty Hall" Halperin, O.C., B.Sc., LL.D (born on August 25, 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian-born actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as the host of the long-running television game show "Let's Make a Deal" - Kevin Lamoureux
Kevin Lamoureux (January 22, 1962) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is currently Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the provincial constituency of Inkster in Northwest Winnipeg. He has been elected MLA for Inkster four times, and made two unsuccessful bids for the leadership of the Manitoba Liberal Party. Lamoureux was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was educated at the University of Winnipeg.
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