Irina Lazareanu is a Canadian supermodel. Romanian-born Lazareanu got her ‘big break’ through her acquaintance with supermodel Kate Moss (who at the time was the girlfriend of notoriously drug-troubled Pete Doherty).

Daniel Negreanu (born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional poker player.

Lucian Bute is a Romanian boxer now living and fighting out of Montreal, Canada. At a height of 6'2 and an arm length of 27.5" (Southpaw), Bute has a professional record of 20 wins (16 KO's), 0 losses and 0 draws and his ranked 5th in the world by Ring Magazine. He is the current NABA, NABF, WBC Continental Americas and WBO Intercontinental Super Middleweight Champion.

Octavian Florescu, is a Canadian painter and photograph of Romanian ancestry, living in Montreal, Canada. He is very renowned for his eccentric style and sold many of his paintings.

Dan Hanganu (27 January1946-) is a Canadian architect. Of Romanian descent and operating out of Montreal, Quebec, he designed many of the Montreal's largest buildings, like the Tour de la Bourse skyscraper and the Centre Bell. He was one of the architects of the Olympic Stadium and an honorary member of the Montreal Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Steven "Cojo" Cojocaru (born on January 5, 1962 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a fashion critic. From a family of immigrants from Romania, Cojocaru started out as a magazine columnist, and eventually began working on American television shows as a flamboyantly gay, pudgy commentator and celebrity interviewer. He graduated from Wagar High School in 1979. According to his year book, his pastimes in high school were clubbing and going to concerts.

Irving Layton OC (March 12, 1912 - January 4, 2006) was a Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001), Layton fought Puritanism throughout his life: <blockquote&gt;Layton's work had provided the bolt of lightning that was needed to split open the thin skin of conservatism and complacency in the poetry scene of the preceding century, …

Leonard Dorin Doroftei is a Romanian and Canadian former boxer, the WBA lightweight world champion from January 5, 2002 to October 24 , 2003. Born in Ploieşti, Doroftei began boxing, at the age of 14, at the Prahova Ploieşti boxing club. From 1986 to 1988, he won every Romanian national junior title. He went on to win five national senior titles in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, and 1997.

Adrian Micu was mayor of Roxboro, a neighbour suburb to Montreal. Micu was a major leader of the anti-merger movement on the Island of Montreal in 2000-2001. Following the victory of the Quebec Liberal Party in Quebec, a plebiscite was carried out in each former city, including Roxboro, in order to determine which former cities would opt to be reinstated. Despite Micu's efforts, the population of Roxboro voted by a very small margin to remain in the new city of Montreal.

Ernest Klein was a Canadian linguist, author, and rabbi. Born in Szatmárnémeti (Satu Mare), Partium, part of Hungary) at the time (now in Romania), he received his PhD at the University of Vienna in 1925. He was the rabbi of the Nové Zámky community, Czechoslovakia, from 1938 Érsekújvár, Hungary, now Slovak Republic, from 1929 to 1944. In 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz and later to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was liberated.

Ovidiu Baciu (*22 February 1971), is a Canadian politician of Romanian descent from Montreal, Canada, that served as mayor of Roxboro from 1996 to 2001, succeeded by Adrian Micu, another Romanian-Canadian politician.

Traian Vasai, (b. 1929), is a notable Canadian painter of Romanian origin living in Montreal, Quebec. He came in Canada in 1992 after a as refugee from what was at time the Communist Romania. His very colouful combined with more dark shades of colours made him popular for his paintings. He is the father of American Romanian artists Amalia Pop, Rozalinda Vasai & grandfather to American Romanian artist Antonio Luciano Pop.

Joffrey Douglas Lupul (born September 23, 1983, in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Philadelphia Flyers.

Mircea Steriade, MD, DSc, was a prominent researcher in systems neuroscience. He was born in in Bucharest, Romania, and studied medicine at University of Bucharest. He emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he became a professor of physiology at Université Laval in Quebec, a position he held for the rest of his life. The majority of his research was on corticothalamic oscillations. He was among the first to study the dynamics of the brain during sleep, …

Eduard Prugovečki was a Canadian physicist and mathematician of Croatian-Romanian descent. Prugovečki was born in Craiova, Romania to a Romanian mother, Helena (née Piatkowski), and Croatian father, Slavoljub. He completed the first four years of secondary education in Bucharest, before his family was forced to relocate to Zagreb in 1951, due to an anti-Yugoslav campaign by the communist authorities.

Gary Lupul (born April 20, 1959 in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada) is a former NHL player for the Vancouver Canucks with whom he played 7 seasons, from 1979 to 1986. Playing his junior hockey career with the Nanaimo Clippers and the Victoria Cougars he broke into the league in 1979. He is well known for his infamous fight with Mario Lemieux in October of 1984. Presently Lupul is a scout for the Vancouver Canucks in Ontario, Canada.

Dinu Bumbaru B.Arch, is a Romanian-Canadian architect. He is a member of Heritage Montreal since 1982. Dinu Bumbaru is an architecture graduate of University of Montreal and a degree in conservation studies from University of York in England. He co-authored A Handbook For Montreal's Heritage.

William (Vasile) Yurko, MLA, MP (February 11, 1926 -), was a Canadian politician, active in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the Canadian House of Commons. William Yurko was born in 1926 in Boian, Alberta of Romanian and Ukrainian descent. He served two years in the Canadian Air Force during World War II, then graduated as a Chemical Engineer from the University of Alberta. He worked for 17 years (six of them within the Atomic Energy of Canada) before 1969, …

Alina Balaican is a young Romanian woman who was the focus of controversy in Canada in 2004. Most press reports said that Balaican had come to Canada through a "skilled worker" program. In 2004 Canada accepted over 100,000 workers under the skilled workers program. Over 600 of those skilled workers were allowed to come to Canada because Canada had a need for exotic dancers. 550 of those dancers were from Romania.

Maurice Hartt was a Canadian politician. Born in Romania, the son of Saul Hartt and Malia Segal, he immigrated to Canada when he was twelve. He studied law at Queen's University and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1935. He was created a King's Counsel in 1942 and practiced law in Montreal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the riding of Montréal-Saint-Louis in 1939. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1944.