- Margaret Wente
Margaret Wente (born 1950) is a columnist for Canada's largest national daily newspaper, "The Globe and Mail". She is the only journalist to have received the National Newspaper Award for column-writing twice. Wente was briefly managing editor at the same paper but was forced to relinquish the post after a staff revolt. Ms. Wente was born in Chicago. She moved to Toronto in 1964 and has since become a naturalized Canadian citizen. - Olivia Chow
Olivia Chow (born March 24, 1957) is a social democratic Canadian Member of Parliament and former city councillor (1991-2005) in Toronto. Born in Hong Kong, Chow emigrated to Canada when she was thirteen years old and is fluent in two of her constituency's main languages, Cantonese and English. She won the Trinity—Spadina riding for the New Democratic Party on January 23 2006, becoming a member of the Canadian House of Commons. Chow is married to NDP leader Jack Layton. - Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1870, and then to the United States in 1871, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1882. Bell was awarded the U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876; although other inventors had claimed the honor, the Bell patent remained in effect. - Tony Clement
Anthony Peter "Tony" Clement, PC, BA, LL.B., MP (born January 27, 1961 in Manchester, England) is a Canadian politician, federal Minister of Health, Minister for the Federal Economic Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor) and member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Clement had previously served as an Ontario cabinet minister, most recently as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care under Premiers Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. - Raymond Chan
Raymond Chan, PC, MP (Jyutping: Can4 Ceok3 Jyu4), (b. 1951) is the first Chinese Canadian to be appointed to the Cabinet of Canada. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Chan was elected to Parliament in the 1993 federal election, defeating then Defence Minister Tom Siddon in the riding of Richmond, British Columbia. Chan is the third Chinese Canadian to be elected to Parliament, after Douglas Jung, who secured a seat in 1957, and Art Lee in 1974. - 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. - M. G. Vassanji
M.G. Vassanji, C.M. is an Afro-Asian-Canadian novelist. Although of South Asian heritage, Vassanji grew up in East Africa--he was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1950, and raised in Tanzania. While attending the University of Nairobi he won a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study nuclear physics. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to Canada in 1978 to work at the Chalk River nuclear laboratories, … - 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. - George Brown
George Brown (November 29, 1818 - May 10, 1880) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation. A noted Reform politician, he was also the founder and editor of the "Toronto Globe", which is today (having merged with other newspapers) known as the Globe and Mail. Brown was born in Alloa, Clackmannan, Scotland, on November 29, 1818 and immigrated to Canada in 1843, … - John A. MacDonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D (January 11, 1815 - June 6, 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada. Macdonald's tenure in office spanned 19 years, making him the second longest serving Prime Minister of Canada. He is the only Canadian Prime Minister to win six majority governments and won praise for having helped forge a nation of sprawling geographic size, with two diverse European colonial origins, … - Jenny Kwan
Jenny Wai Ching Kwan （Chinese: 關慧貞; pinyin: Guān Hùizhēn）is a Chinese-born Canadian politician. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the NDP. Kwan emigrated to Canada at age 9 from Hong Kong. She graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts in criminology and was as a community legal advocate in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In 1993, Kwan became the youngest-ever member of Vancouver City Council. - 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. - Vivienne Poy
Vivienne Poy, MA née Lee (利德蕙; Cantonese Yale: Ley6 Dak1-way6; Mandarin Pinyin: Lì Déhuì), (born May 15, 1941 in Hong Kong) was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1998. Poy came to Canada as a university student in 1959. She is the first Canadian senator of Asian ancestry. She graduated from St. Paul's Co-educational College, McGill University, Seneca College and University of Toronto. For 14 years, Poy served as president of Vivienne Poy Mode, … - William Lyon MacKenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12, 1795 - August 28, 1861) was a Scottish-Canadian journalist, politician, and leader of an unsuccessful rebellion. Mackenzie was born in Dundee, Scotland and immigrated to Upper Canada in 1820. From 1824 to 1834 he published the newspaper the "Colonial Advocate" in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario), … - Ahmed Ressam
Ahmed Ressam aka "The Millennium Bomber" was convicted and given a prison sentence of 22 years in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999. - 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. - William Alexander
William Alexander (18 September, 1880 - 18 October 1917) was a Canadian World War I soldier who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France. His execution by firing squad following a charge of desertion sparked controversy in Canada. He was one of 25 Canadian soldiers executed during the course of the Great War. - 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 - 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. - Ujjal Dosanjh
Ujjal Singh Dosanjh, PC, MP, BA, LL.B (born September 9, 1947, Jalandhar) is a Canadian lawyer and politician, currently serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver South. He serves as critic for the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Offi ... - Svend Robinson
Svend Robinson (born March 4, 1952) is a Canadian politician, Canada's first openly homosexual elected official and a prominent activist for gay rights. He was a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 until 2004, when he resigned after confessing to committing a theft. He unsuccessfully sought to return to the House in the 2006 federal election. - Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. She is best known for "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times. "Jacobs came down firmly on the side of spontaneous inventiveness of individuals, … - Ben Johnson
Benjamin Sinclair "Ben" Johnson CM (born December 30, 1961) is a former Canadian sprinter who enjoyed a high-profile career during most of the 1980s, winning two Olympic Bronze medals, and an Olympic Gold which was subsequently rescinded. He set consecutive 100 m world records at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics and the 1988 Summer Olympics, but he was disqualified for doping, losing the Olympic title and both records. - Alexander MacKenzie
Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764 - March 11, 1820) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer. MacKenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In 1774 his family moved to New York, and then to Montreal in 1776 during the American Revolution. In 1779 he obtained a job with the North West Company, on whose behalf he travelled to Lake Athabasca and founded Fort Chipewyan in 1788. He was sent to replace Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company. - Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC,, (born 12 September, 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, "The English Patient" - Gurmant Grewal
Gurmant Singh Grewal, BSc, MBA (born December 21, 1957 in Barundi, Punjab, India) is a Canadian politician and former Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament. Gurmant and his wife, Nina Grewal, were the first married couple to serve in the Canadian House of Commons at the same time. First elected to the Canadian House of Commons on June 2, 1997 for the riding of Surrey Central and re-elected there on November 27, 2000, … - Joe Volpe
Giuseppe (Joseph) Volpe, PC, MP (born September 21, 1947) is a Canadian politician. He has been a member of the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, and held two senior positions in Prime Minister Paul Martin's Cabinet. In 2006, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for the leadership of the Liberal Party. He was subsequently named Party's transportation critic by new leader Stéphane Dion. - Andrew Telegdi
Andrew Telegdi, PC, MP (born May 28, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons. Telegdi was elected in the riding of Waterloo in the general election of 1993, and in the riding of Kitchener—Waterloo in the elections of 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2006. Telegdi is known for his blunt outspokenness on several issues. A Hungarian expatriate who entered Canada as a refugee, … - Diane Ablonczy
Diane Ablonczy (born May 6, 1949) is a conservative Canadian politician. She was born in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Ablonczy is a Member of Canada's House of Commons. Ablonczy is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada (since 2003), and a former member of the Canadian Alliance (2000-2003) and the Reform Party (1993-2000). She has been in the House of Commons since 1993, … - Shuman Ghosemajumder
Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, author, and businessman based in Silicon Valley. He is co-author of the book "CGI Programming Unleashed" (Macmillan Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-57521-151-3) and has also written numerous works on digital distribution, including the Open Music Model (2003). He is currently the business product manager for Trust & Safety at Google, which he joined in 2003. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Anadas, … - Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D, FRSC (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist. - Richie Hawtin
Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his haunting, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid-2000s. - D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, PC, (April 13, 1825 - April 7, 1868) was a Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation. - Myron Thompson
Myron Thompson (born 23 April 1936) is a Conservative Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons. He represents the riding of Wild Rose in Alberta. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Thompson was born and raised in Monte Vista, Colorado. In the 1950s, Thompson studied at Adams State College in Colorado, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Education. Thompson served in the United States Army from 1958 to 1960. - Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren, C. C., C. Q. (b. April 11 1914 - d. January 27 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). - George Simpson
Sir George Simpson (1787 - 7 September 1860) was a Scots-Quebecer and employee of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). His title was Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land and the Indian Territories in British North America (now Canada) from 1821 to 1860. George Simpson was born in Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland, the only son of George Simpson, Sr., a writer in Dingwall. - Libby Davies
Libby Davies (born February 27, 1953) is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party, representing the riding of Vancouver East in Vancouver, British Columbia. Davies was born in Aldershot, England and emigrated to British Columbia in 1968. Before being elected to Parliament, she participated in many grass-roots political organizations in Vancouver, specifically in the Downtown Eastside area. - John Turner
John Napier Turner, PC, CC, QC, MA, BCL, LLD (born June 7, 1929) was the seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada from June 30, 1984 to September 17, 1984. He is the oldest living former Prime Minister. According to Canadian protocol, as a former Prime Minister, he is styled "The Right Honourable" for life. - Dora Mavor Moore
Dora Mavor Moore (8 April 1888 - 15 May 1979) was a Canadian actor, teacher and director who was a pioneer of Canadian theater. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she moved with her family to Toronto in 1894, when her father James Mavor (1854-1925) became a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. In 1915 she married Francis Moore, an Army Chaplain, but separated from him in 1928. She had three sons: Francis, Mavor Moore, and James. - Donovan Bailey
Donovan Bailey (born December 16, 1967) is a Canadian former athlete. Born in Manchester, Jamaica, Bailey emigrated from Jamaica to Canada at age 13, and played basketball before his graduation at Queen Elizabeth Park High School in Oakville, Ontario. He began competing as a 100 m sprinter part-time in 1991, but he did not take up the sport seriously until 1994. At that time, he was also a successful stockbroker. The following year saw his international breakthrough.
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