- Avril Lavigne
"'Avril Ramona Lavigne Whibley (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian rock singer and musician. She has sold over twenty-six million albums worldwide. In 2006, "Canadian Business Magazine" ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood. Although her parents are of Quebecois origin, she does not speak French and her birth surname is usually pronounced in an anglicized way as (in French it is commonly pronounced). - Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts (born 1949) has been the Chief Executive Officer Worldwide of the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi since 1997. Roberts is a highly-regarded figure in the advertising industry due to his deep insight and creative mind. In September 2006, Saatchi & Saatchi won a US$430 million JC Penney contract because of the idea of "lovemarks", which was invented and promoted by Roberts. Kevin Roberts is currently attending UCLA. - Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion Angélil, OC, OQ, (born March 30 1968) is a Canadian pop vocalist and occasional songwriter. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion became a young star in francophone Canada after her manager and would-be husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home to finance her first record. - Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21, 1956, in Widnes, Lancashire) is an English-born Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series "Sex and the City". The role earned her an Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award. - Prince Charles
The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George ; born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He has held the title of Prince of Wales since 1958, and is styled "His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales", except in Scotland, where he is styled "His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay". - 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. - Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album "Come on Over" is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA, … - Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. However, she is more directly involved with the United Kingdom, where the Royal Family resides, and the Monarchy is historically indigenous. Apart from the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, … - Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album "Songs of Leonard Cohen") were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone. - Chris Benoit
Christopher Michael Benoit (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler who wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Entertainment. A two-time World Heavyweight Champion, he was widely regarded as one of the best technical professional wrestlers of his generation. Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia home on June 25, 2007. - Jessica Stam
Jessica Stam (born April 23, 1986), also known simply as Stam, is a Canadian supermodel. - Howie Mandel
Howie Michael Mandel II (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian comedian and actor, primarily for his roles on sitcoms and television. He is best known as Ed Flanders's young intern, Dr. Wayne Fiscus on "St. Elsewhere", and is currently the host of the US game show "Deal or No Deal", airing on NBC, and the Canadian version, "Deal or No Deal Canada", airing on Global. - Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He is the brother of Martha Wainwright, the half brother of Lucy Wainwright Roche, and the son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. Since 1998, he has recorded five albums of original music, several EPs, and numerous tracks included on compilations and film soundtracks. - Rick Wagoner
George Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Rick Wagoner was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University in 1975 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977. After Harvard, he joined GM as an analyst in the treasurer's office. - Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Douglas Gretzky, OC (born 26 January 1961 in Brantford, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently part-owner and head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes. Nicknamed "The Great One," "Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the NHL" calls Gretzky "the greatest player of all time." He is generally regarded as the best player of his era and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, … - Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Harper became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the January 2006 federal election. He is the first ever Prime Minister from his current political party, and the first since 1993 from any "Conservative" party, following twelve years of government by the Liberal Party. - Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996. - Lucian Turcescu
Lucian Turcescu, is a professor of theology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He emigrated to Canada in 1992, and obtained his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Toronto in 1999. Turcescu taught for six years at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, where he became an Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In 2005, he was hired as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University. - Marc Staal
Marc John Staal, (born January 13, 1987 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) is an ice hockey player born to Henry and Linda Staal. Staal plays for the Sudbury Wolves in the Ontario Hockey League where he is the team's captain. He was drafted by the New York Rangers in 2005 NHL Entry Draft in the 1st round, 12th pick overall. Staal played for Team Canada in the 2006 and 2007 IIHF World Junior Ice Hockey Championships bringing home gold both times. - Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. His research focuses on knowledge representation, particularly ontology languages, description logics, and optimised reasoning algorithms. His work on tableau reasoning for very expressive description logics has formed the basis of most description logic reasoning systems in use today, including Racer, FaCT++, and Pellet. Prof. - Jiří Tlustý
Jiri Tlusty (born March 18, 1988 in Slany, Czechoslovakia; now Czech Republic) is a Czech ice hockey player. He was selected in the first round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs with the 13th overall pick. On July 14, 2006, Tlusty signed an entry-level contract with the Leafs. On October 23, 2006, Tlusty was assigned to the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League. - Jeff Francis
Jeffrey William Francis (born January 8, 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a highly-touted left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. Francis made his major league debut on August 25, 2004, against the Atlanta Braves, losing the 8-1 decision. He pitched five innings, allowing six runs (on three home runs), walking one, while striking out eight hitters. He earned his first career victory on September 5, 2004, … - Daniel Sedin
Daniel Sedin is a professional ice hockey player for the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks. His identical twin brother Henrik Sedin also plays for the Canucks. Both played on a line with Anson Carter in 2005-06, sometimes known colloquially as the 'Brothers Line'. In that season, the Brother Line was the Canucks top-scoring line, passing the Markus Naslund/Todd Bertuzzi/Brendan Morrison line in points. - 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, … - Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera (pronounced) (born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian television and film actor, known for playing George Michael Bluth in the Fox comedy "Arrested Development". He guest-starred in an episode of teen noir drama "Veronica Mars", and also in the Adult Swim series "Tom Goes to the Mayor" and "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" Cera was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. - Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. He was an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live", an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. - 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. - 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. - Steve Nash
Steven John Nash, OBC (born February 7, 1974), is a Canadian professional basketball player who currently plays point guard for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named NBA Most Valuable Player in 2005 and 2006. Nash had an outstanding high school basketball career, nearly averaging a triple-double per game in his senior season-more than 21 points, 11 assists, … - 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. - Wayne Ray
Wayne Scott Ray (born 1950 in Alabama) is a Canadian poet and photographer. Ray is the founder of HMS Press publishing, Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest, co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association and co-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets: Associates (Toronto) for 1985/1986. - K.D. Lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), best known by the stage name k.d. lang, is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter. - Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu (born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional poker player. - Gordie Howe
Gordon "Gordie" Howe, OC (born March 31, 1928 in Floral, Saskatchewan) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers in the NHL, and the Houston Aeros and New England Whalers in the WHA. He is often referred to as Mr. Hockey, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, being most famous for his scoring prowess, physical strength, and longevity. - Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen OC is a Canadian-American comedian and actor. Although Nielsen’s acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and movies, he achieved his greatest film success in comedies, including "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" series of films. His portrayal of serious characters seemingly oblivious of (and complicit in) their absurd surroundings gave Nielsen a reputation as a comedian. - 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, … - John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul, CC, Ph.D (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian author and essayist. As an essayist Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, … - Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are "Reckless", "18 til I Die", and "Waking Up the Neighbours". Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, … - Rachel Marsden
Rachel Marsden (born 1974) is a Canadian conservative political columnist and television commentator.
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