- Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta ,(born 1950 in Amritsar Punjab, India) is a controversial Indian-Canadian film director and screenwriter who is based in Toronto and Delhi. - Tara Singh Hayer
Tara Singh Hayer, O.B.C. (November 15, 1936–November 18, 1998) was a Sikh Canadian newspaper publisher and murder victim. Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India. He emigrated to Canada in 1970, where he worked as a miner, teacher, truck-driver, manager of a trucking firm, and journalist before establishing a community newspaper, the "Indo-Canadian Times", in 1978. Hayer supported the creation of Khalistan, an independent, … - Wally Oppal
Wallace Oppal, Q.C. is a Canadian lawyer, former judge and provincial politician from British Columbia. Oppal is the Attorney General of British Columbia and the Minister responsible for Multiculturalism and is the British Columbia Liberal Party's MLA for Vancouver-Fraserview. Born in the Fraserview precinct of south Vancouver, Oppal is a graduate of the University of British Columbia law school and operated his own law practice before going to the Bench. - Herb Dhaliwal
Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, PC, B.Comm (born December 12 1952) is a Canadian politician. Born to a Sikh family in Punjab, India, Dhaliwal's family immigrated to Vancouver when he was six. He attended John Oliver Secondary School, graduating in 1972. After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, he started a maintenance company out of his basement. He's a top level executive of Dynamic Facility Services Ltd.. - Deepak Obhrai
Deepak Obhrai (born July 5, 1950 in Oldeani, Tanzania) is a Canadian politician, representing the riding of Calgary East for the Conservative Party of Canada. He was first elected in 1997 for the Reform Party of Canada, and was re-elected when the Reform Party became the Canadian Alliance in 2000. In 2004 and 2006 he was elected as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. - Lisa Ray
Lisa Ray (born April 4, 1972) is a Canadian Bollywood actress and former fashion model. She grew up in Toronto, is the daughter of a Bengali father and a Polish mother. Ray started her modelling career at age 16 and was the "brand ambassador" for Lakme cosmetics in India. She made numerous advertisements for various Indian companies before becoming involved in films. She began her acting career with the Bollywood film "Kasoor" in 2001 opposite Aftab Shivdasani. - Russell Peters
Russell Dominic Peters (born 1970) is an Indian-Canadian stand-up comic from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. His parents are originally from Bombay and Kolkata in India. Russell Peters focuses primarily on various cultural backgrounds, including his own Indian background, as well as Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Arab, African, Hispanic, Italian, British, and other South and Southeast Asian communities. - 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, … - Ruby Dhalla
Ruby Dhalla, BSc, DC, (born February 18, 1974) is a Canadian politician. She has represented the riding of Brampton—Springdale in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004 as a member of the Liberal Party. Dhalla and British Columbia Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Nina Grewal are the first Sikh women to serve in the Canadian House of Commons. - Jagrup Brar
Jagrup Brar, is a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in British Columbia, Canada. He represents Surrey as a member of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia. - Sukh Dhaliwal
Sukh Dhaliwal, P.Eng., BCLS, MP (born November 1, 1960 in Punjab, India) is a businessman and politician in British Columbia, Canada. He is currently the Liberal Member of Parliament for Newton—North Delta, elected in the 2006 federal election. A Sikh, he emigrated from India in 1984 and became a Canadian citizen three years later. - Nina Grewal
Nina Grewal, MP (born October 20, 1958), is a Canadian politician of the Conservative Party. She was elected in the general election of June 2004 to represent the constituency of Fleetwood—Port Kells, British Columbia. Grewal was born in Osaka, Japan in 1958. She and her husband lived in Liberia before emigrating to Canada. She is married to former Member of Parliament Gurmant Grewal, and the couple were the first married couple to serve in the House at the same time. - Harinder Takhar
Harinder Jeet Singh Takhar is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Takhar was born to a Sikh family in the Indian state of Punjab, with a background in farming and civil service work. He moved to Canada in 1974, and arrived in Mississauga, Ontario in 1977. He currently lives with his family in his residence on O'Neil Gate, Mississauga. - Raj Chouhan
Raj Chouhan was elected as the MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds on May 17, 2005. Raj serves as Opposition Critic for Mental Health. Born in the Punjab province of India, Raj was the founding president of the Canadian Farmworkers' Union and served as a Director of the Hospital Employees Union. Raj also served as a member of the Labour Relations Board of B.C. and the Arbitration Bureau of B.C. A founding member of the B.C. Organization to Fight Racism, … - Anita Rau Badami
Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) an Indian-Canadian novelist. in Rourkela, Orissa, India, she was at the University of Madras and Sophia College in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary. first novel, "Tamarind Mem" (1997), grew out of her university thesis. Her critically acclaimed novels deal with the complexities of Indian family life and with the cultural gap that emerges when Indians move to the west. - Navdeep Bains
Navdeep Singh Bains, PC, MP, BAS, MBA, CMA (born June 16, 1977) is a Canadian politician. From 7 October 2005 to February 2006, Bains served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bains is currently a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Mississauga—Brampton South since 2004. He was first elected federally in June 2004 and re-elected on January 23, 2006. - Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel "What the Body Remembers" won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Canadian/Caribbean Region), and her 2004 novel "The Tiger Claw" was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her second short-story collection, "We Are Not in Pakistan", is due to be released in Canada in 2007. - Jazzy B
Jaswinder Singh Bains (born April 1, 1975), better known by his stage name Jazzy B, is an Indian Bhangra artist. Jazzy B is easily recognized by fans of Bhangra with his spiky hair and the range and depth of his vocals. 'Ghugian Da Jorra', his successful debut album, was released in 1993 and instantly made him a star. Since then he has become the best-selling Bhangra artist in the world, helping bring the genre to the forefront of the Indian music scene. - Harbhajan Mann
Harbhajan Mann is a Punjabi singer and actor. He was born on 30 December, 1970 in Bathinda, Punjab, India. Harbhajan started his singing career in 1977. He performed in local shows for the Asian audience in Canada after school. Harbhajan studied punjabi music from his first teacher, Karnail Singh. In 1992, Harbhajan's big break came when he release his second album Chithiye Nee Chithiye in Canada. The album was a success to a large punjabi audience. - Salim Mansur
Salim Mansur, PhD, is a Muslim and is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario Canada. He is a writer for the London Free Press, the Toronto Sun, ProudToBeCanadian.ca, and numerous publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag. He often presents analysis on the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East. - Haroon Siddiqui
Haroon Siddiqui, C.M., O.Ont., (born June 1, 1942) is an Indian-Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor. - Vic Dhillon
Vic Dhillon is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the constituency of Brampton West—Mississauga for the Ontario Liberal Party. Dhillon is one of the three Sikh Members of the Legislature, all of whom are members of the Liberal Party. - Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh is a Canadian writer. He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. He is the author of "Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir". He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. His play, "Speak, Oppenheimer", written for Montreal's Infinite Theatre, involves three physicists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer. Singh is currently Markin-Flanagan Writer-in Residence at the University of Calgary. - Ian Hanomansing
Ian Hanomansing (or Hanoomansigh) (born 1961) is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He is the anchor of "Canada Now", the CBC's Vancouver supperhour newscast. From 2000 to 2007, Hanomansing was the anchor of the national segment of "Canada Now"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s earlier incarnation. He has been a reporter with the CBC since 1986. He is married, and has two sons. - Raminder Gill
Raminder Singh Gill is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003, and has unsuccessfully sought election to the Canadian House of Commons on three separate occasions. Gill was born to a Sikh family in Punjab, India. He was educated at the University of Toronto, and holds a Master's Degree in Engineering. He works as a Chemical Engineer in private life, … - Ali Kazimi
Ali Kazimi (b. 1961) is a documentary filmmaker in Canada. Born and raised in India, he graduated from Stephen's College in 1982. He went to Canada on scholarship to study film production at York University. His films include Narmada: A Valley Rises (1994), Shooting Indians (1997), Some Kind of Arrangement (1998), Continuous Journey (2004) and Runaway Grooms (2005). - Ajmer Rode
Ajmer Rode is a Canadian author writing in Punjabi as well as in English. His first work was non-fiction "Vishva Di Nuhar" on Einstein's Relativity in dialogue form inspired by Plato's "Republic". Published by the Punjabi University in 1966, the book initiated a series of university publications on popular science and sociology. - Emanuel Sandhu
Emanuel Sandhu (born November 18, 1980) is a Canadian figure skater. He is a three-time Canadian national champion and the 2004 Grand Prix champion. - Manny Malhotra
Emmanuel Noveen Malhotra (born May 18, 1980 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) is a professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League. - Bidhu Jha
Bidhu Jha is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is currently a member of the Manitoba legislature. Jha moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1970. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has taken post-graduate training in Industrial Engineering and Management. Prior to his election to the Manitoba legislature, he served as President and CEO of Optimum Trading Corporation, Ltd.. - Raj Pannu
Raj Pannu, Ph.D., (born 1934), a Canadian educator and politician, led the Alberta New Democratic Party from 2000 to 2004. Raj was born in Punjab, India completing an undergraduate degree before immigrating to Canada in 1962. Raj settled in Whitecourt, Alberta, where he worked as a high school teacher until 1964. In 1964 Raj moved to Edmonton, Alberta, to work on a graduate program. Raj completed a Ph.D. in sociology in 1973. - Shaun Majumder
Shaun Majumder (born on January 29, 1972) is a Canadian comedian and actor. Majumder was born in Burlington, Newfoundland to a white Canadian mother and an Indian father. He started his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show "CLIPS", and soon was hosting the network's popular morning kids show on called "Brain Wash", where he was known as Ed Brainbin. He also hosted the "Slime Tour" segments on the popular game show "Uh Oh!". - Bharat Agnihotri
Hon. Bharat Agnihotri (born April 9, 1953, India) represents the constituency of Edmonton Ellerslie as a Member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Alberta Liberal Party, and elected into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta on November 22, 2004. - Gulzar Singh Cheema
Dr. Gulzar Singh Cheema (born April 13, 1954) is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1993, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2004, making him one of only a few Canadian politicians to sit in two provincial legislatures since Confederation. He was also a cabinet minister in the government of Premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell from 2001 to 2004, … - Monika Deol
Monika Deol is a Canadian television personality. She began as a reporter for Citytv in Toronto, and eventually became a VJ for MuchMusic, hosting and co-producing "Electric Circus" from 1988 to 1996. Deol was also an entertainment specialist on "CityPulse at Six", host of MuchMusic’s news shows "FAX" and "Rapid Fax", and co-host of Citytv’s alternative fashion and style show "Ooh La La". - Hardial Bains
Hardial Bains (August 15, 1939 - August 24, 1997) was the founder and leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) until his death. Born in India into a communist family in the Punjab, Bains became a member of the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He was dismayed by the revisionism of Nikita Khrushchev following the death of Stalin, and he broke with the CPI when it supported Khrushchev's criticisms of Stalin. - Robin Bawa
Robin Bawa (born March 26, 1966 in Duncan, British Columbia) is a retired former professional ice hockey player who spent parts of four seasons in the National Hockey League between 1989 and 1994. - Murad Velshi
Murad Velshi (born April 4, 1935 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990. Velshi was a master baker and businessman before entering political life. He owned and operated a bakery, a pickle manufacturing plant and other retail businesses in Pretoria, and was the owner of a real-estate company in Kenya. - Ashwin Sood
Ashwin Sood (born September 25, 1967 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England) is a Canadian musician. He is the drummer in Sarah McLachlan's band, and is also married to McLachlan. Sood also plays percussion, loops, keyboards, and keyboard bass. Sood grew up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He started playing the drums at age seven, after attending a Count Basie concert. - John Dossetor
John Beamish Dossetor is a Canadian physician and bioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the first kidney transplant in Canada and the Commonwealth. Born in Bangalore, India, he received a B.M. and B.Ch. from University of Oxford in 1950. In 1955, he immigrated to Canada to accept a position at McGill University. In 1958, he co-ordinated the first kidney transplant. From 1960 to 1969, he worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
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