- Lana Lane
Lana Lane is a North American rock singer. She sings lead in her eponymous band, and has sung backing vocals for the band Rocket Scientists and guest sung on Ayreon and Erik Norlander albums. She is married to music producer Erik Norlander, who co-produces her albums with her at their own studio, Think Tank Media in Woodland Hills, California. Her first album "Love is an Illusion" was released in 1995 and obtained a fair amount of success in Japan, … - Wally Schirra
Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 - May 3, 2007) was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's first effort to put men in space. He was the only man to fly in all of America's first three space programs (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo). He logged a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. - Carrot Top
Carrot Top, born Scott Thompson on February 25, 1965 (though he has claimed in interviews to be born in 1967 and 1969) in Los Angeles, California is an American prop comedian famous for his red hair. According to his official site Carrot Top spends fifteen weeks a year doing live performances in Las Vegas (currently performing at the Luxor Hotel) and does over 100 shows a year on tour. His comedy routine is most known for his comedic use of props. - Jewel Staite
Jewel Belair Staite (born June 2, 1982 in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role in "Firefly" and the subsequent film "Serenity". - Guenter Wendt
Guenter F. Wendt (b. 1924) was a native of Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1955. As an engineer, he worked for McDonnell Aircraft during the Mercury and Gemini manned space programs supervising spacecraft launch preparations at Cape Canaveral. He was the last person seen by the astronauts before liftoff. After the Apollo 1 accident on the pad, Guenter Wendt was hired by the Apollo CSM contractor North American Rockwell. - Robert R. Gilruth
Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 18 1913-August 17 2000) was an American aviation and space pioneer. In the beginning of his career he was involved with early research into supersonic flight and rocket-powered aircraft and then with the manned space program, including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects. He worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics from 1937 to 1958 and its successor agency, the NASA, until retirement in 1973. - Megumi Ogata
(June 6, 1965) is a female seiyū and singer from the Tokyo Metroplitan area. As a singer, she goes by the name em:óu. She attended Tōkai University, but left due to lack of interest. Her blood type is B. - Quddus
Benjamin Quddus Philippe, popularly known as simply Quddus, (born 10 July 1980) is a Canadian MTV VJ and occasional host of MTV's unofficial flagship show, "Total Request Live". Born in Toronto, Ontario, he began a career in music as co-host and programmer of a campus radio show on CHUO-FM while studying philosophy at the University of Ottawa. - Arthur Emmons Raymond
Arthur Emmons Raymond (March 24, 1899, Boston Massachusetts - March 22, 1999, Santa Monica, California) was an aeronautical engineer who led the team that designed the DC-3. Raymond grew up in Pasadena, California, the son of the owner of a luxury hotel. He completed a B.A. at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering at MIT in 1921. Raymond spent his entire career at the Douglas Aircraft Company. - Gemini Ganesan
Gemini Ganesan (17 November 1920 - 22 March 2005) was a famous Indian actor. He is well known as "kadhal mannan" (king of love) of Tamil Cinema for the romantic roles he played in movies, and his private love affairs also as 'SAMBAR' by his critics. SAMBAR a Brahmin food and he being a Tamil Iyer, so he was bullied with that name. - Janna Levin
Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is a theoretical cosmologist. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology granted in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy and Physics from Barnard College granted in 1988.. Her work predicts a finite universe and uses techniques from topology and fractals to demonstrate this. Other work includes black holes and chaos. - Ellen Page
Ellen Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian female actor, perhaps best known for her starring role in "Hard Candy" and as Kitty Pryde in "X-Men: The Last Stand". She had previously received attention, particularly in her native Canada, for award-winning roles in "Pit Pony" and "Marion Bridge" and TV shows "Trailer Park Boys" and "ReGenesis". - Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams (born October 7, 1976) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the Hollywood films "Mean Girls", "The Notebook" and "Wedding Crashers", which all proved to be successful at movie theaters. - Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and naval aviator. He was the first human being to set foot on an extraterrestrial world (The Moon). His first spaceflight was "Gemini 8" in 1966, for which he was the command pilot. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. - Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin (born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. He is the eldest of the Baldwin brothers, and has starred in many movies and TV shows such as "30 Rock" and is also noted for hosting "Saturday Night Live" 13 times. - Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Grammy-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her most popular songs include "Angel", "Building a Mystery", "Adia", "Possession", "Fallen", "I Will Remember You", and "World on Fire". Her best-selling album to date is "Surfacing", for which she won four Juno Awards and two Grammy Awards. - Laura Bertram
Laura Maureen Bertram (born September 5, 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress. - Alexz Johnson
Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian actress and singer/songwriter best known for screen roles in Final Destination 3, So Weird and Instant Star - Michael Collins
Major General Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was "Gemini 10", when he and command pilot John W. Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was "Apollo 11" where he served as the command module pilot. - Kelly Rowan
Kelly Rowan (born October 26, 1967 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress well known for her modelling career and her popular character Kirsten Cohen on the FOX TV series "The O.C." She began modeling in her college years to earn extra cash, becoming involved in acting while working in commercials. A graduate of Toronto's Northern Secondary School, as well as a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, … - Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was a United States Air Force pilot and a NASA astronaut. A native of Mitchell, Indiana, he was the second American to fly in space and the first person to fly in space twice. He was killed during a training exercise for the Apollo One mission on January 27, 1967, at Launch Complex 34 at Cape Kennedy, along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee. - David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet. Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick one course shy of completing a B.A. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick. Richards has received numerous awards including a Gemini Award for scriptwriting for "Small Gifts", … - Mike Bullard
Mike Bullard (born June 12, 1957 in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada) is the former host of the late-night talk shows "Open Mike with Mike Bullard" on CTV and "The Mike Bullard Show" on Global. Bullard, a native of Mississauga, Ontario, was employed with Bell Canada and worked part-time as a stand-up comic before becoming the host of "Open Mike". In 2003, Bullard's contract with CTV expired and he signed a multi-year deal with Global, … - Daryn Jones
Daryn Jones (born Charles Daryn Jones, January 3, 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian comedian and television and radio personality. He and fellow comedian Mista Mo co-wrote and co-starred on the sketch comedy television show "Buzz" and was also an on-air correspondent for "Rick Mercer Report". Jones started comedy by doing stand-up in comedy clubs at the age of 19, later going to private theatre school. - Simon Bainbridge
Simon Bainbridge (born 30 August, 1952 in London) is a British composer and professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the University of Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. - Rick Mercer
Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer (born October 17, 1969 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador), is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist and occasionally, a blogger. Mercer first came to national attention in 1990, when he premiered his one-man show "Show Me the Button, I'll Push It, or Charles Lynch Must Die" at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. A pointed, satirical political commentary on Canadian life after Meech Lake, … - Rex Murphy
Rex Murphy (born March, 1947, Carbonear, Newfoundland) is a noted Canadian commentator. Murphy was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland 105 kilometres west of St. John's and is the second of five children of Harry and Marie Murphy. He graduated from Memorial University in 1968, and promptly went to England to study at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar (at the same time as Bill Clinton). - Shirley Douglas
Shirley Douglas, OC, LL.D (born 2 April 1934 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian television, film and stage actress and activist. Shirley's acting career combined with her family name has made her recognisable in Canadian Film, Television and Politics: she is the daughter of Tommy Douglas (1904-1986), former Canadian statesman and Premier of Saskatchewan. Shirley is mother of three children: Thomas, from her first marriage, and of twins Rachel and Kiefer Sutherland, … - Tony Burman
Tony Burman (born 13 June 1948) is editor in chief of CBC News. On June 19, 2007, he announced his retirement from the CBC, effective July 13. An announcement regarding his future plans is expected in Fall 2007. - Leslie Hope
Leslie Hope (born May 6, 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in Canadian and American movies and television series. She graduated from St. Michael's University School at Victoria, British Columbia, in 1982. Her first movie role was in the Canadian movie "Ups and Downs", in 1981, which was filmed in Victoria. She played the role of Teri Bauer during the first season of the television show "24", from 2001 to 2002. - Fran Gerard
Fran Gerard (born 23 March 1948 in Staten Island, New York) was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month best known for her pendulous breasts, some of the largest to be featured in the magazine up to that time. Her centerfold in the March 1967 issue was photographed by Mario Casilli and Gene Trindl. Fran was the first Playmate to wear eyeglasses in her centerfold pose. At the time of her "Playboy" photo session, … - Elliott See
Elliott McKay See, Jr. (July 23, 1927 - February 28, 1966), was an American astronaut, selected in the second group of astronauts. Elliott See was born in Dallas, Texas. After initially attending The University of Texas where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, he then attended the United States Merchant Marine Academy, graduating in 1949. He later obtained a masters degree from UCLA. He was married to Marilyn Denahy See, and had three children, Sally, … - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20 1941) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist. "Artists are the people who are able to resist the school system fragmenting us because it's convenient to do so, when the art teacher is in competition with the music teacher, and all creativity is in competition with the 'real' curriculum." - John Young
John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on April 21, 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission. Young enjoyed one of the longest and busiest careers of any astronaut in the American space program. He was the first person to fly into space six times, twice journeyed to the Moon, and as of 2007, … - Mary Walsh
Mary Cynthia Walsh, CM, LL.D (h.c.) (born May 13, 1952, St. John's, Newfoundland) is an actress and comedian. - Bill Cameron
William "Bill" Cameron was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A Gemini Award winner, he was a news anchor, television producer, columnist and author. After attending the University of Toronto and spending time in New York City pursuing a career in acting, he got his start on CBC Radio as a freelance entertainment critic in the 1960s before moving on to Maclean's magazine where he was an associate editor and then to Global TV in 1978 as host of "Newsweek". - Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is notable for being the first actor to play Hannibal Lecter, a role he took in the Michael Mann film "Manhunter". - 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. - Donald Brittain
Donald Brittain, O.C. (June 10, 1928 - July 21, 1989) was an acclaimed filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada. Brittain's most notable directorial credits include the 1965 documentaries "Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen" and "Memorandum". He also directed the first-ever IMAX film, "Tiger Child", for Expo '70. - Nigel Bennett
Nigel Bennett (born November 19, 1949 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, UK) is an English actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series "Forever Knight", for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series.
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