- John Sakamoto
John Sakamoto is a Canadian journalist and music critic. He is best known for the "Anti-Hit List" column, which has appeared on canoe.ca and in "eye", the "Toronto Sun" and the "Toronto Star". He served as executive producer of canoe.ca's entertainment section, "Jam!", from 1996 to 2002. In 2005, the Anti-Hit List expanded into a biweekly podcast. - Sergio Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne began his professional career in Canada. From 1983 to 1985, he worked as a chartered accountant and tax specialist for Deloitte & Touche. From 1985 to 1988, he was group controller and then director of corporate development at the Lawson Mardon Group of Toronto. In 1989 and 1990, he was executive vice president of Glenex Industries. - Henry Dushan Edward Atkinson
Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon in London specialising in Lower Limb Joint Replacement Surgery, including primary and revision Hip, Knee, and Ankle Arthroplasty. I also have interests in Trauma Surgery and Sports Injuries. Fellowship training at St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, and SportsMed SA, Adelaide, Australia. - Erella Ganon
Erella Vent Ganon is a Canadian broadcaster, writer and artist. She was previously known as Erella Vent (pronounced "irrelevent"), and sometimes as simply Erella. Ganon created Droplit Books in 1986, a publisher dedicated to miniature artist books and postcards, as a means showcasing the work of local artists. One of her own publications was a book series about pregnancy called "The Adventures of My Inner Child". - 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. - Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (birth name "Glenn Herbert Gold") (September 25, 1932 - October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He gave up concert performances in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career, and performances for television and radio. - Jim Harris
James R. M. "Jim" Harris (born February 12, 1961) is a Canadian author, environmentalist, and politician. He was leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2003 to 2006, when he was succeeded by Elizabeth May. - Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor, born September 2 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is well known for playing Neo in the action film trilogy "The Matrix". He is also well known for playing Ted in the teen comedy films "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey". Other notable roles include Scott Favor in the drama "My Own Private Idaho" alongside River Phoenix, … - Keram Malicki-Sanchez
Keram Malicki-Sánchez is a Canadian actor, singer, and writer born in Toronto to a Polish father and Ecuadorian mother. He has appeared films such as "John Q", "Happy Campers", "American History X", and "Crazy/Beautiful", as well as television series, among them "CSI", "24", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "ER", "Saving Grace" and "Catwalk". As a musician, Malicki-Sánchez began his own band, Blue Dog Pict, … - Klaus Harry Metzger
Klaus Metzger lives in a city close to Hannover. At this place OSKAR SCHINDLER ("Schindlers List") spent his last years with friends before he died at 9th of october1974 in the local hospital "Bernward Krankenhaus". As an hobby-historian Klaus Metzger did quite some research work and had contact with witnesses of OSKAR SCHINDLER. I work as an OSKAR-SCHINDLER-guide showing all the interesting places where he enjoyed his time in Hildesheim (see under GOOGLE "OSKAR-SCHINDLER-Führung" resp. YAHOO). - Neil Young
Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Omemee, Ontario. His work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and an instantly recognizable nasal tenor (and frequently alto) singing voice. - Adam Copeland
Adam Joseph Copeland (born October 30 1973), is a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment, under the ring name Edge, wrestling on its "SmackDown!" brand Copeland initially rose through the ranks as one half of the tag team Edge and Christian, alongside his real-life best friend and storyline brother Christian. He is noted for being one of the most decorated tag team champions in wrestling history, … - 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. - Will Arnett
William "Will" Emerson Arnett (born May 5, 1970) (pronounced) is an Emmy Award-nominated Canadian-American actor known for his role as George Oscar "G.O.B." Bluth II (pronounced Job, like the biblical figure) on the now-cancelled FOX comedy "Arrested Development". Since his success on "Arrested Development", Arnett has landed major film roles. He recently played a supporting role in the hit Will Ferrell comedy "Blades of Glory". - 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, … - Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu (born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional poker player. - James Randi
James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto, Canada, Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). - Jamaal Magloire
Jamaal Dane Magloire (born May 21 1978 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional basketball player, currently with the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association. He attended Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute. - Carlo Colaiacovo
Carlo Colaiacovo (born January 27, 1983 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman of Italian descent currently with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. Colaiacovo also has an identical twin brother, Paulo Colaiacovo who is a goaltender currently playing for the Colorado Eagles of the Central Hockey League. Colaiacovo was drafted 17th overall by Toronto in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. - Percy Faith
Percy Faith was a band-leader, orchestrator and composer, known for his lush arrangements of pop standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, Faith refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, … - Alfred J. Gross
Alfred J. Gross (also Irving A. Gross) (February 22, 1918 - December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He invented and patented many important communications devices, including the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone pager and the cordless telephone. Despite the successes of these inventions, his patents expired too early to make any amount of money from them. - Karen Connelly
Karen Marie Connelly (born 12 March 1969) is a Canadian writer and poet who has written extensively about her experiences living in Greece, Thailand and Canada. - Myfanwy Ashmore
Myfanwy Ashmore (born 1970, North York, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian conceptual artist who has been involved in information art, new media art, gameart, video art, interactive art, internet art since 1995. She studied at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, in 1990, graduated from the Sculpture-Installation department at the Ontario College of Art in 1996, and received her MFA from York University in 1998. As well as being an international exhibiting artist, … - Gail Kim
Gail Kim (born February 20, 1976) is a Korean Canadian professional wrestler, valet, and actress. She is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. - Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. - Abdullah Khadr
Abdullah Khadr (1981-) is a member of the Khadr family and the oldest son of Ahmed Said Khadr, a senior member of the Al-Qaeda group. Like his five siblings, Abdullah is a terrorist. His father, Ahmed Khadr was a naturalized Canadian, and engineer. However he stopped working as an engineer in the 1980s, when he started working for Human Concern International -- a charity -- in Afghanistan. - Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. She was known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "the girl with the curls." She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and one of film's greatest pioneers. Her influence in the development of film acting was enormous. Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, … - David James Elliott
David James Elliott (born David William Smith on September 21, 1960 in Milton, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born actor who was the star of the series "JAG" from 1995 to 2005, playing lead character Harmon Rabb Jr.. During his teenage years he was part of a band, quitting Milton District High School in his final year to pursue his dream of becoming a rock star. At 19 however he realized this wouldn't happen and returned to finish high school. - Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee OC (born Gary Lee Weinrib on July 29, 1953 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian musician best known as the vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined Rush in 1968 at the request of his childhood friend, Alex Lifeson. An award-winning musician, Lee's style, technique, and skill on the bass guitar have proven very influential in the rock and heavy metal genres, inspiring such players as Steve Harris of Iron Maiden, … - Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox (born July 13, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian R&B/House singer. - Ian Thornley
Ian Thornley is a Canadian rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Born and raised in Toronto, Thornley studied jazz music at Boston's Berklee College of Music in the 1990s, and formed the band Big Wreck in 1993 with classmates David Henning, Brian Doherty, and Forrest Williams. They soon relocated from Boston to Toronto and eventually signed a US record deal with Atlantic Records. Their 1997 debut album, "In Loving Memory Of...", … - Davidson Black
Davidson Black was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his discovery of "Sinanthropus pekinensis" (now "Homo erectus pekinensis"). He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was known as 步達生 in China. - Steve Smith
Steve Smith, CM (born December 24, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian comedy writer and actor. Before turning to comedy, Smith studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs. In 1979, he began to produce, write, and star in "Smith & Smith", a sketch comedy series with a cast of two: Smith and his wife, Morag Smith. The show was produced for Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH and syndicated to other television stations in Canada. - Catherine O'Hara
Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress and comedian. She is well known for appearing on the sketch show "SCTV", the roles as Delia Deetz in "Beetlejuice", Kate McCallister in "Home Alone", Sally in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and in several films written and directed by Christopher Guest. - Christopher Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and theater, Plummer is perhaps best known for the iconic role of Captain Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". - Mayhem Morearty
Mayhem Morearty (aka Anarky) is a Canadian rapper from Toronto. He was raised in the notorious Lawrence Heights aka Jungle housing projects and he is considered to be one of Toronto's best MCs.. Mayhem has received commercial and critical acclaim throughout Canada with a series of single releases, mixtape/dvd releases, a street album release and live performances. - David Hewlett
David Hewlett (born April 18, 1968) is an English-born Canadian actor best known for his role as Dr. Rodney McKay on the science fiction television show "Stargate Atlantis". - Brian Kernighan
Brian Wilson Kernighan, (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix and its school of thought. He is also coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie. - George Stroumboulopoulos
George Paul Stroumboulopoulos (born August 16, 1972 in Malton, now part of the City of Mississauga, Ontario), commonly nicknamed Strombo, is a Canadian television and radio personality. He was born in Malton, Ontario to a Greek father from Egypt and a Ukrainian mother. Stroumboulopoulos studied radio broadcasting at Humber College. He was a board operator at Toronto sports radio station The Fan 590 when he first emerged as an on-air personality, … - Rick Fox
Ulrich Alexander (Rick) Fox (born July 24 1969 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian television actor and retired professional basketball player.
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