Well Known Canadians

Well Known People Who Happen to be Canadian

Actors Actresses Artists Astronauts Athletes Authors Business Comedians Directors/Producers Entertainers Journalists Miscellaneous Musicians Scientists etc.

Actors

Aykroyd, Dan: Comedian, Actor. "Saturday Night Live", "The Blues Brothers"
Bain, Conrad: Actor. "Diff'rent Strokes" .
Bairstow, Scott: Actor. "Lonesome Dove: The Series"
Bluteau, Lothaire : Actor. "Jesus of Montreal", "Black Robe"
Bochner, Lloyd: Actor. "Dynasty", "Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear"
Burr, Raymond: Actor. "Perry Mason", "Ironside"
Candy, John: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV"
Cariou, Len: Actor. "A Little Night Music"
Carrey, Jim: Comedian, Actor. "In Living Color", "The Mask", "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"
Carson, Jack: Actor. "Mildred Pierce", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Chaykin, Maury: Actor. "Dances with Wolves", "Whale Music", "Buried on Sunday", "Devil in a Blue Dress"
Chong, Thomas: Comedian, Actor. Half of Cheech and Chong
Colicos, John: Actor. played the first Klingon on "Star Trek", "Anne of a Thousand Days", "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Battlestar Galactica"
Cronyn, Hume: Actor. "Shadow of a Doubt", "Sunrise at Campobello", "Cocoon"
Davies, Geraint Wyn: Actor. "Forever Knight"
Doohan, James: Actor. Scotty on "Star Trek"
Elliott, David James: Actor. "Melrose Place", "JAG"
Foley, David: Comedian, Actor. "Kids in the Hall", "News Radio"
Ford, Glenn: Actor. "Gilda", "The Big Heat", "The Blackboard Jungle".
Fox, Michael J.: Actor. "Back to the Future", "Family Ties"
Frewer, Matt: Actor. played "Max Headroom", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "Star Trek:TNG"
George, Chief Dan: Actor. "Little Big Man" (AAN), "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
Goulet, Robert: Singer, Actor. "Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear"
Greene, Graham: Actor. "Dances with Wolves" (AAN)
Greene, Lorne: Actor. Played Ben Cartwright on "Bonanza", "Battlestar Galactica"
Greenwood, Bruce: Actor. "Exotica", "St. Elsewhere", "Nowhere Man"
Gross, Paul: Actor. "Due South", "Buried on Sunday"
Hartman, Phil: Actor, Comedian. "Saturday Night Live", "News Radio"
Hill, Arthur: Actor. "The Andromeda Strain", "A Bridge Too Far"
Huston, Walter: Actor. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (AA), "Dodsworth", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", father of John Huston
Ireland, John: Actor. "All the King's Men", "Spartacus"
Ironside, Michael: Actor. "Scanners", "Top Gun", "Total Recall"
Ito, Robert: Actor. "Quincy"
Levy, Eugene: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV"
Little, Rich: Impressionist.
Lockhart, Gene: Actor. "Abe Lincoln in Illinois", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "His Girl Friday", "Algiers" (AAN)
McCulloch, Bruce: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall"
McDonald, Kevin: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall"
McKinney, Mark: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall", "Saturday Night Live"
Mandel, Howie: Comedian, Actor. "St. Elsewhere"
Manners, David: Actor, Author. "Dracula" (1930), "The Mummy"
Massey, Raymond: Actor. "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"(AAN), "East of Eden", "The Naked and the Dead"
Moranis, Rick: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
Morse, Barry: Actor. "The Fugitive" (the original series), "Space 1999"
Myers, Mike: Comedian, Actor. a.k.a.: Wayne Campbell on "Saturday Night Live"
Neville, John: Actor. "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"
Nielsen, Leslie: Actor. "The Naked Gun", "Forbidden Planet". Brother was Deputy Prime Minister
Ontkean, Michael: Actor. "The Rookies", "Twin Peaks".
Perry, Matthew: Actor. "Friends"
Pidgeon, Walter: Actor. "How Green Was My Valley", "Forbidden Planet"
Pinsent, Gordon: Actor, Writer. "The Rowdy Man", "Who has Seen the Wind?", "John and the Missus", "Due South"
Plummer, Christopher: Actor. "The Sound of Music", "Star Trek VI"
Priestley, Jason: Actor. "Beverly Hills 90210"
Qualen, John: Actor. "Casablanca", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "The Searchers", "Anatomy of a Murder"
Reeves, Keanu: Actor. "Johnny Mnemonic", "Speed", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"
Rubinek, Saul: Actor. "Unforgiven", "The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick", "Star Trek:TNG"
Russell, Harold: Actor, Soldier. received two Academy Awards for role in "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Sahl, Mort: Comedian, Actor.
Sarrazin, Michael: Actor. "They Shoot Horses Don't They?", "Joshua Then and Now"
Sennett, Mack: Director, Comedian, Actor, Producer. the Keystone Kops, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
Shatner, William: Actor. Captain James T. Kirk on "Star Trek"
Short, Martin: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV", "Saturday Night Live", "Clifford"
Silverheels, Jay: Actor. Tonto on "The Lone Ranger", "Key Largo"
Smith, Steve: Comedian, Actor. "The Red Green Show"
Steinberg, David: Comedian, Actor, Director. "Designing Women"
Sutherland, Donald: Actor. "M*A*S*H", "Klute", "Ordinary People", "Eye of the Needle", "Bethune"
Thicke, Alan: Actor. "Hope and Gloria"
Thomas, Dave: Comedian. "SCTV", "Strange Brew", "Grace Under Fire"
Thompson, Scott: Comedian, Actor. "Kids in the Hall"
Vernon, John: Actor. "Animal House", "Dirty Harry"
Waxman, Al: Actor. "Cagney and Lacey".
Wincott, Jeff: "Night Heat"
Wincott, Michael: "The Crow", "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves", "1492, Conquest of Paradise"
Wiseman, Joseph: Actor. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", played "Dr. No"

Actresses

Anderson, Pamela: Actress. "Baywatch", "Home Improvement", photo
Brown, Blair: Actress. title role in "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd", "The Choirboys"
Bujold, Genevieve: Actress. "Anne of a Thousand Days" (AAN), "Dead Ringers", "Coma"
Burroughs, Jackie: Actress. "The Grey Fox", "John and the Missus", "Anne of Green Gables"
Cattrall, Kim: Actress. "Star Trek VI"
Cardinal, Tantoo: Actress. "Black Robe", "Dances with Wolves", "Legends of the Fall"
Clark, Susan: Actress. "Webster", "Amelia Earhart", "Babe"
Crewson, Wendy: Actress. "Getting Married in Buffalo Jump", "The Doctor"
De Carlo, Yvonne: Actress. "The Munsters", "Salome, Where She Danced"
Dewhurst, Colleen: Actress. "Anne of Green Gables", "Murphy Brown", "Annie Hall"
Dressler, Marie: Actress, Comedienne. "Tillie's Punctured Romance", "Anna Christie", "Min and Bill" (AA), "Dinner at Eight"
Durbin, Deanna: Actress. "Three Smart Girls", "That Certain Age"
Follows, Megan: Actress. "Anne of Green Gables"
Hennessy, Jillian: Actress. "Law and Order"
Keeler, Ruby: Singer, Tap Dancer, Actress. "42nd Street", "Dames", married Al Jolson
Kidder, Margot: Actress. Lois Lane in "Superman"
Kirshner, Mia: Actress. "Exotica", " Love and Human Remains"
Kuzyk, Mimi: Actress. "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law".
Laure, Carole: Actress. "Get Out Your Hankerchiefs", "La tete de Normande St-Onge"
Lillie, Beatrice: Actress. "Exit Smiling", "On Approval", "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
McLerie, Allyn: Actress, Singer, Dancer. "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd"
Martin, Andrea: Comedienne, Actress. "SCTV", "Star Trek: DS9"
Maxwell, Lois: Actress. played Moneypenny in the James Bond movies, starting with "Dr. No"
McCarthy, Sheila: Actress. "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing", "Die Hard 2", "Beautiful Dreamers"
Nelligan, Kate: Actress. "The Prince of Tides" (AAN), "Fatal Instinct"
O'Hara, Catherine: Comedienne, Actress. "SCTV" "Beetlejuice", "Home Alone"
Parker, Cecilia: Actress. played Andy Hardy's sister
Pickford, Mary: Actress. "Little Lord Fauntleroy", "Coquette" (AA), known as "America's Sweetheart"
Polley, Sarah: Actress. "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", "Exotica"
Reid, Kate: Actress. "Dallas", "Bye Bye Blues", "The Andromeda Strain", "A Delicate Balance"
Rutherford, Ann: Actress. played Andy Hardy's girlfriend
Schnarre, Monika: Actress, Model. "The Bold and the Beautiful"
Shaver, Helen: Actress. "Who has Seen the Wind?", "Desert Hearts"
Shearer, Norma: Actress. "The Divorcee" (AA), "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"
Smith, Alexis: Actress. "The Constant Nymph", "Rhapsody in Blue", "Of Human Bondage"
Stratton, Dorothy: Actress. biographical film: "Star 80"
Tilly, Jennifer: Actress. "Bullets Over Broadway"
Tilly, Meg: Actress. "The Big Chill", "Agnes of God"
Tweed, Shannon: Actress. "Falcon Crest"
Wray, Fay: Actress. "King Kong"

Artists

Bateman, Robert: Painter.
Carmichael, Frank: Painter.
Carr, Emily: Painter, Writer.
Colville, Alex: Painter.
Harris, Lawren: Painter.
Johnston, Frank H.: Painter.
Karsh, Yousuf : Photographer.
Jackson, A.Y.: Painter.
Lismer, Arthur: Painter.
MacDonald, James: Painter.
Snow, Michael: Painter, Sculptor, Film Maker.
Thomson, Tom: Painter.
Varley, Frederick: Painter.

Astronauts

Athletes

Browning, Kurt: Champion Figure Skater.
Gretzky, Wayne: Hockey player. highest scorer in history
Goodyear, Scott: IndyCar driver
Hanlan, Ned: Champion Rower. played by Nicholas Cage in "The Boy in Blue"
Howe, Gordie: Hockey player. second highest scorer in history
Jenkins, Ferguson: Baseball player. Hall of Fame pitcher
Johnson, Ben: Runner. Fastest man on drugs at the Seoul Olympics, 1988
Lafleur, Guy: Hockey player.
Lemieux, Mario: Hockey player. scoring champion for four years
Nagurski, Bronko: Football player. charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Naismith,James : physical education teacher. inventor of basketball
Orr, Bobby: Hockey player. named best defenseman eight consecutive years
Pierce, Mary: top ranked Tennis Player. now a French citizen
Richard, Maurice: Hockey player.
Tracy, Paul: IndyCar driver
Villeneuve, Gilles: Formula One driver
Villeneuve, Jacques: IndyCar driver. 1995 Indy 500 winner

Authors

Atwood, Margaret: Author. "The Handmaid's Tale", "Bodily Harm", "The Robber Bride"
Bantock, Nick: Author, Illustrator. "Griffin & Sabine"
Bellow, Saul: Author. Nobel laureate, "The Adventures of Augie March", "Humbolt's Gift"
Carrier, Roch: Author. "La Guerre, Yes Sir!"
Cohen, Leonard: Author, Musician. "Suzanne", "Beautiful Losers"
Coupland, Douglas: Author. "Generation X", "Microserfs"
Davies, Robertson: Author. "Fifth Business", "Rebel Angels", "The Cunning Man"
Galbraith, John Kenneth: Economist, Author.
Gibson, William: Author. "Neuromancer", "Johnny Mnemonic",
Harron, Don: Actor, Comedian, Author, a.k.a.: Charlie Farquharson, "Hee Haw".
Hébert, Anne: Author. "Kamouraska", "Héloise"
Kernighan, Brian: Author, Programmer. "The C Programming Language", coinventor of AWK.
Kinsella, W.P.: Author. "Shoeless Joe", filmed as "Field of Dreams"
Laurence, Margaret: Author. " The Diviners", "The Stone Angel"
Leacock, Stephen: Author, Humourist. "Literary Lapses"
Maillet, Antonine: Author. "Pelagie-la-Charrette", "La Sagouine"
Lowry, Malcolm: Author. "Under the Volcano"
McCrae, John: Poet, Physician. "In Flanders Fields"
McLuhan, Marshall: Media Theorist, Author. "the medium is the message", appeared in "Annie Hall"
MacNeil, Robert: Journalist, Author. "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour", "The Story of English", "Wordstruck"
Mitchell, W. O.: Author. "Who Has Seen the Wind", "Jake and the Kid"
Montgomery, Lucy Maude: Author. "Anne of Green Gables", photo
Moore, Brian: Author. "The Luck of Ginger Coffey", "Black Robe"
Mowat, Farley: Author. "Never Cry Wolf"
Munro, Alice: Author. Short-stories often featured in The New Yorker
Ondaatje, Michael: Author. "Coming Through Slaughter", "The English Patient"
Peter, Laurence J.: Author, Educator. "The Peter Principle"
Richler, Mordecai: Author. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", "Joshua Then and Now"
Roy, Gabrielle: Author. "Bonheur d'Occasion" (translation published as "The Tin Flute")
Service, Robert W.: Author. "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "Songs of a Sourdough"
Shields, Carol: Pulitzer Prize winning Author. "The Stone Diaries"
Smart, Elizabeth: Author. "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"

Business

Aitken, William Maxwell: Publisher, Politician. newspaper magnate, 1st Baron of Beaverbrook
Black, Conrad: Publisher. owns papers world wide, including London's Daily Telegraph
Bombardier, Joseph-Armand: Engineer, Businessman. Inventor of the Ski-doo
Bronfman Family: Business Dynasty. owners of the Seagram Co. and MCA
Campeau, Robert: Financier. former owner of Bloomingdales
Cooke, Jack Kent: flamboyant owner of the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Daily News
Cunard, Sir Samuel: Businessman. founder of the Cunard shipping line
Eaton, Cyrus: Industrialist. co-founder of the Pugwash Conferences
Hill, James J.: Businessman. builder of the Great Northern Railroad
Mayer, Louis B.: Studio executive, producer. co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Reichman Brothers: Developers. started the disastrous Canary Wharf project in London
Warner, Jack: Studio executive, producer. co-founder of Warner Bros.

Comedians

Aykroyd, Dan: Comedian, Actor. "Saturday Night Live", "The Blues Brothers"
Candy, John: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV"
Carrey, Jim: Comedian, Actor. "In Living Color", "The Mask"
Chong, Thomas: Comedian. Half of Cheech and Chong
Dressler, Marie: Actress, Comedienne. "Tillie's Punctured Romance", "Anna Christie", "Min and Bill" (AA), "Dinner at Eight"
Foley, David: Comedian, Actor. "Kids in the Hall", "News Radio"
Harron, Don: Actor, Comedian, Author, a.k.a.: Charlie Farquharson, "Hee Haw".
Hartman, Phil: Actor, Comedian. "Saturday Night Live", "News Radio"
Leacock, Stephen: Author, Humourist. "Literary Lapses"
Levy, Eugene: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV"
Little, Rich: Impressionist.
McCulloch, Bruce: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall"
McDonald, Kevin: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall"
McKinney, Mark: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall", "Saturday Night Live"
Mandel, Howie: Comedian, Actor. "St. Elsewhere"
Martin, Andrea: Comedienne, Actress. "SCTV", "Star Trek: DS9"
Michaels, Lorne: Producer, Writer. "Saturday Night Live"
Moranis, Rick: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
Myers, Mike: Comedian, Actor. a.k.a.: Wayne Campbell on "Saturday Night Live"
O'Hara, Catherine: Actress. "SCTV" "Beetlejuice", "Home Alone"
Sahl, Mort: Comedian, Actor
Sennett, Mack: Director, Comedian, Actor, Producer. the Keystone Kops, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
Short, Martin: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV", "Saturday Night Live", "Clifford"
Shuster, Frank: Comedian. Wayne and Shuster made the most guest appearances on the "Ed Sullivan Show"
Smith, Steve: Comedian, Actor. "The Red Green Show"
Steinberg, David: Comedian, Actor, Director. "Designing Women"
Thomas, Dave: Comedian. "SCTV", "Strange Brew", "Grace Under Fire"
Thompson, Scott: Comedian Actor. "Kids in the Hall"
Wayne, Johnny: Comedian, Wayne and Shuster made the most guest appearances on the "Ed Sullivan Show"

Directors/Producers

Arcand, Denys: Director. "The Decline of the American Empire", "Jesus of Montreal", " Love and Human Remains"
Cameron, James: Director. "True Lies", "The Terminator", "Aliens"
Cronenberg, David: Director, Writer. "The Fly", "Dead Ringers", "Naked Lunch", "M. Butterfly"
Dmytryk, Edward: Director. "Crossfire" (AAN), "The Sniper", "The Caine Munity", "Murder, My Sweet"
Dunning, George: Animator, Director. "Yellow Submarine"
Egoyan, Atom: Director. "Exotica", "The Adjuster"
Hiller, Arthur: Director. "The Americanization of Emily", "Love Story".
Jewison, Norman: Director. "Fiddler on the Roof", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Agnes of God", "The Cincinnati Kid".
Jutra, Claude: Director. "Mon Oncle Antoine"
Kotcheff, Ted: Director. "Weekend at Bernie's", "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", "Joshua Then and Now", "Fun with Dick and Jane"
Lepage, Robert: Theatre and Film Director. "Le Confessional"
Mayer, Louis B. : Studio executive, producer. co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Michaels, Lorne: Producer, Writer. "Saturday Night Live"
McDonald, Bruce: Director, Writer. "Roadkill", "Highway 61", "Dance Me Outside"
Moyle, Allan: Director, Writer. "Pump Up the Volume"
Olcott, Sidney: Director. "Ben-Hur" (1907), "Monsieur Beaucaire"
Petrie, Daniel: Director. "A Raisin in the Sun", "The Bay Boy"
Reitman, Ivan: Director, Producer. "Meatballs", "Stripes", "Ghostbusters"
Rozema, Patricia: Director. "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing", "When Night is Falling"
Sennett, Mack: Director, Comedian, Actor, Producer. the Keystone Kops, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
Warner, Jack: Studio executive, producer. co-founder of Warner Bros.
Wheeler, Anne: Director. "Bye Bye Blues", " The Diviners"

Entertainers

Hall, Monty: Host of "Let's Make A Deal" and other game shows.
Henning, Doug: Magician.
Le Cirque du Soleil: avant garde circus
Linkletter, Art:
Little, Rich: Impressionist.
Trebek, Alex: Host of "Jeopardy".

Journalists

Jennings, Peter: Journalist. "ABC World News Tonight"
Kent, Arthur: Journalist. the "scud stud" of the Gulf War
MacNeil, Robert: Journalist, Author. "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour", "The Story of English", "Wordstruck"
Roberts, J.D.: Journalist. VJ turned weekend anchor for the CBS Evening News
Safer, Morley: Journalist. "60 Minutes"
Soles, Linden: Journalist. news anchor on CNN

Miscellaneous

Bethune, Norman : Doctor. hero of the Chinese revolution. biographical film: "Bethune"
Bishop, Billy: Aviator. World War I fighter pilot, shot down 72 enemy planes
Brown, Roy: Aviator. World War I fighter pilot, shot down the Red Baron
Dionne Quintuplets: first quintuplets known to have survived infancy, appeared in three films
Evangelista, Linda: Super Model.
Fleming, Sanford: Engineer. inventor of standard time zones
Johnston, Lynn: Cartoonist. "For Better of For Worse"
McLaren, Norman: Animator. noted for drawing directly on film, "Pas de Deux"
Pearson, Lester B.: Politician. Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Safdie, Moshe: Architect. The National Gallery, Habitat
Shuster, Brian: Cartoonist. "Chaos"
Shuster, Joe: creator of Superman
Shearer, Douglas: Sound recording pioneer. winner of 13 Oscars
Stephenson, Sir William: WWII Spy. portrayed by David Niven in "A Man Called Intrepid"

Musicians

Adams, Bryan: Musician. "Cuts Like a Knife", "Everything I Do, I Do It For You"
Anka, Paul: Musician. "Diana", "My Way", "The Tonight Show Theme"
April Wine: Band. "You Could Have Been A Lady", "Bad Side Of The Moon"
Arden, Jann: Musician. "Living Under June"
Bachman-Turner-Overdrive: Band. "Let It Ride", "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"
Barenaked Ladies: Band. "If I Had $1,000,000", "Be My Yoko Ono"
Charlebois, Robert: Musician.
Cockburn, Bruce: Musician. "Wondering Where the Lions Are", "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"
Cohen, Leonard: Author, Musician. "Suzanne"
Cole, Holly: Singer. The Holly Cole Trio
The Cowboy Junkies: Band. "The Trinity Session", "Black-Eyed Man"
The Crash Test Dummies: Band. "God Shuffled His Feet", "Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm"
Dion, Celine: Singer. "Beauty and the Beast"
Ferguson, Maynard: Jazz Trumpeter. "Gonna Fly Now" theme from Rocky
Ferron: Musician. "Phantom Center"
Gould, Glenn: Classical Pianist. "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"
The Guess Who: Band. "American Woman"
Hart, Corey: Musician. "Sunglasses at Night"
Healey, Jeff: Musician. "Angel Eyes", "Confidence Man"
Karr, Tim: Musician. "Rubbing Me The Right Way"
lang, k.d.: Musician. "Absolute Torch and Twang", "Ingenue"
Lanois, Daniel: Producer, Musician. "Acadie", also produced U2 and Bob Dylan
Lee, Geddy: Musician. Lead singer of Rush
Lightfoot, Gordon: Musician. "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "If You Could Read My Mind"
Lombardo, Guy: Musician, Band Leader.
McGarrigle, Kate and Anna: Musicians. "Heart Like a Wheel", "Heartbeats Accelerating"
McKennitt, Loreena: Musician. "The Mask and Mirror"
McLachlan, Sarah: Musician. "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy"
Mitchell, Joni: Musician. "Raised on Robbery", "Help Me", "Free Man in Paris"
Morissette, Alanis: Musician. "You Oughta Know", "Jagged Little Pill"
Murray, Anne: Musician. "Snowbird", "You Needed Me"
Peterson, Oscar: Jazz Pianist.
Plamondon, Luc: Composer. "Starmania"
The Pursuit of Happiness: Band. "I'm an Adult Now", "Two Girls In One"
Robertson, Robbie: Musician. Formerly of The Band, "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", "Storyville"
Rogers, Garnet: Folk Musician
Rogers, Stan: Folk Musician
Rough Trade: Band. "All Touch (and No Contact)", "High School Confidential"
Rush: Band. "Spirit of the Radio", "Tom Sawyer" (Sainte-Marie, Buffy: Musician, Actress. "Universal Soldier", "Summer Boy"
Shaffer, Paul: Musician. music and tirades on the "Late Show with David Letterman"
Siberry, Jane: Musician. "Mimi on the Beach", "Love is Everything"
Skinny Puppy: Band. "Addiction", "Stairs and Flowers"
Snow, Hank: Musician.
Stratas, Teresa: Opera singer.
Twain, Shania: Musician , "The Woman In Me"
The Tragically Hip: Band. "New Orleans is Sinking"
Voisine, Roch: Musician
Neil Young: Musician. bio "Heart of Gold", "Southern Man", "Powderfinger"

Scientists

Allen, John F.: Physicist. co-discoverer of superfluidity
Altman, Sidney: 1989 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
Anderson, John R.: received the 1995 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
Avery, Oswald: Physician, Bacteriologist. discovered that DNA carries genetic information
Banting, Frederick: 1923 Nobel Prize winner in medicine. co-discoverer of insulin
Brockhouse, Bertram: 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Best, Charles: 1923 Nobel Prize winner in medicine. co-discoverer of insulin
Brauer, Richard: Mathematician. early work with Weyl on spinors
Gosling, James: Programmer. inventor of Java
Herzberg, Gerhard: 1971 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Hubel, David: 1981 Nobel Prize winner in medicine
Kernighan, Brian: Author, Programmer. "The C Programming Language", coinventor of AWK
Osler, Sir William: Physician. "most influential physician in history"
Penfield, Wilder: Neurosurgeon. discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
Polanyi, John: 1986 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Smith, Michael: 1993 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Taube, Henry: 1983 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Taylor, Richard: 1990 Nobel Prize winner in physics
Wilson, Tuzo: Geophysicist. plate tectonics

originally compiled by: Vernon R.J. Schmid (vschmid@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca)

"Htmlized" and maintained by: John Terning ( terning@physics.berkeley.edu)

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Encyclopedia of Canadian Music
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