Lists of Canadians

Architects

• Hans Blumenfeld OC – architect and city planner
• Joan Burt – architect
• Douglas Cardinal OC RAIC – architect of Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Mary Clark – architect and transportation planner
• Ernest Cormier OC RAIC – architect of Supreme Court of Canada building
• A. J. Diamond OC RAIC – architect of Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
• Margaret Synge Dryer – architect
• Arthur Erickson CC RAIC – architect of Simon Fraser University, Robson Square, and the Embassy of Canada in Washington
• David Ewart ISO – Chief Dominion Architect, architect of Dominion Archives Building, Royal Canadian Mint, Victoria Memorial Museum, Connaught Building in Ottawa
• Étienne Gaboury RAIC OAA – architect of the Embassy of Canada in Mexico and the Royal Canadian Mint building in Winnipeg
• Frank Gehry CC LLD PhD DEng DArch DA AIA – architect of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Experience Music Project, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Art Gallery of Ontario
• Dan Hanganu OQ DArch RAIC OAQ – architect of Pointe-à-Callière Museum and Montreal Archival Centre
• Stephen Irwin RAIC RIBA OAA – architect of Purdy's Wharf
• Bruce Kuwabara FRAIC OAA AIA RAIC – architect of the Gardiner Museum, and Kitchener City Hall
• E. J. Lennox RAIC OAA – architect of Old City Hall in Toronto, and Casa Loma
• John M. Lyle FRIBA OAA RAIC – architect of the New York Public Library, the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and Toronto's Union Station
• Raymond Moriyama CC OOnt – architect of the Ontario Science Centre, Ottawa City Hall, and Canadian War Museum
• Samuel Oghale Oboh FRAIC Architect, AAA – 2015 President of the RAIC – architect of the International Law Enforcement Academy Botswana and the Botswana Police College; Lead Architect of the Alberta Legislature Centre Redevelopment Master Plan
• John Ostell – architect of the McGill University Arts Building, and the Montreal Custom House
• Francis Rattenbury RAIC AIBC – architect of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, and the Empress Hotel
• Moshe Safdie CC LLD FRAIC FAIA – architect of Habitat 67, the National Gallery of Canada, and Vancouver Library Square
• Fariborz Sahba Master's degree from Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran – architect of Lotus Temple, and Terraces
• Henry Sears – Massey medal-winning architect, urban and gallery planner
• Brigitte Shim – Order of Canada for architecture, and Integral House
• Bing Thom CM FRAIC AIBC – architect of Central City Centre
• Ronald Thom FRAIC AIBC – architect of Massey College, the Shaw Theatre, and Trent University
• Bob Topping RAIC OAA – Accessibility and Universal Design specialist

  Artists

Actors

Animators

• Ryan Larkin – won Academy Award for Best Short Film, "Walking", 1969

  Broadcasters

Musicians

Visual arts

Cartoonists

• Danny Antonucci – creator of Ed Edd n Eddy
• Kate Beaton – creator of Hark! A Vagrant
• Chester Brown – creator of Yummy Fur, Underwater and Louis Riel
• John Byrne – influenced superhero characters like The Fantastic Four and Superman
• Andy Donato – editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Sun
• Hal Foster – artist for Tarzan comic strip, creator of Prince Valiant
• J.D. Frazer – creator of the webcomic User Friendly
• Gregory Gallant – creator of Palookaville
• Lynn Johnston CM OM – creator of For Better or For Worse
• John Kricfalusi – creator of Ren and Stimpy
• Graeme MacKay – editorial cartoonist
• Sean Martin – creator of the print and webcomic "Doc and Raider"
• Todd McFarlane – creator of Spawn
• Win Mortimer – illustrator for DC Comics' Superman and Batman
• Terry Mosher OC DLitt –Montreal Gazette newspaper
• Len Norris – long-time editorial columnist for the Vancouver Sun
• Ryan North – creator of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics
• Scott Ramsoomair – creator of the webcomic VG Cats
• Joe Shuster – co-creator of Superman
• Dave Sim – creator of Cerebus the Aardvark
• Fiona Staples – co-creator of Saga
• Paul Szep – editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe from 1967 to 2001
• Ben Wicks CM – illustrator, comic strip cartoonist, and humanitarian

  Astronauts

• Roberta Bondar OC OOnt ScD FRCP FRSC – first Canadian woman in space
• Marc Garneau CC CD ScD – first Canadian man in space
• Chris Hadfield OOnt MSC LLD DEng – first Canadian to walk in space, first Canadian to command the International Space Station
• Steven MacLean ScD
• Julie Payette CQ FMC
• David Saint-Jacques B.Eng., Ph.D., M.D.
• Robert Thirsk – holds Canadian record for longest time spent in space
• Bjarni Tryggvason ScD

  Athletes

Businesspeople and entrepreneurs

• Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Baron Beaverbrook PC – publishing baron, entrepreneur
• Francesco Aquilini – Chairman of the Aquilini Investment Group and owner of the Vancouver Canucks
• David Asper – chairman, Canwest Global Communications
• Izzy Asper OC QC OM – chairman, Canwest Global Communications
• Jeannine Bailliu – economist, policy advisor at the Bank of Canada
• Conrad Black – Lord Black of Crossharbour KCSG LLD – entrepreneur, publisher
• Willard Boyle – invented charge-coupled device
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – head of Seagram's and long-time president of the World Jewish Congress
• Samuel Bronfman CC – founder of Seagram's
• Robert Campeau – real-estate mogul
• Jack Kent Cooke – owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, Washington Redskins and the Chrysler Building
• James Alexander Cowan – public relations consultant and founder of Stratford Shakespeare Festival
• Samuel Cunard Bt – founder of Cunard Line
• William Davidson – lumberman, shipbuilder, merchant
• Christine M. Day – former CEO of the Canadian clothing company Lululemon Athletica
• Michael DeGroote OC – businessman and philanthropist
• Paul Desmarais PC CC – Chairman, Power Corporation of Canada
• Craig Dobbin OC – founder, chairman and CEO of CHC Helicopter Corporation
• Denzil Doyle – founding President of Digital Equipment Corporation's Canadian subsidiary
• James Hamet Dunn Bt – financier, steel magnate
• Timothy Eaton – founder of Eaton's department stores
• Bernie Ebbers – former CEO of WorldCom
• Alfred Fuller – Fuller Brush Company
• Arcadi Gaydamak – owner of Beitar Jerusalem
• Percy Girouard KSMG – railway builder, governor
• Angèle Grenier – maple syrup producer known for her legal battles with the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers
• Charles Guillimin - shipbuilder, merchant and moneylender
• Zabeen Hirji – Chief Human Resources Officer, Royal Bank of Canada
• Janet Holder – business executive, head of Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines
• Robin Ingle – CEO and Chairman of the Ingle Group of Companies
• K. C. Irving OC ONB – industrialist
• F. Ross Johnson – former CEO of RJR Nabisco
• Ron Joyce CM – original partner with Horton in Tim Hortons, primary builder of the chain
• Moez Kassam – hedge fund manager, founder of Anson Group
• Izaak Walton Killam – major financier
• Guy Laliberté OC CQ – founder and owner of the Cirque du Soleil
• Cindy Lee – founder of T & T Supermarket
• Michael Lee-Chin LLD – CEO of AIC Diversified Canada Split Corp. and the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica
• Li Ka-shing – Chairman of the Board of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa
• Victor Li – deputy chairman of Cheung Kong Limited
• William Secondo Lombardo – owner of Lombardo Construction and CEO of Peerless-Cascade Plastics
• Pete Luckett – owner of Pete's Frootique and host of The Food Hunter
• William Christopher Macdonald – tobacco manufacturer, education philanthropist
• Terry Matthews OC FREng – entrepreneur, chairman of Mitel and Wesley Clover
• Louis B. Mayer – co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
• Harrison McCain CC ONB – New Brunswick potato magnate
• Colonel Samuel McLaughlin CC CD ED – Buick automobile manufacturer
• Simon McTavish – fur trader
• Hartland Molson OC GOQ OBE – Senator, President of Molson Breweries
• John Molson – founder of Molson Breweries
• Peter Munk OC – founder of Barrick Gold
• Jim Pattison CM OBC – chairman, president, CEO, and owner of the Jim Pattison Group
• Pierre Péladeau CM OQ – founder of Quebecor Inc.
• Pierre Karl Péladeau – President, CEO of Quebecor Inc., Québecor Média Inc. and Sun Media Corporation
• Marie Penny – owner and operator of one of the largest 20th-century frozen fish companies in Newfoundland
• John Draper Perrin – entrepreneur, financier, mining executive
• Richard Porritt OC – mining industry executive
• Jean Pouliot – founder of CFCF et Télévision Quatre Saisons
• John Redpath – canal builder, sugar refinery founder
• Paul Reichmann – developer of Canary Wharf
• Edward Samuel Rogers OC – president and CEO of Rogers Communications
• John Roth – former CEO of Nortel Networks
• Lino Saputo – founder of Saputo
• Isadore Sharp OC – founder of the Four Seasons Hotel chain
• E.D. Smith – founder of E.D. Smith & Sons Ltd
• Levy Solomons – merchant and fur trader
• John F. Stairs – entrepreneur, statesman
• Frank Stronach CM – entrepreneur, founder of Magna International
• E. P. Taylor – entrepreneur, thoroughbred horse breeder
• Nat Taylor – originator of Cineplex Entertainment
• Kenneth Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet
• Roy Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet GBE – entrepreneur, publisher
• William Cornelius Van Horne KCMG – constructed the Canadian Pacific Railway
• Jack L. Warner – founder of Warner Bros. Studios
• Galen Weston OC OOnt – owner of Loblaws, Holt Renfrew, and Selfridges
• Chip Wilson – founder of Lululemon Athletica
• Walter Wolf – oil drilling equipment supplier and Formula 1 team owner
• Bob Young – self-publishing website, owner of CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats

  Criminals and suspects

• Marie-Joseph Angélique – executed for setting the city of Montreal on fire
• Johnson Aziga – first person to be charged with first-degree murder in Canada for spreading HIV
• Paul Bernardo – murderer, rapist
• John Hamilton - bank robbery, killer
• Richard Blass – multiple murderer
• Edwin Alonzo Boyd – bank robber
• Alfonso Caruana – mobster
• Jacques Cossette-Trudel – FLQ terrorist
• Louise Cossette-Trudel – FLQ terrorist
• Vincenzo Cotroni – mobster
• Frank Cotroni – mobster
• Raynald Desjardins – mobster
• Evelyn Dick – convicted of infanticide; convicted and acquitted of having murdered her husband
• Larry Fisher – convicted of the murder for which David Milgaard was originally convicted and subsequently exonerated
• Charles Guité – fraud
• Karla Homolka – murderer
• Bindy Johal – Vancouver gangster
• Jacques Lanctôt – FLQ terrorist
• Yves Langlois FLQ terrorist
• Robert Latimer – convicted of second-degree murder
• Allan Legere – serial killer
• Marc Lépine – mass murderer
• Denis Lortie – murderer
• Grace Marks — convicted of murder in 1843
• Allan McLean – son of Fort Kamloops Chief Trader and leader and eldest of the group known as the Wild McLean Boys, who went on a killing spree with his brothers and accomplice Alex Hare in the British Columbia Interior in 1876
• Paddy Mitchell – bank robber, leader of The Stopwatch Gang
• Kenneth Murdock – hitman
• Clifford Olson – serial child murderer
• Johnny Papalia – mobster
• Rocco Perri – gangster, bootlegger
• Robert Pickton – serial murderer
• Monica Proietti – bank robber
• Louis Riel – executed for treason
• Lucien Rivard – narcotics smuggler
• Nicolo Rizzuto – mobster
• Vito Rizzuto – mobster
• Paul Rose – FLQ terrorist
• Frank "Dunie" Ryan – gangster
• Pietro Scarcella – mobster
• Jeffrey Shuman – bank robber
• Francis Simard – FLQ terrorist
• Slumach – Katzie man convicted and hung for the murder of Louis Bee, a Kanaka half-breed
• Cathy Smith – convicted of manslaughter in death of John Belushi
• Colin Thatcher – murderer
• Mark Twitchell – murderer
• Paolo Violi – mobster
• Paul Volpe – mobster
• Russell Williams – former RCAF military pilot and wing commander; convicted murderer, rank and decorations revoked upon conviction
• Rocco Zito – mobster

  Wrongfully convicted or lynched

• Robert Baltovich – wrongfully convicted of murder
• Donald Marshall, Jr. – wrongfully convicted of murder
• David Milgaard – wrongfully convicted of murder
• Guy Paul Morin – wrongfully convicted of murder
• Louie Sam – wrongfully accused of murder and hanged by lynch mob in Whatcom County, Washington
• Steven Truscott – wrongfully convicted of murder

  Directors

Educators

• J. Willis Ambrose – Professor at the Queen's University at Kingston
• Richard Lee Armstrong FRSC – University of British Columbia professor, geochemist
• Martha Black – art historian, curator and author
• Marguerite Bourgeoys – founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal
• Stephen E. Calvert FRSC – University of British Columbia emeritus professor, geologist, oceanographer
• Petr Cerny ScD FRSC – University of Manitoba professor, mineralogist and crystallographer
• Henry C. Gunning ScD FRSC – University of British Columbia professor, geologist
• Aleksis Dreimanis – University of Western Ontario emeritus professor, quaternary geologist
• James E. Gill – McGill University professor, geologist
• James Edwin Hawley – Professor at Queen's, geologist
• Frank Hawthorne OC FRSC – University of Manitoba professor, mineralogist and crystallographer
• Adelaide Hoodless – education and women's activist
• Michael Ignatieff – University of Toronto, Harvard University, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge professor, political science
• Sue Johanson CM – sex educator
• Michael John Keen – Dalhousie University professor, marine geoscientist
• Sean Kelly – Pratt Institute, NYC, Humanities & Media Studies, writer
• J. Ross Mackay OC FRSC – University of British Columbia professor, geologist
• Michael D. Mehta – Thompson Rivers University Dean and Professor, environmental sociologist
• Eric W. Mountjoy FRSC – McGill University professor, geologist
• Gerard V. Middleton FRSC – McMaster University professor, geologist
• Anthony J. Naldrett FRSC – University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist
• Santa J. Ono FCAHS – University of British Columbia 15th President & Vice-Chancellor, professor, medical scientist
• William Richard Peltier ScD FRSC – University of Toronto professor, physicist
• Jordan Peterson – Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.
• Egerton Ryerson – public education advocate
• Dora Sakayan – full professor, Department of German Studies, McGill University; Armenology, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Translation, Genocide Studies
• Colin Simpson – George Brown College, best-selling author
• Charles R. Stelck OC ScD FRSC – University of Alberta professor, petroleum geologist, paleontologist, stratigrapher
• David Strangway OC ScD FRSC – geophysicist and university administrator
• Thomas Symons CC OOnt – Founding President of Trent University, Professor of Canadian Studies
• Roger G. Walker FRSC – McMaster University emeritus professor
• William Winegard PC OC – educator, engineer, scientist and former Member of Parliament

  Environmentalists

Fashion

• Jeanne Beker – reporter
• Sahar Biniaz – model
• Dean and Dan Caten – designers known as Dsquared
• Keshia Chante – model and singer
• Steven Cojocaru – critic and correspondent on Entertainment Tonight
• Meghan Collison – model
• Taryn Davidson – model
• Linda Evangelista – model
• Shalom Harlow – model and actress
• Winnie Harlow – model
• Irina Lazareanu – model
• Jay Manuel – expert on America's Next Top Model and Canada's Next Top Model
• Heather Marks – model
• Kenneth G. Mills – designer
• Andi Muise – model
• Peter Nygard – designer
• Lana Ogilvie – model
• Coco Rocha – model
• Monika Schnarre – model
• Jessica Stam – model
• Daria Werbowy – Polish-born Canadian model
• Jason Wu — fashion designer, dolls artist

  Humanitarians

• Louise Arbour – former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
• J. Esmonde Barry – healthcare activist and political commentator in New Brunswick
• Norman Bethune – physician and medical innovator
• Richard Maurice Bucke FRSC – psychiatrist, philosopher, early author on human development and human potentials
• Steve Fonyo OC Rescinded 2010 – retraced and completed Terry Fox's cross country cancer research fundraising marathon
• Terry Fox CC OD – attempted one-legged cross country run for cancer research
• Marc Kielburger – author, social entrepreneur, columnist, humanitarian and activist for children's rights. co-founder, with his brother Craig, of the We Movement
• Grey Owl – conservationist who falsely presented himself as an Aboriginal person and worked to save the beavers of Saskatchewan and Manitoba
• Rick Hansen CC OBC LLD DLitt – paraplegic athlete who completed an around-the-world marathon for spinal cord injury research
• Stephen Lewis CC – AIDS activist, United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Harold A. Rogers OC OBE – founder of Kin Canada
• Jean Vanier CC GOQ – activist for the mentally disabled, founder of L'Arche

  Inventors

• Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
• Thomas Ahearn PC – invented the electric cooking range and the electric car heater
• Anthony R. Barringer – holds 70 patents for mineral exploration technology
• Earl W. Bascom – co-invented rodeo's side-delivery chute, invented reverse-opening side-delivery chute, hornless bronc saddle, one-hand bareback rigging and high-cut chaps
• Alexander Graham Bell – born in Scotland, invented the telephone in Canada and developed it in the United States
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier – invented the snowmobile
• Gerald Bull – invented the G5 howitzer and the Iraqi supergun
• Herbert Henry Dow – invented a method of bromine extraction known as the Dow process
• Mathew Evans – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb
• Charles Fenerty – inventor of the wood pulp process for making paper
• Reginald Fessenden – radio inventor who made the first radio-transmitted audio transmission and the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission; also invented sonar and patented the first television system
• Sir Sandford Fleming KCMG DSc FRSC – inventor of the system of Standard Time zones
• Wilbur R. Franks OBE – invented the anti-black-out-suit
• Abraham Pineo Gesner – inventor of kerosene; known as the "father of the petroleum industry"
• James Gosling OC – invented Java computer language
• Chris Haney – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
• Sam Jacks – inventor of ringette
• George Klein OC MBE LLD – developed: electric wheelchairs, microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor, and the Canadarm
• Thomas Edvard Krogh ScD FRSC – developed technique of radiometric uranium-lead dating to further the precision of geochronology
• Hugh Le Caine – invented the music synthesizer in 1945
• Cluny MacPherson – invented the first general-issue gas mask used by the British Army in World War I
• Wilson Markle – invented film colorization process in 1983
• Elijah McCoy – developed automatic machinery lubricator, lawn sprinkler, the "Real McCoy"
• James Naismith – invented basketball
• P. L. Robertson – invented the Robertson screw
• Henry Ruttan – invented air-conditioned railway coach
• Thomas F. Ryan – invented five-pin bowling
• Arthur Sicard – invented the snowblower in 1925
• Simon Sunatori – engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; created the MagneScribe and the Magic Spicer
• Lewis Urry – invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
• Harry Wasylyk – invented the disposable green polyethylene garbage bag in 1950
• Thomas Willson – invented arc lamps and process for creating calcium carbide
• Henry Woodward – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb

  Law

• Alfred Scow – First Nations Judge

  Media

• Samantha Bee – host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
• Stephen Brunt – lead sports columnist for The Globe and Mail since 1989
• Stevie Cameron – journalist, author
• Gordon Donaldson – amateur historian, journalist
• Barbara Frum OC LLD – CBC radio and television journalist
• Jian Ghomeshi – radio broadcaster
• Ken Hechtman – maverick journalist jailed by Afghanistan's Taliban government as a suspected United States spy in 2001
• Kenny Hotz – only registered Canadian journalist to cover the Gulf War
• Mark Irwin CSC/ASC – Hollywood Director of Photography
• Peter Jennings CM – ABC news anchor
• Jason Jones – senior correspondent for The Daily Show
• Pat Kiernan – morning anchor of NY1 since 1997
• Michael Kesterton – The Globe and Mail columnist
• Lisa LaFlamme – journalist, occasional chief anchor, and senior editor for CTV National News
• Neil Macdonald – CBC reporter
• Robert MacNeil – journalist, author, longtime co-anchor of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS
• Peter Mansbridge OC LLD – news anchor of CBC's The National
• Rick Mercer OC – comedian, TV personality, political satirist and author
• Mosha Michael – Canada's first Inuk filmmaker
• Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray – editor and co-publisher of the Bridge River-Lillooet News
• Peter C. Newman CC CD LLD – eminent journalist and writer
• Sydney Newman OC – supervisor of drama at the CBC, head of drama at the BBC, creator of the Doctor Who television series, chairman of the NFB
• Steve Paikin – journalist, film producer and author, best known for hosting TVOntario's Studio 2
• Pete Parker – made the first ever broadcast of a professional hockey game
• Sandie Rinaldo – journalist and occasional news anchor for CTV National News
• John Roberts – Fox News Channel reporter, previously a CNN reporter and host of The New Music on MuchMusic
• Lloyd Robertson OC LLD – senior editor and former longtime anchor for CTV National News
• Morley Safer – investigative journalist for CBS News and 60 Minutes
• Linus Sebastian - owner and founder of Linus Media Group
• Shane Smith – founder of Vice
• George Stroumboulopoulos – television journalist
• Peter Trueman OC – original newsman on Global TV
• Jan Wong – journalist

  Medical

• Evan Adams – First Nations medical doctor, medical advisor, Deputy Provincial Health Advisor, and actor
• Maria Louisa Angwin – first woman licensed to practice medicine in Nova Scotia
• Elizabeth Bagshaw CM – physician and birth control activist
• Frederick Banting KBE MC LLD ScD FRSC – Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of insulin
• John Cameron Bell – pioneer of oncolytic virus therapies for cancer
• Norman Bethune – surgeon, inventor, socialist, battlefield doctor in Spain and China
• Wilfred Bigelow OC LLD FRSC – inventor of the first artificial pacemaker
• Yvette Bonny, pediatrician
• Basil Boulton – pediatrician and child health advocate
• John Callaghan OC AOE – pioneer of open-heart surgery
• John Dick FRSC – credited with discovery of cancer stem cell
• Tommy Douglas PC CC SOM LLD – introduced publicly funded health care in Canada; commonly known as the "father of Medicare"
• Carl Goresky OC – physician and scientist
• David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize winner in medicine for mapping the visual cortex
• Harold E. Johns OC – medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer
• Doreen Kimura – behavioural psychologist, world expert on sex differences in the brain
• William Harding le Riche — epidemiologist
• Jeanne Mance – established the first hospital in North America – the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal – in 1644
• Ernest McCulloch CM OOnt FRSC FRS – cellular biologist credited with the discovery of stem cell with James Till
• Frances Gertrude McGill – pioneering forensic pathologist and criminologist
• Henry Morgentaler CM LLD – abortionist who helped legalize abortion in Canada and strengthen the power of jury nullification
• William Osler Bt – physician, called the "father of modern medicine"; wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine
• Daniel David Palmer – founded the chiropractic profession
• Edgar Randolph Parker – flamboyant dentist
• Wilder Penfield OM CC CMG FRS – neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
• Jack Pickup – general practitioner and surgeon, also known as the "Flying Doctor of British Columbia"
• David Sackett CC FRSC – founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University
• Sydney Segal – pediatrician and neonatologist particularly known for his work with sudden infant death syndrome
• James Till OC OOnt FRSC FRS – biophysicist, credited for the discovery of stem cell with Ernest McCulloch
• A. Ross Tilley MD FRCS OBE OC – plastic surgeon
• Irene Ayako Uchida OC – cytogenticist, Down Syndrome researcher

  Military figures

• General Maurice Baril OMM CD – Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General, head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations, and Chief of the Defence Staff
• Gustave Biéler DSO MBE – Special Operations Executive agent, executed by the Nazis
• Air Commodore Leonard Birchall CM OBE DFC OOnt CD DMSc LLD – war hero
• Air Marshall Billy Bishop VC CB DSO* MC DFC ED –World War I flying ace
• Brigadier-General Jean Boyle CMM CD – fighter pilot, and businessman
• Major General Sir Isaac Brock KB – War of 1812 general
• Captain Roy Brown DSC* RNAS – World War I fighter pilot officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron
• Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO* – Canadian signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
• General Harry Crerar CH CB DSO CD PC – "leading field commander" in World War II
• Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie KCB GCMG – first Canadian commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
• Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire OC CMM GOQ MSC CD LLD ScDHum DHL – UN peacekeeping General, attempted to prevent the Rwandan genocide
• Guy D'Artois DSO GM – SOE agent, recipient of the Croix de Guerre
• General John de Chastelain CH OC CMM CD LLD ScDMil FLMH – head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
• Peter Dmytruk – WWII Flight Sergeant and member of the French Resistance
• Brigadier-General Dury, Charles PC OC QC CBE DSO – soldier, businessman, and politician
• John Weir Foote VC CD – military chaplain, Ontario cabinet minister, and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Captain Nichola Goddard MSM – first female Canadian soldier killed in combat
• William Hall VC – first Nova Scotian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Kenneth Macalister – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Vice-Admiral Bruce MacLean CMM, CD – Chief of the Maritime Staff from 2004 to 2006
• Captain Simon Mailloux – first Canadian soldier with an amputation to deploy on a combat mission; recipient of the Sacrifice Medal
• Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae – soldier, poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
• Alan Arnett McLeod VC – fighter pilot, youngest Canadian-born winner of the Victoria Cross
• General Andrew McNaughton CH CB CMG DSO CD PC – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
• Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Meighen – lawyer and philanthropist
• Lieutenant Colonel Charles Merritt VC – recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Major General Sydney Chilton Mewburn PC – lawyer and politician, Minister of Militia and Defence
• Minnie "Jerri" Mumford – serving member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps during World War II
• Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray – Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Northwest Atlantic during World War II
• Henry Norwest MM & Bar – sniper in World War I
• Lieutenant-Colonel George Pearkes VC PC CC CB DSO MC CD – recipient of the Victoria Cross, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• Francis Pegahmagabow MM** – the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
• Frank Pickersgill – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Rear Admiral Desmond Piers CM DSC CD ScDMil – war hero
• George Lawrence Price – last soldier killed in World War I
• Tommy Prince MM – one of Canada's most decorated soldiers, member of the Devil's Brigade
• James Ralston PC – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
• Thomas Ricketts VC – recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Harold A. Rogers OC OBE – founder of Kin Canada
• Roméo Sabourin – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• General Guy Simonds CC CB CBE DSO CD – commander of the II Canadian Corps
• Ernest Smith – VC, CM, OBC, CD, Seaforth Highlander Private/ Sergeant, the last living Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, awarded for gallantry in actions at the River Savio, Northern Italy 1944
• Sam Steele CB KCMG MVO – member of the North-West Mounted Police, commander of Yukon detachment
• William Stephenson CC MC DFC – senior representative of British intelligence for the Western Hemisphere in World War II
• Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart CB DSO MC – Chief of the General Staff 1941–1943, educator
• Tecumseh – Leader of First Nations British Allies, War of 1812, died defeating American invasion
• Rear Admiral Robert Timbrell CMM DSC CD – first Canadian to be decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross
• General Christopher Vokes CB CBE DSO CD – General Officer commanding the Canadian Army Occupation Force in Europe
• Brigadier Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler – Corps of Royal Engineers surveyor
• General Ramsey Muir Withers CMM CD LLD – Chief of the Defense Staff
• Sir James Lucas Yeo – commander of Royal Navy forces in Canada during the War of 1812

  Monarchs and Canadian Royal Family

• List of Canadian monarchs
• Canadian Royal Family

  Magicians

• Shawn Farquhar – magician, winner of the Grand Prix Close Up at the 2009 FISM World Championship of Magic
• Doug Henning – credited with reviving the magic show in North America
• Leon Mandrake – Mandrake the Great; and his sons Lon and Ron, born in 1948 and 1949, respectively
• James Randi – magician, writer, skeptical investigator of paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation
• Dai Vernon – magician, known as "the man who fooled Houdini"

  Musicians

Politicians

• Lloyd Axworthy PC OC OM – former Cabinet minister
• Thomas Bain – former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
• Robert Baldwin
• Maude Barlow LLD DHL – activist, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
• Perrin Beatty PC – former cabinet minister, president of CBC
• Monique Bégin PC OC ScD FRSC – former cabinet minister
• Thomas R. Berger OC OBC – jurist
• Ethel Blondin-Andrew PC – former Cabinet minister
• Henri Bourassa – Quebec politician
• Pierre Bourgault – President of Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
• Ed Broadbent PC CC – former New Democratic Party leader
• George Brown
• Rosemary Brown PC CC OBC LLD
• Tim Buck – leader of the Canadian Communist Party
• George-Étienne Cartier Bt KSMG PC – Cabinet minister
• Brock Chisholm CC MC* LLD – first Director-General of the World Health Organization
• Joe Clark – 16th Prime Minister of Canada, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1976 to 1983, and again from 1998 to 2003
• Sheila Copps PC
• Victor Copps – Mayor of Hamilton
• John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Earl of Durham GCB PC
• Ellen Fairclough PC CC OOnt – first female member of the Canadian Cabinet
• The Famous Five – 1920s women's rights activists
• Jennifer Granholm – first female governor of Michigan
• Gurmant Grewal – the "Ironman of Canadian Parliament"
• Nina Grewal – first South Asian and Sikh woman elected to Parliament; with her husband Gurmant, the Grewals are the first married couple to concurrently serve in Canadian Parliament
• Elijah Harper – Cree chief, MLA Manitoba, successfully blocked the Meech Lake Accord
• C. D. Howe PC – Cabinet minister
• Joseph Howe PC – "father of Confederation"
• Stan Keyes PC
• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bt – co-premier of the United Province of Canada
• Franklin K. Lane – 1910s United States Secretary of the Interior
• Jack Layton PC – leader of the New Democratic Party
• William Lyon Mackenzie – Mayor of Toronto
• Allan MacNab Bt – Prime Minister of Upper Canada
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee PC
• Agnes Macphail – first female Member of Parliament
• Beverley McLachlin PC LLD – Chief Justice of Canada
• James McMillan – US Senator from Michigan
• John Munro PC
• Papineau – reformer and 1837 rebellion leader
• Allan Studholme
• Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Provincial premiers

• List of premiers of Alberta
• List of premiers of British Columbia
• List of premiers of Manitoba
• List of premiers of New Brunswick
• List of premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador
• List of premiers of Nova Scotia
• List of premiers of Ontario
• List of premiers of Prince Edward Island
• List of premiers of Quebec
• List of premiers of Saskatchewan

  Territorial premiers

• List of premiers of the Northwest Territories
• List of premiers of Nunavut
• List of premiers of Yukon

  First Nations leaders

• Shawn Atleo
• William Beynon
• Big Bear – Cree leader
• Joseph Brant – Mohawk leader
• Mary Brant – leader of Six Nations women's federation
• Frank Calder – Nisga'a
• Joe Capilano – Squamish
• Rose Charlie
• Arthur Wellington Clah
• Heber Clifton
• Cumshewa – 18th-century Haida chief at the inlet now bearing his name
• Harley Desjarlais
• Alfred Dudoward
• Dan George – Tsleil-Waututh
• Joseph Gosnell – Nisga'a
• Simon Gunanoot – Gitxsan
• Guujaaw – modern-day Haida leader
• Elijah Harper – Cree
• Chief Hunter Jack – St'at'imc
• Mary John, Sr.
• August Jack Khatsahlano – Squamish
• Klattasine – Tsilhqot'in war chief, surrendered on terms of amnesty in times of war, hanged for murder
• Koyah – 18th-century chief of the Haida
• George Manuel
• Maquinna – 18th-century Nuu-chah-nulth chief
• Harriet Nahanee – Squamish and Nuu-chah-nulth
• Nicola – Grand chief of the Okanagan people, and jointly chief of the Nlaka'pamux-Okanagan-Nicola Athapaskan alliance in the Nicola Valley and of the Kamloops group of the Secwepemc
• Andy Paull – Squamish
• Stewart Phillip
• Chief Poundmaker – Cree chief
• Piapot – Cree chief
• Steven Point – modern leader, current Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
• Louis Riel – leader of two Métis rebellions before being hung for treason
• James Sewid – Kwakwaka'wakw
• Tecumseh – Shawnee leader
• Alec Thomas
• Wickanninish – 19th-century Nuu-chah-nulth chief
• Walter Wright

  Producers

Religious figures

Martyrs

• St. Marguerite Bourgeoys – first Canadian saint
• St. Noël Chabanel – Jesuit missionary
• St. Anthony Daniel – Jesuit missionary
• St. Jean de Brébeuf – Jesuit missionary
• St. Jean de Lalande – Jesuit missionary
• St. Saint Charles Garnier – Jesuit missionary
• St. René Goupil – first North American martyr of the Roman Catholic Church
• St. Isaacs Jogues – Jesuit missionary
• St. Gabriel Lallemant – Jesuit missionary

  Religious community leaders

• Alexis André – Catholic missionary priest, spiritual advisor to Louis Riel
• Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic – Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto
• André Besette – Holy Cross Brother known as the "Miracle Man of Montreal"
• Linda Bond – General of The Salvation Army, 2011–present
• Arnold Brown – General of The Salvation Army, 1977–81
• Hugh B. Brown – Latter-day Saint apostle
• Ranj Dhaliwal – Sikh, writer, activist and co-founder of the Sikh Youth orthodox political party in Surrey, British Columbia
• Lionel Groulx – Roman Catholic priest, historian, nationalist, and traditionalist
• Albert Lacombe – Roman Catholic missionary
• John G. Lake – leader of the Pentecostal Movement, born in St. Marys, Ontario
• Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger – Catholic clergyman and humanitarian
• Merlin Lybbert – general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• David Mainse – broadcaster, founder of 100 Huntley Street and CITS-TV
• Aimee Semple McPherson – founder of the Foursquare Church
• William D. Morrow – General Superintendent of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
• Bishop Michael Power – Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto
• Alexandre-Antonin Taché – Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order
• Nathan Eldon Tanner – Latter-day Saint apostle
• John Taylor – president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Kateri Tekakwitha – "The Lily of the Mohawks", first Native American canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church
• Rúhíyyih Khanum – wife of Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Bahá'í Faith until 1957; she was appointed as a Hand of the Cause; in 2004, CBC viewers voted her number 44 on the list of "greatest Canadians" on the television show The Greatest Canadian
• Bramwell Tillsley – General of The Salvation Army, 1993–94
• Clarence Wiseman – General of The Salvation Army, 1974–77

  Religious cult figures

• Roch Thériault – cult leader
• Brother XII – cult leader

  Scholars

• Louise Arbour – jurist
• Pratima Bansal – economist
• Timothy Brook – professor, historian and writer
• Joseph-Alphonse-Paul Cadotte -, professor, author
• Jack Chambers – linguist
• Thomas H. Clark – McGill geology professor, namesake of Thomasclarkite
• Gerald Cohen – Oxford Philosopher
• Northrop Frye – influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
• John Kenneth Galbraith – economist
• George Grant – philosopher
• John Peters Humphrey – legal scholar, principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Harold Innis – political economist; author of seminal works on Canadian economic history, media and communications
• Marshall McLuhan – communications theorist, coined phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village"
• Steven Pinker – psychologist, cognitive scientist, writer of popular science
• John Ralston Saul – businessman, essayist, diplomat
• F. R. Scott – law professor, philosopher, poet
• Guy Sylvestre – literary critic
• David Sztybel – philosopher
• Charles Taylor – philosopher

  Scientists

• Robert Campbell Aitken – electrical engineer
• Sidney Altman – molecular biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Brenda Andrews – academic, researcher and biologist specializing in systems biology and molecular genetics.
• Albert Bandura – psychologist
• Neil Banerjee – earth scientist
• Karen Bailey – plant pathologist
• Karen Beauchemin – livestock ruminant nutrition
• Robert Bell FRSC – geologist
• Walter A. Bell – geologist, paleontologist
• Manjul Bhargava – mathematician and Fields medallist
• Selwyn G. Blaylock ScD – chemist and mining executive
• Stewart Blusson OC – geologist, diamond prospector, multimillionaire and philanthropist
• Adolfo J. de Bold – biomedical scientist, discoverer of hormone secreted by heart muscle cells
• Willard Boyle – inventor of the charge coupled device, winner of nobel prize in physics
• Bertram Brockhouse CC FRSC – designer of the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectrometer, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics
• Georges Brossard CM CQ ScD – entomologist, television personality and founder of the Montreal Insectarium
• Moira Brown – North Atlantic Right Whale researcher and conservationist
• Vernon Burrows – oat breeder
• John J. Clague FRSC – authority in quaternary and environmental earth sciences
• Kate Crooks — botanist
• Claire Cupples – microbiologist
• Philip J. Currie – palaeontologist
• John William Dawson CMG FRS FRSC – first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation
• Duncan R. Derry LLD – economic geologist
• Raymond Desjardins – agrometeorologist
• Martine Dorais – plant physiologist, organic horticulture
• Robert John Wilson Douglas FRSC – petroleum geologist
• Eugenia Duodu – chemist
• John Charles Fields FRS FRSC – mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal
• J. Keith Fraser – geographer
• Hu Gabrielse – geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada
• William Giauque – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
• Anne-Claude Gingras - molecular geneticist
• Cynthia Grant – soil fertility and crop nutrition specialist
• Donald O. Hebb FRS – neuroscientist, published his theory of Hebbian learning
• Gerhard Herzberg PC CC ScD LLD FRSC FRS – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for molecular spectroscopy
• James Hillier OC – inventor of the electron microscope
• Vanessa M. Hirsch – veterinary pathologist and virologist
• Paul F. Hoffman OC FRSC – geologist noted for research into Snowball Earth events
• Edward A. Irving CM ScD FRSC FRS – provided the first physical evidence of continental drift
• Charles Legge – civil engineer
• Victor Ling CC – medicine, drug resistance in cancer
• Sir William Edmond Logan FRS – founded the Geological Survey of Canada
• Mary MacArthur – botanist, cytologist, horticulturalist
• John Macoun – botanist
• Tak Wah Mak – immunologist who discovered the T-cell receptor
• Claude Hillaire-Marcel FRSC – world leader in quaternary research
• Rudolph A. Marcus – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for electron transfer reactions
• Jerrold E. Marsden – applied mathematician, founder of the Fields Institute
• Ernest McCulloch CC FRSC FRS – cellular biologist who, with James Till, demonstrated the existence of stem cells
• Maud Menten – medical scientist, made groundbreaking work in enzyme kinetics
• Robert Mundell – economist and Nobel laureate
• John Charles Polanyi PC CC FRSC FRS – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for infrared chemiluminescence
• Isabella Preston – ornamental horticulturalist
• Raymond A. Price OC ScD FRSC – geologist
• Hubert Reeves CC OQ – astrophysicist and science popularizer
• Soon Jai Park – dry bean breeder
• Elizabeth Pattey – agricultural micrometeorologist
• Henry de Puyjalon – biologist and ecologist
• Carmelle Robert - astrophysicist
• Laurie Rousseau-Nepton - astrophysicist, first indigenous woman in Quebec to obtain a PhD in astrophysics
• Donald F. Sangster LLD ScD FRSC – geologist
• Charles E. Saunders – agronomist
• Arthur Schawlow – Nobel Prize winner in physics
• David Schindler OC – limnologist
• Myron Scholes – Nobel Prize winner in economics
• Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein – animal ethologist
• Hans Selye CC – pioneering stress researcher
• Michael Smith CC OBE – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for site-based mutagenesis
• Ralph M. Steinman – Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity
• Peter A Stewart – physiologist, quantitative acid-base physiology
• Donna Strickland – Nobel Prize winner in Physics, optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers
• Richard Summerbell – mycologist
• David Suzuki CC OBC LLD ScD ScDEnv ScDComm DHL – geneticist and science popularizer
• Felicitas Svejda – horticulturalist
• Henry Taube FRSC – Nobel Prize in chemistry for electron transfer reactions
• Richard Taylor CC FRSC FRS – Nobel Prize in physics recipient for verifying the quark theory
• James Till CC FRS – biophysicist who, with Ernest McCulloch, demonstrated the existence of stem cells
• Joseph Tyrrell – geologist, cartographer, discoverer of dinosaur bones in Alberta
• William Vickrey – Nobel Prize winner in economics
• Harold Williams FRSC – geologist, expert on the Appalachian Mountains
• John Tuzo Wilson CC OBE ScD FRSC FRS FRSE – geophysicist, expert in plate tectonics

  Singers

Viceroys

• List of Governors General of Canada
• List of Lieutenant Governors of Alberta
• List of Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia
• List of Lieutenant Governors of Manitoba
• List of Lieutenant-Governors of New Brunswick
• List of Lieutenant Governors of Newfoundland and Labrador
• List of Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia
• List of Lieutenant Governors of Ontario
• List of Lieutenant Governors of Prince Edward Island
• List of Lieutenant-Governors of Quebec
• List of Lieutenant Governors of Saskatchewan

  Writers

Other personalities

• Janis Babson – organ donor, subject of two books
• Antonio Barichievich – strongman, showman, and eccentric
• Grant Bristow – CSIS undercover agent who started the Heritage Front, planted as political operative within Reform Party
• René Lepage de Sainte-Claire – lord-founder of Rimouski, Quebec
• Donnelly family – participants and/or victims of a vicious community feud
• Kyle Forgeard – YouTuber and founder of Nelk entertainment group
• Josiah Henson – former slave, believed to be the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Harold Kandel – legendary theatregoer from Toronto, Ontario known for speaking out during theatre events, now commemorated through the Harold Awards
• Marc Karam – professional poker player
• Anna Ruth Lang CV – recipient of the Cross of Valour
• Sunny Leone – Canadian and Indian pornographic actress; Bollywood actress
• Bat Masterson – gunfighter, fight promoter, sports journalist
• Charles Vance Millar – lawyer, financier, and posthumous practical joker
• Sorel Mizzi – professional poker player
• John Wilson Murray – Canada's first major detective
• Daniel Negreanu – professional poker player
• Minnie Patterson – heroine noted for her daring rescue of men from the barkentine Coloma during a severe storm in 1906.
• Sue Rodriguez – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis sufferer and right to die advocate
• Alexander Milton Ross – pre-American Civil War abolitionist and participant in the Underground Railroad
• Craig Russell – female impersonator and actor
• Laura Secord – heroine of the War of 1812, warned the British of a surprise American attack at Battle of Beaver Dams
• Joshua Slocum – first man to sail around the world solo
• Margaret Trudeau – former wife of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

  Fictional

• Amuro Ray – main character in the mecha anime Mobile Suit Gundam and varying roles in subsequent sequels
• Ike Broflovski – character on South Park
• Tom Evans – cartoon character
• Benton Fraser – Mountie on the 90s television show Due South
• James Howlett – member of the X-Men
• Justin Jones from Justin Time
• Rodney McKay – character on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
• Bob and Doug McKenzie - Characters on SCTV
• Darren Oak – cartoon character
• Trevor Philips – one of the three protagonists of Grand Theft Auto V
• Scott Pilgrim – from the graphic novel series of the same name
• Sergeant William Preston – heroic Mountie of radio and TV series from the 1950s
• Peter Puck – Hockey Night in Canada symbol from the 1970s
• Robin Scherbatsky – supporting character on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother
• Dave Semple – cartoon character
• Anne Shirley – known as Anne of Green Gables
• Terrance and Phillip – characters on South Park
• Wade Wilson – comic book anti-hero

  Other

• Persons of National Historic Significance
• List of Companions of the Order of Canada
• List of inductees of Canada's Walk of Fame
• The Greatest Canadian

• Aboriginal Canadian personalities
• Asian Canadians
• Black Canadians
• European Canadians
• List of First Nations people
• List of Canadian Jews
• List of Canadians by net worth