| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John R. Alchin |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CFO of Comcast, 2002-07 |
| Barbara Amiel |
Journalist |
4-Dec-1940 |
|
Director of The Spectator |
| Margaret Atwood |
Author |
18-Nov-1939 |
|
The Handmaid's Tale |
| Alexander T. Augusta |
Doctor |
8-Mar-1825 |
21-Dec-1890 |
First black battlefield surgeon |
| Jim Balsillie |
Business |
3-Feb-1961 |
|
Co-CEO, Research In Motion, 2010-12 |
| Frederick G. Banting |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1891 |
21-Feb-1941 |
Discovered insulin |
| Robert Beatty |
Actor |
19-Oct-1909 |
3-Mar-1992 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Jalynn H. Bennett |
Business |
12-Mar-1943 |
|
Jalynn H. Bennett & Associates |
| Paul Bernardo |
Criminal |
27-Aug-1964 |
|
Husband/wife serial killer team |
| Robert J. Birgeneau |
Educator |
1942 |
|
Chancellor, UC Berkeley |
| Ronald A. Brenneman |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Petro-Canada |
| Ed Broadbent |
Politician |
21-Mar-1936 |
|
Leader of Canada's NDP, 1975-89 |
| Bertram N. Brockhouse |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1918 |
13-Oct-2003 |
Triple-axis crystal spectrometry |
| Ernest Buckler |
Novelist |
19-Jul-1908 |
4-Mar-1984 |
The Mountain and the Valley |
| Gerald Bull |
Inventor |
8-Mar-1928 |
22-Mar-1990 |
Supergun builder |
| Dillon Casey |
Actor |
29-Oct-1983 |
|
Trevor Lemonde on M.V.P. |
| John M. Cassaday |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Corus Entertainment |
| Brock Chisholm |
Doctor |
18-May-1896 |
4-Feb-1971 |
First Director-General of World Health Organization |
| Michael Chong |
Politician |
22-Nov-1971 |
|
Canadian MP, Wellington--Halton Hills |
| W. Edmund Clark |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Toronto Dominion Bank |
| Tony Clement |
Politician |
27-Jan-1961 |
|
Canadian Minister of Health |
| Marshall A. Cohen |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of Molson, 1988-96 |
| Matt Cohen |
Novelist |
30-Dec-1942 |
2-Dec-1999 |
Emotional Arithmetic |
| F. Anthony Comper |
Business |
24-Apr-1945 |
|
President of Bank of Montreal, 1990-2007 |
| Ralph Connor |
Author |
13-Sep-1860 |
31-Oct-1937 |
Canadian pulp author, Black Rock |
| Ryan Cooley |
Actor |
18-May-1988 |
|
Degrassi: The Next Generation |
| Robert D. Coombe |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Chancellor, University of Denver |
| Father Charles Coughlin |
Religion |
25-Oct-1891 |
27-Oct-1979 |
Radio opponent of FDR |
| Jonathan Crombie |
Actor |
12-Oct-1966 |
15-Apr-2015 |
Green Gables |
| David Cronenberg |
Film Director |
15-Mar-1943 |
|
Videodrome |
| Peter D. Cummings |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Ram Realty Services |
| Roy Daniells |
Poet |
6-Apr-1902 |
13-Apr-1979 |
The Chequered Shade |
| William G. Davis |
Politician |
30-Jul-1929 |
|
Premier of Ontario, 1971-85 |
| John W. Dick |
Business |
9-Jan-1938 |
|
Chairman of Hooper Industries, 1984-2007 |
| Leonard Dudley |
Historian |
1943 |
|
The Word and the Sword |
| Murray Edwards |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Canadian Natural Resources |
| Atom Egoyan |
Film Director |
19-Jul-1960 |
|
Exotica |
| Ernie Eves |
Politician |
17-Jun-1946 |
|
Premier of Ontario, 2002-03 |
| Northrop Frye |
Author |
14-Jul-1912 |
23-Jan-1991 |
Fearful Symmetry |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economist |
15-Oct-1908 |
29-Apr-2006 |
Modern economics renegade |
| Mavis Gallant |
Author |
11-Aug-1922 |
18-Feb-2014 |
Prolific Canadian short story author |
| David A. Galloway |
Business |
1943 |
|
CEO of Torstar, 1988-2002 |
| Lionel M. Gelber |
Historian |
13-Oct-1907 |
10-Aug-1989 |
The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship |
| Brian George |
Actor |
13-Jul-1952 |
|
Character and voice actor |
| Malcolm Gladwell |
Columnist |
3-Sep-1963 |
|
The Tipping Point |
| Peter C. Godsoe |
Business |
1938 |
|
CEO of Bank of Nova Scotia, 1993-2003 |
| Erving Goffman |
Sociologist |
11-Jun-1922 |
19-Nov-1982 |
The Presentation of Self |
| John Golding |
Critic |
10-Sep-1929 |
9-Apr-2012 |
Cubism: A History and an Analysis |
| Robert Goulet |
Singer |
26-Nov-1933 |
30-Oct-2007 |
Baritone star of stage and screen |
| Laurence S. Grafstein |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Managing Director, Lazard |
| Bill Graham |
Politician |
17-Mar-1939 |
|
Interim Leader, Canada's Liberal Party |
| Garrick Hagon |
Actor |
27-Sep-1939 |
|
Gavin Jones in The Adventurer |
| Stephen Harper |
Head of State |
30-Apr-1959 |
|
Prime Minister of Canada, 2006-15 |
| Donald J. Harrington |
Educator |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
President, St. John's University |
| Arthur Hiller |
Film Director |
22-Nov-1923 |
17-Aug-2016 |
An Alan Smithee Film |
| James Hillier |
Physicist |
22-Aug-1915 |
15-Jan-2007 |
Electron microscope |
| Mark Holland |
Politician |
16-Oct-1974 |
|
Canadian MP, Ajax-Pickering |
| Michael Ignatieff |
Author |
12-May-1947 |
|
Blood and Belonging |
| Norman Jewison |
Film Director |
21-Jul-1926 |
|
Moonstruck |
| Guy Gavriel Kay |
Author |
7-Nov-1954 |
|
Silmarillion |
| Mike Keenan |
Hockey |
21-Oct-1949 |
|
Calgary Flames Head Coach |
| Hugh Kenner |
Critic |
7-Jan-1923 |
24-Nov-2003 |
The Poetry of Ezra Pound |
| Michael Kergin |
Diplomat |
26-Apr-1942 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2000-05 |
| Brian Kernighan |
Computer Programmer |
1942 |
|
The C Programming Language, awk |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King |
Head of State |
17-Dec-1874 |
22-Jul-1950 |
Three-time Prime Minister of Canada |
| Maria M. Klawe |
Educator |
5-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Harvey Mudd College |
| Naomi Klein |
Author |
8-May-1970 |
|
The Shock Doctrine |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
19-Apr-2016 |
Density-functional theory |
| Johann Olav Koss |
Speed Skating |
29-Oct-1968 |
|
Norwegian speed skater |
| Ted Kotcheff |
Film Director |
7-Apr-1931 |
|
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz |
| Stephen Leacock |
Author |
30-Dec-1869 |
28-Mar-1944 |
Literary Lapses |
| Brian M. Levitt |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Imasco Limited, 1995-2000 |
| Les Lye |
Comic |
18-Nov-1924 |
21-Jul-2009 |
You Can't Do That On Television |
| Ross Macdonald |
Novelist |
13-Dec-1915 |
11-Jul-1983 |
Creator of P.I. Lew Archer |
| Gwendolyn MacEwen |
Poet |
1-Sep-1941 |
29-Nov-1987 |
A Breakfast for Barbarians |
| C. B. Macpherson |
Scholar |
18-Nov-1911 |
22-Jul-1987 |
Political Theory of Possessive Individualism |
| David Manners |
Actor |
30-Apr-1901 |
23-Dec-1998 |
Dracula |
| Lorna R. Marsden |
Educator |
6-Mar-1942 |
|
President of York University, 1997-2007 |
| Paul Martin |
Head of State |
28-Aug-1938 |
|
21st Prime Minister of Canada |
| Raymond Massey |
Actor |
30-Aug-1896 |
29-Jul-1983 |
Things to Come |
| Vincent Massey |
Government |
20-Feb-1887 |
30-Dec-1967 |
Governor-General of Canada, 1952-59 |
| John S. McFarlane |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Former Sun Microsystems executive |
| Don McKellar |
Actor |
17-Aug-1963 |
|
Last Night |
| Audrey McLaughlin |
Politician |
7-Nov-1936 |
|
Leader of Canada's NDP, 1989-95 |
| Arthur Meighen |
Head of State |
16-Jun-1874 |
5-Aug-1960 |
Twice Canadian Prime Minister |
| Lorne Michaels |
Film/TV Producer |
17-Nov-1944 |
|
Producer of Saturday Night Live |
| David Miller |
Politician |
26-Dec-1958 |
|
Mayor of Toronto, 2003-10 |
| Irene R. Miller |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Akim, Inc. |
| Farley Mowat |
Author |
12-May-1921 |
6-May-2014 |
Never Cry Wolf |
| Peter Munk |
Business |
8-Nov-1927 |
|
Founder of Barrick Gold |
| David Naylor |
Educator |
26-Oct-1954 |
|
President, University of Toronto |
| Kate Nelligan |
Actor |
16-Mar-1950 |
|
Frankie and Johnny |
| Bev Oda |
Politician |
27-Jul-1944 |
|
Canadian MP, Durham |
| Michael Ondaatje |
Novelist |
12-Sep-1943 |
|
The English Patient |
| William Osler |
Doctor |
12-Jul-1849 |
29-Dec-1919 |
Father of psychosomatic medicine |
| Lester Bowles Pearson |
Head of State |
23-Apr-1897 |
27-Dec-1972 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1963-68 |
| John S. Plaskett |
Astronomer |
17-Nov-1865 |
17-Oct-1941 |
Plaskett's star |
| E. J. Pratt |
Poet |
4-Feb-1883 |
26-Apr-1964 |
Newfoundland Verse |
| Bob Rae |
Politician |
2-Aug-1948 |
|
Premier of Ontario, 1990-95 |
| John E. Richardson |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
Former Partner, Clarkson Gordon & Co. |
| John D. Roberts |
Journalist |
15-Nov-1956 |
|
Fox News reporter/host |
| Tony Rosato |
Comic |
26-Dec-1954 |
|
Second City |
| Michael J. Sabia |
Business |
1953 |
|
CEO of Bell Canada, 2002-08 |
| Arthur L. Schawlow |
Physicist |
5-May-1921 |
28-Apr-1999 |
Laser spectroscopy |
| Lionel H. Schipper |
Attorney |
c. 1933 |
|
Former Partner, Goodman & Goodman |
| Caterina Scorsone |
Actor |
16-Oct-1981 |
|
Dr. Amelia Shepherd on Private Practice |
| Paul Shaffer |
Musician |
28-Nov-1949 |
|
David Letterman's bandleader |
| Hussain al-Shahristani |
Government |
1942 |
|
Iraqi Minister of Oil |
| Martin Shubik |
Economist |
24-Mar-1926 |
|
Economist and game theorist |
| Morton Shulman |
Politician |
25-Apr-1925 |
18-Aug-2000 |
Ontario MPP, iconoclast |
| H. Gordon Skilling |
Scholar |
12-Feb-1912 |
2-Mar-2001 |
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution |
| Oliver Smithies |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1925 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| Conn Smythe |
Hockey |
1-Feb-1895 |
18-Nov-1980 |
Longtime owner, Toronto Maple Leafs |
| Lewis C. Solmon |
Economist |
17-Jul-1942 |
17-Dec-2007 |
Education reformer |
| Ned Sparks |
Actor |
19-Nov-1883 |
3-Apr-1957 |
Unsmiling character actor |
| Scott Speedman |
Actor |
1-Sep-1975 |
|
Felicity |
| David Sutcliffe |
Actor |
8-Jun-1969 |
|
Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls |
| Donald Sutherland |
Actor |
17-Jul-1935 |
|
The Dirty Dozen |
| Thomas C. Sutton |
Business |
1942 |
|
CEO of Pacific Life, 1990-2007 |
| Alan Taylor |
Film Director |
1959 |
|
Thor: The Dark World |
| John Tory |
Politician |
28-May-1954 |
|
Mayor of Toronto |
| John H. Tory |
Business |
28-May-1954 |
|
CEO of Rogers Cable, 1999-2003 |
| Lew Urry |
Chemist |
29-Jan-1927 |
19-Oct-2004 |
Inventor of alkaline battery |
| Peter Van Loan |
Politician |
18-Apr-1963 |
|
Canadian MP, York--Simcoe |
| Vaira Vike-Freiberga |
Head of State |
1-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Latvia, 1999-2007 |
| Andrew Wakefield |
Doctor |
1957 |
|
Bogus study linked vaccines and autism |
| John Walters |
Government |
c. 1951 |
|
American Drug Czar, 2001-2009 |
| Michael H. Wilson |
Politician |
4-Nov-1937 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the US |
| Douglas T. Wright |
Educator |
4-Oct-1927 |
|
President, University of Waterloo, 1981-93 |
| Graham Yost |
Screenwriter |
5-Sep-1959 |
|
Boomtown, Justified |
