Lists of Canadians
This is a list of Canadians, people who are identified with Canada through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.
Architects
    
- Hans Blumenfeld OC (1892–1988) – architect and city planner
 - Joan Burt (1930–2021) – architect
 - Douglas Cardinal OC RAIC (born 1934) – architect of Canadian Museum of Civilization
 - Mary Clark (born 1936) – architect and transportation planner
 - Ernest Cormier OC RAIC (1885–1980) – architect of Supreme Court of Canada building
 - A. J. Diamond OC RAIC (born 1934) – architect of Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
 - Margaret Synge Dryer (1921–1963) – architect
 - Arthur Erickson CC RAIC (1924–2008) – architect of Simon Fraser University, Robson Square, and the Embassy of Canada in Washington
 - David Ewart ISO (1841–1921) – Chief Dominion Architect (1896 to 1914), architect of Dominion Archives Building, Royal Canadian Mint, Victoria Memorial Museum, Connaught Building in Ottawa[1]
 - Étienne Gaboury RAIC OAA (1930–2022) – architect of the Embassy of Canada in Mexico and the Royal Canadian Mint building in Winnipeg
 - Frank Gehry CC LLD (hc) PhD (hc) DEng (hc) DArch (hc) DA (hc) AIA (born 1929) – architect of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Experience Music Project, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Art Gallery of Ontario
 - Dan Hanganu OQ DArch (hc) RAIC OAQ (1939–2017) – architect of Pointe-à-Callière Museum and Montreal Archival Centre
 - Gregory Henriquez FRAIC OAA AIA (born 1963) RAIC – architect of the Woodward's Building, TELUS Garden, and redevelopment of Honest Ed's location.
 - Stephen Irwin RAIC RIBA OAA (1939–2019) – architect of Purdy's Wharf
 - Bruce Kuwabara FRAIC OAA AIA (born 1949) RAIC – architect of the Gardiner Museum, and Kitchener City Hall
 - E. J. Lennox RAIC OAA (1854–1933) – architect of Old City Hall in Toronto, and Casa Loma
 - John M. Lyle FRIBA OAA (1872–1945) RAIC – architect of the New York Public Library, the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and Toronto's Union Station
 - Raymond Moriyama CC OOnt (1929–2023) – architect of the Ontario Science Centre, Ottawa City Hall, and Canadian War Museum
 - Samuel Oghale Oboh FAIA, FRAIC, Architect, AAA (born 1971) – 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 (1813–1892) – architect of the McGill University Arts Building, and the Montreal Custom House
 - Francis Rattenbury RAIC AIBC (1867–1935) – architect of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, and the Empress Hotel
 - Moshe Safdie CC LLD (hc) FRAIC FAIA (born 1938) – architect of Habitat 67, the National Gallery of Canada, and Vancouver Library Square
 - Fariborz Sahba (born 1948) Master's degree from Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran – architect of Lotus Temple, and Terraces (Baháʼí)
 - Henry Sears FRAIC (1929–2003) – Massey medal-winning architect, urban and gallery planner
 - Brigitte Shim (born 1958) – Order of Canada for architecture, and Integral House
 - Bing Thom CM FRAIC AIBC (1940–2016) – architect of Central City Centre
 - Ronald Thom FRAIC AIBC (1923–1986) – architect of Massey College, the Shaw Theatre, and Trent University
 - Bob Topping RAIC OAA (born 1954) – Accessibility and Universal Design specialist
 
Artists
    
    Actors
    
Animators
    
- Ryan Larkin (1943–2007) – nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film, Walking, 1969
 
Broadcasters
    
Comedians
    
Musicians
    
Visual arts
    
Cartoonists
    
- Danny Antonucci (born 1957) – creator of Ed Edd n Eddy
 - Kate Beaton (born 1983) – creator of Hark! A Vagrant
 - Chester Brown (born 1960) – creator of Yummy Fur, Underwater and Louis Riel
 - John Byrne (born 1950) – influenced superhero characters like The Fantastic Four and Superman
 - Andy Donato (born 1937) – editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Sun
 - Hal Foster (1892–1982) – artist for Tarzan comic strip, creator of Prince Valiant
 - J.D. Frazer (born 1965) (moniker: Illiad) – creator of the webcomic User Friendly
 - Gregory Gallant (born 1962) (moniker: Seth) – creator of Palookaville
 - Lynn Johnston CM OM (born 1947) – creator of For Better or For Worse
 - John Kricfalusi (born 1955) (moniker: John K.) – creator of Ren and Stimpy
 - Graeme MacKay (born 1968) – editorial cartoonist
 - Sean Martin (1950–2020) – creator of the print and webcomic "Doc and Raider"
 - Todd McFarlane (born 1961) – creator of Spawn
 - Win Mortimer (1919–1998) – illustrator for DC Comics' Superman and Batman
 - Terry Mosher OC DLitt (hc) (born 1942) (moniker: Aislin) –Montreal Gazette newspaper
 - Len Norris (1919–1997) – long-time editorial columnist for the Vancouver Sun
 - Ryan North (born 1980) – creator of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics
 - Scott Ramsoomair (born 1981) – creator of the webcomic VG Cats
 - Joe Shuster (1914–1992) – co-creator of Superman
 - Dave Sim (born 1956) – creator of Cerebus the Aardvark
 - Fiona Staples (born 1984) – co-creator of Saga
 - Paul Szep (born 1941) – editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe from 1967 to 2001
 - Ben Wicks CM (1926–2000) – illustrator, comic strip cartoonist, and humanitarian
 
Astronauts
    
- Roberta Bondar OC OOnt ScD (hc) FRCP(C) FRSC (born 1945) – first Canadian woman in space
 - Marc Garneau CC CD ScD (hc) (born 1949) – first Canadian man in space
 - Chris Hadfield OOnt MSC LLD (hc) DEng (hc) (born 1959) – first Canadian to walk in space, first Canadian to command the International Space Station
 - Steven MacLean ScD (hc) (born 1954)
 - Julie Payette CQ FMC (born 1963)
 - David Saint-Jacques B.Eng., Ph.D., M.D. (born 1970)
 - Robert Thirsk (born 1953) – holds Canadian record for longest time spent in space
 - Bjarni Tryggvason ScD (hc) (born 1945)
 
Athletes
    
    
Businesspeople and entrepreneurs
    
- Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Baron Beaverbrook PC (1879–1964) – publishing baron, entrepreneur
 - Francesco Aquilini (born 1969) – Chairman of the Aquilini Investment Group and owner of the Vancouver Canucks
 - David Asper (born 1958) – chairman, Canwest Global Communications
 - Izzy Asper OC QC OM (1932–2003) – chairman, Canwest Global Communications
 - Jeannine Bailliu – economist, policy advisor at the Bank of Canada
 - Conrad Black – Lord Black of Crossharbour KCSG LLD (hc) (born 1944) – entrepreneur, publisher
 - Willard Boyle (1924–2011) – invented charge-coupled device
 - Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (1929–2013) – head of Seagram's and long-time president of the World Jewish Congress
 - Samuel Bronfman CC (1889–1971) – founder of Seagram's
 - Robert Campeau (1923–2017) – real-estate mogul
 - Jack Kent Cooke (1912–1997) – owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, Washington Redskins and the Chrysler Building
 - James Alexander Cowan (1901–1978) – public relations consultant and founder of Stratford Shakespeare Festival
 - Samuel Cunard Bt (1787–1865) – founder of Cunard Line
 - William Davidson (1740–1790) – lumberman, shipbuilder, merchant
 - Christine M. Day (born 1962) – former CEO of the Canadian clothing company Lululemon Athletica
 - Michael DeGroote OC (born 1932) – businessman and philanthropist
 - Paul Desmarais PC CC (1927–2013) – Chairman, Power Corporation of Canada
 
- Craig Dobbin OC (1935–2006) – founder, chairman and CEO of CHC Helicopter Corporation
 - Denzil Doyle (born 1932/1933) – founding President of Digital Equipment Corporation's Canadian subsidiary
 - James Hamet Dunn Bt (1874–1956) – financier, steel magnate
 - Timothy Eaton (1834–1907) – founder of Eaton's department stores
 - Bernie Ebbers (1941–2020) – former CEO of WorldCom
 - Alfred Fuller (1885–1973) – Fuller Brush Company
 - Arcadi Gaydamak (born 1952) – owner of Beitar Jerusalem
 - Percy Girouard KSMG (1867–1932) – railway builder, governor
 - Angèle Grenier – maple syrup producer known for her legal battles with the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers
 - Charles Guillimin (1676–1739) – shipbuilder, merchant and moneylender
 - Zabeen Hirji (born 1960) – 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 (1899–1992) – industrialist
 - Suresh Joachim (born 1968) – co-founder of WBBAS, No Poverty No Disease No War, World Peace Marathon and Suresh Joachim International Group Of Companies
 - F. Ross Johnson (1931–2016) – former CEO of RJR Nabisco
 - Ron Joyce CM (1930–2019) – original partner with Horton in Tim Hortons, primary builder of the chain
 - Moez Kassam (born 1980) – hedge fund manager, founder of Anson Group
 - Izaak Walton Killam (1885–1955) – major financier
 - James L. Kraft (1874–1953) – entrepreneur and inventor, founder of L. Kraft & Bros. Company, which later became Kraft Foods Inc
 - Guy Laliberté OC CQ (born 1959) – founder and owner of the Cirque du Soleil
 - Bernard Lamarre (1931–2016) – Chairman & C.E.O., Lavalin Group, 1972–1991; senior advisor, SNC-Lavalin Inc., 1991–2016
 - Cindy Lee – founder of T & T Supermarket[2]
 - Michael Lee-Chin LLD (hc) (born 1951) – CEO of AIC Diversified Canada Split Corp. and the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica
 - Li Ka-shing (born 1928) – Chairman of the Board of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa
 - Victor Li (born 1964) – deputy chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited
 - William Secondo Lombardo (1930–2009) – owner of Lombardo Construction and CEO of Peerless-Cascade Plastics
 - Pete Luckett (born 1953) – owner of Pete's Frootique and host of The Food Hunter
 - William Christopher Macdonald (1831–1917) – tobacco manufacturer, education philanthropist
 - Terry Matthews OC FREng (born 1943) – entrepreneur, chairman of Mitel and Wesley Clover
 - Louis B. Mayer (1885–1957) – co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios
 - Harrison McCain CC ONB (1927–2004) – New Brunswick potato magnate
 - Colonel Samuel McLaughlin CC CD ED (1871–1972) – Buick automobile manufacturer
 - Simon McTavish (1750–1804) – fur trader
 - Hartland Molson OC GOQ OBE (1907–2002) – Senator, President of Molson Breweries
 - John Molson (1763–1836) – founder of Molson Breweries
 - Peter Munk OC (1927–2018) – founder of Barrick Gold
 - Jim Pattison CM OBC (born 1928) – chairman, president, CEO, and owner of the Jim Pattison Group
 - Pierre Péladeau CM OQ (1925–1997) – founder of Quebecor Inc.
 - Pierre Karl Péladeau (born 1961) – President, CEO of Quebecor Inc., Québecor Média Inc. and Sun Media Corporation
 - Marie Penny (died 1970) – owner and operator of one of the largest 20th-century frozen fish companies in Newfoundland
 - John Draper Perrin (1890–1967) – entrepreneur, financier, mining executive
 - Richard Porritt OC (1901–1985) – mining industry executive
 - Jean Pouliot (1923–2004) – founder of CFCF et Télévision Quatre Saisons
 - John Redpath (1796–1869) – canal builder, sugar refinery founder
 - Paul Reichmann (1930–2013) – developer of Canary Wharf
 - Edward Samuel Rogers OC (1933–2008) – president and CEO of Rogers Communications
 - John Roth (born 1942) – former CEO of Nortel Networks
 - Lino Saputo (born 1937) – founder of Saputo
 - Isadore Sharp OC (born 1931) – founder of the Four Seasons Hotel chain
 - E. D. Smith (1858–1943) – founder of E. D. Smith & Sons Ltd
 - Levy Solomons (1730–1792) – merchant and fur trader
 - John F. Stairs (1848–1904) – entrepreneur, statesman
 - Frank Stronach CM (born 1932) – entrepreneur, founder of Magna International
 - E. P. Taylor (1901–1989) – entrepreneur, thoroughbred horse breeder
 - Nat Taylor (1906–2004) – originator of Cineplex Entertainment
 - Kenneth Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet (1923–2006)
 - Roy Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet GBE (1894–1976) – entrepreneur, publisher
 - William Cornelius Van Horne KCMG (1843–1915) – constructed the Canadian Pacific Railway
 - Jack L. Warner (1892–1978) – founder of Warner Bros. Studios
 - Galen Weston OC OOnt (1940–2021) – owner of Loblaws, Holt Renfrew, and Selfridges
 - Chip Wilson (born 1956) – founder of Lululemon Athletica
 - Walter Wolf (born 1939) – oil drilling equipment supplier and Formula 1 team owner
 - Bob Young (born 1953/1954) – self-publishing website, owner of CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats
 
Criminals and suspects
    
- Marie-Joseph Angélique (1710–1734) – executed for setting the city of Montreal on fire
 - Johnson Aziga (born 1956) – first person to be charged with first-degree murder in Canada for spreading HIV
 - Paul Bernardo (born 1964) – serial killer, serial rapist
 - John Hamilton (1899–1934) – bank robbery, killer
 - Richard Blass (1945–1975) – multiple murderer
 - Edwin Alonzo Boyd (1914–2002) – bank robber
 - Alfonso Caruana (born 1946) – mobster
 - Paul Joseph Cini (born 1941) – Canada's first skyjacker, sentenced to life imprisonment
 - Jacques Cossette-Trudel (born 1947) – FLQ terrorist
 - Louise Cossette-Trudel (born 1947) – FLQ terrorist
 - Vincenzo Cotroni (1911–1984) – mobster
 - Frank Cotroni (1931–2004) – mobster
 - John Martin Crawford (1962–2020) – serial killer
 - Raynald Desjardins (born 1953) – mobster
 - Evelyn Dick (born 1920) – convicted of infanticide; convicted and acquitted of having murdered her husband
 - Terry Driver (1965–2021) – murderer
 - Larry Fisher (1949–2015) – convicted of the murder for which David Milgaard (see "Wrongfully convicted", below) was originally convicted and subsequently exonerated
 - Charles Guité (born c. 1943) – fraud
 - Karla Homolka (born 1970) – serial killer
 - Bindy Johal (1971–1998) – Vancouver gangster
 - Jacques Lanctôt (born 1945) – FLQ terrorist
 - Yves Langlois (born 1947) – FLQ terrorist
 - Robert Latimer (born 1953) – convicted of second-degree murder
 - Allan Legere (born 1948) – serial killer
 - Blake Leibel (born 1981) – murderer
 - Marc Lépine (1964–1989) – mass murderer
 - Denis Lortie (born 1959) – murderer
 - Luka Rocco Magnotta (born 1982) – murderer
 - Grace Marks (c. 1828–after c. 1873) – convicted of murder in 1843
 - Bruce McArthur (born 1951) – serial killer
 - Allan McLean (1855–1881) – 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 (1942–2007) – bank robber, leader of The Stopwatch Gang
 - Kenneth Murdock (born 1963) – hitman
 - Clifford Olson (1940–2011) – serial child murderer
 - Johnny Papalia (1924–1997) – mobster
 - Rocco Perri (1887–c. 1944) – gangster, bootlegger
 - Robert Pickton (born 1949) – serial murderer
 - Monica Proietti (1940–1967) – bank robber
 - Kenneth Ratte – career criminal
 - Louis Riel (1844–1885) – executed for treason
 - Lucien Rivard (c. 1915–2002) – narcotics smuggler
 - Nicolo Rizzuto (1924–2010) – mobster
 - Vito Rizzuto (1946–2013) – mobster
 - Paul Rose (1943–2013) – FLQ terrorist
 - Frank "Dunie" Ryan (1942–1984) – gangster
 - Pietro Scarcella (born 1950) – mobster
 - Jeffrey Shuman (born 1962) – bank robber
 - Francis Simard (1946–2015) – FLQ terrorist
 - Slumach (died 1891) – Katzie man convicted and hung for the murder of Louis Bee, a Kanaka (Hawaiian) half-breed
 - Cathy Smith (1947–2020) – convicted of manslaughter in death of John Belushi
 - Stanley James Tippett - kidnapper and rapist
 - Colin Thatcher (born 1938) – murderer
 - Mark Twitchell (born 1979) – murderer
 - Paolo Violi (1931–1978) – mobster
 - Paul Volpe (1927–1983) – mobster
 - Elizabeth Wettlaufer (born 1955) – serial killer
 - Russell Williams (born 1963) – former RCAF military pilot and wing commander; convicted murderer, rank and decorations revoked upon conviction
 - Gabriel Wortman (1968–2020) – mass murderer
 - Rocco Zito (1928–2016) – mobster
 
Wrongfully convicted or lynched
    
- Robert Baltovich (born 1965) – wrongfully convicted of murder
 - Donald Marshall, Jr. (1953–2009) – wrongfully convicted of murder
 - David Milgaard (1952–2022) – wrongfully convicted of murder
 - Guy Paul Morin (born 1961) – wrongfully convicted of murder
 - Louie Sam (c. 1870–1884) – wrongfully accused of murder and hanged by lynch mob in Whatcom County, Washington
 - Steven Truscott (born 1945) – wrongfully convicted of murder
 
Directors
    
    
Educators
    
- J. Willis Ambrose (1911–1974) – Professor at the Queen's University at Kingston
 - Richard Lee Armstrong FRSC (1937–1991) – University of British Columbia professor, geochemist
 - Martha Black – art historian, curator and author
 - Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700) – founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal
 - Stephen E. Calvert FRSC (born 1935) – University of British Columbia emeritus professor, geologist, oceanographer
 - Petr Cerny (1934–2018) ScD (hc) FRSC – University of Manitoba professor, mineralogist and crystallographer
 - Henry C. Gunning ScD (hc) FRSC (1901–1991) – University of British Columbia professor, geologist
 - Aleksis Dreimanis (1914–2011) – University of Western Ontario emeritus professor, quaternary geologist
 - James E. Gill (1901–1980) – McGill University professor, geologist
 - James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965) – Professor at Queen's, geologist (Hawleyite)
 - Frank Hawthorne OC FRSC (born 1946) – University of Manitoba professor, mineralogist and crystallographer
 - Adelaide Hoodless (1858–1910) – education and women's activist
 - Michael Ignatieff (born 1947) – University of Toronto, Harvard University, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge professor, political science
 - Sue Johanson CM (born 1930) – sex educator
 - Michael John Keen (1935–1991) – Dalhousie University professor, marine geoscientist
 - Sean Kelly (born 1940) – Pratt Institute, NYC, Humanities & Media Studies, writer
 - J. Ross Mackay OC FRSC (1915–2014) – University of British Columbia professor, geologist
 - Eric W. Mountjoy FRSC (1931–2010) – McGill University professor, geologist
 - Gerard V. Middleton FRSC (1931–2021) – McMaster University professor, geologist
 - Anthony J. Naldrett FRSC (1933–2020) – University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist
 - Santa J. Ono FCAHS (born c. 1962) – University of British Columbia 15th President & Vice-Chancellor, professor, medical scientist
 - William Richard Peltier ScD (hc) FRSC (born c. 1942) – University of Toronto professor, physicist
 - Jordan Peterson (born 1962) – Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.
 - Paula Rochon – Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022.
 - Egerton Ryerson (1803–1882) – public education advocate
 - Dora Sakayan (born 1931) – full professor, Department of German Studies, McGill University; Armenology, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Translation, Genocide Studies
 - Colin Simpson (born c. 1965) – George Brown College, best-selling author
 - Charles R. Stelck OC ScD (hc) FRSC (1917–2016) – University of Alberta professor, petroleum geologist, paleontologist, stratigrapher
 - David Strangway OC ScD (hc) FRSC (1934–2016) – geophysicist and university administrator
 - Thomas Symons CC OOnt (1929–2021) – Founding President of Trent University, Professor of Canadian Studies
 - Claude Vivier (1948–1983) – organ pedagogue and professor at Collège Montmorency
 - Roger G. Walker FRSC – McMaster University emeritus professor
 - William Winegard PC OC (1924–2019) – educator, engineer, scientist and former Member of Parliament
 
Environmentalists
    
See Canadian environmentalists.
Fashion
    
- Jeanne Beker (born 1952) – reporter
 - Sahar Biniaz (born November 17, 1985) – model
 - Dean and Dan Caten (born 1965) – designers known as Dsquared
 - Keshia Chanté (born 1988) – model and singer
 - Steven Cojocaru (born 1970) (known as Cojo) – critic and correspondent on Entertainment Tonight
 - Taryn Davidson (born 1991) – model
 - Linda Evangelista (born 1965) – model
 - Shalom Harlow (born 1973) – model and actress
 - Winnie Harlow (born 1994) – model
 - Irina Lazareanu (born 1982) – model
 - Jay Manuel (born 1972) – expert on America's Next Top Model and Canada's Next Top Model
 - Heather Marks (born 1988) – model
 - Kenneth G. Mills (1923–2004) – designer
 - Peter Nygard (born 1941) – designer
 - Lana Ogilvie (born 1968) – model
 - Coco Rocha (born 1988) – model
 - Monika Schnarre (born 1971) – model
 - Jessica Stam (born 1986) – model
 - Daria Werbowy (born 1983) – Polish-born Canadian model
 - Jason Wu (born 1982) – fashion designer, dolls artist
 
Humanitarians
    
- Louise Arbour (born 1947) – 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 (1923–2007) – healthcare activist and political commentator in New Brunswick
 - Norman Bethune (1890–1939) – physician and medical innovator
 - Richard Maurice Bucke FRSC (1837–1902) – psychiatrist, philosopher, early author on human development and human potentials
 - Steve Fonyo OC Rescinded 2010 (born 1966) – retraced and completed Terry Fox's cross country cancer research fundraising marathon
 - Terry Fox CC OD (1958–1981) – attempted one-legged cross country run for cancer research
 - Marc Kielburger (born 1977) – author, social entrepreneur, columnist, humanitarian and activist for children's rights. co-founder, with his brother Craig, of the We Movement
 - Grey Owl (1888–1938) (real name Archibald Stanfield Belaney) – conservationist who falsely presented himself as an Aboriginal person and worked to save the beavers of Saskatchewan and Manitoba
 - Rick Hansen CC OBC LLD (hc) DLitt (hc) (born 1957) – paraplegic athlete who completed an around-the-world marathon for spinal cord injury research
 - Stephen Lewis CC (born 1937) – AIDS activist, United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
 - Harold A. Rogers OC OBE (1899–1994) – founder of Kin Canada
 - Jean Vanier CC GOQ (1928–2019) – activist for the mentally disabled, founder of L'Arche
 
Inventors
    
- Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
 - Thomas Ahearn PC(1855–1938) – invented the electric cooking range and the electric car heater
 - Anthony R. Barringer (1925–2009) – holds 70 patents for mineral exploration technology
 - Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995) – 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 (1847–1922) – born in Scotland, invented the telephone in Canada and developed it in the United States
 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907–1964) – invented the snowmobile
 - Gerald Bull (1928–1990) – invented the G5 howitzer and the Iraqi supergun
 - Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930) – invented a method of bromine extraction known as the Dow process
 - Mathew Evans – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb
 - Charles Fenerty (c. 1821–1892) – inventor of the wood pulp process for making paper
 - Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932) – 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 (hc) FRSC (1827–1915) – inventor of the system of Standard Time zones
 - Wilbur R. Franks OBE (1901–1986) – invented the anti-black-out-suit (the G-suit)
 - Abraham Pineo Gesner (1797–1864) – inventor of kerosene; known as the "father of the petroleum industry"
 - James Gosling OC (born 1955) – invented Java computer language
 - Chris Haney (1950–2010) – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
 - Sam Jacks (1915–1975) – inventor of ringette
 - George Klein OC MBE LLD (hc) (1904–1992) – developed: electric wheelchairs, microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor, and the Canadarm
 - James L Kraft (1874–1953) – entrepreneur and inventor, founder of L. Kraft & Bros. Company, which later became Kraft Foods Inc; patented processed cheese (AKA American cheese)
 - Thomas Edvard Krogh ScD (hc) FRSC (1936–2008) – developed technique of radiometric uranium-lead dating to further the precision of geochronology
 - Hugh Le Caine (1914–1977) – invented the music synthesizer in 1945
 - Cluny MacPherson (1879–1966) – invented the first general-issue gas mask used by the British Army in World War I
 - Wilson Markle (born 1938) – invented film colorization process in 1983
 - Elijah McCoy (1844–1929) – developed automatic machinery lubricator, lawn sprinkler, the "Real McCoy"
 - James Naismith (1861–1939) – invented basketball
 - P. L. Robertson (1879–1951) – invented the Robertson screw
 - Henry Ruttan (1792–1871) – invented air-conditioned railway coach
 - Thomas F. Ryan (1872–1971) – invented five-pin bowling
 - Arthur Sicard (1876–1946) – invented the snowblower in 1925
 - Simon Sunatori (born 1959) – engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; created the MagneScribe and the Magic Spicer
 - Lewis Urry (1927–2004) – invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
 - Harry Wasylyk (1925–2013) – invented the disposable green polyethylene garbage bag in 1950
 - Thomas Willson (1860–1915) – invented arc lamps and process for creating calcium carbide
 - Henry Woodward – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb
 
Law
    
- Alfred Scow (1927–2013) – First Nations judge
 - Catherine Latimer – lawyer and criminologist
 
Media
    
- Samantha Bee (born 1969)host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
 - Stephen Brunt (born 1959) – lead sports columnist for The Globe and Mail since 1989
 - Stevie Cameron (born 1943) – journalist, author
 - Richard Gizbert (born 1960) – cable network journalist of Al Jazeera English
 - Gordon Donaldson (1926–2001) – amateur historian, journalist
 - Barbara Frum OC LLD (hc) (1937–1992) – CBC radio and television journalist
 - Jian Ghomeshi (born 1967) – former musician and radio broadcaster
 - Ken Hechtman (born 1967) – maverick journalist jailed by Afghanistan's Taliban government as a suspected United States spy in 2001
 - Kenny Hotz (born 1967) – only registered Canadian journalist to cover the Gulf War
 - Mark Irwin CSC/ASC (born 1950) – Hollywood Director of Photography
 - Peter Jennings CM (1938–2005) – ABC news anchor
 - Jason Jones (born 1967) – senior correspondent for The Daily Show
 - Pat Kiernan (born 1968) – morning anchor of NY1 since 1997
 - Michael Kesterton (1946–2018) – The Globe and Mail columnist
 - Lisa LaFlamme (born 1964) – journalist, occasional chief anchor, and senior editor for CTV National News
 - L. Ian MacDonald (born 1947) - author, columnist, broadcaster, and diplomat
 - Neil Macdonald (born 1957) – CBC reporter
 - Robert MacNeil (born 1931) – journalist, author, longtime co-anchor of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS
 - Peter Mansbridge OC LLD (hc) (born 1948) – news anchor of CBC's The National
 - Rick Mercer OC (born 1969) – comedian, TV personality, political satirist and author
 - Mosha Michael (c. 1948–2009) – Canada's first Inuk filmmaker
 - Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray (1888–1982) – editor and co-publisher of the Bridge River-Lillooet News
 - Peter C. Newman CC CD LLD (hc) (born 1929) – eminent journalist and writer
 - Sydney Newman OC (1917–1997) – 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 (born 1960) – journalist, film producer and author, best known for hosting TVOntario's Studio 2
 - Pete Parker (1895–1991) – made the first ever broadcast of a professional hockey game
 - Sandie Rinaldo (born 1950) – journalist and occasional news anchor for CTV National News
 - John Roberts (born 1956) – Fox News Channel reporter, previously a CNN reporter and host of The New Music on MuchMusic
 - Lloyd Robertson OC LLD (hc) (born 1934) – senior editor and former longtime anchor for CTV National News
 - Morley Safer (1931–2016) – investigative journalist for CBS News and 60 Minutes
 - Linus Sebastian (born 1986) – owner and founder of Linus Media Group
 - Shane Smith (born 1969) – founder of Vice
 - George Stroumboulopoulos (born 1972) – television journalist
 - Scott Taylor (born 1960) – publisher, Esprit de Corps Magazine
 - Peter Trueman OC (1934–2021) – original newsman on Global TV
 - Jan Wong (born 1952) – journalist
 
Medical
    
- Evan Adams (born 1966) – First Nations medical doctor, medical advisor, Deputy Provincial Health Advisor (BC), and actor
 - Maria Louisa Angwin (1849–1898) – first woman licensed to practice medicine in Nova Scotia
 - Elizabeth Bagshaw CM (1881–1982) – physician and birth control activist
 - Frederick Banting KBE MC LLD (hc) ScD (hc) FRSC (1891–1941) – Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of insulin
 - John Cameron Bell (born 1953) – pioneer of oncolytic virus therapies for cancer
 - Norman Bethune (1890–1939) – surgeon, inventor, socialist, battlefield doctor in Spain and China
 - Wilfred Bigelow OC LLD (hc) FRSC (1913–2005) – inventor of the first artificial pacemaker
 - Yvette Bonny (born 1938) – pediatrician
 - Basil Boulton (1938–2008) – pediatrician and child health advocate
 - John Callaghan OC AOE (1923–2004) – pioneer of open-heart surgery
 - John Dick FRSC (born 1954) – credited with discovery of cancer stem cell
 - Tommy Douglas PC CC SOM LLD (hc) (1904–1986) – introduced publicly funded health care in Canada; commonly known as the "father of Medicare"
 - Carl Goresky OC (1932–1996) – physician and scientist
 - David H. Hubel (1926–2013) – Nobel Prize winner in medicine for mapping the visual cortex
 - Harold E. Johns OC (1915–1998) – medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer
 - Doreen Kimura (1933–2013) – behavioural psychologist, world expert on sex differences in the brain
 - William Harding le Riche (1916–2010) – epidemiologist
 - Jeanne Mance (1606–1673) – established the first hospital in North America – the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal – in 1644
 - Ernest McCulloch CM OOnt FRSC FRS (1926–2011) – cellular biologist credited with the discovery of stem cell with James Till
 - Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959) – pioneering forensic pathologist and criminologist
 - Henry Morgentaler CM LLD (hc) (1923–2013) – abortion care provider who helped legalize abortion in Canada and strengthen the power of jury nullification
 - William Osler Bt (1849–1919) – physician, called the "father of modern medicine"; wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine
 - Daniel David Palmer (1845–1913) – founded the chiropractic profession
 - Edgar Randolph Parker (1871–1951) (known as "Painless" Parker) – flamboyant dentist
 - Wilder Penfield OM CC CMG FRS (1891–1976) – neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
 - Jack Pickup (1919–1996) – general practitioner and surgeon, also known as the "Flying Doctor of British Columbia"
 - David Sackett CC FRSC (1934–2015) – founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University
 - Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott (1865–1941) – physician and missionary in Ceylon
 - Sydney Segal CM OBC (1920–1997) – pediatrician and neonatologist particularly known for his work with sudden infant death syndrome
 - James Till OC OOnt FRSC FRS (born 1931) – biophysicist, credited for the discovery of stem cell with Ernest McCulloch
 - A. Ross Tilley (1904–1988) MD FRCS(C) OBE OC – plastic surgeon
 - Irene Ayako Uchida OC (1917–2013) – cytogenticist, Down Syndrome researcher
 
Military figures
    
- General Maurice Baril OMM CD (born 1943) – 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 (1904–1944) – Special Operations Executive agent, executed by the Nazis
 - Louis-Nicolas-Emmanuel de Bigault d'Aubreville – head of the nightwatch in Montreal
 - Air Commodore Leonard Birchall CM OBE DFC OOnt CD DMSc (hc) LLD (hc) (1915–2004) – war hero
 - Air Marshall Billy Bishop VC CB DSO* MC DFC ED (1894–1956) (commonly known as Billy Bishop) –World War I flying ace
 - Brigadier-General Jean Boyle CMM CD (born 1947) – fighter pilot, and businessman
 - Major General Sir Isaac Brock KB (1769–1812) – War of 1812 general
 - Captain Roy Brown DSC* RNAS (1893–1944) – World War I fighter pilot officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron
 - Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO* (1890–1971) – Canadian signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
 - General Harry Crerar CH CB DSO CD PC (1888–1965) – "leading field commander" in World War II
 - Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie KCB GCMG (1875–1933) – first Canadian commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
 - Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire OC CMM GOQ MSC CD LLD (hc) ScDHum (hc) DHL (hc) (born 1946) – UN peacekeeping General, attempted to prevent the Rwandan genocide
 - Guy D'Artois DSO GM (1917–1999) – SOE agent, recipient of the Croix de Guerre
 - General John de Chastelain CH OC CMM CD LLD (hc) ScDMil (hc) FLMH (born 1937) – head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
 - Peter Dmytruk (1920–1943) – WWII Flight Sergeant and member of the French Resistance
 - Brigadier-General Dury, Charles PC OC QC CBE DSO (1912–1991) – soldier, businessman, and politician
 - John Weir Foote VC CD (1904–1988) – military chaplain, Ontario cabinet minister, and recipient of the Victoria Cross
 - Captain Nichola Goddard MSM (1980–2006) – first female Canadian soldier killed in combat
 - William Hall VC (1827–1904) – first Nova Scotian recipient of the Victoria Cross
 - John Kenneth Macalister (1914–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
 - Vice-Admiral Bruce MacLean CMM, CD – Chief of the Maritime Staff from 2004 to 2006
 - Captain Simon Mailloux (born 1983) – first Canadian soldier with an amputation to deploy on a combat mission; recipient of the Sacrifice Medal
 - Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (1872–1918) – soldier, poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
 - Alan Arnett McLeod VC (1899–1918) – fighter pilot, youngest Canadian-born winner of the Victoria Cross
 - General Andrew McNaughton CH CB CMG DSO CD PC (1887–1966) – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
 - Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Meighen (1905–1979) – lawyer and philanthropist
 - Lieutenant Colonel Charles Merritt VC (1908–2000) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
 - Major General Sydney Chilton Mewburn PC (1863–1956) – lawyer and politician, Minister of Militia and Defence
 - Minnie "Jerri" Mumford (1909–2002) – serving member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) during World War II
 - Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray (1896–1971) – Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Northwest Atlantic during World War II
 - Henry Norwest MM & Bar (1884–1918) – sniper in World War I
 - Lieutenant-Colonel George Pearkes VC PC CC CB DSO MC CD (1888–1984) – recipient of the Victoria Cross, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
 - Francis Pegahmagabow MM** (1891–1952) – the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
 - Frank Pickersgill (1915–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
 - Rear Admiral Desmond Piers CM DSC CD ScDMil (hc) (1913–2005) – war hero
 - George Lawrence Price (1898–1918) – last soldier killed in World War I
 - Tommy Prince MM (1915–1977) – one of Canada's most decorated soldiers, member of the Devil's Brigade
 - James Ralston PC (1881–1948) – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
 - Thomas Ricketts VC (1901–1967) – recipient of the Victoria Cross (Newfoundlander at the time of his award)
 - Harold A. Rogers OC OBE (1889–1994) – founder of Kin Canada
 - Roméo Sabourin (1923–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
 - General Guy Simonds CC CB CBE DSO CD (1903–1974) – commander of the II Canadian Corps
 - Ernest Smith (1914–2005) – 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 (1851–1919) – member of the North-West Mounted Police, commander of Yukon detachment
 - William Stephenson CC MC DFC (1897–1989) (codename: Intrepid) – senior representative of British intelligence for the Western Hemisphere in World War II
 - Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart CB DSO MC (1891–1945) – Chief of the General Staff 1941–1943, educator
 - Tecumseh (1768–1813) – Leader of First Nations British Allies, War of 1812, died defeating American invasion
 - Rear Admiral Robert Timbrell CMM DSC CD (1920–2006) – first Canadian to be decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross
 - General Christopher Vokes CB CBE DSO CD (1904–1985) – General Officer commanding the Canadian Army Occupation Force in Europe
 - Brigadier Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler (1890–1962) – Corps of Royal Engineers surveyor
 - General Ramsey Muir Withers CMM CD LLD (hc) (1930–2014) – Chief of the Defense Staff
 - Sir James Lucas Yeo (1782–1818) – commander of Royal Navy forces in Canada during the War of 1812
 
Magicians
    
- Shawn Farquhar (born 1962) – magician, winner of the Grand Prix Close Up at the 2009 FISM World Championship of Magic
 - Doug Henning (1947–2000) – credited with reviving the magic show in North America
 - Leon Mandrake (1911–1993) – Mandrake the Great; and his sons Lon and Ron, born in 1948 and 1949, respectively
 - James Randi (1928–2020) – magician, writer, skeptical investigator of paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation
 - Dai Vernon (1894–1992) – magician, known as "the man who fooled Houdini"
 
Musicians
    
    
Politicians
    
- Lloyd Axworthy PC OC OM (born 1939) – former Cabinet minister
 - Thomas Bain (1834–1915) – former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
 - Robert Baldwin (1804–1858)
 - Maude Barlow LLD (hc) DHL (hc) (born 1947) – activist, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
 - Perrin Beatty PC (born 1950) – former cabinet minister, president of CBC
 - Monique Bégin PC OC ScD (hc) FRSC (born 1936) – former cabinet minister
 - Thomas R. Berger OC OBC (1933–2021) – jurist
 - Ethel Blondin-Andrew PC (born 1951) – former Cabinet minister
 - Henri Bourassa (1868–1952) – Quebec politician
 - Pierre Bourgault (1934–2003) – President of Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
 - Ed Broadbent PC CC (born 1936) – former New Democratic Party leader
 - George Brown (1818–1880)
 - Rosemary Brown PC CC OBC LLD (hc) (1930–2003)
 - Tim Buck (1891–1973) – leader of the Canadian Communist Party
 - George-Étienne Cartier Bt KSMG PC (1814–1873) – Cabinet minister
 - Brock Chisholm CC MC* LLD (hc) (1896–1971) – first Director-General of the World Health Organization
 - Joe Clark (born 1939) – 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 (born 1952)
 - Victor Copps (1919–1988) – Mayor of Hamilton
 - John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Earl of Durham GCB PC (1792–1840)
 - Ellen Fairclough PC CC OOnt (1905–2004) – first female member of the Canadian Cabinet
 - The Famous Five – 1920s women's rights activists
 - Janice Filmon (born 1943) – Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba since 2015
 - Iqwinder Singh Gaheer (born 1993) – member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga—Malton
 - Jennifer Granholm (born 1959) – first female governor of Michigan
 - Gurmant Grewal (born 1957) – the "Ironman of Canadian Parliament"
 - Nina Grewal (born 1958) – 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 (1949–2013) – Cree chief (Red Sucker Lake Nation), MLA Manitoba, successfully blocked the Meech Lake Accord (proposed Constitutional amendment)
 - C. D. Howe PC (1886–1960) – Cabinet minister
 - Joseph Howe PC (1804–1873) – "father of Confederation"
 - Stan Keyes PC (born 1953)
 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bt (1807–1864) – co-premier of the United Province of Canada
 - Franklin K. Lane (1864–1921) – 1910s United States Secretary of the Interior (1913–1920)
 - Jack Layton PC (1950–2011) – leader of the New Democratic Party
 - William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861) – Mayor of Toronto
 - Allan MacNab Bt (1798–1862) – Prime Minister of Upper Canada
 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee PC (1825–1868)
 - Agnes Macphail (1890–1954) – first female Member of Parliament (MP)
 - Beverley McLachlin PC LLD (hc) (born 1943) – Chief Justice of Canada
 - James McMillan (1838–1902) – US Senator from Michigan
 - John Munro PC (1931–2003)
 - Papineau (1786–1871) – reformer and 1837 rebellion leader
 - Allan Studholme (1846–1919)
 - Nathan Eldon Tanner (1898–1982)
 
Provincial premiers
    
- Main articles:
 
- 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
    
- Main articles:
 
Indigenous leaders
    

Aatsista-Mahkan, taken by Edward Curtis

- Shawn Atleo (born 1967)
 - William Beynon (1888–1958)
 - Big Bear (1825–1888) – Cree leader
 - Joseph Brant (1742–1807) – Mohawk leader
 - Mary Brant (1736–1796) – leader of Six Nations women's federation
 - Frank Calder (1877–1943) – Nisga'a
 - Joe Capilano (c. 1854–1910) – Squamish
 - Rose Charlie (born 1930)
 - Arthur Wellington Clah (1831–1916)
 - Heber Clifton (1871–1964)
 - Cumshewa – 18th-century Haida chief at the inlet now bearing his name
 - Harley Desjarlais
 - Alfred Dudoward (ca. 1850–1914)
 - Dan George (1899–1981) – Tsleil-Waututh (Burrard)
 - Joseph Gosnell (1936–2020) – Nisga'a
 - Simon Gunanoot (1874–1933) – Gitxsan
 - Guujaaw (born 1953) – modern-day Haida leader
 - Elijah Harper (1949–2013) – Cree
 - Chief Hunter Jack (died 1905) – St'at'imc
 - Mary John, Sr. (1913–2004)
 - August Jack Khatsahlano (1877–1971) – Squamish
 - Klattasine (died 1864) – Tsilhqot'in war chief, surrendered on terms of amnesty in times of war, hanged for murder
 - Koyah (fl. 1787–1795) – 18th-century chief of the Haida
 - George Manuel (1921–1989)
 - Maquinna – 18th-century Nuu-chah-nulth chief (Yuquot/Mowachaht)
 - Harriet Nahanee (1935–2007) – Squamish and Nuu-chah-nulth (Pacheedaht)
 - Nicola (1780/1785–c. 1865) – 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 (1892–1959) – Squamish
 - Stewart Phillip
 - Chief Poundmaker (c. 1842–1886) – Cree chief
 - Piapot (c. 1816–1908) – Cree chief
 - Steven Point (born 1951) – modern Sto:lo leader, current Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
 - Louis Riel (1844–1885) – leader of two Métis rebellions before being hung for treason
 - James Sewid (1913–1988) – Kwakwaka'wakw
 - Tecumseh (1768–1813) – Shawnee leader
 - Alec Thomas (1894–?)
 - Wickanninish – 19th-century Nuu-chah-nulth chief (Opitsaht/Tla-o-qui-aht)
 - Walter Wright (died 1949)
 
Producers
    
    
Religious figures
    
    Martyrs
    
- St. Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700) – first Canadian saint
 - St. Noël Chabanel (1613–1649) – Jesuit missionary
 - St. Anthony Daniel (1601–1648) – Jesuit missionary
 - St. Jean de Brébeuf (1539–1649) – Jesuit missionary
 - St. Jean de Lalande (died 1646) – Jesuit missionary
 - St. Saint Charles Garnier (1606–1649) – Jesuit missionary
 - St. René Goupil (1608–1642) – first North American martyr of the Roman Catholic Church
 - St. Isaacs Jogues (1607–1646) – Jesuit missionary
 - St. Gabriel Lallemant (1610–1649) – Jesuit missionary
 
Religious community leaders
    
- Alexis André (1832–1893) – Catholic missionary priest, spiritual advisor to Louis Riel
 - Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (1930–2011) – Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto
 - André Besette (1845–1937) – Holy Cross Brother known as the "Miracle Man of Montreal"
 - Linda Bond (born 1946) – General of The Salvation Army, 2011–2013
 - Arnold Brown (1913–2002) – General of The Salvation Army, 1977–81
 - Hugh B. Brown (1883–1975) – Latter-day Saint apostle
 - Ranj Dhaliwal (born 1976) – Sikh, writer, activist and co-founder of the Sikh Youth orthodox political party in Surrey, British Columbia
 - Lionel Groulx (1878–1967) – Roman Catholic priest, historian, nationalist, and traditionalist
 - Albert Lacombe (1827–1916) – Roman Catholic missionary
 - John G. Lake (1870–1935) – leader of the Pentecostal Movement, born in St. Marys, Ontario
 - Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger (1904–1991) – Catholic clergyman and humanitarian
 - Merlin Lybbert (1926–2001) – general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 - David Mainse (1936–2017) – broadcaster, founder of 100 Huntley Street and CITS-TV
 - Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) – founder of the Foursquare Church
 - William D. Morrow – General Superintendent of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
 - Bishop Michael Power (1804–1847) – Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto
 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché (1823–1894) – Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order
 - Nathan Eldon Tanner (1898–1982) – Latter-day Saint apostle
 - John Taylor (1808–1887) – president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 - Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680) – "The Lily of the Mohawks", first Native American canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church
 - Rúhíyyih Khanum (1910–2000) – wife of Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Baháʼí 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[3]
 - Bramwell Tillsley (1931–2019) – General of The Salvation Army, 1993–94
 - Clarence Wiseman (1907–1985) – General of The Salvation Army, 1974–77
 
Religious cult figures
    
- Roch Thériault (1947–2011) – cult leader
 - Brother XII (1878–1934) – cult leader
 
Scholars
    
- Louise Arbour (born 1947) – jurist
 - Marc van Audenrode (born 1961) – economist
 - Pratima Bansal – economist
 - Timothy Brook (born 1951) – professor, historian and writer
 - Joseph-Alphonse-Paul Cadotte (1897–1979) – professor, author
 - Jack Chambers (born 1938) – linguist
 - Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996) – McGill geology professor, namesake of Thomasclarkite
 - Gerald Cohen (1941–2009) – Oxford Philosopher
 - Northrop Frye (1912–1991) – influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
 - John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) – economist
 - George Grant (1918–1988) – philosopher
 - John Peters Humphrey (1905–1995) – legal scholar, principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 - Harold Innis (1894–1952) – political economist; author of seminal works on Canadian economic history, media and communications
 - Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) – communications theorist, coined phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village"
 - Steven Pinker (born 1954) – psychologist, cognitive scientist, writer of popular science
 - John Ralston Saul (born 1947) – businessman, essayist, diplomat
 - F. R. Scott (1899–1985) – law professor, philosopher, poet
 - Guy Sylvestre (1918–2010) – literary critic
 - David Sztybel (born 1967) – philosopher
 - Charles Taylor (born 1931) – philosopher
 - William R. White (born 1943) - economist
 
Scientists
    
- Robert Campbell Aitken (born 1963) – electrical engineer
 - Judie Alimonti (1960–2017) – immunologist
 - Sidney Altman (1939–2022) – molecular biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry
 - Brenda Andrews (born 1957) – academic, researcher and biologist specializing in systems biology and molecular genetics.
 - Albert Bandura (1925–2021) – psychologist
 - Neil Banerjee – earth scientist
 - Karen Bailey – plant pathologist
 - Karen Beauchemin (born 1956) – livestock ruminant nutrition
 - Robert Bell FRSC (1841–1917) – geologist
 - Walter A. Bell (1889–1969) – geologist, paleontologist
 - Manjul Bhargava (born 1974) – mathematician and Fields medallist
 - Selwyn G. Blaylock ScD (hc) (1879–1945) – chemist and mining executive
 - Stewart Blusson OC (born 1939) – geologist, diamond prospector, multimillionaire and philanthropist
 - Adolfo J. de Bold (born 1942) – biomedical scientist, discoverer of hormone secreted by heart muscle cells
 - Willard Boyle (1924–2011) – inventor of the charge coupled device, winner of nobel prize in physics
 - Bertram Brockhouse CC FRSC (1918–2003) – designer of the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectrometer, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics
 - Georges Brossard CM CQ ScD (hc) (1940–2019) – entomologist, television personality and founder of the Montreal Insectarium
 - Moira Brown – North Atlantic Right Whale researcher and conservationist
 - Vernon Burrows (born 1930) – oat breeder
 - John J. Clague FRSC (born 1946) – authority in quaternary and environmental earth sciences
 - Kate Crooks (1833–1871) – botanist
 - Claire Cupples – microbiologist
 - Philip J. Currie (born 1949) – palaeontologist
 - John William Dawson CMG FRS FRSC (1820–1899) – first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation
 - Duncan R. Derry LLD (hc) (1906–1987) – economic geologist
 - Raymond Desjardins – agrometeorologist
 - Donald B. Dingwell – earth scientist
 - Martine Dorais – plant physiologist, organic horticulture
 - Robert John Wilson Douglas FRSC (1920–1979) – petroleum geologist
 - Eugenia Duodu – chemist
 - Lorne Elias – chemist, inventor of the explosives vapour detector EVD-1
 - John Charles Fields FRS FRSC (1863–1932) – mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal
 - J. Keith Fraser (born 1922) – geographer
 - Hu Gabrielse (born 1926) – geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada
 - William Giauque (1895–1982) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
 - Anne-Claude Gingras – molecular geneticist
 - Cynthia Grant – soil fertility and crop nutrition specialist
 - Donald O. Hebb FRS (1904–1985) – neuroscientist, published his theory of Hebbian learning
 - Gerhard Herzberg PC CC ScD (hc) LLD (hc) FRSC FRS (1904–1999) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for molecular spectroscopy
 - James Hillier OC (1915–2007) – inventor of the electron microscope
 - Vanessa M. Hirsch – veterinary pathologist and virologist
 - Paul F. Hoffman OC FRSC (born 1941) – geologist noted for research into Snowball Earth events
 - Edward A. Irving CM ScD (hc) FRSC FRS (1927–2014) – provided the first physical evidence of continental drift
 - Charles Legge (1829–1881) – civil engineer
 - Victor Ling CC (born 1944) – medicine, drug resistance in cancer
 - Sir William Edmond Logan FRS (1798–1875) – founded the Geological Survey of Canada
 - Mary MacArthur – botanist, cytologist, horticulturalist
 - John Macoun (1831–1920) – botanist
 - Tak Wah Mak (born 1946) – immunologist who discovered the T-cell receptor
 - Claude Hillaire-Marcel FRSC (born 1943) – world leader in quaternary research
 - Rudolph A. Marcus (born 1923) – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for electron transfer reactions
 - Jerrold E. Marsden (1942–2010) – applied mathematician, founder of the Fields Institute
 - Ernest McCulloch CC FRSC FRS (1926–2011) – cellular biologist who, with James Till, demonstrated the existence of stem cells
 - Maud Menten (1879–1960) – medical scientist, made groundbreaking work in enzyme kinetics
 - Robert Mundell (1932–2021) – economist and Nobel laureate
 - John Charles Polanyi PC CC FRSC FRS (born 1929) – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for infrared chemiluminescence
 - Isabella Preston (1881–1965) – ornamental horticulturalist
 - Raymond A. Price OC ScD (hc) FRSC (born 1933) – geologist
 - Hubert Reeves CC OQ (born 1932) – astrophysicist and science popularizer
 - Soon Jai Park (1937–2018) – dry bean breeder
 - Elizabeth Pattey – agricultural micrometeorologist
 - Henry de Puyjalon (1841–1905) – biologist and ecologist
 - Carmelle Robert (born 1962) – astrophysicist
 - Laurie Rousseau-Nepton – astrophysicist, first indigenous woman in Quebec to obtain a PhD in astrophysics
 - Donald F. Sangster LLD (hc) ScD (hc) FRSC – geologist
 - Charles E. Saunders (1867–1937) – agronomist
 - Arthur Schawlow (1921–1999) – Nobel Prize winner in physics (for lasers)
 - David Schindler OC (1940–2021) – limnologist
 - Myron Scholes (born 1941) – Nobel Prize winner in economics
 - Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein – animal ethologist
 - Hans Selye CC (1907–1982) – pioneering stress researcher
 - Michael Smith CC OBE (1932–2000) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for site-based mutagenesis
 - Ralph M. Steinman (1943–2011) – Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity
 - Peter A Stewart (1921–1993) – physiologist, quantitative acid-base physiology
 - Donna Strickland (born 1959) – Nobel Prize winner in Physics, optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers
 - Richard Summerbell (born 1956) – mycologist
 - David Suzuki CC OBC LLD (hc) ScD (hc) ScDEnv (hc) ScDComm (hc) DHL (hc) (born 1936) – geneticist and science popularizer
 - Felicitas Svejda (1920–2016) – horticulturalist
 - Henry Taube FRSC (1915–2005) – Nobel Prize in chemistry for electron transfer reactions
 - Richard Taylor CC FRSC FRS (1929–2018) – Nobel Prize in physics recipient for verifying the quark theory
 - James Till CC FRS (born 1931) – biophysicist who, with Ernest McCulloch, demonstrated the existence of stem cells
 - Joseph Tyrrell (1858–1957) – geologist, cartographer, discoverer of dinosaur bones in Alberta
 - William Vickrey (1914–1996) – Nobel Prize winner in economics
 - Harold Williams FRSC (1934–2010) – geologist, expert on the Appalachian Mountains
 - John Tuzo Wilson CC OBE ScD (hc) FRSC FRS FRSE (1908–1993) – 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
    
- Alexandre Trudeau (born 1973) – author, filmmaker and journalist
 - Janis Babson (1950–1961) – organ donor, subject of two books
 - Antonio Barichievich (1925–2003) (known as The Great Antonio) – strongman, showman, and eccentric
 - Grant Bristow (born 1958) – CSIS undercover agent who started the Heritage Front, planted as political operative within Reform Party
 - René Lepage de Sainte-Claire (1656–1718) – lord-founder of Rimouski, Quebec
 - Donnelly family (known as the Black Donnellys) – participants and/or victims of a vicious community feud
 - Josiah Henson (1789–1883) – former slave, believed to be the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin
 - Trevor James (born 1988) – YouTuber
 - Harold Kandel (1906–1995) – legendary theatregoer from Toronto, Ontario known for speaking out during theatre events, now commemorated through the Harold Awards
 - Marc Karam (born 1980) – professional poker player
 - Anna Ruth Lang CV – recipient of the Cross of Valour
 - Sunny Leone (born 1981) – Canadian and Indian pornographic actress; Bollywood actress
 - Bat Masterson (1853–1921) – gunfighter, fight promoter, sports journalist
 - Charles Vance Millar (1853–1926) – lawyer, financier, and posthumous practical joker
 - Sorel Mizzi (born 1986) – professional poker player
 - John Wilson Murray (1840–1906) – Canada's first major detective
 - Daniel Negreanu (born 1974) – professional poker player
 - Minnie Patterson (died 1911) – heroine noted for her daring rescue of men from the barkentine (barque) Coloma during a severe storm in 1906.
 - Sue Rodriguez (1950–1994) – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) sufferer and right to die advocate
 - Alexander Milton Ross (1832–1897) (known as The Birdman) – pre-American Civil War abolitionist and participant in the Underground Railroad
 - Craig Russell (1948–1990) – female impersonator and actor
 - Laura Secord (1775–1868) – heroine of the War of 1812, warned the British of a surprise American attack at Battle of Beaver Dams
 - Chris Sky (born 1983) – conspiracy theorist
 - Joshua Slocum (1844–1909) – first man to sail around the world solo
 - Margaret Trudeau (born 1948) – widow; former wife of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
 
Fictional Characters
    
- 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 (known as Captain Canuck) – cartoon character
 - Benton Fraser – Mountie on the 90s television show Due South
 - James Howlett (aka "Logan", aka "Wolverine") – 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 (known as Captain Canuck) – 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 (known as Captain Canuck) – cartoon character
 - Anne Shirley – known as Anne of Green Gables
 - Terrance and Phillip – characters on South Park
 - Wade Wilson (aka "Deadpool") – comic book anti-hero
 
Other
    
- National
 
- Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
 - List of Companions of the Order of Canada
 - List of inductees of Canada's Walk of Fame
 - The Greatest Canadian
 
- Groupings and articles of relevance
 
- Aboriginal Canadian personalities
 - Asian Canadians
 - Black Canadians
 - European Canadians
 - List of First Nations people
 - List of Canadian Jews
 - List of Canadians by net worth
 
- Lists by city
 
List of people from Canada by city
- Lists by province/territory
 
References
    
- Fulton, Gordon W. (2005). "David Ewart". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
 - Werb, Jessica (November 4, 2009). "Cindy Lee". BC Business. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
 - "The Greatest Canadian – Top 100 – 11 to 100". CBC. 2004. Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
 
External links
    
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canadians.
Wikiquote has quotations related to Canadians.
- The Dictionary of Canadian Biography – biographies of Canadians from 1000 to 1930 CE
 - Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada – biographies of Canadian architects and lists of their buildings from 1800 to 1950
 - "Canada Questions and Answers: Everything You Need to Know About Canada" by canadafaq.ca
 - The Canadian Encyclopedia – click on "people" for links to articles about Canadians; English/French availability
 
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