This list of Canadian Jews includes notable Canadian Jews or Canadians of Jewish descent, arranged by field of activity.

Academic figures

Biology and medicine

Eric Berne Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior. Berne's theory of transactional analysis was based on the ideas of Freud ...

(1910–1970), psychiatrist * John Bienenstock (1936– ), immunologist *

Daniel Borsuk Daniel Evan Borsuk (born January 19, 1978) is a Canadian plastic surgeon in Montreal, Quebec, who is a pioneer in facial reconstruction. The first Canadian face transplant was performed under his leadership. He is also an advocate for pet s ...

(1978– ), plastic surgeon * Éric Cohen (1958– ), molecular virologist * Max Cynader (1947– ), ophthalmologist and neuroscientist *

Dorothy Dworkin Dorothy Dworkin (''née'' Dorothy Goldstick; 1889 – August 13, 1976) was a Jewish Canadian nurse, businesswoman and philanthropist. In 2009, she was made a Person of National Historic Significance. She was involved in planning Toronto’s first ...

(1889–1976), nurse and founder of

Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) is a hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mount Sinai is part of Sinai Health. Sinai Health was formed through the voluntary amalgamation of Mount Sinai Hospital (including the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute) ...

William Feindel William Howard Feindel (July 12, 1918 – January 12, 2014) was a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor. Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. in Biology from Acadia University in 1939, a M.Sc. from Dalhousie University ...

(1918–2014), neurosurgeon *

Samuel Freedman Samuel Freedman, (16 April 1908 – 6 March 1993), was a Canadian lawyer and judge, who served as Chief Justice of Manitoba from 1971 to 1983. Personal life and education Born on 16 April 1908, to Nathan and Ada (Foxman) Freedman in Zhytomyr, R ...

(1928– ), clinical immunologist * Phil Gold (1936– ), medical researcher * Larry Goldenberg (1953– ), medical researcher *

Carl Goresky Carl Arthur Goresky, OC (August 25, 1932 – March 21, 1996) was a Canadian physician and scientist at the Montreal General Hospital. His theoretical treatment of the transport of substances through intact organs, which formed the basis of his PhD ...

(1932–1996), physician and scientist * Michael Hayden (1951– ), geneticist * Sara Hestrin-Lerner (1918–2017), physiologist *

Abram Hoffer Abram Hoffer (November 11, 1917 – May 27, 2009) was a Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist known for his "adrenochrome hypothesis" of schizoaffective disorders. According to Hoffer, megavitamin therapy and other nutritional interven ...

(1917–2009), physician and psychiatrist * Charles Hollenberg (1930–2003), physician and medical researcher * Harold Kaplan (1928–1998), psychiatrist *

George Karpati George Karpati, (May 17, 1934 – February 6, 2009) was a Canadian neurologist and neuroscientist who was one of the leading experts on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders including muscular dystrophy research. Born in D ...

(1934–2009), neurologist *

Gideon Koren Gideon Koren, FACMT, FRCP(C) ( he, גדעון קורן; born August 27, 1947 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-Canadian pediatrician, clinical pharmacologist, toxicologist, and a composer of Israeli folk music. He was a doctor at the Hospital ...

(1947– ), pediatrician *

Gabor Maté Gabor Maté (born January 6, 1944) is a Hungarian-Canadian physician and author. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development, trauma and potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health includin ...

(1944– ), physician *

Harry Medovy Harry Medovy, OC (October 22, 1904 – October 10, 1995) was a Canadian pediatrician and academic. Born in the Russian Empire, his parents moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba when Medovy was one to escape persecution against Jews. He studied at the ...

(1904–1995), paediatrician *

Henry Morgentaler Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler, (March 19, 1923 – May 29, 2013), was a Polish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a Jewish youth during World War ...

(1923–2013), doctor and abortion activist *

Richard Goldbloom Richard Ballon Goldbloom, (December 16, 1924 – November 18, 2021) was a Canadian pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth chancellor of Dalhousie University. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower C ...

(1924–2021), paediatrician *

Mel Rosenberg Mel Rosenberg (born Melvin Rosenberg, 12 November 1951 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a microbiologist best known for his research on the diagnosis and treatment of bad breath (halitosis).

(1951– ), microbiologist * Sydney Segal (1920–1997), pediatrician and neonatologist *

Louis Siminovitch Louis Siminovitch (May 1, 1920 – April 6, 2021) was a Canadian molecular biologist. He was a pioneer in human genetics, researcher into the genetic basis of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, and helped establish Ontario programs explori ...

(1920–2021), molecular biologist *

Nahum Sonenberg Nahum Sonenberg, ( he, נחום סוננברג; born December 29, 1946) is an Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

(1946– ), microbiologist and biochemist * Ralph Steinman (1943–2011), medical researcher;

Nobel Prize in Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according ...

(2011) * Karl Stern (1906–1975), neurologist and psychiatrist *

Mark Wainberg Mark Arnold Wainberg, (21 April 1945 – 11 April 2017) was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine ...

(1945–2017), HIV/AIDS researcher *

Zena Werb Zena Werb (24 March 1945 – 16 June 2020) was a professor and the Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. She was also the co-leader of the Cancer, Immunity, and Microenvironment Program at the Hellen Diller F ...

(1945–2020), cell biologist

Computing and mathematics

Dror Bar-Natan Dror Bar-Natan ( he, דרוֹר בָר-נָתָן; born January 30, 1966) is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics, Canada. His main research interests include knot theory, finite type invariants, and Khovanov homolog ...

(1966– ), topologist *

Yoshua Bengio Yoshua Bengio (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de ...

(1964– ), computer scientist *

David Borwein David Borwein (March 24, 1924 – September 3, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born Canadian mathematician, known for his research in the summability theory of series and integrals. He also did work in measure theory and probability theory, number theory, a ...

(1924–2021), mathematician *

Jonathan Borwein Jonathan Michael Borwein (20 May 1951 – 2 August 2016) was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was a close associate of David H. Bailey, and the ...

(1951–2016), mathematician *

Peter Borwein Peter Benjamin Borwein (born St. Andrews, Scotland, May 10, 1953 – 23 August 2020) was a Canadian mathematician and a professor at Simon Fraser University. He is known as a co-author of the paper which presented the Bailey–Borwein–P ...

(1953–2020), mathematician *

Nathan Divinsky Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky (October 29, 1925 – June 17, 2012) was a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and chess official. Divinsky was also known for being the former husband of the 19th prime minister ...

(1925–2012), mathematician and chess master *

Ian Goldberg Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner), and for his role as chief scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero Knowledge Syst ...

(1973– ), cryptographer *

Calvin Gotlieb Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, (March 27, 1921 – October 16, 2016) was a Canadian professor and computer scientist who has been called the "Father of Computing" in Canada. He was a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. ...

(1921–2016), computer scientist *

Michael Gurstein Michael Gurstein (October 2, 1944 – October 8, 2017) was a Canadian best known for his work in the development and definition of community informatics as the area of research and practice concerned with enabling and empowering communities throug ...

(1944–2017), computer scientist *

Israel Halperin Israel Halperin, (January 5, 1911 – March 8, 2007) was a Canadian mathematician and social activist. Early life and education Israel Halperin was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Solomon Halperin and Fanny Lun ...

(1911–2007), algebraist *

Hans Heilbronn Hans Arnold Heilbronn (8 October 1908 – 28 April 1975) was a mathematician. Education He was born into a German- Jewish family. He was a student at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen, where he met Edmund Landau, who super ...

(1908–1975), mathematician *

William Kahan William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "''his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis''", was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and induct ...

(1933– ), computer scientist and mathematician;

Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...

(1989) *

Irving Kaplansky Irving Kaplansky (March 22, 1917 – June 25, 2006) was a mathematician, college professor, author, and amateur musician.O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Irving Kaplansky", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andr ...

(1917–2006), mathematician *

Yael Karshon Yael Karshon (born 1964) is an Israeli and Canadian mathematician who has been described as "one of Canada's leading experts in symplectic geometry". She works as a professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Tel Aviv University . Edu ...

(1964– ), symplectic geometer *

Cecilia Krieger Cypra Cecilia Krieger-Dunaij (9 April 1894 – 17 August 1974) was an Austro-Hungarian (more specifically, Galician)-born mathematician of Jewish ancestry who lived and worked in Canada. Krieger was the third person (and first woman) to earn a ...

(1894–1974), mathematician *

Nathan Mendelsohn Nathan Saul Mendelsohn, (April 14, 1917 – July 4, 2006) was an American-born mathematician who lived and worked in Canada. Mendelsohn was a researcher in several areas of discrete mathematics, including group theory and combinatorics. Ear ...

(1917–2006), combinatorialist and group theorist *

Pierre Milman Pierre D. Milman (russian: Пьер Д. Мильман), born 1945 in Odessa, is a mathematician and a professor at the University of Toronto. Milman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Moscow in 1967. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Uni ...

(1945– ), algebraic and differential geometer *

Louis Nirenberg Louis Nirenberg (February 28, 1925 – January 26, 2020) was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century. Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equat ...

(1925–2020), analyst;

Abel Prize The Abel Prize ( ; no, Abelprisen ) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Pri ...

(2015) *

Anatol Rapoport Anatol Rapoport ( uk, Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт; russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Рапопо́рт; May 22, 1911January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to genera ...

(1911–2007), applied mathematician *

Robert Steinberg Robert Steinberg (May 25, 1922, Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania (present-day Moldova) – May 25, 2014) was a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles. He introduced the Steinberg representation, the Lang–Steinberg theorem, ...

(1922–2014), algebraist * George Zames (1934–1997), control theorist

Engineering

* Norbert Berkowitz (1924–2001), engineering researcher *

Gregory Chamitoff Gregory Errol Chamitoff (born 6 August 1962) is a Canadian-born American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He has been to space twice, spending 6 months aboard the ISS across Expedition 17 and 18 in 2008, and another 15 days as part of STS-1 ...

(1962– ), NASA astronaut and engineer *

Valery Fabrikant ) , occupation = Associate professor of mechanical engineering , birth_date = , birth_place = Minsk, Soviet Union (now Belarus) , nationality = Belarusian-Canadian , date = 24 August 1992 , time = 2:30 p.m. ( UTC-4) , targets ...

(1940– ), mechanical engineer and convicted murderer *

Charles Hershfield Charles Hershfield, B.Sc., M.A.Sc, F.E.I.C, P.Eng. (1910–1990) was widely recognized by the engineering community and known for his innovative structural engineering solutions, as a senior assistant engineer and lieutenant with the Department o ...

(1910–1990), structural engineer *

Josef Kates Josef Kates, born ''Josef Katz'', (May 5, 1921 in Canada, – June 16, 2018) was a Canadian engineer whose achievements include designing the first digital game-playing machine, and the world's first automated traffic signalling system.Engelmann, ...

(1921–2018), engineer * Leon Katz (1924–2015), biomedical engineer * Cyril Leonoff (1925–2016), geotechnical engineer

History

Irving Abella Irving Martin Abella (July 2, 1940 – July 3, 2022) was a Canadian historian who served as a professor at York University from 1968 to 2013. He specialized in the history of the Jews in Canada and the Canadian labour movement. Early life Abe ...

(1940– ), historian *

Norman Cantor Norman Frank Cantor (November 19, 1929 – September 18, 2004) was a Canadian-American historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely rea ...

(1929–2004), historian *

Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis, (born November 8, 1928) is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of History and Anthropology and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in C ...

(1928– ), historian *

David Feuerwerker David Feuerwerker (October 2, 1912 – June 20, 1980) was a French Jewish rabbi and professor of Jewish history who was effective in the resistance to German occupation the Second World War. He was completely unsuspected until six months before ...

(1912–1980), historian *

Jan Grabowski Jan Grabowski (born 1962) is a Polish-Canadian professor of history at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Jewish–Polish relations in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust in Poland.Jack Granatstein Jack Lawrence Granatstein (May 21, 1939) is a Canadian historian who specializes in Canadian political and military history.SeJack Granatsteinfrom The Canadian Encyclopedia Education Born on May 21, 1939, in Toronto, Ontario, into a Jewish fam ...

(1939– ), political and military historian *

Ronald Hamowy Ronald Hamowy (; April 17, 1937 – September 8, 2012) was a Canadian academic, known primarily for his contributions to political and social academic fields. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus of Intellectual History at the Univ ...

(1937–2012), historian and political theorist *

Gabriel Kolko Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American historian. His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century. One of the best-known ...

(1932–2014), historian *

Michael Marrus Michael Robert Marrus (1941–2022) was a Canadian historian of the Holocaust, modern European and Jewish history and international humanitarian law. He is the author of eight books on the Holocaust and related subjects. Overview Marrus (1941–2 ...

(1941– ), historian * David Noble (1945–2010), historian of technology *

Derek Penslar Derek Jonathan Penslar, (born 1958) is an American-Canadian comparative historian with interests in the relationship between modern Israel and diaspora Jewish societies, global nationalist movements, European colonialism, and post-colonial states. ...

(1958– ), historian *

Harold Troper Harold (Hesh) Troper (born January 1, 1942) is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. He specializes in Jewish Canadian history. Together with Irving Abella, he authored '' None Is Too Many'', the story of the Canadian government's refusal to ...

(1942– ), historian *

Daniel Woolf Daniel Robert Woolf (born 5 December 1958) is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was ...

(1958– ), historian

Humanities

Gregory Baum Gerhard Albert Baum (June 20, 1923 – October 18, 2017), better known as Gregory Baum, was a German-born Canadian priest and theologian in the Catholic Church. He became known in North America and Europe in the 1960s for his work on ecumenism, ...

(1923–2017), priest and theologian *

Leon Edel Joseph Leon Edel (9 September 1907 – 5 September 1997) was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' calls Edel "the foremos ...

(1907–1997), literary critic;

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made ...

(1963) *

Archie Green Archie Green (June 29, 1917 – March 22, 2009) was an American folklorist specializing in laborlore (defined as the special folklore of workers) and American folk music. Devoted to understanding vernacular culture, he gathered and commente ...

(1917–2009), folklorist * Marvin Herzog (1927–2013), professor of Yiddish language * Norma Joseph (1944– ), professor of Jewish Studies *

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (born September 30, 1942, in Toronto, Ontario) is a scholar of Performance and Jewish Studies and a museum professional. Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, she is best known for her int ...

(1942– ), scholar of Jewish studies * Allan Nadler (1954– ), professor of Jewish studies *

Adele Reinhartz Adele Reinhartz (born 1953) is a Canadian academic and a specialist in the history and literature of Christianity and Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, the Gospel of John, early Jewish–Christian relations, literary criticism including femini ...

(1953– ), professor of Biblical literature *

David Roskies David G. Roskies (Yiddish: דוד ראָסקיס; born 1948, Montreal) is an internationally recognized Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian and author in the field of Yiddish literature and the culture of Eastern European Jewry. He is th ...

(1948– ), literary scholar *

Abraham de Sola Abraham de Sola (; September 18, 1825 – June 5, 1882) was a Canadian rabbi, author, Orientalist, and academic. Originating from a large renowned family of rabbis and scholars, De Sola was recognized as one of the foremost leaders of Orthodo ...

(1825–1882), professor of Semitic languages and literature *

Ruth Wisse Ruth Wisse (surname pronounced ) (Yiddish: רות װײַס; Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic and is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University ''emerita''. ...

(1936– ), professor of Yiddish literature

Philosophy

* Howard Adelman (1938– ), philosopher *

Gerald Cohen Gerald Allan Cohen, ( ; 14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Canadian political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Sou ...

(1941–2009), political philosopher * S. Morris Engel (1931– ), philosopher *

Emil Fackenheim Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (22 June 1916 – 18 September 2003) was a Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi. Born in Halle, Germany, he was arrested by Nazis on the night of 9 November 1938, known as Kristallnacht. Briefly interned at the Sachsenhau ...

(1916–2003), philosopher and theologian *

Raymond Klibansky Raymond Klibansky, (October 15, 1905 – August 5, 2005) was a German-Canadian historian of philosophy and art. Biography Born in Paris, to Rosa Scheidt and Hermann Klibansky, he was educated at the University of Kiel, University of Hamburg ...

(1905–2005), historian of philosophy * Lou Marinoff (1951– ), philosopher * Roger Nash (1946– ), philosopher *

Michael Neumann Michael Neumann (born 1946) is a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of ''What's Left? Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche'' (1988), ''The Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics'' (2002) and ''The Case Ag ...

(1946– ), philosopher *

Jay Newman Jay Newman (February 28, 1948 – June 17, 2007) was a philosopher and Professor at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. Biography Newman was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lou Newman and his wife, Kitty. He received his B.A. ...

(1948–2007), philosopher *

Leonard Peikoff Leonard Sylvan Peikoff (; born October 15, 1933) is a Canadian-American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and was a close associate of Ayn Rand, who designated him heir to her estate. He is a former professor of philosophy and host of a nation ...

(1933– ), philosopher *

Hillel Steiner Hillel Isaac Steiner (; born 1942) is a Canadian political philosopher and is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 1999. Work Steiner's writings ...

(1942– ), political philosopher

Physics and chemistry

Isaac Abella Isaac David Abella (June 20, 1934 – October 23, 2016) was a Canadian physicist who was a professor at the University of Chicago.Sidney Altman Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989, he shared the Nobel Prize in ...

(1939–2022), molecular biologist;

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(1989) *

Alfred Bader Alfred Robert Bader, CBE (April 28, 1924 – December 23, 2018) was a Canadian chemist, businessman, philanthropist, and collector of fine art. He was considered by the '' Chemical & Engineering News'' poll of 1998 to be one of the "Top 75 Dis ...

(1924–2018), chemist * Myer Bloom (1928–2016), physicist *

Jacques Distler Jacques Distler (born January 1, 1961) is a Canadian-born American physicist working in string theory. He has been a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin since 1994. Early life and education Distler was born to a Jewish family ...

(1961– ), physicist *

Ursula Franklin Ursula Martius Franklin (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a German-Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years.Lumley, Elizabeth (editor) (2008), ''Canadi ...

(1921–2016) metallurgist and physicist * Helen Freedhoff (1940–2017), theoretical physicist *

Stanton Friedman Stanton Terry Friedman (July 29, 1934 – May 13, 2019) was an American nuclear physicist and professional ufologist who resided in New Brunswick, Canada. He was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident. Early life Bor ...

(1934–2019 ), nuclear physicist and ufologist * Jack Halpern (1925–2018), inorganic chemist * Shlomo Hestrin (1914–1962), biochemist *

Leopold Infeld Leopold Infeld (20 August 1898 – 15 January 1968) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. E ...

(1898–1958), physicist *

Werner Israel Werner Israel, (October 4, 1931 – May 18, 2022) was a physicist, author, researcher, and professor at the University of Victoria. Biography Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, he first received his B.Sc. in 1951 an ...

(1931–2022), physicist *

Martin Kamen Martin David Kamen (August 27, 1913, Toronto – August 31, 2002, Montecito, California) was an American chemist who, together with Sam Ruben, co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of C ...

(1913–2002), chemist * Leon Katz (1909–2004), physicist *

Victoria Kaspi Victoria Michelle Kaspi (born June 30, 1967) is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.

(1967– ), astrophysicist *

Lawrence Krauss Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now c ...

(1954– ), theoretical physicist * David Levy (1948– ), astronomer *

Rudolph Marcus Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems". Marcus theory, named after him, provid ...

(1923– ), chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997) * Maya Paczuski (1963– ), physicist *

John Polanyi John Charles Polanyi ( hu, Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungari ...

(1929– ), chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986) * Juda Hirsch Quastel (1899–1987), biochemist *

Sara Seager Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. She is the au ...

(1971– ), astronomer * Moshe Shapiro (1944–2013), chemist and physicist *

David Shugar David Shugar (10 September 1915 – 31 October 2015) was a professor of the University of Warsaw. After the First World War, he settled as a child with his parents in Canada. In 1936 he concluded his education of physics at McGill University i ...

(1915–2015), physicist * Louis Slotin (1910–1946), physicist and chemist *

Joe Schwarcz Joseph A. Schwarcz (born 1947) is an author and a sessional instructor at McGill University. He is the director of McGill's Office for Science and Society. Early life Schwarcz is an only child, born in Sopron, Hungary to Jewish parents. During t ...

, science writer and chemist * Theodore Sourkes (1919–2015), biochemist *

Rudolf Vrba Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; 11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the c ...

(1924–2006), biochemist *

Leo Yaffe Leo Yaffe, (July 6, 1916 – May 14, 1997) was a Canadian nuclear chemistry scientist and a proponent of the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Born in Devils Lake, North Dakota, his family moved to Winnipeg in 1920. He studied at the Unive ...

(1916–1997), nuclear chemist and university administrator

Social sciences

* Bernard Avishai (1949– ), professor of business *

Ellen Bialystok Ellen Bialystok, OC, FRSC (born 1948) is a Canadian psychologist and professor. She carries the rank of Distinguished Research Professor at York University, in Toronto, where she is director of the Lifespan Cognition and Development Lab, and i ...

(1948– ), psychologist * Paul Bloom (1963– ), psychologist *

Reuven Brenner Reuven Brenner (born 1947) is a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian economics professor, holding the REPAP Chair of Economics at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. Notability Forbes magazine has called the professor one of "six eco ...

(1947– ), economist *

Michel Chossudovsky Michel Chossudovsky (born 1946) is a Canadian economist and author. He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa and the president and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), which runs the website global ...

(1946– ), economist *

Stanley Coren Stanley Coren (born 1942) is a psychology professor, neuropsychological researcher and writer on the intelligence, mental abilities and history of dogs. He works in research and instructs in psychology at the University of British Columbia in Va ...

(1942– ), psychologist *

Kurt Freund Kurt Freund (17 January 1914 – 23 October 1996) was a Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist best known for developing the penile plethysmograph (a measurement of sexual arousal in males), research studies in pedophilia, and for the "courts ...

(1914–1996), sexologist * Rochel Gelman (1942– ), psychologist *

Reva Gerstein Reva Appleby Gerstein (born Reva Appleby; 27 March 1917 – 6 January 2020) was a Canadian psychologist, educator, and mental health advocate. She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario, serving from 1992 to 1996. ...

(1917–2020), psychologist *

Erving Goffman Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born sociology, sociologist, Social psychology (sociology), social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth ...

(1922–1982), sociologist* *

Myrna Gopnik Myrna Lee Gopnik (born 1935) is a Canadian linguist. She is a Professor Emerita of Linguistics at McGill University. She is known for her research on the KE family, an English family with several members affected by specific language impairment. ...

, (1935–), linguist *

Ida Halpern Ida Halpern ( née Ruhdörfer; July 17, 1910 – February 7, 1987) was a Canadian ethnomusicologist. Halpern was born in Vienna, Austria. She arrived in Canada in order to flee Nazism in her native country, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1 ...

(1910–1987), ethnomusicologist * Samuel Hollander (1937– ), economist *

Gad Horowitz Gad Horowitz (born 1936) is a Canadian political scientist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Biography Horowitz was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and immigrated to Canada at the age of 2. His father Rabbi Aaron Horowitz, was ...

(1936– ), political scientist *

Helmut Kallmann Helmut Max Kallmann (7 August 1922 – 12 February 2012) was a Canadian musicologist, music educator, librarian, and scholar of Canadian music history. He was a librarian at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, head of the music division at ...

(1922–2012), musicologist *

Ivan Kalmar Ivan Kalmar (born February 13, 1948) is a Canadian professor. Early life Soon after he was born in Prague, his family moved to Komárno, and later to Bratislava. When he was seventeen, he left what was then Czechoslovakia, and eventually arr ...

(1948– ), anthropologist *

James Laxer James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

(1941–2018), political economist * Daniel Levitin (1957– ), cognitive psychologist *

Ronald Melzack Ronald Melzack (July 19, 1929 – December 22, 2019) was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at McGill University. In 1965, he and Patrick David Wall revolutionized pain research by introducing the gate control theory of pain. ...

(1929–2019), psychologist *

Henry Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg (born September 2, 1939) is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, ...

(1939– ), business theorist *

Sylvia Ostry Sylvia Ostry (; June 3, 1927 – May 7, 2020) was a Canadian economist and public servant. Life Born Sylvia Knelman in Winnipeg, Manitoba on June 3, 1927, she received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from McGill University in 1948, a Master ...

(1927–2020), economist *

Leo Panitch Leo Victor Panitch (3 May 1945 – 19 December 2020) was a distinguished research professor of political science and a Canada Research Chair in comparative political economy at York University. From 1985 until the 2021 edition, he served as co-ed ...

(1945–2020), political scientist *

Norman Penner Norman Penner (February 21, 1921 - April 16, 2009) was professor emeritus at York University, a writer and historian, a war veteran and a former activist in the Communist Party of Canada and the Labor-Progressive Party who broke with the party as ...

(1921–2009), political scientist and historian *

Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. P ...

(1954– ), cognitive psychologist and linguist * Susan Pinker (1957– ), psychologist and writer *

Frances Fox Piven Frances Fox Piven (born October 10, 1932) is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.

(1932– ), political scientist *

Gad Saad Gad Saad (; ar, جاد سعد; born 13 October 1964) is a Canadian marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He is known for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour. He wrote ...

(1964– ), evolutionary psychologist * Myron Scholes (1941– ), financial economist;

Nobel Prize in Economics The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

(1997) * Vera Shlakman (1909–2017), economist *

Lionel Tiger Lionel Tiger (born February 5, 1937) is a Canadian-American anthropologist. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Early life and education Born ...

, anthropologist *

Jacob Viner Jacob Viner (3 May 1892 – 12 September 1970) was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago school of economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading fig ...

(1892–1970), economist *

Kenneth Zucker Kenneth J. Zucker (; born 1950) is an American-Canadian psychologist and sexologist. He was named editor-in-chief of ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'' in 2001. He was psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH ...

(1950– ), psychologist and sexologist *

Shlomo Weber Shlomo Weber (born 2 September 1949) is an economics professor and ex-Rector, New Economic School in Moscow, Russia; Academic Director othe Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions at NES Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor o ...

(1949– ), economist

University administration

Isaac Hellmuth Isaac Hellmuth (December 14, 1819 – 28 May 1901), second Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, was the founder of Huron University College and the University of Western Ontario, one of Canada's leading universities. He was also founder of Hel ...

(1819–1901), founder of the University of Western Ontario *

Myer Horowitz Myer Horowitz (December 27, 1932 – October 24, 2022) was a Canadian academic who served as the ninth president of the University of Alberta from 1979 to 1989. Early life and education Horowitz was born in Montreal, Quebec on December 27, 19 ...

(1932–2022), president of the University of Alberta *

Sheldon Levy Sheldon Levy (born 1949) is a veteran Canadian business leader in higher education who is currently President and Vice-Chancellor of University Canada West (UCW) in Vancouver and a special advisor on the development of the forthcoming University o ...

(1949– ), president and vice-chancellor of Ryerson University *

Jack N. Lightstone Jack N. Lightstone is a Canadian professor of history, and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He took office on July 1, 2006, to serve a five-year term as President and as a professor of history ...

(1951– ), provost of Concordia University; president of Brock University *

Frederick Lowy Frederick Hans Lowy, (born 1933) is a Canadian medical educator and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University.Arnold Naimark Arnold Naimark (born August 24, 1933) is a Canadian physician, academic, and former President of the University of Manitoba. Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a B.Sc.Med. degree in 1957, a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1957, and a ...

(1933– ), president of the University of Manitoba * Mordechai Rozanski (1946– ), president of the University of Guelph *

Bernard Shapiro Bernard Jack Shapiro, (born June 8, 1935) is a Canadian academic, civil servant, former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2004, and the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada between May 17, 2004 and March 29, 2007. Bi ...

(1935– ), principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University * Harold Shapiro (1935– ), president of Princeton University *

(1958– ), principal and vice-chancellor of Queen's University *

Max Wyman Max Wyman (April 14, 1916 – February 9, 1991) was a Canadian mathematician and academic administrator. He served as president of the University of Alberta from 1969 to 1974. He was educated at the University of Alberta (BSc 1937) and Califor ...

(1916–1991), president of the University of Alberta

Activists

* Manuel Batshaw (1915–2016), social worker *

Marjorie Blankstein Marjorie B. Blankstein, (née Rady, born 1929) is a fundraiser, community activist and volunteer. Through her mother Rose, she is a member of the wealthy Bronfman family and a niece of Samuel Bronfman. Blankstein was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sh ...

, community activist *

Judy Feld Carr Judith Feld Carr, (born 1938) is a Canadian musicologist and human rights activist known for secretly bringing to freedom thousands of Jews out of Syria over a period of 28 years. Biography Judith "Judy" Feld Carr was born in Montreal, Quebec, ...

(1938– ), human rights activist * Sabina Citron (1928– ), activist and author * Martha Cohen (1920–2015), community activist *

Betty Dubiner Betty Dubiner ( he, בטי דובינר, 3 June 1912 – 15 February 2008) was a Canadian-born Israeli, who was instrumental in obtaining vaccines for the new nation of Israel to combat a polio epidemic and the development of programs to assist di ...

(1912–2008), disabilities activist *

Bernie Farber Bernie M. Farber (born 1951) is a writer, commentator, and the former chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress and a social activist. He has testified before the Canadian courts as an expert witness on hate crime. He was appointe ...

(1951– ), Jewish community leader and social activist *

Abraham Feinberg Abraham Feinberg (14 September 1899 – 5 October 1986) was an American rabbi who lived much of his life in Canada. In his obituary, ''The New York Times'' declared about him: "He was always ready to march, lend his name or send a telegram if there ...

(1899–1986), human rights activist. *

Shulamith Firestone Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-w ...

(1945–2012), radical feminist * Ruth Frankel (1903–1989), activist *

Howard Galganov Howard Galganov (born February 12, 1950, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian political activist and radio personality in Montreal during the late 1990s. He made headlines in Quebec for being a vocal and confrontational opponent of the Charter of ...

(1950– ), political activist * Saul Hayes (1906–1980), activist *

Goldie Hershon Goldie Brenda Hershon (July 25, 1941 – December 4, 2020) was a Canadian activist from Montreal and former president of the Canadian Jewish Congress (1995–1998). Her presidency was marked by the focus on national unity, support for Jewish com ...

(1941– ), activist and Jewish community leader *

Kalmen Kaplansky Kalmen Kaplansky, (January 5, 1912 – December 10, 1997) was a civil, human rights and trade union activist in Canada. Alan Borovoy described Kaplansky as "the ''zaideh''" (grandfather) of the Canadian human rights movement. Kaplansky was born in ...

(1912–1997), human rights activist *

Hillel Neuer Hillel C. Neuer (born 1969/1970) is a Canadian-born international lawyer, writer, and the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group based in Geneva, Switzerland. Neuer is the founding chairman of Geneva Summit fo ...

(1969– ), executive director of

UN Watch UN Watch is a Geneva-based non-governmental organization whose stated mission is "to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of United Nations Charter, its own Charter". It is an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Statu ...

Judy Rebick Judy Rebick (born August 15, 1945) is a Canadian writer, journalist, political activist, and feminist. Early life Born in Reno, Nevada, Rebick and her family moved to Toronto when she was 9. She became a socialist activist in the 1970s, joining th ...

(1945– ), political activist *

Dorothy Reitman Dorothy Reitman, (born 1932) is a Canadian philanthropist and activist who served as first female president of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) from 1986 to 1989. Early life Reitman's parents emigrated from Odessa in her infancy. She attended ...

(1932– ), activist *

Léa Roback Léa Roback (3 November 1903 – 28 August 2000) was a Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist. She campaigned against exclusion, violence, racism and injustice. A polyglot and a suffragist, she was a pioneer of ...

(1903–2000), social activist and feminist * Irv Rubin (1945–2002), Kahanist activist * David Shentow (1925–2017), Holocaust educator

Artists

Architects and designers

Hans Blumenfeld Hans Blumenfeld, (October 18, 1892 – January 30, 1988) was a German Canadians, Canadian architect and city planner. Blumenfeld published many articles on economic and social effects of planning with the emphasis on interdependence of ph ...

(1892–1988), architect and city planner * Benjamin Brown (1890–1974), architect * Jack Diamond (1932–2022), architect *

Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ...

(1929– ), architect *

Gregory Henriquez Gregory Henriquez (born 1963) is a Canadian architect who has designed community-based mixed-use projects in Vancouver, Toronto and Seattle. He is the managing principal of Vancouver-based Henriquez Partners Architects, founded in 1969 by his fat ...

(1963– ), architect *

Phyllis Lambert Phyllis Barbara Lambert, (née Bronfman; born January 24, 1927) is a Canadian architect, philanthropist, and member of the Bronfman family. Life Born in Montreal, Quebec, she studied at The Study, a premier independent school for girls, and wa ...

(1927– ), architect and philanthropist *

Cornelia Oberlander Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (20 June 1921 – 22 May 2021) was a German-born Canadian landscape architect. Her firm, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, was founded in 1953, when she moved to Vancouver. During her career she contribu ...

(1921–2021), landscape architect *

Peter Oberlander H. Peter Oberlander, (November 29, 1922 – December 27, 2008) was a Canadian architect and Canada's first professor of Urban and Regional Planning. Early life and education Born in Vienna, Austria, he settled in Britain with his family afte ...

(1922–2008), architect *

Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...

(1938– ), architect *

Arnold Scaasi Arnold Isaacs (May 8, 1930 – August 3, 2015), known as Arnold Scaasi, was a Canadian fashion designer who has created gowns for First Ladies Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Laura Bush, in addition to such notable persona ...

(1930–2015), fashion designer

Fine arts

Omer Arbel Omer Arbel (born 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Vancouver. His output is broad, including materials research, lighting design, building design and site specific installations. He is one of two co-founders of Bocci, a Can ...

(1976– ), sculptor and designer * Aba Bayefsky (1923–2001), artist *

Arnold Belkin Arnold Belkin (December 9, 1930 – July 3, 1992) was a Canadian- Mexican painter credited for continuing the Mexican muralism tradition at a time when many Mexican painters were shifting away from it. Born and raised in western Canada, he ...

(1930–1992), painter *

Barry Blitt Barry Blitt (born April 30, 1958 in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec) is a Canadian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his ''New Yorker'' covers and as a regular contributor to the op-ed page of ''The New York Times''. Blitt creates ...

(1958– ), illustrator * Sam Borenstein (1908–1969), painter *

Ghitta Caiserman-Roth Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (March 2, 1923 – November 25, 2005) was a Canadians, Canadian painter and printmaker. She was a founder of the Montreal Artist School and her work is in the National Gallery of Canada. Caiserman-Roth was also an associate m ...

(1923–2005), artist * Lynne Cohen (1944–2014), photography * Yehouda Chaki (1938– ), artist *

Sorel Etrog Sorel Etrog, (August 29, 1933 February 26, 2014) was a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian artist, writer, and philosopher best known for his work as a sculptor. He specialised in modern art works and contemporary sculpture. Etrog's works explore his f ...

(1933–2014), sculptor * Albert Gilbert (1922–2019), photographer *

Gerald Gladstone Gerald Gladstone (7 January 1929 – 7 March 2005) was a Canadian sculptor and painter. Life Born in 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Ralph and Dora Gladstone, Gerald was the sixth of nine children. In his youth, Gladstone was ...

(1929–2005), sculptor * Eric Goldberg (1890–1969), painter *

Jack Goldstein Jack Goldstein (September 27, 1945 – March 14, 2003) was a Canadian born, California-based performance and conceptual artist turned painter in the 1980s art boom. Early life and education Goldstein was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Q ...

(1945–2003), multimedia artist * Pnina Granirer (1935– ), painter *

Philip Guston Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. Early in his five decade career, muralist David Siquieros described him as one of "the most promising ...

(1913–1980), abstract expressionist *

Gilah Yelin Hirsch Gilah Yelin Hirsch (born 1944) is a mwod:multidisciplinary, multidisciplinary artist who works as a painter, writer, curator, and filmmaker. Her work explores the connections between science, art, and spirituality. She has been a leader in the Int ...

(1944– ), artist * Eli Ilan (1928–1982), sculptor *

Gershon Iskowitz Gershon Iskowitz (1919 – January 26, 1988) was a Canadian artist of Jewish background originally from Poland. Iskowitz was a Holocaust survivor of the Kielce Ghetto, who was liberated at Buchenwald. The circumstances of his early life—the ...

(1921–1988), artist * Sarah Jackson (1924–2004), artist * Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916–2009), painter * Sylvia Lefkovitz (1924–1987), painter and sculptor * Stanley Lewis (1930–2006), sculptor * Harry Mayerovitch (1910–2004), artist and architect * Louis Muhlstock (1904–2001), painter *

Henry Orenstein Henry Orenstein (born Henryk Orenstein; October 13, 1923 – December 14, 2021) was a Polish-born Jewish-American toymaker, professional poker player, entrepreneur and Holocaust survivors, Holocaust survivor who resided in Verona, New Jersey, V ...

(1918–2008), painter * Alfred Pinsky (1921–1999), painter * David Rabinowitch (1943– ), sculptor *

Royden Rabinowitch Royden Rabinowitch, (born March 6, 1943) is a Canadian post-minimalist sculptor who exhibits internationally. Some critics consider him one of the pioneers of modern sculpture. Rabinowitch was elected Visiting Associate 1983/84; Visiting Fellow 1 ...

(1943– ), sculptor *

William Raphael William Raphael (August 22, 1833 – March 15, 1914), born Israel Rafalsky (), was a Prussian-born Canadian painter, best known for his lively genre scenes of the Montreal harbour and market life. He was the first Jewish professional artist to ...

(1833–1914), painter *

Miriam Schapiro Miriam Schapiro (also known as Mimi) (November 15, 1923 – June 20, 2015) was a Canadian-born artist based in the United States. She was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and a pioneer of feminist art. She was also considered a leader of the Pat ...

(1923–2015), artist * Regina Seiden (1897–1991), painter * Yechiel Shainblum, (died 1987), painter and sculptor *

Joe Shuster Joseph Shuster (; July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992), professionally known simply as Joe Shuster, was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in ''Action Comics'' #1 (c ...

(1914–1992), co-creator of ''Superman'' * Erik Slutsky (1953– ), painter * Max Stern (1904–1987), art dealer * Avrom Yanovsky (1911–1979), cartoonist

Business

Finance

* Mitch Garber (1964–), investor and business executive * Sol Kanee (1909–2007), banker and Jewish community leader *

Alvin Libin Alvin G. Libin (born April 22, 1931) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. The Calgary-based Libin is President and Chief Executive Officer of Balmon Investments Ltd, a private management services and investment company, with interests p ...

(1931– ), investor and co-owner of

Calgary Sports and Entertainment The Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation (CSEC) is a privately owned professional sports and entertainment company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada formed in 2012 and owned by N. Murray Edwards, Alvin Libin, Allan Markin, Jeffrey McCaig, ...

* Lazarus Phillips (1895 –1986), director of the

Royal Bank of Canada Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; french: Banque royale du Canada) is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 17 million clients and has more than 89,000& ...

and senator *

Louis Rasminsky Louis Rasminsky, (February 1, 1908 – September 15, 1998) was the third Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, succeeding James Coyne. He was succeeded by Gerald Bouey. Born in Montreal, he was raised in Toronto, graduated at ...

(1908–1998), Governor of Bank of Canada *

Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin (born August 24, 1954) is a Canadian economist and author. He is a former chief economist at CIBC World Markets and is currently a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Rubin had worked at CIBC World Ma ...

(1954– ), chief economist of

CIBC World Markets CIBC World Markets Inc. is the investment banking subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The firm operates as an investment bank both in the domestic and international equity and debt capital markets. The firm provides a variety ...

Gerry Schwartz Gerald W. Schwartz, OC (born 1941) is the founder, chairman and CEO of Onex Corporation. Schwartz has a net worth of US$1.5 billion, according to Forbes. Early life and career Schwartz was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from Kelvin H ...

(1941– ), CEO of

Onex Corporation Onex Corporation is an investment manager founded in 1984. The firm manages capital on behalf of Onex shareholders, institutional investors and high net worth clients around the world. As of September 30, 2022, Onex had approximately US$47.2 ...

Alex Shnaider Alexander Yevseyevich Shnaider (russian: Алекса́ндр Евсе́евич "А́лекс" Шнайдер; he, אלכסנדר (אלכס) שניידר; born 3 August 1968) is a Russian-born Canadian entrepreneur and former commodities tra ...

(1968– ), co-founder of the

Midland Group The Midland Group is an international trading and investment holding company. Registered in Guernsey under the name Midland Resources Holding Ltd, the group owns a number of subsidiaries across the agriculture, manufacturing, real estate, shippin ...

Lawrence Stroll Lawrence Sheldon Strulović (name later anglicized to Strulovitch) (born 11 July 1959), best known as Lawrence Stroll, is a Canadian billionaire businessman, part-owner and executive chairman of Aston Martin, and the owner of the Aston Martin F1 ...

(1959– ), investor *

Mark Wiseman Mark Wiseman is a businessman and financier. He is currently the chair of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation. He was formerly a manager at BlackRock. Prior to 2016, Wiseman was President and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Bo ...

(1970– ) CEO of the

CPP Investment Board The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB; french: Office d'investissement du régime de pensions du Canada), operating as CPP Investments (french: Investissements RPC), is a Canadian Crown corporation established by way of the 1997 ''Cana ...

Media

Izzy Asper Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper (August 11, 1932– October 7, 2003) was a Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate. He was the founder and owner of the now-defunct TV and media company CanWest Global Communications Corp and father to its former CEO and ...

(1932–2003), chairman of

Canwest Global Communications Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place. It held radio, television broadcasting an ...

Leonard Asper Leonard Asper (born May 31, 1964) is a Canadian businessperson, entrepreneur and lawyer. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Toronto Law School, and is a member of the Ontario Bar Association and The Law Society of Upper ...

(1964– ), president and CEO of Canwest Global Communications *

Avie Bennett Avie Bennett, (January 2, 1928 – June 2, 2017) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of First Plazas, a real estate development company that built retail strip malls in Canada. Bennett also served as the tenth c ...

(1928–2017), chairman of

McClelland & Stewart McClelland & Stewart Limited is a Canadian publishing company. It is owned by Penguin Random House of Canada, a branch of Penguin Random House, the international book publishing division of German media giant Bertelsmann. History It was founded ...

Jacques Bensimon Jacques Bensimon (August 26, 1943 – August 26, 2012) was a public film and television director, producer and executive in Canada, working primarily with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and TFO, the French-language network of TVOntario. ...

(1943–2012), director of the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

Mark Breslin Mark Breslin, is a Canadian entrepreneur, producer, stand-up comedian and actor best known for being the co-founder (along with Joel Axler) of Yuk Yuk's, the largest chain of comedy clubs in Canada. On December 29, 2017, he was appointed a Me ...

(1952– ), co-founder of

Yuk Yuk's Yuk Yuk's is a national comedy club chain in Canada, founded by former stand-up comedian Mark Breslin and established in 1976 by Breslin and long-time friend Joel Axler. The company is currently run by Breslin and his long-time partner and presi ...

Edgar Bronfman Jr. Edgar Miles Bronfman Jr. (born May 16, 1955) is an American businessman who currently serves as a Managing Partner at Accretive LLC, a private equity firm focused on creating and investing in technology companies. He previously served as CEO of ...

(1955– ), CEO and chairman of

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and t ...

* Paul Godfrey (1939– ), president and CEO of

Postmedia Network Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a Canadian media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, news ...

Michael Goldbloom Michael Goldbloom (born 1953) is a Canadian lawyer, publisher, and academic administrator. He is the former publisher of the ''Toronto Star'', Canada's largest newspaper by circulation. Early life and education Born in Montreal, Quebec, as th ...

(1953– ), president of

Star Media Group Daily News Brands, formerly Star Media Group, is a Canadian media organization and a division of Torstar Corporation. Its flagship publication is the ''Toronto Star'' newspaper, which is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of ...

Ian Greenberg Ian Greenberg (15 June 1942 – 10 January 2022) was a Canadian businessman and media pioneer. He was the co-founder of Astral Media Inc. and served as its president and chief executive officer from 1996 until 2013. Early life Greenberg was born ...

(1942– ), co-founder and CEO of

Astral Media Astral Media Inc. was a Canadian media conglomerate. It was Canada's largest radio broadcaster, with 84 radio stations in eight provinces. Astral was also a major player in premium and specialty television in Canada, with 23 specialty channels ...

* Michael Hirsh (1948– ), co-founder of

Nelvana Nelvana Enterprises, Inc. (; previously known as Nelvana Limited, sometimes known as Nelvana Animation and simply Nelvana or Nelvana Communications) is a Canadian animation studio and entertainment company owned by Corus Entertainment. Founded ...

Mel Hurtig Mel Hurtig (1932–2016) was a Canadian publisher, author, political activist, and political candidate. He was president of the Edmonton Art Gallery. He described himself as a Canadian nationalist, while he also wrote several books critical of ...

(1932–2016), publisher *

Jonathan Kay Jonathan Hillel Kay (born 1968) is a Canadian journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of ''The Walrus'' (2014–2017), and is a senior editor of ''Quillette''. He was previously comment pages editor, columnist, and blogger for the Toronto-based Ca ...

(1968– ), editor-in-chief of ''

The Walrus ''The Walrus'' is an independent, non-profit Canadian media organization. It is multi-platform and produces an 8-issue-per-year magazine and online editorial content that includes current affairs, fiction, poetry, and podcasts, a national s ...

'' *

Ezra Levant Ezra Isaac Levant (born February 20, 1972) is a Canadian conservative media personality, political activist, writer, broadcaster, and former lawyer. Levant is the founder and former publisher of the conservative magazine, The'' Western Standard''. ...

(1972– ), political commentator and founder of

Rebel News ''Rebel News'' (also known as ''The Rebel Media'' and ''The Rebel'') is a Canadian right-wing to far-right political and social commentary media website operated by Rebel News Network Ltd. It has been described as a "global platform" for the ...

David Margolese David Margolese (born October 24, 1957) is an Israeli entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder of Sirius XM Radio, serving as chairman and CEO from 1993 to 2002.Michael Wolff"Cruise Control,"''New York'', September 25, 2000, pp. 30-32. Conside ...

(1957– ), founder of

Sirius XM Radio Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. It was formed by the 2008 merger of Sirius Sat ...

Louis B. Mayer Louis Burt Mayer (; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1882 or 1884 or 1885 – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industr ...

(1884–1957), co-founder of

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ...

* Andy Nulman (1959– ), co-founder of '' Just for Laughs'' * M. J. Nurenberger (1911–2001), founder of the ''

Canadian Jewish News The Canadian Jewish News is a non-profit, national, English-language digital-first media organization that serves Canada‘s Jewish community. A national edition of the newspaper was published for 60 years in Toronto. A weekly Montreal edition in ...

'' *

Bernard Ostry Bernard A. Ostry, (June 10, 1927 – May 24, 2006) was a Canadian author, philanthropist, and civil servant, who is best known for being chair and CEO of TVOntario. Born in Wadena, Saskatchewan, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the ...

(1927–2006), chair and CEO of

TVOntario TVO Media Education Group (often abbreviated as TVO and stylized on-air as tvo) is a publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario ...

Robert Rabinovitch Robert Rabinovitch (born March 1, 1943) is a Canadian public servant and businessman who was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

(1943– ), president and CEO of the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...

* A. M. Rosenthal (1922–2006), executive editor of ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

''; Pulitzer Prize (1960) * Brian Segal (1943– ), president and CEO of Rogers Publishing * Jay Switzer (1956–2018), president and CEO of

CHUM Limited CHUM Limited was a Canadian media company based in Toronto, Ontario in operation from 1945 to 2007. The company was founded in 1945 as York Broadcasters Limited when it launched CHUM-AM 1050 but was acquired by salesman Allan Waters in 1954. CHU ...

Jack L. Warner Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanned some ...

(1892–1978), president of

Warner Bros. Studios Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. D ...

Moses Znaimer Moses Znaimer (; born 1942) is a Tajik-born Canadian media executive of jewish descent. He is the co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia. ...

(1942– ), co-founder and head of

Citytv Citytv is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The licence of the original Citytv station, granted the callsign of CITY-TV by the CRTC on November 25, 1971 to Cable Television Ass ...

Mortimer Zuckerman Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman (born June 4, 1937) is a Canadian-American billionaire media proprietor, magazine editor, and investor. He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate inves ...

(1937– ), co-founder of

Boston Properties Boston Properties, Inc. is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that invests in premier workplaces in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. As of June 30, 2022, the company owned or had interest ...

and media proprietor

Natural resources

Robert Friedland Robert Martin Friedland (August 18, 1950) is an American/Canadian billionaire financier in the mining industry. Since the early 1980s, he has specialized in securing funding for the exploration and development of mineral and energy resources and ...

(1950– ), founder of

Ivanhoe Mines Ivanhoe Mines is a Canadian mining company focused on advancing its three principal projects in Southern Africa: the development of new mines at the Kamoa-Kakula copper discoveries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Platreef palladiu ...

* Leon Joseph Koerner (1892–1972), philanthropist and industrialist *

Peter Munk Peter Munk (November 8, 1927 – March 28, 2018) was a Hungarian-Canadian businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive officer of a number of high-profile business ventures, including the hi-fi electronics co ...

(1927–2018), founder of

Barrick Gold Barrick Gold Corporation is a mining company that produces gold and copper with 16 operating sites in 13 countries. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has mining operations in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Democrati ...

Joseph Rotman Joseph Louis Rotman, (January 6, 1935 – January 27, 2015), was a noted Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Rotman was the founder, benefactor and member of many successful organizations, such as the Clairvest Group Inc., the Rotman Resear ...

(1935–2015), businessman and philanthropist *

Seymour Schulich Seymour Schulich, Order of Canada, OC ( , born January 6, 1940) is a Canadian businessman, investor, author, and philanthropist. Biography Schulich was raised in a Canadian Jews, Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec.Irving Schwartz (1929–2010), entrepreneur and philanthropist * Levy Solomons (1730–1792), merchant and fur trader

Philanthropists

* Bluma Appel (1919–2007), philanthropist * Jenny Belzberg (1928– ), philanthropist * Alfred David Benjamin (1848–1900), businessman and philanthropist *

Lillian Bilsky Freiman Lillian Bilsky Freiman (1885 – November 2, 1940), nicknamed The Poppy Lady, was a Jewish-Canadian philanthropist, and Zionist. In 2008, she was designated a Person of National Historic Significance by the Canadian Government for being "a gifte ...

(1885–1940), philanthropist and civil leader * Ruth Goldbloom (1923–2012), co-founder of

Pier 21 Pier 21 was an ocean liner terminal and immigration shed from 1928 to 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly one million immigrants came to Canada through Pier 21, and it is the last surviving seaport immigration facility in Canada. The fac ...

Real estate

Marcel Adams Marcel Adams (2 August 1920 – 11 August 2020) was a Canadian real estate investor, billionaire, and Holocaust survivor.

(1920–2020), real estate investor * Sylvan Adams (1958– ), real estate investor *

David Azrieli David Joshua Azrieli, ( he, דוד יהושע עזריאלי; 10 May 1922 – 9 July 2014) was an Israeli-Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion as of ...

(1922–2014), real estate magnate * Samuel Belzberg (1928–2018), businessman *The Ghermezian family, shopping mall developers *

Mitchell Goldhar Mitchell Goldhar is a Canadian billionaire and businessman. He owned SmartCentres, a firm that developed Walmart-anchored shopping malls in Canada, and retains a significant ownership stake in its successor firm SmartCentres REIT. Since August 2 ...

(1962– ), founder of SmartCentres and owner of

Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club ( he, מועדון כדורגל מכבי תל אביב; ''Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Tel Aviv'') is an Israeli football club from Tel Aviv and part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Sport Club. Founded in 1906 in Jaffa as ...

Michal Hornstein Michal Hornstein, (September 17, 1920 – April 25, 2016) was a Polish-born Canadian businessman, art collector and philanthropist. Biography Born in Tarnów, Poland and raised in Kraków, he was captured by the German army during World War I ...

(1920–2016), businessman and philanthropist * The

Reichmann family The Reichmann/Reichman family is a History of the Jews in Canada, Jewish-Canadian family best known for their property empire built through the Olympia and York company which relied on a carefully constructed image and secrecy to obtain billions ...

, real estate magnates **

Edward Reichmann Edward Reichmann ( he, אדוארד רייכמן; 1925 – July 2005) was an Israeli businessman. He is the oldest of the five Reichmann brothers, famed for their global business empire. He was born to Samuel Reichmann a wealthy Vienna merchant of ...

(1925–2005), real estate magnate **

Paul Reichmann Paul (Moshe Yosef) Reichmann ( he, משה יוסף רייכמן‎; 27 September 1930 – 25 October 2013) was a Canadian businessman and member of the Reichmann family. He is best known for his leadership of the Olympia & York real estate ...

(1930–2013), real estate magnate *

Jack Singer Jack Singer (1917 – February 2, 2013) was a Canadian real estate developer, financier, and philanthropist. Although he owned numerous properties across Canada and the USA, he is most famous for his acquisition of Zoetrope Studio in Hollywood, ...

(1917–2013), real estate developer *

Allan Zeman Allan Zeman GBM, GBS, JP (Chinese name: 盛智文; born 18 July 1949) is a Hong Kong business magnate. Background and personal life Allan Zeman was born into a Jewish family in Regensburg, Germany; and was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canad ...

(1949– ), developer

Retail

Aldo Bensadoun Albert "Aldo" Bensadoun (born 1939), is a Canadian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and executive chairman of the ALDO Group, a retail shoe company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bensadoun's family foundation donated $25 million t ...

(1939– ), founder of the

Aldo Group The ALDO Group branded as ALDO, is a Canadian multinational corporation retailer that owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessories stores. The company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec, in 1972, where its cor ...

* The

Bronfman family The Bronfman family is a Canadian family, known for its extensive business holdings. It owes its initial fame to Samuel Bronfman (1889–1971), the most influential Canadian Jew of the mid-20th century, who made a fortune in the alcoholic distill ...

, businesspeople and philanthropists **

Charles Bronfman Charles Bronfman, (born June 27, 1931) is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion (as of 2021), Bronfman was ranked by ''Forbes'' ...

(1931– ), co-chairman of

Seagram's The Seagram Company Ltd. (which traded as Seagram's) was a Canadian multinational conglomerate formerly headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Originally a distiller of Canadian whisky based in Waterloo, Ontario, it was once (in the 1990s) the la ...

Edgar Bronfman Sr. Edgar Miles Bronfman (born June 20, 1929 – December 21, 2013) was a Canadian-American businessman. He worked for his family's distilled beverage firm, Seagram, eventually becoming president, treasurer and CEO. As president of the World Jewish ...

(1929–2013), head of

and president of the World Jewish Congress **

Samuel Bronfman Samuel Bronfman, (February 27, 1889 – July 10, 1971) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He founded Distillers Corporation Limited, and is a member of the Canadian Bronfman family. Biography Samuel Bronfman was born in Otaci, ...

(1889–1971), founder of

Dov Charney Dov Charney (born January 31, 1969) is a Canadian entrepreneur and clothing manufacturer. He is the founder of American Apparel, which was one of the largest garment manufacturers in the United States until its bankruptcy in 2015. Charney subse ...

(1969– ), founder of

American Apparel American Apparel Inc. is an online-only retailer and former brick-and-mortar stores operator based in Los Angeles, California. Founded by Canadian businessman Dov Charney in 1989, it was a vertically integrated company that ranked as one of the ...

* Lyon Cohen (1868–1937), businessman and philanthropist *

George Cohon George Alan Cohon, (born April 19, 1937) is an American-born Canadian businessman who is the founder and senior chairman of McDonald's Canada and McDonald's Russia. Early life and education George Alan Cohon was born to a Ukrainian-Jewish fathe ...

(1937– ), founder of

McDonald's Canada McDonald's Restaurants of Canada, Limited (french: Les Restaurants McDonald's du Canada Limitée) is the Canadian master franchise of the fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, owned by the American parent McDonald's Corporation. One of Canada ...

* Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), co-founder of

Consolidated Foods The Sara Lee Corporation was an American consumer-goods company based in Downers Grove, Illinois. It had operations in more than 40 countries and sold its products in over 180 countries. Its international operations were headquartered in Utrecht ...

Leslie Dan Leslie Lewis Dan, (born November 26, 1929), is a Canadians, Canadian-Hungarians, Hungarian businessman and pharmacist. The founder of Novopharm, a successful generic pharmaceutical company which he subsequently sold to Teva Pharmaceuticals. A not ...

(1929– ), founder of Novopharm * Sir

Mortimer Davis Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis (February 6, 1866 – March 22, 1928) was a Jewish Canadian businessman and philanthropist. The mansion that he built in Montreal's Golden Square Mile has been renamed ''Purvis Hall'' and is today owned by McGill Un ...

(1866–1928), tobacco industry executive *

Archibald Jacob Freiman Archibald Jacob "Archie" Freiman (June 6, 1880 – June 4, 1944) was a Lithuania-born Jewish Ottawa businessman and Zionist leader. According to Bernard Figler, Freiman was the most influential Canadian Jew of his generation. His wife was not ...

(1880–1944), founder of

Freimans A.J. Freiman Limited, or Freimans ( ), was a landmark department store at 73 Rideau Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1918 by Archibald J. Freiman. Archibald Jacob Freiman was born in Lithuania in 1880, and emigrated to Hamilton, On ...

Hershey Friedman Hershey Friedman (born 1950) is a Canadians, Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. His business concerns span the plastics packaging business and kosher meat in North America as well as luxury real estate development and Jewish book ...

(1950– ), owner of Agri Star * Daniel Friedmann (1956– ), CEO of

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates MDA Ltd. is a Canadian space technology company headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, that provides geointelligence, robotics & space operations, and satellite systems. History MDA (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates) was founde ...

Daryl Katz Daryl Allan Katz (born May 31, 1961) is a Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Katz is founder and chairman of the Katz Group of Companies, one of Canada's largest privately-owned enterprises, with pharmacy, sports & entertainmen ...

(1961– ), founder of

Katz Group of Companies The Katz Group of Companies is a Canadian privately-owned enterprise, with Samantha operations. In sports and entertainment and real estate development. Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG), a subsidiary of the Katz Group, owns the National Hockey Lea ...

and owner of the

Edmonton Oilers The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The Oilers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. They play their home games at Rogers Place, which ...

Murray Koffler Murray Bernard Koffler, (January 22, 1924 – November 5, 2017) was a Canadian pharmacist, businessman, and philanthropist. He was best known for founding the Canadian pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart, establishing the Koffler Centre of the Arts ...

(1924–2017), founder of

Shoppers Drug Mart Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories. The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962 ...

Ed Mirvish Edwin "Honest Ed" Mirvish, (July 24, 1914 – July 11, 2007) was an American-Canadian businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He is known for his flagship business, Honest Ed's, a landmark disco ...

(1914–2007), founder of

Honest Ed's Honest Ed's was a landmark discount store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was named for its proprietor, Ed Mirvish, who opened the store in 1948 and oversaw its operations for almost 60 years until his death in 2007. The store continued to operat ...

Jack Rabinovitch Jack Rabinovitch (24 June 1930 – 6 August 2017) OC, O.Ont was a Canadian philanthropist best known for founding the Giller Prize which is named after his late wife, Doris Giller, who was a literary columnist for the ''Toronto Star''. ...

(1930–2017), philanthropist *

Heather Reisman Heather Maxine Reisman (born August 28, 1948) is a Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist. Reisman is the founder and chief executive of the Canadian retail chain Indigo Books and Music. She is the co-founder and past Chair of Kobo, and was ...

(1948– ), founder and CEO of

Indigo Books and Music Indigo Books & Music Inc., known as "Indigo" and stylized "!ndigo", is Canada's only major English-language bookstore chain. It is Canada's largest book, gift, and specialty toy retailer, operating stores in all ten provinces and one terr ...

Dani Reiss Dani Reiss (born November 7, 1973) is a Canadian businessman, best known for his role as president & CEO of Canada Goose Inc. Early life Reiss is the son of Malca (née Tick) and David Reiss. His maternal grandfather is Samuel Tick, who in 19 ...

(1973– ), president and CEO of

Canada Goose The Canada goose (''Branta canadensis''), or Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is o ...

Irv Robbins Irvine Robbins (December 6, 1917 – May 5, 2008) was a Canadian-born American businessman. He co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1945 with his partner and brother-in-law Burt Baskin. Early life Robbins was born in Winnipeg ...

(1917–2008), co-founder of

Baskin-Robbins Baskin-Robbins is an American multinational chain of ice cream and cake speciality shops owned by Inspire Brands. Based in Canton, Massachusetts, Baskin-Robbins was founded in 1945 by Burt Baskin (1913–1967) and Irv Robbins (1917–2008) in ...

Bruce Rockowitz Bruce Philip Rockowitz (born October 24, 1958) is a Canadian businessman, the chairman of Rock Media International and co-founder of the Pure Group. Early life Rockowitz was born on October 24, 1958. He dropped out of the University of Vermont t ...

(1958– ), CEO and vice-chairman of

Global Brands Group Global Brands Group Holding Limited () is a bankrupt holding company that has its own brand of apparel and footwear, as well as being a brand management company. It designs, develops, markets and sells products under a diverse array of owned and ...

* Harry Rosen (1931– ), founder of

Harry Rosen Inc. Harry Rosen Inc. is a Canadian retail chain of 17 luxury men's clothing stores. A privately owned company, Harry Rosen accounted for 40 percent of the Canadian market in high-end menswear in 2008. Founded by Harry Rosen in 1954, as a single sto ...

* Larry Rosen (1956– ), chairman and CEO of Harry Rosen Inc. *

Calin Rovinescu Călin Rovinescu (born September 16, 1955), served as the president and chief executive officer of Air Canada from April 2009 to February 2021. Early life and education Rovinescu was born in Bucharest, Romania. He emigrated to Canada with his pa ...

(1955– ), president and CEO of

Air Canada Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada by the size and passengers carried. Air Canada maintains its headquarters in the borough of Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled and ...

Isai Scheinberg Isai Scheinberg ( he, ישי שיינברג; born 1946 or 1947) is the Lithuanian Jewish founder of the PokerStars online poker site. Scheinberg previously had been a senior programmer for IBM Canada. Biography In about 1986, Scheinberg left Is ...

(1946– ), co-founder of

PokerStars PokerStars is an online poker cardroom that was a part of The Stars Group until it was sold to Flutter Entertainment on May 5, 2020. It can be accessed through downloadable poker clients for the Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It is the large ...

Mark Scheinberg (Igal) Mark Scheinberg (born 1973) is an Israeli-Canadian businessman and investor with investments in various sectors including real estate and luxury hospitality. He is the co-founder and former co-owner of the online gambling company PokerSta ...

(1973– ), co-founder of

* Isadore Sharp (1931– ), founder and chairman of

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Four Seasons Hotels Limited, trading as Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, is an international luxury hotel and resort company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Four Seasons currently operates more than 100 hotels and resorts worldwide.Da ...

Barry Sherman Bernard Charles "Barry" Sherman, (February 25, 1942 – December 13, 2017) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who was chairman and CEO of Apotex Inc. With an estimated net worth of US$3.2 billion at the time of his death, acco ...

(1942–2017), chairman and CEO of

Apotex Apotex Inc. is a Canadian pharmaceutical corporation. Founded in 1974 by Barry Sherman, the company is the largest producer of generic drugs in Canada, with annual sales exceeding . By 2016, Apotex employed over 10,000 people as one of Canada's la ...

Jeffrey Skoll Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly ...

(1965– ), president of

eBay eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became a ...

Sam Steinberg Samuel Steinberg, (December 25, 1905 – May 24, 1978) was a Hungarian-born Canadian businessman, investor and philanthropist. He was an immigrant to Canada who transformed the grocery store founded by his mother, Steinberg's Supermarket, into ...

(1905–1978), president of Steinberg's *

Larry Tanenbaum Lawrence M. Tanenbaum (born 1945) is a Canadian businessman and chairman of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE). He owns a 25% stake in MLSE through his holding company Kilmer Sports Inc. Early life Tanenbaum was born to a Jewish family, ...

(1945– ), chairman of

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE) is a professional sports and commercial real estate company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With assets that include franchises in four of the six major professional sports leagues in the United S ...

Law

Jurists

Rosalie Abella Rosalie Silberman Abella (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadian jurist. In 2004, Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the fede ...

(1946– ), Supreme Court Justice *

Harry Batshaw Harry Batshaw (14 October 1902 – 1984) was a Canadian lawyer and a justice of the Quebec Superior Court. Justice Batshaw was the first Jew to be appointed to a superior court in Canada. Born in 1902 at Dubroŭna, Mogilev Governorate, Ru ...

(1902–1984), Quebec Superior Court Justice * Charles Dubin (1921–2008), Chief Justice of Ontario *

Morris Fish Morris Jacob Fish, (born November 16, 1938) was a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2003 to 2013. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Aaron S. Fish and Zlata Grober, he received a Bachelor of Arts (with distinction) in 1959 and a Bach ...

(1938– ), Supreme Court Justice *

(1908–1993), Chief Justice of Manitoba *

Constance Glube Constance Rachelle Glube, (November 23, 1931 – February 15, 2016) was the 21st Chief Justice of Nova Scotia and first female Chief Justice in Canada. Early life Born Constance Lepofsky in Ottawa, she was the daughter of the late Samuel (1894-1 ...

(1931–2016), Chief Justice of Nova Scotia * Alan Gold (1917–2005), Chief Justice of Quebec * Sydney Harris (1917–2009), judge *

Bora Laskin Bora Laskin (October 5, 1912 – March 26, 1984) was a Canadian jurist who served as the 14th chief justice of Canada from 1973 to 1984. Laskin was appointed a puisne justice of the Supreme Court in 1970, and served on the Ontario Court of A ...

(1912–1984), 14th Chief Justice of Canada * Herbert Marx (1932–2020), Quebec Superior Court Justice and Minister of Justice *

Michael Moldaver Michael Moldaver (born December 23, 1947) is a former Canadian judge. He was a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from his 2011 appointment by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper until his retirement in 2022. Before his elevation to th ...

(1947– ), Supreme Court Justice *

Nathaniel Nemetz Nathaniel Theodore (Nathan) Nemetz, (September 8, 1913 – October 21, 1997) was a Canadian lawyer and judge. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he moved with his family to Vancouver when he was 10. He received a BA from the University of British ...

(1913–1997), Chief Justice of British Columbia *

Marshall Rothstein Marshall Rothstein (born December 25, 1940) is a former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Early life Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Jewish parents who immigrated from Eastern Europe, he received a Bachelor of Commerce in 1962 and an ...

(1940– ), Supreme Court Justice * Tillie Taylor (1922–2011), Saskatchewan's first female magistrate

Lawyers

* Monroe Abbey (1904–1993), lawyer * Maurice Alexander (1889–1945), barrister *

Louis Bloomfield Louis Mortimer Bloomfield (August 8, 1906 – July 19, 1984), KStJ, QC, PhD, LLD, DCL, was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and soldier. Bloomfield was recognized as a leader of the Canadian Jewish community. Proponents of some John F. Kenn ...

(1906–1984), lawyer and businessman *

Alan Borovoy Alfred Alan Borovoy, (March 17, 1932 – May 11, 2015) was a Canadian lawyer and human rights activist best known as the longtime general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA).Harold Buchwald (1928–2008), lawyer * Reuben Cohen (1921–2014), lawyer and businessman *

Martin Friedland Martin Lawrence Friedland, (born September 21, 1932) is a Canadian lawyer, academic and author. He received a Bachelor of Commerce, BComm. (1955), Bachelor of Commerce, LL.B. (1958), and honorary LL.D. from the University of Toronto, and a PhD ...

(1932– ), lawyer *

Rocco Galati Rocco Galati (born 1959) is an Italian-born Canadians, Canadian lawyer who specializes in cases involving constitutional law. Early life and education Galati was born in Calabria, Italy and his family immigrated to Canada in 1965. He graduated fr ...

(1959– ), constitutional lawyer *

Edward Greenspan Edward Leonard Greenspan, (February 28, 1944December 24, 2014) was one of Canada's most famous defence lawyers, and a prolific author of legal volumes. His fame was owed to numerous high-profile clients and to his national exposure on the Canadia ...

(1944–2014), lawyer * Adolphus Hart (1814–1879), lawyer and activist *

David Matas David Matas (born 29 August 1943) is the senior legal counsel of B'nai Brith Canada who currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has maintained a private practice in refugee, immigration, and human rights law since 1979, and has published vario ...

(1943– ), human rights lawyer * Ed Morgan (1955– ), international lawyer *

Harry Rankin Harry Rankin (May 8, 1920 – February 26, 2002) was a Vancouver lawyer and long term member of the Vancouver City Council. Early years Rankin was born Harry Riffkin in Vancouver to secular Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. His father worked at a ...

(1920–2002), lawyer *

William Schabas William Anthony Schabas, OC (born 19 November 1950) is a Canadian academic specialising in international criminal and human rights law. He is professor of international law at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom, professor of internation ...

(1950– ), professor of international law * Morris Shumiatcher (1917–2004), lawyer and human rights activist * Harvey Strosberg (1944– ), lawyer *

Harry Walsh Harry Walsh (August 21, 1913 – February 24, 2011) was a Canadian lawyer who practiced criminal law for over 70 years. Walsh was a leading proponent in the abolition of capital punishment in Canada. In recognition of that role, as well as his a ...

(1913–2011), criminal lawyer * Benjamin Zimmerman (1862–1923), justice of the peace

Military

* Morris Cohen (1887–1970), Canadian Expeditionary Force officers and adventurer * Eleazar David David (1811–1887), cavalry officer *

Ben Dunkelman Benjamin "Ben" Dunkelman (26 June 1913 – June 11, 1997) was a Canadian Jewish officer who served in the Canadian Army in World War II and the Israel Defense Forces in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In Israel, he was called Benjamin Ben-David. Biog ...

(1913–1997),

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

and

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...

soldierDunkelman, Ben (1984). ''Dual Allegiance: An Autobiography'', Goodread Biography. * Moe Hurwitz (1919–1944), World War II soldier *

Maxwell Kogon Maxwell Kogon DFC (1920–1980) was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) bomber pilot who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II. Family life Flight Lieutenant Maxwell (Max) Kogon was born on October 1, 1920, to Edith and ...

(1920–1980), World War II bomber pilot *

Yank Levy Bert "Yank" Levy (October 5, 1897September 2, 1965) was a Canadian soldier, socialist, military instructor and author/pamphleteer of one of the first manuals on guerrilla warfare, which was widely circulated with more than a half million publish ...

(1897–1965), soldier and military instructor * Gill Rosenberg (1983– ), member of the

Women's Protection Units (YPJ) ar, وحدات حماية المرأة , image = File:YPJ Flag.svg , caption = Flag of the YPJ , dates = April 2013–present , commander1 = Nesrin ...

* Sydney Shulemson (1915–2007), World War II fighter pilot * Peter Stevens (RAF officer) (1919–1979), German born WWII RAF officer, and RCAF post-war, best known for multiple POW escapes

Performing arts

Actors and performers

Harvey Atkin Elliot Harvey Atkin (18 December 1942 – 18 July 2017) was a Canadian actor best known for his roles as Morty Melnick in ''Meatballs'', Sergeant Ronald Coleman in ''Cagney & Lacey'', and for voicing King Koopa in ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Sh ...

(1942–2017), actor and voice actor *

Aviva Armour-Ostroff Aviva Armour-Ostroff is a Canadian actress, writer and filmmaker. She is most noted as the star, co-writer and co-director of the 2021 film '' Lune'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 10th Canadian S ...

, actress and filmmakerAmy Grief
"Toronto actor and playwright explores themes of identity"
''

, October 30, 2015. *

Liane Balaban Liane Balaban (born June 24, 1980) is a Canadian actress. Her film debut was in ''New Waterford Girl'' (1999) as Agnes-Marie "Mooney" Pottie. She has since appeared in the films ''Definitely, Maybe'' (2008), ''Last Chance Harvey'' (2008), and the ...

(1980– ), actress *

Jay Baruchel Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (; born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor, comedian, director and screenwriter. He is known for his voice role as Hiccup Haddock in the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' franchise, and for his roles in comedy movies ...

(1982– ), actor, comedian, and screenwriter *

Frances Bay Frances Evelyn Bay (née Goffman; January 23, 1919 – September 15, 2011) was a Canadian-American character actress. In a career that spanned 35 years, she acted in a variety of roles both in film and television. Bay was inducted in Canada's W ...

(1919–2011), character actress * Lani Billard (1979– ), television actress *

Lionel Blair Lionel Blair (born Henry Lionel Ogus; 12 December 1928 – 4 November 2021) was a Canadian-born British actor, choreographer, tap dancer, and television presenter. From the late 1960s until the early 1980s, he made regular appearances as a danc ...

(1928–2021), actor and choreographer *

Ben Blue Ben Blue (born Benjamin Bernstein; September 12, 1901 – March 7, 1975) was a Canadian-American actor and comedian who had a career that spanned nearly 50 years. Early life He was born Benjamin Bernstein in Montreal, Quebec on Septem ...

(1901–1975), actor and comedian *

Lloyd Bochner Lloyd Wolfe Bochner (July 29, 1924 – October 29, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He appeared in many Canadian and Hollywood productions between the 1950s and 1990s, including the films ''Point Blank'' (1967), '' The Detective'' (1968), '' The ...

(1924–2005), actor *

Bobby Breen Isadore Borsuk (November 4, 1927 – September 19, 2016), better known as Bobby Breen, was a Canadian-born American actor and singer. He was a popular male child singer during the 1930s and reached major popularity with film and radio appearanc ...

(1927–2016), actor and singer *

Howard Busgang Howard Busgang is a Canadian comedian and television producer."A comic with chutzpah: He opens a Montreal-style deli in B.C". ''Montreal Gazette'', August 25, 2018. Comedy career Originally from Montreal, Quebec, he studied political science at Mc ...

, comedian"A comic with chutzpah: He opens a Montreal-style deli in B.C". ''

Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...

'', August 25, 2018. *

Neve Campbell Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973; ) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her work in the drama and horror genres. She has appeared on ''People'' magazine's list of "50 Most Beautiful People" twice. Following a series of minor ...

(1973– ), film and television actress *

Maury Chaykin Maury Alan Chaykin (July 27, 1949 – July 27, 2010) was an American–Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe, as well as for his work as a character actor in many films and television programs. Personal lif ...

(1949–2010), actor *

Boris Cherniak Boris Cherniak (born 12 December 1964) is a Soviet-born Canadians, Canadian and US based comedian hypnotist and motivational speaker, entertainer and author that performs internationally. Cherniak performs under the stage name Hypnotist The Incre ...

(1964– ), hypnotist *

Emmanuelle Chriqui Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui ( ; born 10 December 1975) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her performance on HBO's ''Entourage'' as Sloan McQuewick, Claire Bonner in '' Snow Day'', Dalia in ''You Don't Mess with the Zohan'', Lorelei Mar ...

(1975– ), actress *

Lauren Collins Lauren Felice Collins (born August 29, 1986) is a Canadian actress, best known for portraying Paige Michalchuk on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation''. She has also had supporting roles in the films '' Take the Lead'' (2006) and ''Charlie Bartlett ...

(1986– ), television actress *

Pauline Donalda Pauline Donalda , born Pauline Lightstone, (March 5, 1882 – October 22, 1970) was a Canadian operatic soprano. Early life and education Donalda was born Pauline Lightstone in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Jewish parents who changed their ...

(1882–1970), operatic soprano *

Barbara Dunkelman Barbara Julie Dunkelman (born July 2, 1989) is a Canadian actress and internet personality. She is known for her work with the production company Rooster Teeth, where she serves as a Creative Director and was formerly the Director of Social and ...

(1989– ), actress and internet personality *

Ophira Eisenberg Ophira Eisenberg (born 1972) is a Canadian American comedian, writer, and actress. She is from Calgary, Alberta. She has been living in New York City since 2001 and obtained American citizenship in April 2021. Eisenberg hosted the weekly NPR ...

(1972– ), comedian *

Jake Epstein Jacob Lee Epstein (born January 16, 1987) is a Canadian actor and singer. He played Craig Manning, a musician with bipolar disorder, on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation''. He also played Will in the First National Tour of '' American Idiot'', an ...

(1987– ), television actor * Stacey Farber (1987– ), television actress *

Maureen Forrester Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, (July 25, 1930 – June 16, 2010) was a Canadian operatic contralto. Life and career Maureen Forrester was born and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, one of four children of Thomas Forrester, a Scottish cabinetmak ...

(1930–2010), operatic contralto *

Celia Franca Celia Franca (25 June 1921 – 19 February 2007) was a co-founder of The National Ballet of Canada (1951) and its artistic director for 24 years. Early life Franca was born Celia Franks in London, England, the daughter of an East End tailo ...

(1921–2007), founder of the

National Ballet of Canada The National Ballet of Canada is a Canadian ballet company that was founded in 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, with Celia Franca as the first artistic director. A company of 70 dancers with its own orchestra, the National Ballet has been led since 2022 ...

Victor Garber Victor Joseph Garber (born March 16, 1949) is a Canadian-American actor and singer. Known for his work in film, television, and theatre, he has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, four Tony Awards, and six Primetime Emmy Awards. He has also ...

(1949– ), actor *

Jessalyn Gilsig Jessalyn Sarah Gilsig (born November 30, 1971) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Lauren Davis in ''Boston Public'', Gina Russo in ''Nip/Tuck'', Terri Schuester in '' Glee'', and as Siggy Haraldson in ''Vikings''. Early li ...

(1971– ), television actress *

Joanna Gleason Joanna Gleason (née Hall; born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is a Tony Award–winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles. She's known for originating the role of the Baker's Wife ...

(1950– ), actress *

Jake Goldsbie Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Goldsbie (born August 8, 1988) is a Canadian actor, who is best known for playing as Toby Isaacs in the CTV television series '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' from 2001 until 2009. Biography Goldsbie graduated from Conc ...

(1988– ), television actor *

Anais Granofsky Anais Granofsky (born May 14, 1973) is a Canadian actress, screenwriter, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Lucy Fernandez in the ''Degrassi Junior High'' and ''Degrassi High'' series. Early life Granofsky was born in Spring ...

(1973– ), actress *

Lorne Greene Lorne Hyman Greene (born Lyon Himan Green; 12 February 1915 – 11 September 1987) was a Canadian actor, musician, singer and radio personality. His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western ''Bonanza'' and Commander Ada ...

(1915–1987), actor *

Nathan Fielder Nathan Joseph Fielder (born May 12, 1983) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, and entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating, directing, and starring in the Comedy Central parody reality show ''Nathan for You'' (2013� ...

(1983– ), actor and comedian *

Corey Haim Corey Ian Haim (December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010) was a Canadian actor. He starred in a number of 1980s films, such as '' Lucas'', ''Silver Bullet'', ''Murphy's Romance'', ''License to Drive'' and '' Dream a Little Dream''. His role alongsi ...

(1971–2010), actor *

Monty Hall Monty Hall (born Monte Halparin; August 25, 1921 – September 30, 2017) was a Canadian radio and television show host who moved to the United States in 1955 to pursue a career in broadcasting. After working as a radio newsreader and sport ...

(1921–2017), game show hostAtkins, Irene Kahn. ''Monty Hall'' nterview New York: American Jewish Committee, Oral History Library, 1976. * Melissa Hayden (1923–2006), ballerina *

Lou Jacobi Lou Jacobi (born Louis Harold Jacobovitch; December 28, 1913October 23, 2009) was a Canadian character actor. Life and early career Jacobi was born Louis Harold Jacobovitch in Toronto, Canada, to Joseph and Fay Jacobovitch. Jacobi began acting ...

(1913–2009), actor *

Jonathan Keltz Jonathan Lippert Keltz (born January 17, 1988) is an American actor known for his role as Jake Steinberg in the HBO series ''Entourage'', and his work in the films ''Prom'' (2011) and '' 21 & Over'' (2013). He starred as Leith Bayard in The CW ...

(1988– ), actor *

Shane Kippel Shane Warren Kippel (born June 4, 1986) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Gavin "Spinner" Mason on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation''. In 2010, after nine years on ''Degrassi'', Kippel was written out of the program and did ...

(1986– ), television actor *

Mia Kirshner Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress, writer and social activist. She is known for television roles as Mandy in '' 24'' (2001–2005), as Jenny Schecter in ''The L Word'' (2004–2009), as Amanda Grayson in '' Star Trek: Di ...

(1975– ), actress *

Jack Kruschen Jacob "Jack" Kruschen (March 20, 1922 – April 2, 2002) was a Canadian character actor who worked primarily in American film, television and radio. Kruschen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Dr. ...

(1922–2002), character actor *

Paul Kligman Paul Kligman (21 January 1923 – 29 August 1985) was a Canadian actor. Biography Born in Romania, he emigrated to Canada where he spent his youth in Winnipeg and studied at the University of Manitoba. He moved to Toronto in 1950 and estab ...

(1923–1985), actor * Rachelle Lefevre (1979– ), actress *

Sylvia Lennick Sylvia Lennick (née Paige; November 14, 1915 – August 10, 2009)

(1915–2009), actress *

Caissie Levy Caissie Levy (born April 15, 1981) is a Canadian-American actress and singer, mainly known for her work in musical theatre on Broadway and in the West End. Her early Broadway credits included Penny Pingleton in '' Hairspray'' and Sheila in ''Hai ...

(1981– ), stage actress and singer *

Eugene Levy Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor and comedian. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series '' SCTV''. He has also appeared in the '' American Pie'' series of films and the Canadian ...

(1946– ), actor and director *

Jaclyn Linetsky Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky (January 8, 1986 – September 8, 2003) was a Canadian actress who played Megan O'Connor on ''15/Love'' and the title character on '' Caillou'' during the show's second and third seasons, replacing the character's origina ...

(1986–2003), television actress *

Mary Livingstone Mary Livingstone (born Sadya Marcowitz, later known as Sadie Marks; June 25, 1905–June 30, 1983) was an American radio comedienne and actress. She was the wife and radio partner of comedian Jack Benny. Enlisted casually to perform on her h ...

(1905–1983), radio comedian and actress *

Howie Mandel Howard Michael Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian-American comedian, television personality, actor, and producer. Mandel voiced the character Gizmo in the 1984 film ''Gremlins'' and the 1990 sequel '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch''. I ...

(1955– ), actor and comedian *

Rick Moranis Frederick Allan Moranis (; born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian, musician, songwriter, writer and producer. He appeared in the sketch comedy series ''Second City Television'' (''SCTV'') in the 1980s and several Hollywood (film indu ...

(1953– ), actor and comedian *

Harley Morenstein Harley Morenstein (born July 20, 1985) is a Canadian actor, Internet personality, and vlogger. He co-created, produces, and hosts the YouTube show Epic Meal Time and its FYI television spin-off series Epic Meal Empire. He also runs a vlog chan ...

(1985–), actor and Internet personality *

Irene Pavloska Irene Levi Mesirow (February 17, 1889 – February 12, 1962), known professionally as Irene Pavloska, was a Canadian mezzo-soprano and composer. Biography Irene Pavloska was born to affluent Jews, Jewish parents Pauline () and David Levi in Sain ...

(1889–1962), mezzo-soprano *

Gloria Reuben Gloria Elizabeth Reuben is a Canadian-American actress, producer, and singer. She is well-known for her role as Jeanie Boulet on the medical drama ''ER (TV series), ER'' (1995–1999, 2008), for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy Award, a ...

(1964– ), television actress * Spencer Rice (1963– ), writer, director and performer *

Seth Rogen Seth Aaron Rogen (; born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian and filmmaker. Originally a stand-up comedian in Vancouver, he moved to Los Angeles for a part in Judd Apatow's series ''Freaks and Geeks'', and then got a part on ...

(1982– ), film and television actor *

Sasha Roiz Sasha Roiz ( he, סשה רויז; born October 21, 1973) is an Israeli-born Canadian actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Sam Adama in the science-fiction TV series ''Caprica'' and Captain Sean Renard in the American fantasy TV series ' ...

(1973– ), actor *

Saul Rubinek Saul Hersh Rubinek (born July 2, 1948) is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright. He is widely known for his television roles, notably Artie Nielsen on '' Warehouse 13,'' Donny Douglas on ''Frasier'', Lon Cohen on ''A N ...

(1948– ), actor, director, producer and playwright *

Jonathan Sagall Jonathan Sagall ( he, יהונתן סגל; born April 23, 1959) is a Canadian-born Israeli actor, director, producer and screenwriter.Mort Sahl Morton Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern comedian. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current event t ...

(1927–2021), stand-up comedian *

William Shatner William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the ''Star Trek'' franchise, from his 1965 debut as the captain of the starship USS Enterpri ...

(1931– ), actor, director, and writer *

Norma Shearer Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated ingénues. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'N ...

(1902–1983), actress and Hollywood star *

Frank Shuster Frank Shuster, (September 5, 1916 – January 13, 2002) was a Canadian comedian best known as a member of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, alongside Johnny Wayne. Life and career Shuster was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Toronto, Ont ...

(1916–2002), comedian *

Anna Silk Anna Silk (born 31 January 1974) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Bo Dennis, the protagonist of the Showcase television series ''Lost Girl'' (2010–2015). Personal life Silk was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Cana ...

(1974– ), actress *

David Steinberg David Steinberg (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and mid 1970s, he was one of the best-known comics in the United States. He appeared on ...

(1942– ), comedian and director * Stuart Stone (1980– ), actor *

Tara Strong Tara Lyn Strong (née Charendoff; born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for her voice work in animation, websites, and video games. Strong's voice roles include animated series such as ''The New Batman Adventures ...

(1973– ), actress *

Kyle Switzer Kyle Switzer (born October 10, 1985) is a Canadian actor. He played Rick Geddes in the TV show ''15/Love''. He also had a supporting role in the first two episodes of the television comedy/drama ''Reaper'' and a recurring role in the new hit sho ...

(1985– ), television actor * Theresa Tova (1955– ), actress and playwright *

Al Waxman Albert Samuel Waxman, (March 2, 1935 – January 18, 2001) was a Canadian actor and director of over 1,000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is best known for his starring roles in the television series '' King of Kensingto ...

(1935–2001), actor *

Johnny Wayne Johnny Wayne (born Louis Weingarten; May 28, 1918 – July 18, 1990) was a Canadian comedian and comedy writer best known for his work as part of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster alongside Frank Shuster. The son of a successful clothing manuf ...

(1918–1990), comedian *

Joseph Wiseman Joseph Wiseman (May 15, 1918 – October 19, 2009) was a Canadian-American theatre, film, and television actor who starred as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond (film series), James Bond film, ''Dr. No (film), Dr. No'' in 1962. Wiseman ...

(1918–2009), theatre and film actor *

Finn Wolfhard Finn Wolfhard (born December 23, 2002) is a Canadian actor and musician. He gained recognition for playing Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things character), Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series ''Stranger Things'' (2016–present). His film roles include ...

(2002– ), actor

Directors and producers

Barry Avrich Barry Michael Avrich ( ; born May 9, 1963) is a Canadian film director, film producer, author, marketing executive, and arts philanthropist. Avrich's film career has included critically acclaimed films about the entertainment business including ...

(1963– ), television producer and film director * Laszlo Barna (1948– ), television producer * Murray Cohl (1929–2008), film director *

David Cronenberg David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation ...

(1943– ), filmmaker and screenwriter *

Garth Drabinsky Garth Drabinsky (born 1949)Charlebois, Gaetan, and Anne NothofDrabinsky, Garth Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Athabasca University. Anne Nothof, ed. "Ontario-based entrepreneur, born in Toronto in 1949." is a Canadian film and theatrical producer a ...

(1949– ), film and theatrical producer *

Bob Ezrin Robert Alan Ezrin (born March 25, 1949) is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, best known for his work with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, Andrea Bocelli and Phish. As of 2010, Ezrin' ...

(1949– ), music producer *

Ken Finkleman Ken Finkleman (born 1946) is a Canadian television and film writer and producer, actor, and novelist. Biography Finkleman was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In Canada, Finkleman is best known as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC Televisi ...

(1946– ), television producer *

Jay Firestone Jay Firestone (born 13 October 1956) is a Canadian film and television producer. Personal Growing up in a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Firestone was the third child of six born to Jewish parents Esther, the first female cantor in Canada, and Pa ...

(1956– ), film and television producer *

Sidney Furie Sidney Joseph Furie (born February 28, 1933) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work in both British and American cinema between the 1960s and early 1980s. Like his contemporaries Norman Jewiso ...

(1933– ), film director * Herman Geiger-Torel (1907–1976), opera director *

Jake Gold Jake Gold (born April 4, 1958) is an American-born Canadian music manager. He was a judge on the '' Canadian Idol'' television program. In addition to ''Idol'' participants, he has managed Canadian artists The Tragically Hip, The Watchmen, The ...

(1958– ), musician manager * Harold Greenberg (1930–1996), film producer *

Al Guest Al Guest is a Canadians, Canadian animation producer. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and started his career there when he dropped out of the University of Manitoba to pursue a career in films. A writer and fine artist, he has exhibited his pai ...

(1933– ), animation producer and director *

Arthur Hiller Arthur Hiller, (November 22, 1923 – August 17, 2016) was a Canadian-American television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By t ...

(1923–2016), director *

John Hirsch John Stephen Hirsch, OC (; May 1, 1930 – August 1, 1989) was a Hungarian-Canadian theatre director. He was born in Siófok, Hungary to József and Ilona Hirsch, both of whom were murdered in the Holocaust along with his younger brother I ...

(1930–1989), theatre director *

Kenny Hotz Kenneth Joel Hotz (born May 3, 1967) is a Canadian comedy writer, producer, entertainer and television personality. He is best known as the star of the reality comedy show '' Kenny vs. Spenny'' alongside Spencer Rice. Hotz is the creator of the ...

(1967– ), producer and entertainer *

Simcha Jacobovici Simcha Jacobovici (; born April 4, 1953) is an Israeli-Canadian journalist and documentary film maker. Biography Simcha Jacobovici's parents were Holocaust survivors from Iași, Romania. He was born April 4, 1953, in Petah Tikva, Israel. In ...

(1953– ), film director *

Estelle Klein Estelle Klein (1930-2004) was an advocate and supporter of folk music in Canada and held numerous influential positions with cultural and heritage organizations during her lengthy career. Life Klein was born in Buffalo, New York and moved to Toron ...

(1930–2004), artistic director * Franz Kraemer (1914–1999), radio producer *

Shawn Levy Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian film director, film producer, actor, and founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. He has worked across genres and is perhaps best known as the director of the ''Night at the Museum'' film franchise an ...

(1968– ), film director and producer *

Avi Lewis Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born May 1967) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, former host of the Al Jazeera English show ''Fault Lines'' and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs programs ''CounterSpin'' and ' ...

(1968– ), documentary filmmaker and television host * Benjamin Lumley (1811–1875), opera director *

Francis Mankiewicz Francis Mankiewicz (March 15, 1944 in Shanghai, China – August 14, 1993 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1945, his family moved to Montreal, where Francis spent all his childhood. His f ...

(1944–1993), director *

Lorne Michaels Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He is best known for creating and producing ''Saturday Night Live'' (1975–1980, 1985–present) and producing the '' La ...

(1944– ), television producer *

David Mirvish David Mirvish, (born August 29, 1944) is a Canadian art collector, art dealer, theatre producer, real estate developer and son of the late Toronto discount department store owner "Honest" Ed Mirvish and artist Anne Lazar Macklin. Life and caree ...

(1944– ), theatre producer *

Sydney Newman Sydney Cecil Newman (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman w ...

(1917–1997), producer *

Noah Pink Noah Pink is a Canadian screenwriter, television producer, and director. He created the television series ''Genius'' for National Geographic, and wrote the screenplay ''Tetris'' for Apple TV+. His low-budget feature novella, Zedcrew, debuted at th ...

, screenwriter and television producer *

Jeremy Podeswa Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films '' The Five Senses'' (1999) and ''Fugitive Pieces'' (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows '' Six Feet Under ...

(1962– ), film and television director *

Ivan Reitman Ivan Reitman (; October 27, 1946February 12, 2022) was a Czechoslovak-born Canadian filmmaker. He was best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998. Film ...

(1946–2022), film producer and director * Jason Reitman (1977– ), film director * J.R. Rotem (1975– ), record producer * Albert Ruddy (1930– ), film director *

Harry Saltzman Herschel Saltzman (; – ), known as Harry Saltzman, was a Canadian theatre and film producer. He is best remembered for co-producing the first nine of the ''James Bond'' film series with Albert R. Broccoli. He lived most of his life in Denh ...

(1915–1994), film producer *

Dora Wasserman Dora Wasserman CM (née Goldfarb) (June 30, 1919 - December 15, 2003) was a Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright and theater director. Early life Wasserman was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine two years after the Russian Revolution. There she learned a ...

(1919–2003), playwright and theater director

Composers

* Murray Adaskin (1906–2002), composer *

Karel Ančerl Karel Ančerl (11 April 1908 – 3 July 1973) was a Czechoslovak conductor and composer, renowned especially for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers. Ančerl was born into a prosper ...

(1908–1973), conductor *

István Anhalt István Anhalt, (April 12, 1919 – February 24, 2012) was a Hungarian-Canadian composer. Anhalt served as a professor of music at McGill University and founded the McGill University Electronic Music Studio. He also served as head of music a ...

(1919–2012), composer *

Louis Applebaum Louis Applebaum (April 3, 1918April 19, 2000) was a Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor. Early life He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Leo Smith and the University o ...

(1918–2000), film score composer * Milton Barnes (1931–2001), composer and conductor *

Boris Berlin Boris Berlin (27 May 1907 – 24 March 2001) was a Canadian pianist, music educator, arranger, and composer of Russian birth. He is primarily remembered for his work within the field of piano pedagogy, having published an extensive amount of mate ...

(1907–2001), musical instructor and composer *

David Botwinik David Botwinik ( yi, דוד באָטװיניק; 12 December 1920 – 9 February 2022) was a Lithuanian-born Canadian composer of Yiddish music and music teacher. Born in Vilna, Central Lithuania, he began his studies at the Yiddish music conse ...

(1920–2022), composer *

Alexander Brott Alexander Brott, , born Joël Brod (March 14, 1915April 1, 2005),

(1915–2005), conductor and composer *

Boris Brott Boris Brott, (March 14, 1944 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian conductor and motivational speaker. He was one of the most internationally recognized Canadian conductors, having conducted on stages around the world, including Carnegie Hall and ...

(1944– ), conductor *

Percy Faith Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian-American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listenin ...

(1908–1976), bandleader *

Harry Freedman Harry Freedman (''Henryk Frydmann''), (April 5, 1922 – September 16, 2005) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphony, symphonic works, including the scores ...

(1922–2005), composer *

Lewis Furey Lewis Furey, born Lewis Greenblatt (born 7 June 1949) is a Canadian composer, singer, violinist, pianist, actor and director. Career Born in Montreal, Quebec to French and American parents, Furey trained as a classical violinist, and at age 11 ...

(1949– ), composer * Srul Glick (1934–2002), composer *

(1918–1985), composer *

Uri Mayer Uri Mayer (born August 4, 1946, in Târgu Mureș, Romania) is Romanian-born Canadian violist and conductor. Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv. His conductin ...

(1946– ), conductor and violinist *

Oskar Morawetz Oskar Morawetz, (January 17, 1917 – June 13, 2007) was a Canadian composer. Biography Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi takeov ...

(1917–2007), composer * Albert Pratz (1914–1995), conductor and violinist *

Paul Shaffer Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader, and sidekick on the entire run of both '' Late ...

(1949– ), bandleader *

Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer and conductor noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'' film trilogies. ...

(1946– ), composer *

Ben Steinberg Ben Steinberg (22 January 1930 – 10 February 2023) was a Canadian composer,Jack Wertheimer. The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed'. Cambridge University Press; 13 February 2003. . p. 402–.Fred Rosenbaum. Visions of reform: Congreg ...

(1930– ), composer and conductor *

Heinz Unger Heinz Unger (14 December 1895 – 25 February 1965Heinz Unger
''The Canadian Encyclopedia' ...

(1895–1965), conductor *

Maurice Zbriger Maurice Zbriger (July 10, 1896, Kamenets-Podolskiy, Ukraine – April 5, 1981, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a Canadian violinist, composer and conductor. He began learning violin as a child, and continued his studies at the conservatory in St. Pet ...

(1896–1981), composer and violinist

Musicians

Classical

* Frances Adaskin (1900–2001), pianist * Harry Adaskin (1901–1994), violinist *

Ellen Ballon Ellen Ballon (October 6, 1898 – December 21, 1969) was a Canadian pianist. The daughter of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, she was born in Montreal, Quebec. A child prodigy, she gave her first concert at the age of five and began studying ...

(1898–1969), pianist *

Denis Brott Denis Brott , SMOM (born December 9, 1950) is a Canadian cellist, music teacher, conductor and founder and artistic director of thMontreal Chamber Music Festival

(1950– ), cellist *

Rivka Golani Rivka Golani ( he, רבקה גולני , born 22 March 1946) is a world–renowned Israeli-born viola player. She has performed as soloist with many orchestras throughout the world including the Boston Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Conc ...

(1946– ), viola player * Moshe Hammer (1946– ), violinist *

Ofra Harnoy Ofra Harnoy ( he, עופרה הרנוי; born January 31, 1965) is an Israeli-Canadian cellist. She is a Member of the Order of Canada. By joining the international artists roster of RCA Victor Red Seal, Harnoy became the first Canadian classica ...

(1965– ), cellist *

Jacques Israelievitch Jacques Israelievitch, CM (May 6, 1948 – September 5, 2015) was a French violinist, and one of Canada's foremost chamber musicians. Born in Cannes, France, at 11 years old he was the youngest graduate in the history of the Le Mans Conservatory. ...

(1948–2015), violinist *

Minuetta Kessler Minuetta Shumiatcher Borek Kessler (September 5, 1914 – November 30, 2002) was a Russian-born Canadian and later American concert pianist, classical music composer, and educator. A child prodigy, she performed her first composition at a recital ...

(1914–2002), concert pianist *

Anton Kuerti Anton Emil Kuerti, OC (born July 21, 1938) is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. He has developed international recognition as a solo pianist.Zara Nelsova Zara Nelsova (December 23, 1918October 10, 2002) was a prominent cellist. Biography Nelsova was born as Sara Katznelson in Winnipeg, Canada, to parents of Jewish-Russian descent. Nelsova first performed at the age of five in Winnipeg. She eventu ...

(1918–2002), cellist *

Isidor Philipp Isidor Edmond Philipp (first name sometimes spelled Isidore) (2 September 1863 – 20 February 1958) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue of Jewish Hungarian descent. He was born in Budapest and died in Paris. Biography Isidor Philipp ...

(1863–1958), pianist and composer *

Ezra Schabas Ezra Schabas, (April 24, 1924 – October 12, 2020) was a Canadian musician, educator and author. He was active in Canada's musical life beginning in 1952, when he emigrated from Cleveland with his family. During his time in Canada, he was a lead ...

(1924–2020), musician *

Harold Sumberg Harold Sumberg (August 25, 1905 – January 6, 1994) was an American-born Canadian violinist, teacher, conductor, and adjudicator. Born in Rochester, New York, he studied violin with Carl Markees, Henry Holst, and Willy Hess at the Hochs ...

(1905–1994), violinist * Ethel Stark (1910–2012), violinist and conductor *

John Weinzweig John Jacob Weinzweig, (March 11, 1913 – August 24, 2006) was a Canadian composer of classical music. Weinzweig was born in Toronto. He went to Harbord Collegiate Institute, and studied music at the university. In 1937, he left for the United St ...

(1913–2006), composer * George Zukerman (1927– ), bassoonist and impresario

Jazz

Paul Bley Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ...

(1932–2016), pianist *

Jim Gelcer Jim Gelcer (born December 16, 1961) is a Canadian jazz drummer, singer, musician, composer, and producer, also known for blending traditional kirtan, a genre of spiritual music from India, with modern influences like R&B, jazz, and rock. Hist ...

(1961– ), jazz musician * James Gelfand (1959– ), jazz pianist *

Moe Koffman Morris "Moe" Koffman, Order of Canada, OC (28 December 1928 – 28 March 2001) was a Canadians, Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger. During a career spanning from the 1950s to the 2000s, Koffman was one of Cana ...

(1928–2001), jazz musician *

Sophie Milman Sophie Milman (born 1983) is a Russian-born Canadian jazz vocalist. After emigrating from Russia in the early 1990s, Milman, who is Jewish, spent most of her childhood years in Israel where she listened extensively to jazz. Her family later emigr ...

(1983– ), jazz musician *

Nikki Yanofsky Nicole Rachel "Nikki" Yanofsky (born February 8, 1994) is a Canadian jazz-pop singer from Montreal, Quebec. She sang the CTV Olympic broadcast theme song, " I Believe", which was also the theme song of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. She also p ...

(1994– ), jazz-pop singer *

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(2003-), Awesome super cool person who is the best person in the whole world and future winner of a nobel prize in physics. Best njg out there. it's true because wikipedia said it.

Politics

Diplomats

Klaus Goldschlag Klaus Goldschlag, (March 23, 1922 – January 30, 2012) was a Canadian ambassador. Born in Berlin, Germany, he was a Jewish orphan living in Nazi Germany adopted by Alan Coatsworth, a Toronto fire-insurance broker. After earning his master's ...

(1922–2012), ambassador *

Allan Gotlieb Allan Ezra Gotlieb, (February 28, 1928 – April 18, 2020) was a Canadian public servant and author who served as the Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 1981 to 1989. Life and career Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gotlieb studied at ...

(1928–2020), ambassador * Saul Rae (1914–1999), diplomat * Norman Spector (1949– ), diplomat and journalist * Kaiser King (2023 -), Diplomat. Son of the Jewish Ambassador for the 2016 MAGA Rally, Steven King

Mayors

* Michael Applebaum (1963– ), mayor of Montreal * Sidney Buckwold (1916–2001), mayor of Saskatoon * Martin Dobkin (1942– ), first mayor of Mississauga * Lumley Franklin (1808–1873), mayor of Victoria * Philip Givens (1922–1995), mayor of Toronto and Liberal MP * Lorry Greenberg (1933–1999), mayor of Ottawa * Sam Katz (1951– ), mayor of Winnipeg * Leonard Arthur Kitz (1916–2006), mayor of Halifax * Mel Lastman (1933–2021), mayor of Toronto * Saul Laskin (1918–2008), mayor of Thunder Bay * Stephen Mandel (1945– ), mayor of Edmonton and leader of the Alberta Party * Danny Nathanson, mayor of New Waterford, Nova Scotia * David Oppenheimer (1834–1897), mayor of Vancouver * Nathan Phillips (politician), Nathan Phillips (1892–1976), mayor of Toronto * Harvey Rosen (1949– ), mayor of Kingston * Morley Rosenberg (1937– ), mayor of Kitchener * Stephen Mandel (1945-),mayor of Edmonton

Politicians

* Jack Austin (politician), Jack Austin (1932– ), senator and cabinet minister * Dave Barrett (1930–2018), 26th Premier of British Columbia * George Benjamin (Orangeman), George Benjamin (1799–1864), Conservative MP * Peter Bercovitch (1879–1942), Liberal MP and Quebec Liberal MNA * Lawrence Bergman (1940– ), Quebec Liberal MNA and cabinet minister * Harry Blank (1925– ), Quebec Liberal MPP * Annie Buller (1895–1973), co-founder of the Communist Party of Canada * Elinor Caplan (1944– ), Liberal MP and cabinet minister * Jim Carr, Liberal MP and Minister of Natural Resources * Leon Crestohl (1900–1963), Liberal MP * Saul Cherniack (1917–2018), Manitoba NDP MP and cabinet minister * Tony Clement (1961– ), Minister of Industry and Minister of Health * Irwin Cotler (1940– ), Liberal MP and Minister of Justice * David Croll (1900–1991), senator and Liberal MP * Julie Dabrusin (1971– ), Liberal MP * Barney Danson (1921–2011), Liberal MP and Minister of National Defence * Samuel Factor (Canadian politician), Samuel Factor (1892–1962), first Jewish MP elected in Ontario * Sheila Finestone (1927–2009), Liberal MP and senator * Myra Freeman (1949– ), 29th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia * Linda Frum (1963– ), senator * Irving Gerstein (1941– ), senator and businessman * Marc Gold (1950– ), senator and law professor * Carl Goldenberg (1907–1996), senator * Victor Goldbloom (1923–2016), Quebec Liberal MNA and doctor * Yoine Goldstein (1934–2020), senator * Karina Gould (1987– ), Liberal MP and Minister of Democratic Institutions * Herb Gray (1931–2014), Liberal MP and Deputy Prime Minister * Larry Grossman (politician), Larry Grossman (1943–1997), leader of the Ontario PC Party * Ezekiel Hart (1770–1843), first Jew elected to a Canadian Parliament * Solomon Hart Green (1885–1969), first Jew to sit in a provincial legislature * Stanley Hartt (1937–2018), Chief of Staff * Sharren Haskel (1984– ), Likud MK * Chaviva Hošek (1946– ), academic and politician * Anthony Housefather (1971– ), Liberal MP and mayor of Côte Saint-Luc * Samuel William Jacobs (1871–1938), Liberal MP and Jewish community leader * Monte Kwinter (1931– ), Ontario Liberal MPP and cabinet minister * Melissa Lantsman (1984—), first Jewish woman elected as a Conservative MP * Michael Levitt (politician), Michael Levitt, Liberal MP * David Lewis (Canadian politician), David Lewis (1909–1981), NDP leader and MP * Stephen Lewis (1937– ), Ontario NDP leader, MP and ambassador * Jack Marshall (Canadian politician), Jack Marshall (1919–2004), PC MP and senator * Tom Marshall (politician), Tom Marshall (1946– ), 11th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador * Arthur Mitchell (Yukon politician), Arthur Mitchell, leader of the Yukon Liberal Party * Marty Morantz (1962– ), Conservative MP * Nicolas Muzin, political strategist * Henry Nathan Jr. (1842–1914), first Jew elected to the House of Commons * Joe Oliver (politician), Joe Oliver (1940– ), Conservative MP and Minister of Finance * Annamie Paul, leader of the Green Party of Canada * Bob Rae (1948–), Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and 21st Premier of Ontario * Simon Reisman (1991–2008), civil servant * Fred Rose (politician), Fred Rose (1907–1983), Labour–Progressive MP and Soviet spy * Jacques Saada (1947– ), Liberal MP and cabinet minister * Hugh Segal (1950– ), senator * Morton Shulman (1925–2000), Ontario PC and NDP MPP * Peter Shurman (1947– ), Ontario PC MPP * Mira Spivak (1934– ), senator * Sidney Spivak (1928–2002), leader of the Manitoba PC Party * Maitland Steinkopf (1912–1970), first Jewish cabinet minister in Manitoba * Hunter Tootoo (1963– ), Liberal MP * Gerry Weiner (1933– ), PC MP * Dov Yosef (1899–1980), Israeli minister

Religious leaders

* Reuven Bulka (1944–2021), rabbi and writer * Jacob Raphael Cohen (1738–1811), rabbi * Solomon Frank (1900–1982), synagogue rabbinical leader in Winnipeg and Montreal * Simon Glazer (1876–1938), rabbi * Elyse Goldstein, Reform rabbi * Joan Friedman, first female rabbi in Canada * Yitzchak Hendel (1916–2007), Lubavitch rabbi * Sheea Herschorn (1893–1969), Chief Rabbi of Montreal * Pinhas Hirschprung (1912–1998), Chief Rabbi of Montreal * Solomon Jacobs (1861–1920), rabbi * Israel Isaac Kahanovitch (1872–1945), Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg * Meshulim Feish Lowy (1921–2015), Tosher Rebbe * Gunther Plaut (1912–2012), rabbi and author * Avraham Aharon Price (1900–1994), Chief Rabbi of Toronto * Nahum Rabinovitch (1928–2020), rabbi and posek * Eli Rubenstein (1959– ), rabbi and Holocaust educator * Erwin Schild (1920– ), rabbi * Jacob Immanuel Schochet (1935–2013), rabbi and scholar * Shmuel Abba Twersky (1872–1947), Makarover Rebbe * Joseph Weinreb (1869–1943), Chief Rabbi of Toronto

Writers

Authors

* David Albahari (1948– ), novelist * Sue Ann Alderson (1940– ), children's novelist * Lisa Appignanesi (1946– ), writer and novelist * Isidore Gordon Ascher (1835–1914), novelist and poet * Saul Bellow (1915–2005), writer; Nobel Prize in Literature (1976), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize (1976) * David Berman (graphic designer), David Berman, (1962–), graphic designer, author * David Bezmozgis (1973– ), author * Martha Blum (1913–2007), writer * Matt Cohen (writer), Matt Cohen (1942–1999), novelist and children's writer * Cory Doctorow (1971– ), science fiction author and blogger * Sheila Fischman (1937– ), translator * Phoebe Gilman (1940–2002), children's author * Adam Gopnik (1956– ), writer and essayist * Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), science fiction novelist * Charles Yale Harrison (1898–1954), novelist * Sheila Heti (1976– ), novelist * George Jonas (1935–2016), writer and journalist * Guy Gavriel Kay (1954– ), fantasy writer * Naïm Kattan (1928–2021), novelist and essayist * Naomi Klein (1970– ), author and filmmaker * Eric Koch (1919–2018), author, broadcaster and academic * Gordon Korman (1963– ), children's and young adult fiction writer * Henry Kreisel (1922–1991), writer and novelist * Allan Levine (1956– ), historian and novelist * Norman Levine (1923–2005), writer and poet * Shar Levine (1953– ), children's author * Jack Ludwig (1922–2018), novelist and sportswriter * Seymour Mayne (1944– ), author and poet * Judith Merril (1923–1997), science fiction writer * Anne Michaels (1958– ), poet and novelist * Sarah Mlynowski (1977– ), writer * Alison Pick (1975– ), novelist * David Rakoff (1964–2012), author * Edeet Ravel (1955– ), novelist * Mordecai Richler (1931–2001), author and essayist * Nancy Richler (1957–2018), novelist * Joel Rosenberg (science fiction author), Joel Rosenberg (1954–2011), science fiction author * Chava Rosenfarb (1923–2011), author and poet * Gail Simmons (1976– ), food writer * Mariko Tamaki (1975– ), graphic novelist * Morley Torgov (1927– ), novelist * Aren X. Tulchinsky (1958– ), author and screenwriter * Eleanor Wachtel (1947– ), writer and broadcaster * William Weintraub (1926–2017), author * Michael Wex (1954– ), novelist * Adele Wiseman (1928–1992), author * Hirsch Wolofsky (1878–1949), Yiddish author * Shulamis Yelin (1913–2002), writer and teacher

Journalists and broadcasters

* Barbara Amiel (1940– ), journalist * Sonia Benezra (1960– ), television and radio interviewer * David Brooks (commentator), David Brooks (1961– ), political commentator * Andrew Cohen (journalist), Andrew Cohen (1955– ), journalist * Nathan Cohen (critic), Nathan Cohen (1923–1971), theatre critic, broadcaster * Michael Coren (1959– ), columnist and talk show host * Red Fisher (journalist), Red Fisher (1926–2018), sports journalist * Josh Freed, columnist * Barbara Frum (1937–1992), journalist * David Frum (1960– ), political commentator * Eli Glasner, entertainment reporter * Ian Halperin (1964– ), investigative journalist * Ken Hechtman (1967– ), journalist * Ariel Helwani (1982– ), mixed martial arts journalist * Simma Holt (1922–2015), journalist and politician * Barbara Kay (1943– ), columnist * Jonah Keri (1974– ), sports writer * Karin Kloosterman, journalist * Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018), columnist * Michele Landsberg (1939– ), journalist and feminist activist * Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at ''Slate (magazine), Slate'' * Jonathan Mann (journalist), Jonathan Mann (1960– ), journalist * Peter C. Newman, Peter Newman (1929– ), journalist * Hal Niedzviecki (1971– ), writer * Steve Paikin (1960– ), journalist and author * Abraham Rhinewine (1887–1932), journalist * Carol Rosenberg, journalist * Morley Safer (1931–2016), broadcast journalist and reporter * Percy Saltzman (1915–2007), weather forecaster * Joe Schlesinger (1928–2019), journalist * Lionel Shapiro (1908–1958), journalist and novelist * Dan Shulman (1967– ), sportscaster * Evan Solomon (1968– ), journalist * Larry Zolf (1934–2011), journalist

Poets

* Elizabeth Brewster (1922–2012), poet * Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), poet and singer-songwriter * Adeena Karasick (1965– ), poet * A. M. Klein (1909–1972), poet and novelist * Rachel Korn (1898–1982), poet and author * Aaron Kreuter * Irving Layton (1912–2006), poet * Eli Mandel (1922–1992), poet * Ida Maze (1893–1962), Yiddish poet * Melech Ravitch, (1893–1976), Yiddish poet * Joe Rosenblatt (1933–2019), poet * Gregory Scofield (1966– ), poet * Esther Segal (1895–1974), Yiddish poet * J. I. Segal (1896–1954), Yiddish poet * Joseph Sherman (1945–2006), poet * Sholem Shtern (1907–1990), Yiddish poet * Mark Strand (1934–2014), poet and essayist * Miriam Waddington (1917–2004), poet * Tom Wayman (1945– ), poet * Yudika (1898–1988), Yiddish poet

Screenwriters and playwrights

* Ted Allan (1916–1995), screenwriter and playwright * Ben Barzman (1910–1989), screenwriter * Len Blum (1951– ), screenwriter * Joel H. Cohen, television writer * Robert Cohen (writer), Robert Cohen, comedy writer * Stan Daniels (1934–2007), screenwriter, director, and producer * Evan Goldberg (1982– ), screenwriter * Elan Mastai (1974– ), screenwriter * Hannah Moscovitch (1978– ), playwright * Sharon Pollock (1936–2021), playwright * Oren Safdie (1965– ), playwright * Rick Salutin (1942– ), playwright * Adam Seelig (1975– ), playwright * David Shore (1959– ), television writer * Beverley Rosen Simons, Beverley Simons (1938– ), playwright * Sandor Stern (1936– ), screenwriter * Mel Tolkin (1913–2007), television comedy writer

Sports

Athletics

* Sasha Gollish (1981– ), competitive runner * Abby Hoffman (1947– ), track and field athlete * Gordon Orlikow (born 1960), decathlon, heptathlon, and hurdles competitor, Athletics Canada Chairman, Canadian Olympic Committee member, Korn/Ferry International partner * Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904—1969), runner and long jumper

Baseball

* Goody Rosen (1912–1994), baseball player, outfielder, All-StarJewish Baseball Players
''Baseball Almanac''. Retrieved May 20, 2010 * Adam Stern (1980– ), baseball player, outfielder

Basketball

* Doodie Bloomfield (1918–1950), basketball player * Julius Goldman (1910–2001), basketball player * Bennie Lands (1921–2014), basketball player * Irving Meretsky (1912–2006), basketball player * Mendy Morein (1926–2003), basketball player * Cy Strulovitch (1925–2020), basketball player * Sol Tolchinsky (1929–2020), basketball * Murray Waxman (1925– ), basketball

Canadian football

* Sam Berger (1900–1992), president of the CFL * Noah Cantor (1971– ), CFL player * Mark Cohon (1966– ), CFL Commissioner * Sydney Halter (1905–1990), CFL Commissioner * Lew Hayman (1908–1984), Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes coach

Chess

* Jacob Ascher (1841–1912), chess master * Mark Bluvshtein (1988– ), chess grandmaster *

(1925–2012), chess master * Selim Franklin (1814–1885), chess master * Sofia Polgar (1974– ), chess grandmaster * Daniel Yanofsky (1925–2000), Canada's first chess grandmaster

Combat sports

* Mark Berger (judoka), Mark Berger (1954– ), judoka, Olympic silver & bronze (heavyweight) * Maxie Berger (1917–2000), boxer * Eddie Creatchman (1928–1994), wrestler and manager * Al Foreman (1904–1954), boxer * Sarah Kaufman (fighter), Sarah Kaufman (1985– ), mixed martial artist * Sammy Luftspring (1916–2000), boxer, Canadian champion welterweight, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame * Fred Oberlander (1911–1996), wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion * Lanny Poffo (1954– ), wrestler * Irving Ungerman (1923–2015), boxing promoter and manager * David Zilberman (wrestler), David Zilberman (1982– ), freestyle wrestler

Figure skating

* Ellen Burka (1921–2016), figure skater * Petra Burka (1946– ), figure skater * Dylan Moscovitch (1984– ), pairs skater * Louis Rubenstein (1861–1931), world figure skating champion

Hockey

* Murray Bannerman (1957– ), ice hockey, goaltender (NHL) * Ross Brooks (1937– ), ice hockey, goaltender (NHL) * Hy Buller (1926–1968), ice hockey, All-Star defenceman (NHL) * Michael Cammalleri (1982– ), ice hockey, left wing (New Jersey Devils) * Jason Demers (1988– ), ice hockey defenseman (Arizona Coyotes) * Steve Dubinsky (1970– ), ice hockey, centre (NHL) * Oren Eizenman (1985– ), ice hockey centre * Kaleigh Fratkin (1992– ), ice hockey defenseman (Metropolitan Riveters) * Mark Friedman (1995– ), ice hockey, NHL * Cecil Hart (1883–1940), Montreal Canadiens coach and namesake of the Hart Memorial Trophy * Adam Henrich (1984– ), ice hockey, left wing/centre (Serie A (ice hockey), Serie A) * Michael Henrich (1980– ), ice hockey, right wing, first Jewish player drafted in first round to the NHL * Eric Himelfarb (1983– ), ice hockey centre (HC Thurgau) * Corey Hirsch (1972– ), ice hockey, goaltender (NHL) * Josh Ho-Sang (1996– ), ice hockey forward (New York Islanders) * Zach Hyman (1992– ), ice hockey left wing/centre (

) * Joe Ironstone (1898–1972), ice hockey goaltender (NHL) * Max Labovitch (1924–2018), ice hockey, right wing (NHL) * Brendan Leipsic (1994– ), ice hockey left wing (Vancouver Canucks) * Devon Levi (2001– ), ice hockey, goaltender (Northeastern Huskies men's ice hockey, Northeastern Huskies, Canada men's national junior ice hockey team) * Alex Levinsky (1910–1990), ice hockey, defenceman (NHL) * Jacob Micflikier (1984– ), ice hockey forward (EHC Biel) * David Nemirovsky (1976– ), ice hockey, right wing (CSKA Moscow) * Bob Nystrom (1952– ), ice hockey, right wing (NHL) * Eric Nystrom (1983– ), ice hockey, left wing (NHL) * Cory Pecker (1981– ), ice hockey, right wing (NHL, Swiss Challenge League, Nationalliga B) * Bob Plager (1943–2021), ice hockey defense (NHL) * Samuel Rothschild (1899–1987), ice hockey left wing (NHL) * Eliezer Sherbatov (1991– ), ice hockey, left wing (KHL) * Max Silverman (1900–1966), ice hockey manager * Trevor Smith (ice hockey), Trevor Smith (1985– ), ice hockey, centre (Toronto Maple Leafs) * Ronnie Stern (1967– ), ice hockey, right wing (NHL) * Josh Tordjman (1985– ), ice hockey goaltender (EC Red Bull Salzburg) * Mike Veisor (1952– ), ice hockey, goaltender (NHL) * Stephen Weiss (1983– ), ice hockey, forward (Detroit Red Wings, NHL) * Ethan Werek (1991– ), ice hockey, forward (OHL, NHL) * Bernie Wolfe (ice hockey), Bernie Wolfe (1951– ), ice hockey, goaltender * Larry Zeidel (1928–2014), ice hockey defenceman (NHL)

Racing

* Tanya Dubnicoff (1969– ), track cyclist * Leah Goldstein (1969– ), road racing cyclist * Yonnie Starr (1905–1990), racehorse trainer * Lance Stroll (1998– ), Formula One driver

Racket sports

* Sharon Fichman (1990– ), tennis player * Sherman Greenfeld (1962– ), racquetball player * Jesse Levine (1987– ), Canadian-American tennis player * Denis Shapovalov (1999– ), tennis player * Andrew Sznajder (1967– ), tennis player

Soccer

* Adam Braz (1981– ), former professional soccer player * Tomer Chencinski (1984– ), Israeli-Canadian soccer player * Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), soccer (Germany national football team, German national team) * Daniel Haber (soccer), Daniel Haber (1992– ), soccer player * Samuel Hazan (1983– ), soccer player * Frederick Stambrook (1929–2005), president of the Canadian Soccer Association

Other

* Josh Binstock (1981– ), beach volleyball player * Sam Schachter (1990– ), beach volleyball player * Ben Weider (1923–2008), bodybuilder and entrepreneur * Joe Weider (1919–2013), bodybuilder and entrepreneur

References

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