Alison Acheson
Alison Acheson is a Canadian writer of fiction for adults and children.
Biography
Acheson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. In her youth she studied through both public school and correspondence school. She left school just before her si ...
Fardaws Aimaq
Fardaws Aimaq (born January 6, 1999) is a Canadian basketball player for the California Golden Bears of the Pac-12 Conference. He previously played for the Mercer Bears, Utah Valley Wolverines, and Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Early life and high scho ...
, basketball player
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Daniel Adair
Daniel Patrick Adair (born February 19, 1975, in Vancouver) is a Canadian drummer. He is best known for his work with Nickelback and his previous work with 3 Doors Down. He also works with the Canadian band Suspect and the instrumental fusion ...
Robert Campbell Aitken
Robert Campbell Aitken (born April 21, 1963) is a Canadian electrical engineer. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 "for contributions to testing and diagnosis of integrated circuits." He ...
, electrical engineer
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Vikky Alexander
Vikky Alexander (born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1959) is a Canadian contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited internationally since 1981 as a practitioner in the field of photo-conceptualism, and as an ...
Bocci
Bocci is a Canadian design and manufacturing company based in Vancouver and Berlin, founded in 2005 by Randy Bishop and Omer Arbel. Bocci specializes in sculptural lighting and large light installations.
History
The company began in 2005 af ...
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Arteezy
Artour Babaev, better known as Arteezy, is a Canadian professional '' Dota 2'' player for Shopify Rebellion. He is also one of the most popular streamers among the community.
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Babaev showed much promise as a child, ...
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' is an animated children's television series based on the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's ''My Little Pony'' franchise. The series follows a studious unicorn (later an alicorn) pony named Twilight Spark ...
'' and lead singer of
Hey Ocean!
Hey Ocean! is a Canadian indie alternative rock and synthpop band formed in 2004 in Vancouver. David Beckingham and Ashleigh Ball had been friends since grade 6, joining with David Vertesi in the 2000s to form the band. The band consists of Ashlei ...
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Joan Balzar
Joan Balzar (November 8, 1928 – January 16, 2016) was a Canadians, Canadian artist, known for her vividly coloured Hard-edge painting, hard-edged Abstract art, abstract paintings, which sometimes included metallic powders or Neon lighting, neon ...
, painter
* James Barber (1923–2007), cookbook author, aka "The Urban Peasant"
* Kathleen Barr, voice actress
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bbno$
Alexander Leon Gumuchian (; born June 30, 1995), known professionally as bbno$ (pronounced "baby no money"), is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his 2019 single "Lalala (song), Lalala" with producer Y2K (record pr ...
Ray Bethell
Ray Bethell (March 1, 1928 - December 18, 2018) was a professional kite flyer who resided in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He holds multiple endurance world records related to simultaneously flying three stunt kites, one from each hand an ...
(1928–2008), master multiple kite flier
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Jean-Luc Bilodeau
Jean-Luc Bilodeau (born November 4, 1990) is a Canadian actor who has been acting since 2004. He is best known for his role as Ben Wheeler in the ABC Family channel program ''Baby Daddy''.
Bilodeau has also appeared in films and television seri ...
, actor
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Molly Lamb Bobak
Molly Lamb Bobak (née Lamb; February 25, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to docum ...
, teacher, writer, and artist
* Linwood Boomer, actor and television producer and writer
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Andrea Botez
Andrea Cecilia Cristina Botez (born April 6, 2002) is a Canadian-American chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer and YouTuber from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Background
On the BotezLive Twitch channel, Botez's father, Andrei Bot ...
, chess player and internet personality
* Eddy Boudel Tan, writer
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Sage Brocklebank
Sage Brocklebank (born January 14, 1978) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Buzz McNab, a long-standing role on the comedy-drama '' Psych''. He also produces movies and writes for theatre and film.
Career
Actor
Since 2001 Brocklebank ...
, actor
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Troy Brouwer
Troy Brouwer (born August 17, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Washington Capitals, Calgary Flames, Florida Panthers and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). T ...
Karin Bubaš
Karin Bubaš (born 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a contemporary Canadian artist known for her work in various media including photography, painting, and drawing.
Early life
Bubaš grew up in North Vancouver and graduated from Emily Ca ...
Hy Buller
Hyman Buller (March 15, 1926 – August 3, 1968) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. Nicknamed the "Blueline Blaster" because of his penchant for hitting opposing players above the skate toe and below the pads, Buller was one of two Jewish profe ...
(1926–1968), All Star NHL ice hockey player
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Brendan Burke
Brendan Gilmore Burke (December 8, 1988 – February 5, 2010) was an athlete and student manager at Miami University for the RedHawks men's ice hockey team. The youngest son of Brian Burke, former general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, lo ...
, LGBT late activism
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Alexander Calvert
Alexander Calvert is a Canadian actor, best known for playing the role of Jack Kline on the CW show '' Supernatural''.
Early life
A native of Vancouver, Calvert studied musical theatre and hip hop dancing until the age of 15, when he became ...
Siobhan Carroll
Siobhan Carroll (born 1980) is a Canadian writer and professor of English at University of Delaware. She specializes in British literature from 1750 to 1850.
Early years
Carroll was raised in Vancouver and moved to the United States in 2005, whe ...
, professor, scholar and writer
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Anna Cathcart
Anna Cathcart (born June 16, 2003) is a Canadian actress. She became known for starring in season two of ''Odd Squad'' (2016–2019) as Agent Olympia. Cathcart also gained wide recognition for portraying Kitty Covey in Netflix's To All the Boy ...
Alina Chan
Alina Chan is a Canadian molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is a postdoctoral fellow. During the COVID-19 pandemic she became known for questioning the prevail ...
Ying Chen
Ying Chen (; born February 20, 1961) is a Chinese Canadian author. She writes mostly in French and also translates her own works into Chinese and English.
Biography
Born in 1961 in Shanghai, she now lives in Vancouver and is the mother of two c ...
Kevin Chong
Kevin Chong (born 1975) is a Canadian author. Born in Hong Kong, Chong studied at the University of British Columbia and Columbia University, where he received an MFA in fiction writing.
His first novel, ''Baroque-a-Nova'', was published in Cana ...
Brandon Clarke
Brandon Clarke (born September 19, 1996) is a Canadian-American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs and San Jose State Univ ...
,
NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...
Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton (born 1972) is a Canadian writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Compton has published books of poetry, essays, and fiction, and he edited the first comprehensive anthology of black writing from British Columbia. He co ...
Christian Covington
Christian Coral Cleveland Covington (born October 16, 1993) is a Canadian professional American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Rice and was drafted by th ...
Amanda Crew
Amanda Catherine Crew (born June 5, 1986) is a Canadian actress. Following her film debut in ''Final Destination 3'' (2006), she had lead roles as Felicia Alpine in ''Sex Drive (film), Sex Drive'' (2008) and Tess Carroll in ''Charlie St. Cloud (f ...
Seán Cummings
Seán Cummings is a Canadian film and television industry professional and former playwright, actor, producer, and director from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Ontario on January 17, 1968.
Cummings' first full-length play, " ...
, actor and playwright
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Mackenzie Davis
Mackenzie Rio Davis (born April 1, 1987) is a Canadian actress, producer, and model. She made her feature film debut in '' Smashed'' (2012). In 2013, she appeared in ''Breathe In'' and '' The F Word'' (for which she was nominated for the Canadia ...
, actress
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Brian Day
Brian Day , (born January 29, 1947) is an orthopedic surgeon and health researcher in Canada, a past president of the Canadian Medical Association, and a prominent sometimes controversial advocate for privatization of Canada's health system.
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, doctor
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Yvonne De Carlo
Margaret Yvonne Middleton (September 1, 1922January 8, 2007), known professionally as Yvonne De Carlo, was a Canadian-American actress, dancer and singer. She became a Hollywood film star in the 1940s and 1950s, made several recordings, and late ...
(1922–2007), actress, dancer, singer of
Hollywood's Golden Age
Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking which became characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s (rapidly after World War I) and the 1960s. It eventually be ...
Georgia Gymdogs
The Georgia Gymdogs (officially the Georgia Bulldogs) is the women's gymnastics team of the University of Georgia. The team is part of NCAA Division I and competes in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Gymdogs compete in Stegeman Coliseum in A ...
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Jay DeMerit
Jay Michael DeMerit (born December 4, 1979) is an American retired soccer player who played as a center back.
He played college soccer for the UIC Flames and was in the Chicago Fire Premier development squad, but after not being drafted for Maj ...
, MLS, World Cup soccer player
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Katherine DeMille
Katherine Lester DeMille (born Katherine Paula Lester; June 29, 1911 – April 27, 1995) was a Canadian-born American actress who played 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s.
The adopted daughter of director Cecil B. De ...
(1911–1995), actress of
Hollywood's Golden Age
Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking which became characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s (rapidly after World War I) and the 1960s. It eventually be ...
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Neil Denis
Neil Denis (born July 13, 1985) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Rya'c, son of Teal'c, a Jaffa in ''Stargate SG-1''. His first appearance was in ''University Hospital'' in 1995 at the age of 8. He also appeared in the Canadian tel ...
Dana Devine
Dana Devine is a blood transfusion researcher and the president of AABB. She was the editor-in-chief of '' Vox Sanguinis'' from 2012 to 2020. Devine is also the Chief Scientist at Canadian Blood Services and the director of the Centre for Blood R ...
, blood transfusion researcher
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Ranj Dhaliwal
Ranj Dhaliwal ( Punjabi: ਰਣਜ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ; born 1976/1977) is a Canadian author.
Early life
Born in Vancouver, Dhaliwal grew up in Surrey Central, British Columbia in the 1980s, which was a time when Indo-Canadian families were s ...
Lexa Doig
Alexandra Doig (born June 8, 1973) is a Canadian actress. She played the title role in the science fiction television series '' Andromeda'' (2000–2005). She also played the lead female role of Rowan in the science fiction-action horror film ...
Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into vari ...
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Audrey Capel Doray
Audrey Capel Doray (born 1931) is a Canadian artist working in a variety of mediums—painting, printmaking, electronic art, murals, and films. In addition to her solo and group exhibitions, her work was exhibited at the ''6th Biennial Exhibition ...
, artist
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Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining t ...
Aileen Eaton
Aileen LeBell Eaton (February 5, 1909 – November 15, 1987) was a boxing and professional wrestling promoter who was influential in the United States' west coast's boxing and wrestling scene for five decades. In 2002, she was the first woman ind ...
, boxing promoter
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Aryana Engineer
Aryana Engineer (born March 6, 2001) is a Canadian actress who made her debut in the 2009 horror film ''Orphan'', as a little girl named Max, alongside Vera Farmiga. In 2012 she starred, alongside Milla Jovovich, as Becky in '' Resident Evil: R ...
Robin Esrock Robin Esrock ( ; born 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa)Elise Estrada
Elise Estrada (born July 30, 1987) is a Filipino-Canadian pop singer-songwriter. She is known for her hit singles such as " Insatiable", "One Last Time" and "Lipstick" which were released in Canada.
She is signed to Universal Music Canada's XO ...
, singer-songwriter, actress
* El Phantasmo, professional wrestler
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* Isaiah Faber, rapper, songwriter, and record producer
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Bruce Fairbairn
Bruce Earl Fairbairn (December 30, 1949 – May 17, 1999) was a Canadian record producer. He was active as a producer from 1976 to 1999, and is considered one of the best of his era. His most successful productions are ''Slippery When Wet'' an ...
Wally Fawkes
Walter Ernest Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81.
Early hist ...
, (1924–2023), jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist
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Gordon Fee
Gordon Donald Fee (May 23, 1934 – October 25, 2022) was an American-Canadian Christian theologian who was an ordained minister of the Assemblies of God (USA). He was professor of New Testament Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British ...
, New Testament scholar
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John Ferguson Sr.
John Bowie "Fergy" Ferguson Sr. (September 5, 1938 – July 14, 2007) was a professional ice hockey player and executive. Ferguson played left wing for the Montreal Canadiens from 1963 to 1971. After retiring from active play, he became a coach, ...
Rod Filbrandt Rod Filbrandt is a Vancouver-based cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. He was one of the writers of the animated television series ''The Brothers Grunt''.
He produced a comic strip called "Dry Shave" that was published weekly in Vancouver's '' The ...
Ben Fisk
Benjamin Anthony Fisk-Routledge (born February 4, 1993) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a left winger for Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC.
Club career Vancouver Whitecaps
Fisk played for a host of local clubs be ...
Michael J. Fox
Michael Andrew Fox (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American retired actor. Beginning his career in the 1970s, he rose to prominence portraying Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom ''Family Ties'' (1 ...
Rhys Fulber
Nowell Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He is a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium, along with Bill Leeb. He also records under his own name and under the name Conjure One.
Biography
Rhys Fulber was born in ...
Austin Gary
Austin Gary (born Gary Austin Heyde, March 7, 1947) is an American novelist and writer, best known as a songwriter for " The Car" by Jeff Carson (as Gary Heyde) and recordings by other country music performers like Tammy Wynette and John Berry, ...
, author, songwriter
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C. E. Gatchalian
C.E. "Chris" Gatchalian (born June 5, 1974) is a Canadian author who writes in multiple genres. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Filipino parents,Dan George, actor and chief
* William Gibson, writer
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Shelley Gillen
Shelley Gillen is a Canadian producer, screenwriter and songwriter.
Biography
Shelley Gillen studied music at Interlochen Arts Academy, journalism at Ryerson University and drama at University of Toronto.
From 1994 to 2007, she was a senior ...
, producer, screenwriter and songwriter
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Greg Girard
Greg Girard (born 1955) is a Canadian photographer whose work has examined the social and physical transformation in Asia's largest cities for more than three decades.
His most recent book, ''Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976-1983'', published 2019, completes ...
, photographer
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Evan Goldberg
Evan D. Goldberg (born September 15, 1982) is a Canadian-American filmmaker and comedian. He has collaborated with his childhood friend Seth Rogen on the films '' Superbad'', ''Pineapple Express'', ''This Is the End'', ''The Interview'', and ''Go ...
, writer, producer and director
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Leah Goldstein
Leah Goldstein (born February 4, 1969, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a professional Canadian- Israeli road racing cyclist, former 1989 World Bantamweight Kickboxing Champion, and Israel's 1998 Duathlon champion. In 2021, she bec ...
(born 1969), Canadian-Israeli professional
road racing cyclist
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...
Kickboxing
Kickboxing is a combat sports, combat sport focused on kicking and punch (strike), punching. The combat takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouthguards, shorts, and bare feet to favour the use of kicks. Kickboxing is pract ...
Champion, and Israel Duathlon national champion
* Matthew Good, singer-songwriter
* Rodney Graham, artist
* Jennifer Granholm, former governor of U.S. State of Michigan (2003-11), current US Secretary of Energy under President Biden (2021-present)
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Nancy Greene Raine
Nancy Catherine Greene Raine (born May 11, 1943) is a former Senate of Canada, Canadian Senator for British Columbia and an Olympian Alpine skiing, alpine skier voted as Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century, Canada's Female Athlete of the 20 ...
, Olympic champion and Canadian senator
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Grimes
Claire Elise Boucher (; born March 17, 1988), known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her early work has been described as extending from "lo-fi R&B" to futuristic dance-pop, and has in ...
Julia Grosso
Julia Angela Grosso (born August 29, 2000) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Italian Serie A club Juventus FC and the Canada women's national team. She attained international prominence after scoring the ti ...
Aaron Guiel
Aaron Colin Guiel (; born October 5, 1972) is a Canadian former professional baseball outfielder.
Career Minor leagues and Mexico
Guiel was drafted out of Kwantlen College by the California Angels in the 21st round of the 1992 Major League Base ...
Meredith Hama-Brown Meredith Hama-Brown is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is most noted for her short film ''Broken Bunny'', which won the Sea to Sky Award at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival, and her performance as ...
Rich Harden
James Richard Harden (born November 30, 1981) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball.
Early years
Harden attended Claremont Secondary S ...
, Major League Baseball player
* Jillian Harris, ABC's 5th ''Bachelorette''
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Laura Harris
Laura Harris is a Canadian actress.
Early life
Harris is the daughter of schoolteachers. She began acting in radio dramas and animation series when she was five years old. As a child Harris was educated at Crofton House School and attended co ...
, actress
* Chris Haslam, professional skateboarder
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Joel Haywood
Joel "Joey" Haywood (born 3 September 1984) is a Canadian-born Trinidad and Tobago professional basketball player. He has been a member of the Trinidad and Tobago national team. Due to his reputation as a streetball player and his ball-handling ...
Ed Hill
Edward Monroe Hill (born in Hanford, California) is an American country music songwriter. Hill has been active since the early 1970s. Hill plays piano and keyboard and has backed Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson.
Brent Hodge
Brent Hodge (born July 9, 1985) is a Canadian-New Zealander documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known for his documentaries '' I Am Chris Farley'', ''A Brony Tale'', ''The Pistol Shrimps'', ''Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary'','' ...
, film director and CEO of Hodgee Films
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Bert Hoffmeister
Major General Bertram Meryl Hoffmeister, (15 May 1907 – 4 December 1999) was a Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist. He served with distinction during the last two years of the Second World War, becoming, in Jack Granatstein' ...
, commander of the
5th Canadian Division
The 5th Canadian Division is a formation of the Canadian Army responsible for the command and mobilization of most army units in the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador; as well as some unit ...
Clive Holden
Clive Holden is a Canadian new media artist, filmmaker and poet from Victoria, British Columbia, he is currently living in Toronto with his wife, writer Alissa York.
New Media
In the inaugural exhibition in 2013 of ''UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS'' at th ...
, poet, film director and visual artist
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Antony Holland
Antony Holland (28 March 1920 – 29 July 2015) was an English actor, playwright and theatre director who until his death in 2015 lived on Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada.
History
Holland completed his drama training at the Labou ...
, actor
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Bob Houbregs
Robert J. Houbregs (March 12, 1932 – May 28, 2014) was a Canadian professional basketball player. Houbregs was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987.
Basketball career
A 6-foot 8-inch, 225-pound forward-centre, from Quee ...
, NBA player for the
Milwaukee Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at ...
Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics ( ) are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 as one of t ...
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as basketball's most complete library, in addition to promoting and pres ...
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Harrison Houde
Harrison Houde (; born March 26, 1996) is a Canadian actor, producer, director, YouTuber, and musician. He is best known for his first acting role as Darren Walsh in the 2010 American film ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' and for his role as 'Bowie' in ...
, composer, actor
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Barbara Howard Barbara Howard may refer to:
* Barbara Howard, Countess of Suffolk (1622–1681), English courtier
* Barbara Howard (athlete) (1920–2017), Canadian sprinter
* Barbara Howard (artist) (1926–2002), Canadian painter, wood engraver, draughtsperson, ...
, sprinter
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Jono Howard
Jono Howard is a Canadian-born writer who works primarily on animated children's shows.
Career
For the majority of his career, Howard worked closely with animator Danny Antonucci.
In 2005, Howard's writing was nominated for a Leo Award. Howard ...
, Canadian-born writer who works primarily on animated children's shows
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Elva Hsiao
Elva Hsiao (, born 24 August 1979) is a Taiwanese singer, dancer, actress and businesswoman. Since being signed to a record deal in 1998 after competing in a singing competition, Hsiao has gone on to release fourteen studio albums and has achie ...
Michael Janyk
Michael Janyk (born March 22, 1982, in Vancouver) is a Canadian retired alpine skier. Janyk appeared for the Canadian team in the slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where he finished in 17th place. Janyk has yet to win a World Cup ra ...
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen (born November 21, 1985) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After studying musical theatre for most of her school life and while in university, Jepsen garnered mainstream attention after placing third on the fifth season of ...
Alexz Johnson
Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian musician, actress, and philanthropist. Her debut album ''Voodoo'' was independently released with her brother Brendan Johnson in 2010, followed by the demo release of ''The Basem ...
Jenna Talackova
Jenna Talackova (born October 15, 1988) is a Canadian model, television personality and beauty pageant titleholder who gained media attention in 2012 when she successfully waged a legal battle to be allowed to compete in the Miss Universe Canada a ...
, trans woman model, actress and television personality
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* Evander Kane, National Hockey League player
* Paul Kariya, National Hockey League player
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Earl Keeley
Clarence Keeley (born May 15, 1936) is a former Canadian football quarterback who played six seasons in the Canadian Football League with the BC Lions and Montreal Alouettes. He played college football at the University of Montana
The Univer ...
Alexander Kerfoot
Alexander Douglas Kerfoot (born August 11, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the fifth round, 150th overall, by the New Jersey Devils in the ...
Evelyn Lau
Evelyn Lau (; born July 2, 1971) is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Biography
Evelyn Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 2, 1971 to Chinese-Canadian parents from Hong Kong, who intended for her to become a doctor. Her parents' am ...
, poet and novelist
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Maggie Lawson
Margaret Cassidy Lawson (born August 12, 1980) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Detective Juliet "Jules" O'Hara in the TV show ''Psych''.
From 2018 to 2019, she held the recurring role of Nathalie Flynn on Fox's ''Lethal ...
Cory Lee
Cory Lee (born as Cory Lee Urhahn) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress. She is most noted for playing the role of Karma in the television series ''Instant Star'', and Miss Oh on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation''.
Early life
Born a ...
, singer
* Mark Lee, singer-songwriter and member of South Korean boy group NCT
* Bill Leeb, musician, singer
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Lily Alice Lefevre
Lily Alice Lefevre (5April 185417October 1938) was a Canadian writer whose literary work closely linked her to her hometown of Vancouver. Her book of poems ''Lion's Gate and Other Verses'' (1895) was the first book written by a woman and published ...
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' is an animated children's television series based on the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's ''My Little Pony'' franchise. The series follows a studious unicorn (later an alicorn) pony named Twilight Spark ...
''
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Jeff L. Lieberman
Jeff L. Lieberman is a film director, screenwriter and producer of both narrative and documentary films. He is the founder of Re-Emerging Films and the filmmaker behind ''The Amazing Nina Simone (documentary film), The Amazing Nina Simone'', ''Re ...
, film director, writer and producer
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Shin Lim
Liang-Shun Lim (born September 25, 1991), known professionally as Shin Lim, is a Canadian-American magician, recognized for his use of card manipulation and sleight of hand. He is known for elaborate close-up card magic routines, during which h ...
, close-up magician
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Trevor Linden
Trevor John Linden (born April 11, 1970) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former president of hockey operations and alternate governor of the Vancouver Canucks. He spent 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), play ...
, NHL hockey player
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Bernice Liu
Bernice Jan Liu (born January 6, 1979) is a Canadian actress, singer, and commercial model based in Hong Kong. She has previously held the title Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 as well as Miss Chinese International 2001, the latter position bringing ...
Quinn Lord
Quinn Edmond Julian Lord (born February 19, 1999) is a Canadian actor. Beginning his professional acting career at the age of five, Lord played Sam in the 2007 feature film ''Trick 'r Treat'' and was nominated for the Young Artist Award as Best ...
, actor
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Rochelle Low
Rochelle Maria Low (born May 19, 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former field hockey player from Canada, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she ended up in seventh place with the ...
Jessica Lowndes
Jessica Lowndes (; born November 8, 1988) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Adrianna Tate-Duncan on The CW teen drama series '' 90210,'' appearing in several Hallmark Channel movies, and the 2020 Lifetime Chan ...
Alexander Ludwig
Alexander Ludwig (born May 7, 1992) is a Canadian actor and country musician. He first began his career as a child, and then received recognition as a teenager for starring in the films '' The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising'' (2007) and ''Race to Wi ...
Brandon Jay McLaren
Brandon Jay McLaren (born October 15, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He made his first screen appearance in the television series ''Just Cause'' (2002). He has been known for his main and supporting roles in shows such as ''Graceland'', ''Power Range ...
, actor
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Trystan Magnuson
Trystan Stuart Gwyn Magnuson (born June 6, 1985) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics.
Career
He was originally drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays with the 56th pick ...
Charles Marega Charles Carlos Marega (September 24, 1871 – March 27, 1939) was a Canadian sculptor in the early 20th century.
He was born in Lucinico, in the commune of Gorizia, then part of the Austrian- Hungarian Empire. He received training in plaster work ...
, sculptor
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Elsie MacGill Elsie may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Elsie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Lily Elsie (1886–1952), English actress and singer born Elsie Hodder
* Robert Elsie (1950–2017), Canadian expert in Albanian ...
, first female aeronautical engineer in the world
* Shaiju Mathew, author, filmmaker
*
Scott Mathieson
Scott William Mathieson (born February 27, 1984) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants.
Career ...
, Major League Baseball player
* Seok Matthew, singer in Korea, member of boygroup ZEROBASEONE (ZB1)
* Terry McBride, CEO and founder, Nettwerk Music Group
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Shane McConkey
Shane McConkey (December 30, 1969 – March 26, 2009) was a professional skier and BASE jumper. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and eventually based himself in Olympic Valley, California. Due to an itinerant childhood, he never identi ...
, professional freestyle skier
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Dean McFadden
Vice-Admiral#Canada, Vice-Admiral Philip Dean McFadden, Order of Military Merit (Canada), CMM, Canadian Forces' Decoration, CD (born July 12, 1957) is a retired officer of the Canadian Forces. He was Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, chief of ...
Ashleigh McIvor
Ashleigh McIvor DeMerit (born September 15, 1983) is a Canadian retired freestyle skier currently residing in Whistler, British Columbia. McIvor was a member of the Canadian national ski cross team and became the first gold medal winner of women ...
, Olympic champion skier
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Leah McHenry
Leah McHenry, mononymously known as Leah (pronounced ) (born November 4, 1984), is a Canadian heavy metal musician who records both as a solo artist and, since 2018, as a member of Dragonlord. Sometimes called the "Enya of heavy metal", she p ...
, musician and music educator
* Dave McKay, Major League Baseball player
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Cody McKay
Cody Dean McKay (born January 11, 1974) is a Canadian former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Oakland Athletics in 2002 and for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.
Biography
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, McKay attended Ho ...
, Major League Baseball player
* Britt McKillip, actress
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Carly McKillip
Carly Maria McKillip (born February 13, 1989) is a Canadian actress and musician known for her title role in the television series '' Alice, I Think''. She also performs together with her sister Britt in the country group One More Girl. She was ...
Mercedes McNab
Mercedes Alicia McNab (born March 14, 1980) is a Canadian former actress. She is known for her role as Harmony Kendall on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1997–2001) and its spinoff ''Angel'' (2001–2004). She additionally is known for her role a ...
Andrew McNee
Andrew McNee (born December 25, 1974) is a Canadian actor, possibly best known for starring as Coach Malone in the movie ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' and Hoss in ''Scary Movie 4
''Scary Movie 4'' is a 2006 American science fiction parody film. It ...
John H. Meier
John H. Meier (born September 28, 1933) is an American financier and business consultant now living in Vancouver, Canada. He is noted for playing a key role in a controversial mine acquisition project for Howard Hughes and for his behind-the-scene ...
, financier and former business adviser to Howard Hughes
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Charles Merritt
Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt VC, ED (10 November 1908 – 12 July 2000) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross and Member of Parliament.
Early life
Merritt was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 10 November 1908, the son o ...
Colin Mochrie
Colin Andrew Mochrie (; born November 30, 1957) is a Scottish-born Canadian actor, writer, producer and improvisational comedian, best known for his appearances on the British and US versions of the improvisational TV show ''Whose Line Is It A ...
, comedian
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Moka Only
Daniel Denton (born November 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Moka Only, is a Canadian underground hip hop artist. He has won 3 JUNO Awards, 5 MuchMusic Video Awards, and has been nominated for 11 Western Canadian Music Awards.
Origina ...
Kevin Moon
Kevin John Moon (born 8 June 1987) is a Scottish footballer, who last played as a midfielder for Scottish League Two club Stirling Albion. He began his career with St. Johnstone and was part of the side which gained promotion to the Scottish ...
Tegan Moss
Tegan Moss (born February 7, 1985) is a Canadian actress appearing in film and television. She has been nominated for a Young Artist Award.
Biography
Moss was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has two brothers, Rory Moss, and actor Jes ...
, actress
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Jane Munro
Jane Munro (born December 3, 1943) is a Canadian poet. She has published six collections of poetry, including '' Blue Sonoma'', which won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Munro was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1943 and raised in Va ...
Steve Nash
Stephen John Nash (born 7 February 1974) is a Canadian professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 18 seasons in the NBA, ...
, NBA player
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Cam Neely
Cameron Michael Neely (born June 6, 1965) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. Neely played right wing for the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1983 to 1996. Nicknamed "'Bam ...
Alisha Newton
Alisha Newton (born July 22, 2001) is a Canadian actress. She is notable for her main roles as Georgie Fleming Morris on the Canadian television drama series ''Heartland'', and as Helen Mathis in the cult thriller series ''Devil in Ohio'' in 2022 ...
Mayko Nguyen
Mayko Nguyen is a Canadian actress of Vietnamese descent. She was born on April 19, 1980 in Vancouver, Canada. She has appeared in ''ReGenesis'', ''Rookie Blue'', ''Killjoys'', and '' Hudson and Rex''.
Career
Nguyen has had lead and recurring r ...
Brenna O'Brien
Brenna O'Brien (born March 9, 1991) is a Canadian actress and artist. She is best known for voicing Rin (InuYasha), Rin in the anime series ''Inuyasha''. Brenna O'Brien was in the original pilot of ''The Middle (TV series), The Middle'' in 2007 ...
J. I. Packer
James Innell Packer (22 July 192617 July 2020) was an English-born Canadian evangelical theologian, cleric and writer in the low-church Anglican and Calvinist traditions. He was considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North Amer ...
Jim Pattison
James Allen Pattison (born October 1, 1928) is a Canadian business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he holds the position of chief executive officer, chairman and sole owner of the Jim Pa ...
Maddie Phillips
Madelaine Rachel Phillips (born September 6, 1994) is a Canadian actress who portrayed Randeen in ''Ghost Wars'', Devon D'Marco in '' Project Mc2'', and Sterling Wesley in the 2020 Netflix teen comedy-drama television series ''Teenage Bounty Hu ...
Jaime Lo Presti
Jaime Julio Lo Presti Travanic (born 27 January 1974) is a former Chilean football defender.
Club career
In 1992 Jaime started his professional career for Universidad Católica at the age of 17. His pro debut was against Argentinian club Inde ...
Juda Hirsch Quastel
Juda Hirsch Quastel, (October 2, 1899 – October 15, 1987) was a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer.
Biography
Quastel, also known as "Harry" or " ...
Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit. The Red Wings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the East ...
Morgan Rielly
Morgan Frederick Rielly (born March 9, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Maple Leafs in the first round, fifth o ...
Claude C. Robinson
Claude Copeland Robinson (December 17, 1881June 27, 1976) was a Canadian ice hockey and sports executive. After winning an intermediate-level championship as captain of the Winnipeg Victorias in 1905, he served as secretary-treasurer and as vi ...
, ice hockey executive and inductee into the
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Spider Robinson
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Evan Roderick
Evan Roderick Anderson (born 29 June 1995) is a Canadian actor and former ice hockey player.
Life and career
Roderick was born and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has an older brother, Stuart. Evan first became interested in per ...
, actor and former ice hockey player
* Seth Rogen, actor, writer, and comedian
* Teryl Rothery, television anchor, actress
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Melissa Roxburgh
Melissa Roxburgh (born December 10, 1992) is a Canadian and American actress. She is known for her roles in '' Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules'' (2011) and '' Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days'' (2012), as Ensign Syl in the 2016 film ''Star Trek ...
Linus Sebastian
Linus Gabriel Sebastian (born August 20, 1986) is a Canadian YouTuber. Sebastian is best known for creating and hosting YouTube channels that cover technology, especially ''Linus Tech Tips'' (LTT)''.'' His channels have a combined subscriber ...
, YouTuber, presenter, producer, writer
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Louise Schatz
Louise Schatz (née Louise Burton McClure; 1916–1997) was a Canadian-born Israeli painter, ceramist, and textile designer. She is one of the best known abstract watercolorist from Israel. She was active in Berkeley, Big Sur, Haifa, and Jerusale ...
Conrad Schmidt
Conrad Schmidt (born 1969) is a social activist, filmmaker and writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who is best known for his role in founding the Work Less Party of British Columbia and for creating the internationally known World ...
, activist
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Sophie Schmidt
Sophie Diana Schmidt (born 28 June 1988) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Women's Soccer League club Houston Dash and the Canadian national team, with whom she won an Olympic gold medal in 2020 ...
, member of Canadian Women's National soccer team
* Drew Scott, television personality
* Jonathan Scott, television personality
* Jasmine Sealy, writer
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Brandon Segal
Brandon Segal (born July 12, 1983) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He most recently played under contract to the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
Playing career
As a youth, Segal played in the 19 ...
Kathryn Shaw
Kathryn Shaw is a Canadian director, actor, and writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. From 1985 to 2020 she was the Artistic Director of Studio 58, an acting and production training school at Langara College.
History
Shaw gr ...
, artistic director
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Stephen Lea Sheppard Stephen Lea Sheppard (born January 26, 1983) is a Canadian writer and former television and film actor. He played Dudley Heinsbergen in the 2001 Wes Anderson film ''The Royal Tenenbaums'' and geek guru Harris Trinsky on NBC dramedy ''Freaks and Geek ...
Hide Hyodo Shimizu
Hide Hyodo Shimizu (1908–1999) was a Japanese-Canadian educator and activist. She was an advocate for Japanese-Canadian rights and enfranchisement, and during World War II she established and operated schools for Japanese-Canadian children in in ...
Lydia Shum Din-ha
Lydia Shum Din-ha or Lydia Tin Ha Sum (; 21 July 1945 – 19 February 2008) was a Hong Kong comedian, MC, actress and singer. Known for her portly figure, signature dark rimmed glasses and bouffant hairstyle, she was affectionately known to pe ...
, elder sister of Alfred Sung; Hong Kong actress
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Christine Sinclair
Christine Margaret Sinclair (born June 12, 1983) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward and captains both National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Portland Thorns FC and the Canadian national team. An Olympic go ...
, captain of Canadian Women's National soccer team
* Robert Sing, Canadian soccer player
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Nelson Skalbania
Nelson Mathew Skalbania (born February 12, 1938) is an engineer and businessman from Vancouver, British Columbia who is best known for signing a then 17-year-old Wayne Gretzky to the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association, and for his ...
Stephen Smart
Stephen Smart is a former Canadian journalist who worked in public relations for the provincial government of British Columbia until the swearing-in of the new BC NDP government of Premier John Horgan on (or shortly thereafter) July 18, 2017. He se ...
, former journalist
* Bill Smith, soccer player
* Colleen Smith, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
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Ken Sim
Kenneth Sim (; born October 18, 1970) is a Canadian politician and businessman who has served as the 41st mayor of Vancouver since 2022.
Biography
Born in Vancouver, Sim attended Magee Secondary School, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, ...
Heather Spears
Heather Spears (September 29, 1934 - April 15, 2021) was a Canadians, Canadian-born poet, novelist, artist, sculptor, and educator. She resided in Denmark from 1962 until her death in Copenhagen in 2021. She returned to Canada annually to conduct ...
, poet, artist, novelist
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Tabitha St. Germain
Tabitha St. Germain, formerly known as Paulina Gillis Germain and also known as Tabitha or Kitanou St. Germain, is a Canadian actress and comedian. She is known for a variety of roles across many different shows. She has been actively doing voi ...
, voice actress
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John G. Stackhouse Jr.
John Gordon Stackhouse Jr. (born 1960) is a Canadian scholar of religion. As a journalist he has been recognized with over a dozen awards by the Canadian Church Press, and his scholarship has been supported by research grants from the Social Scie ...
, writer and professor of religion
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Rita Steblin
Rita Katherine Steblin (April 22, 1951 – September 3, 2019) obituary, ''Figures of Speech'' was a
Kennedy Stewart, academic and former Mayor of Vancouver (2018–2022)
* Dorothy Stratten, actress, model
* Jewel Staite, actress
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Arran Stephens
Arran Blackburn Stephens (born 1944) is a Canadian entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. He is co-founder of Nature's Path, a leading manufacturer of organic foods. He is regarded as a pioneer in the food industry and has received numerous ...
, entrepreneur, writer
* Ryan Stiles, comedian, actor
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Sean Stubbs
Sean R. Stubbs is a Canadians, Canadian musician. He has served as the drummer in the industrial rock bands Numb (band), Numb and Jakalope, and the punk rock band SNFU. He has also been a member of alternative rock singer-songwriter Bif Naked's ...
David Suzuki
David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at th ...
, environmentalist, scientist, broadcaster
* Brad Swaile, voice actor
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R. J. Swindle
Robert Joseph "R. J." Swindle (born July 7, 1983) is a Canadian former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers in 2008 and 2009.
Amateur career
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, S ...
, Major League Baseball player
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Jenna Talackova
Jenna Talackova (born October 15, 1988) is a Canadian model, television personality and beauty pageant titleholder who gained media attention in 2012 when she successfully waged a legal battle to be allowed to compete in the Miss Universe Canada a ...
Brent Titcomb
Brent Arthur Titcomb (born August 10, 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor and musician. He plays guitar, percussion, harmonica, and jaw harp.
Music career
Titcomb was the original member of the folk-rock group 3's A Crowd ...
, actor, singer, member of the Canadian band 3's a Crowd
* Alex To, Mandopop singer
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Lee Tockar
Lee William Tockar (born 1969) is a Canadian voice actor and visual artist who works for several studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a writer of children's literature, a musician, sculptor, illustrator and collected painter ...
Jacob Tremblay
Jacob Tremblay ( ; born October 5, 2006) is a Canadian actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Canadian Screen Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Young Artist Award, and nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award, tw ...
, child actor
* Margaret Trudeau (now Margaret Trudeau Kemper), author; former wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and mother of Justin Trudeau
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Nicholas Tse
Nicholas Tse Ting-fung (born 29 August 1980) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and chef.EEGmusic.EEGmusic." ''Nicolas Tse profile.'' Retrieved on 22 April 2008. As multi talented celebrity, he became a TV ch ...
, Cantopop singer
* John Turner, former Prime Minister
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Emmanuelle Vaugier
Emmanuelle Frederique Vaugier (, ; born June 23, 1976) is a Canadian film and television actress. Vaugier has had recurring roles as Detective Jessica Angell on '' CSI: NY'', Mia on ''Two and a Half Men'', Dr. Helen Bryce on '' Smallville'', F ...
, actress
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Graham Verchere
Graham Marc Verchere (born 4 February 2002) is a Canadian actor, known for roles in '' Stargirl,'' '' Fargo'', '' The Good Doctor'', and '' Summer of 84''.
Early life
Verchere was born in Vancouver to Cynthia, a pediatric plastic surgeon at BC ...
, actor
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Andrew Wilkinson
Andrew Wilkinson is an Australian-born Canadian politician. He is the former leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party, and served as the leader of British Columbia's Official Opposition. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British ...
, physician, lawyer and politician
* Larry Walker, Major League Baseball player
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Jeff Wall
Jeffrey Wall, Order of Canada, OC, Royal Society of Canada, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Van ...
Kiip
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Nolan Watson
Nolan Watson (born August 1, 1979) is a Canadian businessman, humanitarian, investor, and philanthropist. He is known for his contribution to finance innovation in the mining industry. Watson began working in mine finance with Silver Wheaton Co ...
, entrepreneur and philanthropist
* Daniel Wesley, musician
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Martyn S. Williams
Martyn Stephen Williams was born in Liverpool, England on May 2, 1947. As a mountain and wilderness guide he is the first person in the world to lead expeditions to the three extremes, South Pole (1989) North Pole (1992) and Everest (1991). He is ...
, mountain and wilderness guide who is the first person in the world to lead expeditions to the three extremes, South Pole (1989) North Pole (1992) and Everest (1991)
* Chip Wilson, businessman and founder of
Lululemon Athletica
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Kris Wu
Wu Yi Fan (,
; born 6 November 1990), known professionally as Kris Wu, is a Canadian former rapper, singer, actor and model, and convicted serial rapist. He is a former member of South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its subgroup Exo-M under SM Ent ...
, actor and former member of South Korean-Chinese group EXO
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* Charles Wilkinson (MP) (1725–1782), English Member of Parliament
*Charles Edmund Wilkinson (1807–1870), acting Governor of British Ceylon
* Charles Wilkinson (cricketer) (1813–1889), English cricketer and cle ...
, filmmaker and author
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Byron Wong
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He founded Random Media Core Inc, in 1993, a Canadian company dedicated to music, design, marketing, and new ...
, musician
* Jason Wu, Taiwanese-Canadian artist and fashion designer
Brandon Yip
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, ice hockey player
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Françoise Yip
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, actress
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Kelly Yu
Kelly Yu Wenwen (; born 7 November 1989) is a Chinese Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress.
Personal life
Yu was born in Dalian, China and moved with her parents to Vancouver, British Columbia in 2004. She attended Killarney Secondary ...
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Alex Zahara
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Van
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