Famous Canadian - Canadian Celebrities - page 5
If you are fan of pop music and Hollywood, then you have a big reason to be grateful to Canadians for many of your favourite pop-stars and film actors were born in this snowy nation. While grooving to the foot tapping music of Bryan Adams, Justin Beiber and Avril Lavigne, imagine for a while how boring contemporary music would be without these musicians! Talking about fun times, let us not forget to think about Samuel Bronfman who founded the distillery, the Seagram Company Ltd. which provides the liquors for your parties. Getting to more serious matters, do you know that the famous architects David Ewart and John M. Lyle were also Canadians?
Find out more about the greatest Canadians, including Elon Musk, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Mendes, Keanu Reeves and Jordan Peterson.
The Most Famous Canadian | |||
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
Nora Fatehi | February 6, 1992 | Canadian | Nora Fatehi is a dancer, model, and actress of Indo–Arabic descent |
Cody Ko | November 22, 1990 | Canadian | Cody Ko is a Canadian Vine sensation and YouTube personality |
Sunny Leone | May 13, 1981 | Canadian, Indian, American | Sunny Leone is an actress and model |
Eric Allan Kramer | March 26, 1962 | Canadian, American | Eric Allan Kramer is an American–Canadian actor |
Catherine Paiz | August 24, 199 | Canadian | Catherine Paiz is a Los Angeles based French-Canadian model, actress and social media star |
Karina Kurzawa | March 23, 2007 | Canadian | Karina Kurzawa is a Canadian YouTuber, gamer, and social media influencer |
Ryan Reynolds | October 23, 1976 | Canadian | Ryan Rodney Reynolds is an acclaimed Canadian actor |
Natalie Halcro | February 2, 1988 | Canadian | Natalie Halcro is a Canadian model and reality TV star |
Nina Dobrev | January 9, 1989 | Bulgarian, Canadian | Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress and model best known for her roles in ‘The Vampire Diaries’ and ‘Degrassi: The Next Generation.’ Find out more about her life and timeline. |
Winnie Harlow | July 27, 1994 | Canadian | Winnie Harlow is a Canadian model and television personality |
Myron Scholes
Myron Scholes is a Canadian-American economist who won the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1997
Michael Smith (Chemist)
Michael Smith was a British-born Canadian biochemist who won a share of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller was a Canadian-born film director who belted out several hit films in the 1960s and 70s including the classic romantic film, ‘Love Story’
Bertram Brockhouse
Bertram Brockhouse was a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist who is remembered for his development of the neutron-scattering technique
Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director who became famous for film noir in the 1940s
Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer was a popular Canadian actress of the early 1900s
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman is a Canadian-American molecular biologist who was bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989
John Polanyi
John Polanyi is an eminent Hungarian-Canadian chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1986
Henry Taube
Henry Taube was a Canadian-born American chemist who received the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry