100 Notable alumni of
McMaster University
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McMaster University is 528th in the world, 195th in North America, and 15th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from McMaster University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with McMaster University won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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John Candy
- Occupations
- film actormanufacturercomedianfilm directortelevision actor
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John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian best known for his work in Hollywood comedy films.
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Eugene Levy
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- songwritercomediantelevision producercharacter actormusician
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Eugene Levy is a Canadian actor and comedian. He often plays flustered and unconventional figures. He is best known for appearing in the sketch comedy series SCTV, which aired from 1976 until 1984, and the American Pie series of films. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and co-writing four of his films, commencing with Waiting for Guffman (1996). From 2015 to 2020, he starred as Johnny Rose in Schitt's Creek, a comedy series that he co-created with his son and co-star Dan Levy.
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Martin Short
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- comedianscreenwritervoice actorfilm directorsinger
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Martin Hayter Short OC is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer. Short is known as an energetic comedian who gained prominence for his roles in sketch comedy. He has also acted in numerous films and television shows. His awards include two Primetime Emmy Awards, two SAG Awards, and a Tony Award. Short was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.
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Ivan Reitman
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- film producerfilm director
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Ivan Reitman OC was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
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Pokimane
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- vloggerYouTuberchess playerTwitch streameronline streamer
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Imane Anys, better known as Pokimane, is a Moroccan and Canadian online streamer, YouTuber and influencer based in California. She is best known for gameplay and commentary livestreams on Twitch, most notably in Valorant and Fortnite. She is a co-founder of OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of content creators.
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Tommy Douglas
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- Christian ministerprinterclericpolitician
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Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan. His government introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program.
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Adam DiMarco
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- singeractorfilm actor
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Adam DiMarco is a Canadian actor. He has played recurring roles in the Syfy series The Magicians (2016–2020) and the Netflix series The Order (2019–2020). He had main roles in the HBO series The White Lotus (season 2, 2022) and the Prime Video series Overcompensating (2025-present).
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Dave Thomas
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- actortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actorfilm director
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David William Thomas CM is a Canadian actor, comedian and television writer, known for being one half of the duo Bob and Doug McKenzie with Rick Moranis. He appeared as Doug McKenzie on SCTV, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award out of two nominations, and in the film Strange Brew (1983), which he also co-directed. As a duo, they made two albums, The Great White North and Strange Brew, the former gaining them a Grammy Award nomination and a Juno Award.
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John Sessions
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- comediantelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actorstage actor
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John Sessions was a British actor and comedian. He was known as a regular performer on comedy improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as co-creator, co-writer and co-star of the sitcom Stella Street, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood.
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Donna Strickland
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- In 1981 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in engineering physics
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Donna Theo Strickland is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
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Jonathan Frid
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden vampire caused the floundering daytime drama to soar to 20 million daily viewers. His watershed portrayal has been cited as a key influence on contemporary genre film and television series such as Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries.
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Furious Pete
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- television producerbodybuilderYouTuber
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Peter Czerwinski, better known by his stage name Furious Pete, is a Canadian competitive eater and YouTuber. Czerwinski currently holds fourteen Guinness World Records in eating.
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Helen To
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- writer
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Helen To Yu-fung, is a Hong Kong host, TV producer and columnist.
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Doug Henning
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- magicianpoliticianillusionist
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Douglas James Henning was a Canadian magician, illusionist, escape artist and politician.
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Belinda Stronach
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Belinda Caroline Stronach is a Canadian businesswoman and former politician. She served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2004 to 2008, initially as a Conservative and later as a Liberal. During her political career, Stronach served as the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development from May 17, 2005, to February 6, 2006, and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal from May 17, 2005, to February 6, 2006, both in Paul Martin's Cabinet.
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Myron Scholes
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- economistresearchermathematician
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Myron Samuel Scholes is a Canadian–American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black–Scholes options pricing model. This mathematical model, developed with Fischer Black, revolutionized finance by providing a systematic way to value options through the elimination of risk via dynamic hedging.
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David Easton
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- university teacherpolitical scientist
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David Easton FRSC was a Canadian-born American political scientist. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
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Roberta Bondar
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- biologistneurologistphysicianastronautphotographer
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Roberta Lynn Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
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Andrea Horwath
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in industrial relations
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrea Lynn Horwath is a Canadian politician who has served as the 58th mayor of Hamilton since 2022. Horwath served as the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2009 to 2022 and as the leader of the Official Opposition from 2018 to 2022.
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Alex Anthopoulos
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
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Alex Anthopoulos is a Canadian professional baseball executive, currently serving as general manager and president of baseball operations for the Atlanta Braves, which won the 2021 World Series.
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Stephen Elop
- Occupations
- business executive
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Stephen Elop is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as its first non-Finnish CEO and later as Executive Vice President, Devices & Services, as well as the head of the Microsoft Business Division, as the COO of Juniper Networks, as the president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems, in several senior positions in Macromedia and as the CIO at Boston Chicken.
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Dalton McGuinty
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in biology
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. OOnt ECO is a Canadian former politician who served as the 24th premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011, he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election.
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Tihomir Orešković
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- businesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
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Tihomir "Tim" Orešković is a Croatian-Canadian businessman who was Prime Minister of Croatia from January to October 2016, before a no-confidence vote filed by one of the two parties in the ruling coalition brought his government down.
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Jaime Mañalich
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticiansurgeon
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Jaime José Mañalich Muxi is a Chilean physician (nephrologist), and former Health Minister.
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Ruby Dhalla
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- chiropractorbusinesspersonactorpolitician
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Ruby Dhalla is a Canadian businesswoman and politician. She served as the Member of Parliament for Brampton—Springdale in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2011 as a member of the Liberal Party. Dhalla and British Columbia Conservative MP Nina Grewal were the first Sikh women to serve in the House of Commons of Canada.
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Lionel Sanders
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- triathlete
- Biography
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Lionel James Sanders is a Canadian professional triathlete winner of the 2017 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships. He has 33 first place finishes in Ironman 70.3 races and 5 first place finishes in full Ironman events. In 2017 and 2022, he placed second at the Ironman World Championship. In 2014 he placed fourth in the 2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship held in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Sanders's first professional race was in September 2013 at the Muskoka Ironman 70.3, where he took 1st place over Andreas Raelert.
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Ron Joyce
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- businesspersonautobiographer
- Biography
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Ronald Vaughan Joyce, CM was a Canadian entrepreneur and billionaire. He was an early investor in the Tim Hortons doughnut chain as Tim Horton's first franchisee in 1967.
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Lincoln Alexander
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- autobiographerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Lincoln MacCauley Alexander PC CC OOnt CD QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a member of Parliament in the House of Commons, a federal Cabinet Minister (as federal Minister of Labour), a Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board of Ontario, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Alexander was also a governor of the Canadian Unity Council.
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Gurratan Singh
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in religious studies and philosophy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gurratan Singh is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who represented Brampton East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), Singh practiced as a litigation lawyer before he was elected as a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the 2018 provincial election. He was defeated in the 2022 Ontario general election, later joining the lobbying firm Crestview Strategies. He is the brother of former federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.
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Adam van Koeverden
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- canoeistkayakerathletepolitician
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Adam Joseph van Koeverden PC MP is a Canadian sprint kayaker, Olympic gold medallist, and politician serving since 2025 as the Secretary of State for Sport in Prime Minister Mark Carney's Cabinet. A member of the Liberal Party, he has represented the electoral disitrct of Burlington North-Milton West and its predecessor district of Milton in the House of Commons since 2019.
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Harold Innis
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- university teacherhistorianphilosophersociologisteconomist
- Biography
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Harold Adams Innis FRSC was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history, and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, lumber, wheat, mined metals, and coal. The staple thesis dominated economic history in Canada from the 1930s to 1960s, and continues to be a fundamental part of the Canadian political economic tradition. Innis has been referred to as the "father of communications theory" and as the "father of Canadian economic history".
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Martin Popoff
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- music criticbiographermusic journalist
- Biography
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Martin Popoff is a Canadian music journalist, critic and author. He is mainly known for writing about heavy metal music. The senior editor and co-founder of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, he has written more than twenty books that both critically evaluate heavy metal and document its history. He has been called "heavy metal's most widely recognized journalist" by his publisher.
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Roger Neilson
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- ice hockey coach
- Biography
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Roger Paul Neilson, CM was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, most notably in the NHL, where he served with eight teams. Known as Captain Video because of his technological contributions to the game, he is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder category. Alongside his decorated coaching abilities, Neilson is commonly remembered today for his many antics which resulted in the creation of several NHL rules.
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Reza Ardakanian
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- politician
- Biography
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Reza Ardakanian is an Iranian professor, politician and former Minister of Energy of Iran, a position he had held from 29 October 2017 to 25 August 2021. He was previously deputy energy minister in the 1980s and 1990s and has been involved with UN-Water.
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Sheila Copps
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- writerautobiographerjournalistpolitician
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Sheila Maureen Copps PC OC is a former Canadian politician who also served as the sixth deputy prime minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to April 30, 1996, and June 19, 1996, to June 11, 1997. Her father, Victor Copps, was once mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
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Daniel Goldberg
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- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
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Daniel Mitchell Goldberg was a Canadian film producer and screenwriter. He was a writer and producer on the films Meatballs and Stripes. He was also a producer of The Hangover film series and received an Emmy Awards nomination for the film The Late Shift.
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Michael Ruse
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- In 1964 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Michael Escott Ruse FRSC was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialised in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Ruse began his career teaching at The University of Guelph and spent many years at Florida State University.
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Steve Mann
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- university teacherwritercomputer scientistengineerinventor
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William Stephen George Mann is a Canadian engineer, professor, and inventor who works in wearable computing, augmented reality, extended reality, and computational photography, particularly high-dynamic-range imaging. Mann is considered the "father of wearable computing" for his early inventions and continuing contributions to the field.
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Yasir Naqvi
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Yasir Abbas Naqvi ECO MPP is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre since the 2021 federal election, sitting as a Liberal. Prior to his election to the House of Commons of Canada, Naqvi was active in Ontario provincial politics, serving as the first visible-minority attorney general of Ontario (2016–2018), minister of community safety and correctional services (2014–2016), and minister of labour (2013–2014). He represented Ottawa Centre in the Legislative Assembly. On 3 June 2023, Naqvi announced his candidacy for the 2023 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election. He placed third, losing to Bonnie Crombie.
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Bertram Brockhouse
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- university teachernuclear physicistphysicist
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Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC FRSC FRS was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1994, shared with Clifford Shull) "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".
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Syl Apps
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- ice hockey playerpole vaulterpolitician
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Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps CM, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948, an Olympic pole vaulter and a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario. In 2017 Apps was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
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John Mighton
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- writerplaywrightactormathematician
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John Mighton, O.C. born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on October 2, 1957, is a Canadian mathematician, playwright and best-selling author, who is known for his work to support children's successful math education. Mighton founded JUMP Math as a charity in 2002 and developed the JUMP Math program to address student underachievement in math. Mighton has won national and international awards for his contributions to both math education and Canadian theatre as an internationally recognized playwright.
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Ruby Sahota
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Ruby Sahota PC MP is a Canadian lawyer and politician. A member of the Liberal Party, she is currently serving as Secretary of State (Combatting Crime). She previously served as the Minister of Democratic Institutions from 2024 to 2025 and has represented the federal riding of Brampton North and its successor riding Brampton North—Caledon in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. She also previously served as the Chief Government Whip from January to December 2024.
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PJ Haarsma
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelist
- Biography
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Philip-Jon Haarsma /ˈhɑːrzmɑː/, more commonly known as PJ Haarsma, is a Canadian-born producer and science fiction author best known for his creation of the Rings of Orbis universe, which encompasses The Softwire series of books. Haarsma created a free, online role-playing game, also called the Rings of Orbis, set in the same universe. Both the book-series and the game target young, often reluctant readers in an attempt to encourage them by rewarding them for reading. He is also the founder and CEO of Redbear Films, a production company that focuses on advertisements.
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Peter Sloly
- Occupations
- chief of policeassociation football player
- Biography
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Peter John Michael Sloly OOM is a Canadian former police officer who served as the chief of police for the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) from 2019 to 2022. Before joining the OPS, Sloly was a member of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) for 27 years, including as a deputy chief of police from 2009 to 2016.
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Sarah Thomson
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sarah Jane Thomson, also known as Sarah Jane Whatmough-Thomson, is an entrepreneur who was publisher and CEO of the Women's Post and a former candidate for mayor of Toronto.
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Ali Hassan
- Occupations
- comedianfilm actor
- Biography
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Ali Hassan is a Canadian comedian and actor, known as the host of CBC Radio One's weekly comedy program Laugh Out Loud and as the moderator of CBC Radio's annual Canada Reads competition since 2017.
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Eric Hoskins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eric William Hoskins OC MSC ECO is a Canadian physician and former politician who served as an Ontario cabinet minister from 2010 to 2018. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, he represented Toronto—St. Paul's in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2009 to 2018. Before entering politics, Hoskins was the president of War Child Canada and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008 for his humanitarian work.
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Blake Morrison
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- writerauthorpoetnovelist
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Philip Blake Morrison is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and was made into a drama film of the same title. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If (1997).
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David Braley
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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David Osborn Braley OC was a Canadian businessman and politician who was the owner of three Canadian Football League (CFL) teams during his lifetime: the BC Lions, Toronto Argonauts, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2010 as a Conservative, but resigned three years later stating no official reason. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
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Thomas Mason
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- 1986-1990 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicistresearcher
- Biography
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Thomas Mason is a Canadian-American condensed-matter physicist who serves as the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to this appointment, he had been an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute from 2017 to 2018, and the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2007 to 2017. Mason moved to Oak Ridge in 1998 at the start of construction of the Spallation Neutron Source which he led from 2001 until project completion in 2006.
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James Orbinski
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- physicianwriterhumanitarian
- Biography
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James Jude Orbinski is a Canadian physician, humanitarian activist, author, and scholar in global health. Dr. Orbinski began his role as principal of Massey College at the University of Toronto in the 2024-2025 academic year, where he is also Full Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and is cross-appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, as well as the Dalla Lana School of Public Health,. Previously a professor in the Faculty of Health Science at York University, Dr. Orbinski founded the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research.
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Diana Panton
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
- Biography
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Diana Panton is a Canadian jazz vocalist. Her latest release, "soft winds and roses", topped the Jazz Best Seller Chart at Books.com in Taiwan and the Vocal Jazz Chart on Amazon Japan. Her album, blue, was awarded the 2023 Silver Disc Award by Japan's Jazz Critique Magazine. Her albums Yesterday Perhaps and Pink were awarded Silver Discs upon their release in Japan. blue also earned Panton her eighth JUNO nomination at the 2023 JUNO Awards in Canada. She won a Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year in 2017 for I Believe in Little Things and a 2015 Juno award for Vocal Jazz Album for RED. She received JUNO nominations for her albums Cheerful Little Earful, Solstice/Equinox (2019), Christmas Kiss (2013), To Brazil with Love (2012) and If the Moon Turns Green...(2009). I Believe in Little Things debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Jazz Chart while simultaneously debuting at No. 11 on the Billboard Children's Music Chart.
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Tyler Sanders
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Tyler James "TJ" Sanders is a former professional Canadian male volleyball player. He was a member of the Canada men's national volleyball team, representing Canada in the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. He also was a gold medallist at the 2015 NORCECA Championship, and a bronze medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games and a bronze medalist at the 2017 World League where he ranked statistically as the top setter.
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Samantha Nutt
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Samantha Joan Nutt CM OOnt is a Canadian physician and philanthropist who is the founder and president of War Child Canada. She has more than sixteen years of experience working in war zones. Her 2011 book Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid details her work over the course of fifteen years in some of the most devastated regions of the world.
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Stephen Maar
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Stephen Timothy Maar is a Canadian professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Galatasaray.
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Dhammānandā
- Occupations
- university teacherwriternun
- Biography
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Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh (Thai: ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์) or Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Shatsena (Thai: ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์ ษัฏเสน; 1944), is a Thai bhikkhuni ("Buddhist nun"). On 28 February 2003, Kabilsingh received full monastic ordination as a bhikkhuni of the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka. She is Abbess of Songdhammakalyani Monastery, the only temple in Thailand where there are bhikkhunis.
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Gordon Guyatt
- Occupations
- researcherphysician
- Biography
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Gordon Henry Guyatt is a Canadian physician who is a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is known for his leadership in evidence-based medicine, a term that first appeared in a single-author paper he published in 1991. Subsequently, a 1992 JAMA article led by Guyatt proved instrumental in bringing the concept of evidence-based medicine to the world's attention. Guyatt's concerns with the role of the medical system, social justice, and medical reform remain central issues that he promoted in tandem with his medical work. He was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Tyler Ardron
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Tyler Ardron is a Canadian rugby union player who plays for Canada nationally and Castres in the Top 14. Ardron plays in the back-row but is also capable of providing cover in the second row.
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James C. Adamson
- Occupations
- military flight engineeraircraft pilotastronaut
- Biography
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James Craig Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and retired Colonel of the United States Army. He is married with 3 children. James Adamson flew on two missions, STS-28 and STS-43, and completed 263 orbits and 334 hours in space. After retiring from NASA, he was recruited by Allied Signal (later merged with Honeywell) where he retired in 2001. Adamson has logged over 3,000 hours in over 30 different types of helicopters and airplanes.
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Martin Green
- Occupations
- university teacherengineerenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Martin Andrew Green AM FRS FAA is an Australian engineer who specialises in photovoltaics. He is a Scientia professor of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he directs the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. Green is best known for his development of the Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) in 1983, a technology that significantly increased the conversion efficiency of silicon solar cells, reduced the cost of solar energy and powers over 90% of all solar panels globally today.
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Nonso Amadi
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Chinonso Obinna Amadi Listen is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and music producer. He is a self-taught songwriter and music producer who embarked on his music career in 2012, while at Covenant University, where he studied chemical engineering. He is signed to UMG Canada, Def Jam Recordings, UMG Nigeria, Polydor, and MCA Records France.
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Suchart Thadathamrongvej
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech is a Thai politician and professor. He served as Minister of Finance under Samak Sundaravej and Somchai Wongsawat from August to December 2008 and as Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Yingluck Shinawatra from January to October 2012. From September to November 2008, he was the chairman of the Pheu Thai Party.
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James Alcock
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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James E. Alcock is professor emeritus (Psychology) at York University (Canada). Alcock is a noted critic of parapsychology and a Fellow and Member of the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a member of the editorial board of The Skeptical Inquirer, and a frequent contributor to the magazine. He has also been a columnist for Humanist Perspectives Magazine. In 1999, a panel of skeptics named him among the two dozen most outstanding skeptics of the 20th century. In May 2004, CSICOP awarded Alcock CSI's highest honor, the In Praise of Reason Award. The author of several books and peer-reviewed journal articles, Alcock is also an amateur magician and a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
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Stephen A. Kent
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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Stephen A. Kent is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He researches new religious movements, and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God (The Family), the Church of Scientology, and other NRMs in Canada.
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Martyn Burke
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterdirectorwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Martyn Burke is a Canadian director, novelist and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario.
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Richard Hayman
- Years
- 1920-2014 (aged 94)
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- 1998-2002 graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Richard Warren Joseph Hayman was an American musician who was the chief music arranger of the Boston Pops Orchestra for over 50 years, and served as a pops conductor for orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Theodosius Mar Thoma
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- metropolitanpresbyter
- Biography
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Theodosius Mar Thoma XXII Metropolitan is the Mar Thoma Metropolitan and the Primate of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. Theodosius Mar Thoma presently occupies the Apostolic Throne of St Thomas and is also the first Mar Thoma Metropolitan to be born in post-independence India.
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Heather Munroe-Blum
- Occupations
- financier
- Biography
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Heather Anne Elyse Lilian Munroe-Blum OC OQ FRSC is a Canadian academic and businesswoman.
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Michael Frank Goodchild
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 82)
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- In 1969 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in geography
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Michael Frank Goodchild is a British-American geographer. He is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988, as part of the establishment of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which he directed for over 20 years. In 2008, he founded the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies.
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Lisa Thomaidis
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Lisa Thomaidis is a Greek-Canadian basketball coach who is the head coach of the Saskatchewan Huskies women's basketball program. She is a three-time national champion as a head coach after leading the Huskies to wins in 2016, 2020, and 2025. She was also the head coach for the Canada women's national basketball team from 2014 to September, 2021, and of the German women's national team from April 2023 to October 2025.
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John Ivison
- Occupations
- columnist
- Biography
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John Ivison is a Scottish Canadian journalist and author. He is an Ottawa-based political columnist for the National Post and Ottawa Bureau Chief.
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Karen Bakker
- Occupations
- university teacherecologistgeographer
- Biography
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Karen Bakker was a Canadian author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for her work on digital transformation, environmental governance, and sustainability. A Rhodes Scholar with a DPhil from Oxford, Bakker was a professor at the University of British Columbia. In 2022–2023 she was on sabbatical leave at Harvard, as a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stanford University's Annenberg Fellowship in Communication, Canada's "Top 40 Under 40", and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship.
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Kevin G. Lynch
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Kevin G. Lynch PC OC is a Canadian economist and former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Canada's most senior civil servant.
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Rami M. Shapiro
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Rami M. Shapiro, commonly called "Rabbi Rami", is an American Reform rabbi, author, teacher, and speaker on the subjects liberal Judaism and contemporary spirituality. His Judaism is grounded in the perennial philosophy.
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Howard Engel
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Howard Engel CM was a Canadian mystery author and CBC producer who resided in Toronto, Ontario. He was famous for his Benny Cooperman detective series, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario, mirroring St. Catharines, Ontario, where he was born. He was one of the founding authors of Crime Writers of Canada in 1982.
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Anupam Sen
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Anupam Sen is a Bangladeshi author, sociologist, and social activist. He was the vice-chancellor of Premier University, Chittagong. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2014 by the Government of Bangladesh.
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Mamdouh Shoukri
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Mamdouh Shoukri, CM OOnt was the seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of York University, serving two terms from 2007 to 2017. His first term began on July 1, 2007, and on April 25, 2011, the Board of Governors of York University announced his renewal for a second term.
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Stanley Knowles
- Occupations
- Christian ministerclergymanprinterpriestpolitician
- Biography
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Stanley Howard Knowles PC OC was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party (NDP).
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Robert Nixon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Fletcher Nixon OOnt ECO is a retired Canadian politician in the province of Ontario, Canada. The son of former Premier of Ontario Harry Nixon, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a 1962 by-election following his father's death. The younger Nixon was elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1967 and led them through three provincial elections, the first two where the Liberals retained their standing as the second-largest party and official opposition in the legislature.
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Richard Bader
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Richard F. W. Bader FRSC FCIC was a Canadian quantum chemist, noted for his work on the atoms in molecules theory. This theory attempts to establish a physical basis for many of the working concepts of chemistry, such as atoms in molecules and bonding, in terms of the topology of the electron density function in three-dimensional space. Alongside the eminent chemist Ronald Gillespie, he had a significant influence on inorganic chemistry education in Canada.
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Chris Searle
- Occupations
- teacherpoet
- Biography
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Chris Searle is a British educator, poet, anti-racist activist, and socialist. He has written widely on cricket, language, jazz, race, and social justice, and has taught in Canada, England, Tobago, Mozambique, and Grenada. He has been associated with the Institute of Race Relations since the 1970s, and is on the editorial board of Race & Class. He writes a weekly column on jazz for the left-wing newspaper Morning Star.
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Akram Pedramnia
- Occupations
- literary criticpoetwritertranslatornovelist
- Biography
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Akram Pedramnia is an Iranian-Canadian writer, translator, Joycean scholar, researcher, activist, and physician. She has written, researched, and translated many English novels and political articles. She has resided in Canada since 1998, when she emigrated from Iran.
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Aaron Carpenter
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Aaron Carpenter is a retired Canadian rugby union player who represented Canada at three Rugby World Cups (2007, 2011 and 2015). He became the Canadian international cap leader on June 17, 2017, with 77. After retiring from play in January 2018, he began coaching the Toronto Arrows.
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Chris Van Zeyl
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Chris Van Zeyl is a Canadian former professional gridiron football offensive tackle who played for 15 years in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He is a two-time Grey Cup champion with the Argonauts and was named a CFL All-Star three times and CFL East Division All-Star seven times. He was also named the CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman in 2019. He played CIS Football for the McMaster Marauders as a defensive lineman.
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Rob Burgess
- Years
- 1957-2025 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Robert Kenneth Burgess was a Canadian executive in the technology industry. He was the chief executive officer of Macromedia from 1996 to 2005 and chairman from 1997 to 2005. Prior to that, he was CEO of Alias Research from 1991 to 1995.
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John E. Thomas
- Years
- 1926-1996 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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John Edward Thomas was a British-born Canadian philosopher and pioneer of medical ethics in Canada.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton
- Occupations
- politicianpastor
- Biography
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Charles Aubrey Eaton was a Canadian-born American Baptist clergyman, journalist, and Republican politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1953. His district, which centered on Somerset County, was numbered as the 4th district from 1925 to 1933 and the 5th district from 1933 to 1953. He was a leading voice in the Republican Party on foreign policy, chairing both the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Herter Committee and signing the United Nations Charter.
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Gillian E. Wu
- Occupations
- immunologist
- Biography
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Gillian Elizabeth Wu (born 1943) is a Canadian Immunologist and the former Dean of Pure and Applied Science at York University. She is currently Professor Emerita in York University's Faculty of Science (Department of Biology) and Faculty of Health and also at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
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Tyler Crapigna
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Tyler Crapigna is a Canadian former professional football placekicker who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played CIS football for the McMaster Marauders from 2010 to 2014 and kicked the game-winning field goal in double overtime of the 47th Vanier Cup.
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Nanda Lwin
- Occupations
- music journalistengineermusic historiancivil engineer
- Biography
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Nanda Layos Lwin is a Canadian author, music historian, journalist, civil engineer, and educator. He wrote the weekly ChartTalk column, a commentary of the current Canadian music charts; it appeared on canoe.ca from 1997 to 2002 and in The Hamilton Spectator from 2003 to 2006. He is the author and publisher of eight books including Top 40 Hits: The Essential Chart Guide (1999) and Top Albums: The Essential Chart Guide (2003), primarily documenting the chart history of the Canadian music magazine The Record.
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David Hamid
- Occupations
- Anglican priest
- Biography
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David Hamid is a retired Anglican bishop (Church of England) with British and Canadian citizenship. He has been the Suffragan Bishop in Europe since 2002.
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Jeffrey Remedios
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Jeffrey Remedios is the chairman and CEO of Universal Music Canada. He also founded Arts & Crafts Records, and chairs the Toronto International Film Festival. He has appeared multiple times on the Billboard list of international power players, and was named by Toronto Life as one of Toronto's 50 most influential people. In August 2025, during his TIFF chairmanship, the festival drew public attention for rescinding the invitation to screen the documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, citing concerns over legal clearance of footage, a decision criticized by the filmmakers and some advocacy groups.
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Josh Bongard
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Josh Bongard is a professor at the University of Vermont and a 2010 PECASE awardee.
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Bob Dechert
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Robert "Bob" Dechert is a former Canadian politician and lawyer. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada, Dechert served as the member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga—Erindale in the House of Commons of Canada from 2008 to 2015.
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Jordan Hall
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Jordan Hall is a Canadian writer, playwright and web series creator, best known for creating the award-winning web series Carmilla.
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Tony Valeri
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- real-estate agentinsurance executivemarketing managerpolitician
- Biography
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Tony Valeri PC is a former Canadian politician. Valeri was the Government House Leader in Paul Martin's government from 2004 until 2006. He was narrowly defeated by New Democratic (NDP) candidate Wayne Marston in the 2006 general election held on January 23, 2006.
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Sean Barrett
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Sean Declan Conrad Barrett is an Irish economist and former senator. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics of Trinity College Dublin, and a Fellow of the college. In April 2011, he was elected to the Dublin University constituency of Seanad Éireann but narrowly lost his seat in 2016. In 2018 he was elected a Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin.
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Santee Smith
- Occupations
- dancerchoreographerchancellor
- Biography
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Santee Smith Tekaronhiáhkhwa CM is a Canadian Mohawk multidisciplinary artist, dancer, designer, producer, and choreographer. She has used her voice and research to create dance works representing Indigenous identities. She is an advocate for Indigenous performances and is one of Canada's most dominating dance artists. Santee Smith has amassed multiple awards throughout her career and in 2019, she was appointed Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Mike Bradwell
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Mike Bradwell is a Canadian former professional football wide receiver who played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted in the second round of the 2008 CFL draft by the Toronto Argonauts. He began playing football in his final year at Leaside High School and played CIS football with McMaster University.
