100 Notable alumni of
University of British Columbia
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The University of British Columbia is 138th in the world, 60th in North America, and 3rd in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of British Columbia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of British Columbia won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Justin Trudeau
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- In 1998 graduated with Bachelor of Education
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianministerinternational forum participantjurist
- Biography
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Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician who has served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada since 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2013.
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Tenzin Gyatso
- Occupations
- LamapoliticianBhikkhu
- Biography
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The 14th Dalai Lama, known to the Tibetan people as Gyalwa Rinpoche, is, as the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibet. He is considered a living Bodhisattva; specifically, an emanation of Avalokiteśvara in Sanskrit, and Chenrezig in Tibetan. He is also the leader and a monk of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism, formally headed by the Ganden Tripa. The central government of Tibet, the Ganden Phodrang, invested the Dalai Lama with temporal duties until his exile in 1959.
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Evangeline Lilly
- Occupations
- flight attendantmodelfilm actoractor
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Nicole Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author. She gained popularity for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama series Lost (2004–2010), which garnered her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
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Justin Chatwin
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Justin Chatwin is a Canadian actor. He began his career in 2001 with a brief appearance in the musical comedy Josie and the Pussycats. Following his breakthrough role as Robbie Ferrier in the blockbuster War of the Worlds (2005), Chatwin headlined studio films such as The Invisible (2007) and Dragonball Evolution (2009), an action-adventure feature based on the manga series Dragon Ball. In the 2010s, Chatwin acted in small independent films. He starred as rock star idol Bobby Shore in the sci-fi musical Bang Bang Baby (2014), which earned him a Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and appeared in the romantic comedy Unleashed (2016), and drama Summer Night (2019).
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Grace Park
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- television actormodelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Grace Park is an American born Canadian actress and model, known for her roles in the science-fiction series Battlestar Galactica, as Shannon Ng in the Canadian teen soap opera series Edgemont, as Officer Kono Kalakaua in the police procedural Hawaii Five-0, and as Katherine Kim in A Million Little Things.
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Hannah Simone
- Occupations
- actormodel
- Biography
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Hannah Simone is a Canadian actress, television host, and former VJ and fashion model. She portrayed Cece Parekh on the Fox sitcom New Girl.
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Tosca Musk
- Occupations
- film producerfilm director
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Tosca Musk is a South African filmmaker. She is an executive producer and director of feature films, television programs, and web content. Her work includes K. Bromberg's Driven, Rachel van Dyken's Matchmaker's Playbook, and her web series, Tiki Bar TV. Tosca is the younger sister of Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk, and daughter of Errol Musk and Maye Musk. She co-founded the streaming service Passionflix.
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Eddie Peng
- Occupations
- television actormodelfilm actorsinger
- Biography
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Edward Peng Yu-Yan is a Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
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Albert Bandura
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- In 1949 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologisteducator
- Biography
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Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist. He was a professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University.
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William Gibson
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- In 1977 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English literature
- Occupations
- writerprose writernovelistscreenwriterscience fiction writer
- Biography
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William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
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Manny Jacinto
- Occupations
- television actordancer
- Biography
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Manuel Luis Jacinto is a Canadian actor. After several small roles on television, his breakout role came as Jason Mendoza on the NBC sitcom The Good Place (2016–2020). He has appeared as Waring "Wade" Espiritu in the neo-noir thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) and as Fritz in the action drama film Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
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Michael Shanks
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
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Michael Garrett Shanks is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and as Dr. Charles Harris in the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope. He is also known for his work on low budget genre work filmed in Canada.
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Ludi Lin
- Occupations
- film actormodelstage actor
- Biography
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Ludi Lin is a Chinese-Canadian actor and model. He is known for playing Zack Taylor in the 2017 Power Rangers reboot, the underwater warrior Murk in Aquaman (2018), and Lance in Striking Vipers, the season 5 premiere of the Netflix series Black Mirror. He plays Liu Kang in the Mortal Kombat reboot.
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Deborah Kara Unger
- Occupations
- television actorexecutive producerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Deborah Kara Unger is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the films Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994), Crash (1996), The Game (1997), Payback (1999), The Hurricane (1999), White Noise (2005), Silent Hill (2006), 88 Minutes (2008) and The Way (2010).
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Kenneth Ma
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Kenneth Ma Kwok-ming is a Hong Kong actor contracted to TVB.
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Torrance Coombs
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Torrance Coombs is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Thomas Culpepper in The Tudors (2007–2010) and as Sebastian "Bash" de Poitiers, the illegitimate son of King Henry II of France and his chief mistress Diane de Poitiers in Reign (2013–2017) and Declan in The Originals.
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Linda Chung
- Occupations
- film actorcomposersingeractormusician
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Linda Chung Ka-yan is a Hong Kong-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter. She signed a long-term contract with TVB in 2004 after winning the Miss Chinese International. Chung ended her contract with TVB in early 2018.
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Jacqueline Wong
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantactor
- Biography
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Jacqueline Wong Sum-wing is a Hong Kong actress, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Miss Hong Kong 2012 first runner-up title and placed in the top 12 talents at Miss World 2013. In 2022, her contract with TVB ended.
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Nardwuar
- Occupations
- journalistdisc jockeyradio personalitysinger
- Biography
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Nardwuar the Human Serviette, or simply Nardwuar, is a Canadian celebrity journalist and musician. He is the lead singer and keyboardist for the Evaporators.
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Gabor Maté
- Occupations
- physicianwriterpsychotherapist
- Biography
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Gabor Maté is a Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development, trauma and potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health including autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addictions and a wide range of other conditions.
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Kim Campbell
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpoliticianpolitical scientistautobiographer
- Biography
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Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell PC CC OBC KC is a Canadian former politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Campbell is the first and so far only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state.
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Rosa Mendes
- Occupations
- managermodelprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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Milena Leticia Roucka is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, valet and model. She was known for her time in WWE under the ring name Rosa Mendes. She managed former WWE Tag Team Champions Primo & Epico from 2011 to 2013. She was also a main cast member on the E! reality series Total Divas.
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Paul Johansson
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Paul Johansson is an American-born Canadian actor and director in film and television, best known for playing Dan Scott on the WB/CW series, One Tree Hill, The Notebook and for his role as Nick Wolfe on the short lived Highlander: The Series spin-off Highlander: The Raven. He directed the 2011 film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged: Part I.
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Jeannie Chan
- Occupations
- actormodel
- Biography
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Jeannie Chan is a Canadian-born Hong Kong actress and model. She is currently signed to Shaw Brothers management and has an artiste contract with TVB.
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Emily Perkins
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Emily Jean Perkins is a Canadian former actress, known for her roles as Crystal Braywood in the TV series Hiccups, young Beverly Marsh in Stephen King's It, and Brigitte Fitzgerald in Ginger Snaps. Since the late 1980s, she has appeared in various films and television series.
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Joe Clark
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Charles Joseph Clark is a Canadian businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980.
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Patrick Soon-Shiong
- Occupations
- university teacherchief executive officerentrepreneurbusinesspersonphysician
- Biography
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Patrick Soon-Shiong is an American transplant surgeon, billionaire businessman, bioscientist, and media proprietor. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, which became known for its efficacy against lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer. Soon-Shiong is the founder of NantWorks, a network of healthcare, biotech, and artificial intelligence startups; an adjunct professor of surgery and executive director of the Wireless Health Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles; and a visiting professor at Imperial College London and Dartmouth College. Soon-Shiong has published more than 100 scientific papers and has more than 230 issued patents worldwide on advancements spanning numerous fields in technology and medicine.
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Jason Gray-Stanford
- Occupations
- television actorvoice actorfilm actortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Jason Gray-Stanford is a Canadian film, television and voice actor. He is best known for playing Lieutenant Randy Disher in the Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe-winning USA Network TV program Monk and for voicing the role of Raditz in Dragon Ball Z.
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Loujain al-Hathloul
- Occupations
- human rights activistactivist
- Biography
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Loujain al-Hathloul is a Saudi women's rights activist, a social media figure, and political prisoner. She has been arrested on several occasions for defying the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. In May 2018, she and several prominent women's rights activists were kidnapped in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and deported to Saudi Arabia where they were charged with "attempting to destabilise the kingdom." Her husband, Saudi stand-up comedian Fahad al-Butairi, had also been forcibly returned from Jordan to the Kingdom and was under arrest.
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John Turner
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerathletics competitor
- Biography
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John Napier Wyndham Turner was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Canada from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and leader of the Official Opposition from 1984 to 1990.
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Ashleigh Banfield
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Ashleigh Dennistoun Banfield is a Canadian-American journalist and host of Banfield on the NewsNation network. She is a former host of Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield and Early Start on CNN.
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Emily Haines
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterpianistsingermusiciankeyboardist
- Biography
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Emily Savitri Haines is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she has performed under her own name and as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. Haines possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano.
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Jody Wilson-Raybould
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jody Wilson-Raybould, also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas, is a Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver Granville from 2015 to 2021. She was initially elected as a member of the Liberal Party – serving as justice minister and attorney general from 2015 to 2019, and briefly as veterans minister and associate national defence minister in 2019 – until she was expelled from caucus amid the SNC-Lavalin affair. She continued to sit in Parliament as an Independent and was reelected in 2019, but did not run in 2021. Before entering federal politics, she was a BC provincial Crown prosecutor, a treaty commissioner and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations.
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Leanne Li
- Occupations
- television presenteractor
- Biography
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Leanne Li Yanan is a Chinese-born Canadian actress and television host. She was the 2005 Miss Chinese International Pageant winner hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Tony Buzan
- Occupations
- psychologistwriter
- Biography
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Anthony Peter "Tony" Buzan was an English author and educational consultant.
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Bernice Liu
- Occupations
- modelsingerfilm actoractormusician
- Biography
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Bernice Jan Liu Bik-yee 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 her fame in Hong Kong. Liu left Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) in 2011 and returned to Canada to continue her education. As of 2016, she has continued her acting for new broadcaster ViuTV.
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Gloria Tang
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Gloria Tang Pui-yee is a Hong Kong Canadian actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She is the winner of Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant 2012 and Miss Chinese International Pageant 2013.
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Jim Pattison
- Occupations
- businesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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James Allen Pattison is a Canadian business magnate and investor. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he holds the position of chief executive officer, chairman and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, Canada's second largest privately-held company, with more than 45,000 employees worldwide, and annual sales of $10.1 billion. The Group is active in 25 divisions, according to Forbes, including packaging, food, and forestry products.
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Phil Lam
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Phil Lam Yik-hong is a Canadian-born Hong Kong artist and sing-songwriter. Born in Nanaimo and raised in Qualicum Beach, he signed a contract with Sony Music Hong Kong in 2009. He rose to fame in Hong Kong in 2014 with the song Hills and Valleys (Chinese: 高山低谷), which earned him a Top 20 Gold Song Award in the 2014 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation.
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Eunice Yung
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eunice Yung Hoi-yan is a Hong Kong barrister and pro-Beijing politician. She is a former member of the New People's Party (NPP) and the Civil Force (CF). She became member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for New Territories East in 2016 and for Election Committee in 2021. She stepped down in December 2023 after her home was searched by the Hong Kong National Security Police.
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Jennifer Tse
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Jennifer Tse Ting-Ting is a Hong Kong actress.
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Yael Cohen Braun
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Yael Cohen Braun is a Canadian health activist. The ex-wife of Scooter Braun, she is the founder of the organization "Fuck Cancer", a nonprofit charity.
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Camille Sullivan
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Camille Sullivan is a Canadian actress. She has starred in various films and television series. Among her notable television appearances are Rookie Blue, Da Vinci's Inquest, Intelligence and Shattered. She won a Leo Award for her role in Normal. She was also nominated for a Gemini Award for her portrayal of the character of Francine Reardon in Intelligence, who is the cocaine and alcohol addict ex-wife of a West Coast crime boss.
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Kiril Petkov
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Kiril Petkov Petkov is a Bulgarian politician, economist, and entrepreneur, who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from December 2021 to August 2022. He is the co-leader of We Continue the Change, a political party he co-founded with Asen Vasilev.
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Irshad Manji
- Occupations
- women's rights activistjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Irshad Manji is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator. She is the author of The Trouble with Islam Today (2004) and Allah, Liberty and Love (2011), both of which have been banned in several Muslim countries. She also produced a PBS documentary in the America at a Crossroads series, titled Faith Without Fear, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008. A former journalist and television presenter, Manji is an advocate of a reformist interpretation of Islam and a critic of literalist interpretations of the Qur'an.
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Anne Heung
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Anne Heung Hoi-lam is a Hongkonger-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She formerly under contract to the television station TVB. She left TVB in 2008 for new business ventures but returned to media work in 2015.
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam
- Occupations
- modelsingermusicianhuman rights activistbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam is an Iranian-Canadian human rights activist, author, public speaker and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Canada 2003. She is also president and co-founder of Stop Child Executions, as well as the founder of The Nazanin Foundation. She immigrated to Canada with her family in 1981 and is married to Peter MacKay, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
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Julia Benson
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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Julia Benson is a Canadian actress. She played the character Vanessa James in the science fiction series Stargate Universe.
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Robert Mundell
- Occupations
- economistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Robert Alexander Mundell was a Canadian economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Carat Cheung
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Carat Cheung is a Canadian-Chinese actress, model and former beauty pageant winner currently based in Hong Kong and previously under Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) management. She is the winner of Miss Hong Kong 2012.
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Dominic Barton
- Occupations
- chief executive officeradvisormanagerconsultantinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Dominic Barton, known as Bao Damin (Chinese: 鲍达民) in China, is a Ugandan-born Canadian business executive, author, and diplomat. He is the current chairman of the private investment firm LeapFrog Investments as well as the chancellor of the University of Waterloo. He served as the Canadian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 2019 to 2021. Prior to this, Barton was the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm, from 2009 to 2018 and has previously served as Chairman of Teck Resources and as Non-Executive Director at the Singtel Group in Singapore and Investor AB in Sweden.
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Jeff Wall
- Occupations
- art historianprintmakerphotographer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA is a artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay, and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.
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Patrick Moore
- Occupations
- environmentalistconsultant
- Biography
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Patrick Albert Moore is a Canadian industry consultant, former activist, an early member and past president of Greenpeace Canada. Since leaving Greenpeace in 1986, Moore has criticized the environmental movement for what he sees as scare tactics and disinformation, saying that the environmental movement "abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism". Greenpeace has criticized Moore, calling him "a paid spokesman for the nuclear industry, the logging industry, and genetic engineering industry" who "exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson".
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Rick Hansen
- Occupations
- activistathletics competitor
- Biography
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Richard Marvin Hansen is a Canadian track and field athlete (Paralympic Games), activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. Following a pickup truck crash at the age of 15, Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury and became a paraplegic. Hansen is most famous for his Man in Motion World Tour, in which he circled the globe in a wheelchair to raise funds for charity. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. He was one of the final torchbearers in the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was profiled and spoke during the 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony.
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Jade Kwan
- Occupations
- singerrecording artistsongwriter
- Biography
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Kwan Wai-Man, better known professionally as Jade Kwan Sum-Yin (Chinese: 關心妍), is a Cantopop singer and philanthropist based in Hong Kong. Originally from Vancouver, she entered the music industry after winning the 1999 New Talent Singing Awards Canada Finals and the Best Potential Newcomer Award at the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals of the same year. She debuted under BMA Records in July 2002 with the album Jade-1, winning multiple best new artist awards and has since released more than 13 albums and extended plays. Kwan is known for her philanthropic work and has been awarded the 2012 Ten Outstanding Young Persons Selection and the Hong Kong Volunteer Award in 2011. She is the founder and chairperson of charitable organization Shining Life Limited 妍亮生命慈善基金.
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Julia Shaw
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Julia Shaw is a German-Canadian psychologist and popular science writer who specialises in false memories. Shaw has been an honorary Research Associate in Psychology at University College London (UCL) since 2017 and was a contributor to Scientific American between 2015 and 2017. Since 2020, she has co-hosted the BBC Sounds true crime podcast Bad People with Danish comedian Sofie Hagen.
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Shannon Chan-Kent
- Occupations
- danceropera singeractorvoice actorcomedian
- Biography
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Shannon Chan-Kent is a Canadian voice and stage actress. She is known for her roles as Silver Spoon and Smolder and the singing voice of Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Misa Amane in the English dub of Death Note, and the Biskit twins and Youngmee Song on Littlest Pet Shop. She also portrays Joy Pepper in the rebooted Superbook, the Chief in Pucca, Courtney's best friend Janet in Spectacular!, and Amy Rose in Sonic Prime.
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Ian Hacking
- Occupations
- historianprofessorphilosopher
- Biography
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Ian MacDougall Hacking was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and was a member of many prestigious groups, including the Order of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.
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Dennis McKenna
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- In 1984 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in botany
- Occupations
- ethnobotanistanthropologist
- Biography
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Dennis Jon McKenna is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He is the brother of well-known psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna and is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines.
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Kayi Cheung
- Occupations
- actormodelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Kayi Cheung is a Hongkonger-Canadian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Hong Kong 2007 and 1st Runner-up of the Miss Chinese International 2008. She also received the Miss Vitality Ambassador award. Cheung had said her goal is to become a successful programme host and to promote healthy living.
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James Sinclair
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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James Sinclair was a Canadian politician and businessman. He was the maternal grandfather of current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Robert Langlands
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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Robert Phelan Langlands, is a Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize. He was an emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.
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Patricia Churchland
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she has taught since 1984. She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989. She is a member of the Board of Trustees Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Philosophy Department, Moscow State University. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and Somerville College, Oxford, she taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984 and is married to the philosopher Paul Churchland. Larissa MacFarquhar, writing for The New Yorker, observed of the philosophical couple that: "Their work is so similar that they are sometimes discussed, in journals and books, as one person."
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David Nykl
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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David Nykl is a Czech-Canadian actor of film, television, commercials and theater. He is best known for portraying Dr. Radek Zelenka in the SyFy television series Stargate Atlantis and Anatoly Knyazev in the DC Comics series Arrow.
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Ujjal Dosanjh
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ujjal Dev Dosanjh, is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 33rd premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. He was minister of health from 2004 until 2006, when the party lost government. He then served in the Official Opposition from January 2006 until 2011. Dosanjh was one of four visible minorities to serve in Paul Martin's Ministry.
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Boris Malagurski
- Occupations
- film directorpolitical analystscreenwriterfilm producerdocumentarian
- Biography
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Boris Malagurski is a Serbian-Canadian film director, producer, writer, political commentator, television host, and activist. His films include the documentary series The Weight of Chains.
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Rebecca Marino
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Rebecca Catherine Marino is a Canadian professional tennis player. On 11 July 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of world No. 38. Marino was awarded Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada two times, in 2010 and 2011.
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Kevin Reynolds
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- 2015-2019 studied international relations
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Kevin Reynolds is a retired Canadian figure skater. He is the 2013 Four Continents champion, 2010 Four Continents bronze medallist, 2014 Winter Olympics team silver medallist and a six-time Canadian national medallist (2012–14, 2017 silver; 2010, 2016 bronze). His highest place at a World Championship is fifth, achieved at 2013 World Championships. On the junior level, he is the 2006 JGP Final bronze medallist.
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Leila Araghian
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Leila Araghian is an Iranian architect. She has a master's degree in architecture from the University of British Columbia, where she won the UBC Architecture Alumni Henry Elder Prize. She previously studied architecture in Iran, at Shahid Beheshti University.
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Hugh Ross
- Occupations
- astrophysicistphysicistastronomer
- Biography
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Hugh Norman Ross is a Christian apologist, and old-Earth creationist.
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Arthur Hill
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Arthur Edward Spence Hill was a Canadian actor. He was known in British and American theatre, film, and television.
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Suzanne W. Simard
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- naturalistuniversity teacherecologist
- Biography
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Suzanne Simard is a Canadian scientist who is a professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. After growing up in the Monashee Mountains, British Columbia, she received her PhD in Forest Sciences at Oregon State University. Prior to teaching at the University of British Columbia, Simard worked as a research scientist at the British Columbia Ministry of Forests.
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Linna Huynh
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Linna Huynh is a Canadian television presenter, actress and model currently based in Hong Kong under contract with TVB.
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Anastasia Phillips
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Anastasia Phillips is a Canadian actress. She appeared in films Don't Talk to Irene, Ghostland (2018) and Tammy's Always Dying (2019), and the TV series Bomb Girls and Reign. In 2021, she began starring in the CBC drama series, Moonshine.
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Michael Smith
- Occupations
- biochemistgeneticistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Michael Smith was a British-born Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis. Following a PhD in 1956 from the University of Manchester, he undertook postdoctoral research with Har Gobind Khorana (himself a Nobel Prize winner) at the British Columbia Research Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Subsequently, Smith worked at the Fisheries Research Board of Canada Laboratory in Vancouver before being appointed a professor of biochemistry in the UBC Faculty of Medicine in 1966. Smith's career included roles as the founding director of the UBC Biotechnology Laboratory (1987 to 1995) and the founding scientific leader of the Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence (PENCE). In 1996 he was named Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology. Subsequently, he became the founding director of the Genome Sequencing Centre (now called the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre) at the BC Cancer Research Centre.
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Lorna Slater
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- Studied in 1993-2000
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Lorna Slater is a Canadian politician, who has served as Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity in the Scottish Government since 2021. She has served as co-leader of the Scottish Greens alongside Patrick Harvie since 2019, and is one of the first Green politicians in the UK to serve as a government minister. Slater has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region since 2021.
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Ann Makosinski
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- Studied in 2006-2015
- Occupations
- studentinventor
- Biography
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Ann Makosinski is a Canadian inventor and public speaker. She is best known for her invention of the thermoelectric flashlight in 2011.
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Hart Hanson
- Occupations
- showrunnerscreenwritertelevision producerfilm producer
- Biography
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Hart Hanson is an American-born television writer and producer, as well as an author. He is best known as the creator, executive producer, and writer of the TV series Bones.
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Tasha de Vasconcelos
- Occupations
- actormodel
- Biography
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Tasha Sandra Mota e Cunha de Vasconcelos is a Mozambican-born Portuguese-Canadian model, actress and humanitarian ambassador. She is also the ambassador for the Institut Pasteur. She has just been appointed as a UN Women Global champion for Planet 50-50 by 2030.
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Sahar Biniaz
- Occupations
- actormodelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Sahar Biniaz is an Iranian-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Canada 2012. She had a recurring role on the hit TV show Sanctuary as the Hindu goddess of power Kali.
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Shahrzad Rafati
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Shahrzad Rafati is an Iranian-Canadian chairwoman and CEO of BroadbandTV Corp – a global media company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, which has been operating in video entertainment since 2005 by working with content creators and media companies.
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Andrew D. Hamilton
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- international forum participantchemist
- Biography
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Andrew David Hamilton is a British-American chemist and academic administrator who served as the 16th president of New York University from 2016 to 2023. He previously served as vice chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2009 to 2015 and provost of Yale University from 2004 to 2008.
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Albert Chan
- Occupations
- politiciansocial worker
- Biography
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Albert Chan Wai-yip 陳偉業, also known by his nickname "Big Piece", is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories West constituency. He has served as a legislator from 1991 to 2016 except for the periods 1997–2000 and Jan–May 2010. Chan, formerly a social worker, was a member of the Tsuen Wan District Council.
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Clint Hocking
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- video game designervideo game producervideo game developervideo game director
- Biography
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Clint Hocking is a Canadian video game designer and director. He has primarily worked at the Canadian divisions of Ubisoft, where he developed three titles, and briefly worked at LucasArts, Valve, and Amazon Game Studios.
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Michael Klaper
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- physiciandocumentary participant
- Biography
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Michael A. Klaper is an American physician, vegan health educator, conference and event speaker, and an author of articles and books of vegan medical advice. Graduating from medical school in 1972, Klaper became a vegan ten years later and subsequently became active in the area, publishing three books advocating veganism and serving as a founding director of the Institute of Nutrition Education and Research.
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Bertram Brockhouse
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Bertram Neville Brockhouse, 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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Svend Robinson
- Occupations
- trade unionistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Svend Robinson is a Canadian politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2004, who represented suburban Vancouver-area constituencies of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP). He is noted as the first member of Parliament in Canadian history to come out as gay while in office. In 2004, he pled guilty to stealing an expensive ring and decided not to run in the June 2004 election. At the time, he was one of the longest-serving members in the House of Commons, having been elected and re-elected for seven consecutive terms. In the 2019 Canadian federal election, Robinson was the NDP candidate for the riding of Burnaby North-Seymour, but lost to the Liberal incumbent Terry Beech by 1,560 votes.
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Brian Wong
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Brian Wong is a Canadian Internet entrepreneur. In 2010, Wong co-founded Kiip (pronounced "keep"), a company offering a mobile app rewards platform through which computer game players would receive real-world rewards from brands and companies for in-game achievements.
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Adrian Dix
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adrian Dix is a Canadian politician who is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), he was the party's leader and Leader of the Opposition in British Columbia from 2011 to 2014, resigning after losing the 2013 provincial election in an upset. He is the current the Minister of Health as well as the Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs, both since 2017, under premiers John Horgan and David Eby.
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Madeleine Thien
- Occupations
- novelistwritershort story writer
- Biography
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Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expression and politics inside Cambodia and China, as well as within diasporic East Asian communities. Thien's critically acclaimed novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards for Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.
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Charles Kupperman
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Biography
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Charles Martin Kupperman was the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump, a position he held from January to September 2019. He also was the acting United States National Security Advisor for eight days in September 2019 between John Bolton and Robert C. O'Brien.
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Simon Barry
- Occupations
- executive producerscreenwritertelevision producertelevision director
- Biography
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Simon Barry is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, director and television producer.
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Steven Galloway
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Steven Galloway is a Canadian novelist and a former professor at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the award-winning novel The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008).
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Wong Kam-sing
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Wong Kam-sing, GBS, JP, is a Hong Kong architect and the former Secretary for the Environment, Wong had held a number of public service positions before joining the Government, including the first Chairman of the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Chairman of the Professional Green Building Council and the Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Green Building Council. He has contributed to the promotion and research of the standards and guidelines for sustainable built environment applicable to the high-density urban environment of Hong Kong.
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Gordon Neufeld
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Gordon Neufeld is a developmental psychologist from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of the book Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (co-authored with Canadian physician Gabor Maté).
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Bjarni Tryggvason
- Occupations
- physicistastronautengineer
- Biography
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Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason was an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Jeff Francis
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jeffrey William Francis is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and Toronto Blue Jays. He is an inductee of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Ziya Tong
- Occupations
- television producerjournalistblogger
- Biography
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Ziya Tong is an English-born Canadian television personality and producer, formerly the co-host of Discovery Channel's long-running primetime science magazine, Daily Planet.
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Glen Clark
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Glen David Clark is a Canadian retail executive and former politician who served as the 31st premier of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.
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Wai Young
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Wai Young is a Canadian politician from Vancouver, British Columbia. She represented the electoral district of Vancouver South for the Conservative Party of Canada from 2011 to 2015. She was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election, but was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Harjit Sajjan in the 2015 election. She started her own municipal party, Coalition Vancouver, on June 21, 2018. She is leader of the party and ran as its mayoral candidate for the 2018 municipal election. She unsuccessfully contested the 2019 federal election.
