100 Notable alumni of
University of British Columbia
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The University of British Columbia is 142nd in the world, 62nd 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
- actorjuristlawyerministerteacher
- Biography
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Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. He led the Liberal Party from 2013 until his resignation in 2025 and was the member of Parliament (MP) for Papineau from 2008 until 2025.
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Tenzin Gyatso
- Occupations
- LamaBuddhist monkpolitician
- Biography
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The 14th Dalai Lama is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959 and subsequently led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India.
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Evangeline Lilly
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- modelflight attendantactorfilm actor
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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 six nominations for the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
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Justin Chatwin
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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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
- modeltelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Grace Park is an American-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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Tosca Musk
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producer
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Tosca Jane 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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Hannah Simone
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- modelactor
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Hannah Simone is a British and Canadian actress. She portrayed Cece Parikh on the Fox sitcom New Girl.
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Manny Jacinto
- Occupations
- dancertelevision actor
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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). Jacinto had minor roles in Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), and portrayed the Stranger/"Qimir" in the Star Wars series The Acolyte (2024). He also provided the voice of Scott Denoga in the Disney Channel animated series Hailey's On It! (2023–2024). In 2025, Jacinto starred in Disney's Freakier Friday alongside Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Eddie Peng
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- modeltelevision actorsingerfilm actor
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Edward Peng Yu-Yan is a Taiwanese actor, singer and model. He is best known for starring in the films Hear Me (2009), Unbeatable (2013), Fleet of Time (2014), Operation Mekong (2016), Duckweed (2017), Wu Kong (2017), and Hidden Man (2018). In 2024, Peng starred in Black Dog, which premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain Regard prize.
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William Gibson
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- In 1977 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English-language literature
- Occupations
- executive producertelevision actorwriterfilm actorprose writer
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William Ford Gibson is a speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. 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, along with his usage of the matrix, 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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Albert Bandura
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- In 1949 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teachereducatorpsychologist
- Biography
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Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist and professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University, who contributed to the fields of education and to the fields of psychology, e.g. social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and influenced the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. Bandura also is known as the originator of the social learning theory, the social cognitive theory, and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and was responsible for the theoretically influential Bobo doll experiment (1961), which demonstrated the conceptual validity of observational learning, wherein children would watch and observe an adult beat a doll, and, having learned through observation, the children then beat a Bobo doll.
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Gabor Maté
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- physicianpsychotherapistwriter
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Gabor Maté CM is a Canadian physician and author. He has worked in family practices and specializes in childhood development and trauma, including long-term effects on physical and mental health, such as autoimmune diseases, cancer, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and addiction.
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Michael Shanks
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- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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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 actorstage actormodel
- 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 Liu Kang in the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot.
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Deborah Kara Unger
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- executive producertelevision actoractorfilm actor
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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
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Kenneth Ma Kwok-ming is a Hong Kong actor contracted to TVB.
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Nardwuar
- Occupations
- disc jockeyjournalistsingerradio personality
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Nardwuar the Human Serviette CM, or simply Nardwuar, is a Canadian journalist and musician. He formed the Vancouver-based garage rock band the Evaporators in 1986, for which he serves as lead singer and keyboardist. He is best known for his in-depth interviews with musicians, celebrities, and politicians, where his thorough research and extensive knowledge often surprises them—uncovering forgotten details or well-kept secrets they never expected anyone to know.
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Kim Campbell
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- consul generalautobiographerdiplomatlawyerpolitical scientist
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Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is a Canadian politician who was the 19th prime minister of Canada from June to November 1993. Campbell is the first and 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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Linda Chung
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- singercomposerfilm actorrecording artistmusician
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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 Pageant. Chung ended her contract with TVB in early 2018.
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Torrance Coombs
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- television actorfilm actor
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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), 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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Jacqueline Wong
- Occupations
- actorbeauty pageant contestant
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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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Patrick Soon-Shiong
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- In 1979 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchief executive officeruniversity teachersurgeonphilanthropist
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Patrick Soon-Shiong is a South African and American businessman, investor, medical researcher, and transplant surgeon. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, which is used for lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer. He has received US FDA approval for a new class of immunotherapy drug called Anktiva in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in 2024. 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. He is currently Executive Chairman, Global Chief Medical & Technology Officer at ImmunityBio.
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Paul Johansson
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- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Paul Johansson is a Canadian actor and director in film and television, best known for playing Dan Scott on the WB/CW series One Tree Hill, and for his role as Nick Wolfe on the short-lived series Highlander: The Raven, a spin-off of Highlander: The Series. He directed the 2011 film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged: Part I.
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Adrian Smith
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Adrian Devaun Smith is an American architect. He designed the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower. A long-time principal of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he founded his own architectural partnership firm, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, in Chicago in 2006. Among his other projects, he was the senior architect for Central Park Tower in New York City, Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, and Zifeng Tower in Nanjing.
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Jason Gray-Stanford
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- television presentertelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Jason Gray-Stanford is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Lieutenant Randy Disher in the USA Network television series Monk and for voicing the role of Raditz in the Ocean Productions dub of Dragon Ball Z.
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Emily Perkins
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- actorfilm actor
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Emily Jean Perkins is a Canadian 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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Carly Pope
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Carly Pope is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles on The WB's drama series Popular (1999–2001), supernatural drama series The Collector (2004–2005), USA Network's legal drama series Suits (2016–2017) and The CW's Arrow (2016–2017).
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Joe Clark
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- politicianlecturerlawyerdiplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Charles Joseph Clark is a Canadian businessman, writer, and retired politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980. He served as leader of the Official Opposition from 1976 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1983 and led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1976 to 1983, and again from 1998 to 2003.
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Milena Roucka
- Occupations
- managerprofessional wrestlermodel
- 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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John Turner
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- athletics competitorlawyerpolitician
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John Napier Wyndham Turner was the 17th prime minister of Canada, serving from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 1984 to 1990.
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Loujain al-Hathloul
- Occupations
- activisthuman rights defender
- Biography
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Loujain al-Hathloul is a Saudi women's rights activist, social media figure, and political prisoner. She was 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 ex-husband, Saudi stand-up comedian Fahad al-Butairi, was forcibly returned from Jordan to the Kingdom and placed under arrest.
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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 former host of Banfield on the NewsNation network. She is also a former host of Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield and Early Start on CNN.
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Emily Haines
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- singerpianistsinger-songwriterkeyboardistmusician
- 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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Yael Cohen Braun
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Yael Cohen Braun is a South African–born Canadian health activist. The former wife of Scooter Braun, she is the founder of the organization "Fuck Cancer", a nonprofit charity.
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Jody Wilson-Raybould
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- activistCrown attorneylawyerpolitician
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Jody Wilson-Raybould PC OBC KC, also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas, is an Indigenous Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician who was Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2015 to 2019. First elected in the 2015 election as the member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver Granville with the Liberal Party, Wilson-Raybould was re-elected as an independent in the 2019 election. As Attorney General, Wilson-Raybould refused to offer a deffered prosecution agreement to SNC-Lavalin after being pressured to do so by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She briefly served as Minister of Veterans Affairs in 2019, before she resigned from Cabinet and was removed from the Liberal caucus amid the SNC-Lavalin affair.
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Leanne Li
- Occupations
- actortelevision presenter
- 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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Jim Pattison
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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James Allen Pattison OC OBC 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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Tony Buzan
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- writerpsychologist
- Biography
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Anthony Peter "Tony" Buzan was an English author and educational consultant.
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Bernice Liu
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- singermodelmusicianactorfilm actor
- 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
- 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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Camille Sullivan
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- film actoractorstage actor
- Biography
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Camille Sullivan is a Canadian actress. Among her notable television appearances are Rookie Blue, Da Vinci's Inquest, Intelligence and Shoresy. She won a Leo Award for her role in the drama film Normal (2007). Other film credits include The Butterfly Effect (2004), Sisters & Brothers (2011), and Ally Was Screaming (2014). Sullivan was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2008 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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Phil Lam
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- singersongwriter
- 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 (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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Jennifer Tse
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- actor
- Biography
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Jennifer Tse Ting-ting is a Hong Kong actress and model. She is the daughter of actors Patrick Tse and Deborah Lee, and the younger sister of singer and actor Nicholas Tse.
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Yung Hoi Yan
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- politician
- Biography
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Eunice Yung Hoi-yan is a Hong Kong barrister and pro-Beijing politician. Once the vice-chairman of the New People's Party (NPP), she became a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for New Territories East in 2016 and for Election Committee in 2021. She stepped down in 2025 amidst concerns that she may not be able to seek another term after her father-in-law was placed with bounty by the national security police.
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Kiril Petkov
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- 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 was the co-founder of We Continue the Change, a political party, alongside Assen Vassilev.
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Julia Benson
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- 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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Anne Heung
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Anne Heung Hoi-lam is a Hongkonger-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was 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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Patrick Moore
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- consultantwriterenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Patrick Albert Moore is a Canadian industry consultant, former activist and 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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Nazanin Afshin-Jam
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- singermodelbeauty pageant contestanthuman rights defendermusician
- 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 emigrated 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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Rick Hansen
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- athletics competitoractivist
- Biography
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Richard Marvin Hansen CC OBC is a Canadian track and field athlete (Paralympic Games and Olympic Games), activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. When Rick was 15, he was riding in the back of a pickup truck after a fishing trip with his friend, when the driver lost control and the vehicle rolled over. Hansen was trapped on the inside of the roll and thrown to the ground, along with the equipment from the truck. As a result of the crash, Hansen broke his back, sustained a spinal cord injury and became paralyzed from the waist down.
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Irshad Manji
- Occupations
- women's rights activistwriterjournalist
- 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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Dominic Barton
- Occupations
- managerconsultantchief executive officeradviser
- Biography
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Dominic Barton, known as Bao Damin (Chinese: 鲍达民) in China, is a Canadian business executive, author, and diplomat. He is the current chairman of the private investment firm LeapFrog Investments and was the Chancellor of the University of Waterloo from 2018 to 2024. 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 consulting firm McKinsey & Company, 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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Shannon Chan-Kent
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- voice actorstrippersingeractor
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Shannon Chan-Kent is a Canadian voice and stage actress. She is known for her roles as Silver Spoon, 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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Robert Mundell
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- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Robert Alexander Mundell CC was a Canadian economist who was a professor of economics at Columbia University, McGill University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas.
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Jeff Wall
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- art historianartistprintmakerphotographer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Jeff Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian photographer. He is an 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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Jade Kwan
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- singersongwriterrecording artist
- Biography
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Kwan Wai-Man, better known professionally as Jade Kwan Sum-Yin (Chinese: 關心妍), is a Hong Kong and Canadian singer and philanthropist. 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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Carat Cheung
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- actor
- Biography
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Carat Cheung Ming-nga 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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Ian Hacking
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- historianphilosopherprofessor
- Biography
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Ian MacDougall Hacking CC FRSC FBA 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
- anthropologistethnobotanist
- 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
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- actorbeauty pageant contestantmodel
- 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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Arthur Hill
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- film actortelevision actorstage 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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Robert Langlands
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- university teachermathematicianphysicist
- Biography
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Robert Phelan Langlands, CC FRS FRSC 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 is 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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James Sinclair
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- civil engineerbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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James Sinclair PC was a British-born Canadian politician and businessman. He was the maternal grandfather of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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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 best WTA singles ranking of No. 38. Marino was awarded Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada two times, in 2010 and 2011.
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Hugh Ross
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- astrophysicistastronomerphysicist
- Biography
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Hugh Norman Ross is a Canadian astrophysicist, Christian apologist, and old-Earth creationist.
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Ujjal Dosanjh
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- community organizerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ujjal Dev Dosanjh PC KC 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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Anastasia Phillips
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- actorfilm actor
- 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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Lorna Slater
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- Studied in 1993-2000
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Lorna Slater is a Canadian politician in Scotland who served as Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity in the Scottish Government from 2021 to 2024. She was co-leader of the Scottish Greens, alongside Patrick Harvie, from 2019 to 2025, and was one of the first Green politicians in the UK to serve as government ministers.
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Patricia Churchland
- Occupations
- university teacherneuroscientistphilosopher
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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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Suzanne W. Simard
- Occupations
- naturalistecologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Suzanne Simard is a Canadian forestry scientist and conservationist who is best known for her research on forest ecology and plant intelligence.
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David Nykl
- Occupations
- screenwriterstage actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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David Nykl is a Czech-Canadian actor who has worked in 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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Boris Malagurski
- Occupations
- screenwriterpolitical analystfilm directordocumentarianfilm producer
- 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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Julia Sarah Stone
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Julia Sarah Stone is a Canadian actress. She began studying theater at the age of six, and appeared in a number of school plays over the following years. After booking a small part in an independent short film in 2009, she won her breakthrough role in the 2011 feature The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, for which she received a Young Artist Award. Stone was subsequently cast in the pilot episode of the CW series Emily Owens, M.D.; the third season of AMC's The Killing; and a number of Canadian-produced independent films.
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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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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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Michael Smith
- Occupations
- geneticistbiochemistchemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Michael Smith CC OBC FRS was a British-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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Ann Makosinski
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- Studied in 2006-2015
- Occupations
- inventorstudent
- Biography
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Ann Makosinski is a Canadian inventor and public speaker. She is known for her invention of the thermoelectric flashlight in 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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Sahar Biniaz
- Occupations
- actorbeauty pageant contestantmodel
- Biography
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Sahar Biniaz is a Persian-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Canada 2012 and Miss Universe Persia 2025. She had a recurring role on the hit TV show Sanctuary as the Hindu goddess of power Kali. She was set to represent Iran at Miss Universe 2025 pageant held in Thailand but later withdrew in solidarity with and out of respect for her national director, Golshan Barazesh — whose unexplained detention in Iran is a serious human rights concern
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Robert Gentleman
- Enrolled in the University of British Columbia
- 1979-1984 graduated with bachelor's degree in mathematics
- Occupations
- bioinformaticianstatistician
- Biography
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Robert Clifford Gentleman is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician who is currently the founding executive director of the Center for Computational Biomedicine at Harvard Medical School. He was previously the vice president of computational biology at 23andMe. Gentleman is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language and the Bioconductor project.
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Tasha de Vasconcelos
- Occupations
- modelactor
- 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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Hart Hanson
- Occupations
- screenwritershowrunnerfilm producertelevision 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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Philip E. Tetlock
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teacherpolitical scientistpsychologisteconomist
- Biography
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Philip Eyrikson Tetlock is a Canadian-American political psychologist and writer, and is currently the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is cross-appointed at the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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Yasmine Mohammed
- Occupations
- human rights defender
- Biography
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Yasmine Mohammed is a Canadian university instructor, human rights activist and author. Mohammed escaped from a forced, abusive marriage to Al-Qaeda operative Essam Marzouk and became an advocate for freethinkers from Muslim communities through her non-profit organization Free Hearts Free Minds. She is a member of the Center for Inquiry Speaker's Bureau and is the co-founder and co-director of the CLARITy Coalition.
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Alex Zahara
- Occupations
- voice actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Alex Zahara is a Canadian television, film, and voice actor, born in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Engaging in theatre from a young age, most notably performing in a stage adaptation of M*A*S*H, he later taught Acting for Teens at the Vancouver Film School. Zahara holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, earned after studies at the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia.
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Shahrzad Rafati
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Shahrzad Rafati is an Iranian-Canadian chairwoman and CEO of RHEI, formerly BBTV, – a global tech company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, which develops AI solutions for content creators and media companies, including its "emotionally intelligent" Made platform, and data licensing solution, RHEI Data Pro.
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Andrew D. Hamilton
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Andrew David Hamilton FRS 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
- social workerpolitician
- Biography
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Albert Chan Wai-yip, 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 54)
- Occupations
- video game designervideo game directorvideo game developervideo game producer
- 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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Madeleine Thien
- Occupations
- novelistshort story writerwriter
- 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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Adrian Dix
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adrian Dix MLA 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. Since 2024, he is the Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions, and has been Minister responsible for Francophone Affairs since 2017. Previously, he was Minister of Health under premiers John Horgan and David Eby.
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Svend Robinson
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticiantrade unionist
- Biography
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Svend Robinson is a Canadian politician. He was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2004, representing suburban Vancouver-area constituencies in the city of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP). He was the first member of Parliament in Canadian history to come out as gay while in office. In 2004, he pleaded 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 Liberal incumbent Terry Beech by 1,560 votes.
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Bertram Brockhouse
- Occupations
- university teachernuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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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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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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Charles Kupperman
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 76)
- Biography
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Charles Martin Kupperman is a former 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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Michael A. Klaper
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- documentary participantphysician
- 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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Simon Barry
- Occupations
- screenwriterexecutive producertelevision directortelevision producer
- Biography
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Simon Barry is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, director and television producer.
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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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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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Bjarni Tryggvason
- Occupations
- engineerastronautphysicist
- 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 nearly 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere. Bjarni is the first, and as of 2024, only Canadian astronaut of Icelandic birth.
