100 Notable alumni of
University of Manitoba
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The University of Manitoba is 446th in the world, 176th in North America, and 14th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Manitoba sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Marshall McLuhan
- Occupations
- philosopherliterary criticrhetoricianwritersociologist
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as the "father of media studies".
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Erving Goffman
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- anthropologistnon-fiction writersociologist
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Erving Goffman was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
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Louis Slotin
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Studied in 1927
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicistchemistnon-fiction writer
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Louis Alexander Slotin was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King's College London in 1936. Afterwards, he joined the University of Chicago as a research associate to help design a cyclotron.
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Loreena McKennitt
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- composersingerpianistsinger-songwriterDJ producer
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Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt CM OM CD is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear soprano vocals. She has sold more than 14 million records worldwide.
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Monty Hall
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- game show hostjournalisttelevision presenteractortelevision producer
- Biography
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Monty Hall OC OM was a Canadian-American radio and television show host who moved to the United States in 1955 to pursue a career in broadcasting. After working as a radio newsreader and sportscaster, Hall returned to television in the U.S., this time in game shows. Starting in 1963, he was best known as the game show host and producer of Let's Make a Deal. He had a conundrum with game theory and psychology aspects named after him: the Monty Hall problem. Behind the scenes, Hall also carried on an active life of philanthropy.
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Burton Cummings
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- keyboardistsinger-songwritermusiciansongwriterpianist
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Burton Lorne Cummings OC OM is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known for leading The Guess Who during that band's most successful period from 1965 to 1975, and for a lengthy solo career.
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Don Callis
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- professional wrestler
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Donald Callis is a Canadian professional wrestling manager, color commentator, actor, and former professional wrestler and business executive. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he works as the on-screen manager and leader of The Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher, Trent Beretta, Lance Archer,Brian Cage, and Mark Davis); as well as working as a backstage consultant for the company. He also works for Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling (MLP) as a color commentator.
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Rosemary
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- actorprofessional wrestler
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Holly Letkeman better known by the ring name Rosemary is a Canadian professional wrestler and actress. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where she also uses the ring name Courtney Rush, where she is a member of Decay and The Death Dollz and makes appearances for WWE's NXT brand.
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Jennifer Jones
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- lawyercurler
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Jennifer Judith Jones OM is a Canadian curler. She was the Olympic champion in curling as skip of the Canadian team at the 2014 Sochi Games. Jones is the first female skip to go through the Games undefeated. The only male skip to achieve this was fellow Canadian Kevin Martin in 2010. Jones and her team were the first Manitoba-based curling team to win an Olympic gold medal. They won the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship and were the last Canadian women's team to do so until Rachel Homan in 2017. She won a second world championship in 2018. Jones also represented Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics, where her team placed fifth.
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Guy Gavriel Kay
- Occupations
- lawyerwriter
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Guy Gavriel Kay CM is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. The majority of his novels take place in fictional settings that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization of these works as historical fantasy. As of 2022, Kay has published 15 novels and a book of poetry. As of 2018, his fiction has been translated into at least 22 languages. Kay is also a qualified lawyer in Canada.
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Wab Kinew
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- children's writer
- Biography
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Wabanakwut "Wab" Kinew MLA is a Canadian politician who has served as the 25th premier of Manitoba since October 18, 2023 and the leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP) since September 16, 2017. Kinew represents Fort Rouge in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and was the leader of the Opposition from 2017 until the NDP's victory in the 2023 Manitoba election.
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Kaitlyn Lawes
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes is a Canadian curler. Lawes was the long time third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to go through the Olympics undefeated and the first Manitoba based curling team to win at the Olympics. Lawes curled with John Morris in the mixed doubles event at the 2018 Winter Olympics where they won gold. This win made her and Morris the first Canadian curlers to win two Olympic gold medals, and Lawes was the first to win gold in two consecutive Olympics.
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Jim Peebles
- Occupations
- university teacherastrophysicistastronomerphysicist
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Phillip James Edwin Peebles CC OM FRS is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who was Albert Einstein Professor in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading theoretical cosmologists in the period since 1970, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and structure formation.
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Miriam Toews
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Studied film studies
- Occupations
- writer
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Miriam Toews OM is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
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Ellie Harvie
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- film directorfilm actoractor
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Elinor Anne Harvie is a Canadian actress who portrayed Morticia on The New Addams Family. Later, she starred as Dr. Lindsey Novak in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
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S. I. Hayakawa
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- psychologistuniversity teacherpoliticiananthropologistlinguist
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.
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Rosemary Barton
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- journalist
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Rosemary Barton is a Canadian political journalist, currently serving as the chief political correspondent for CBC. In this role, she anchors her own Sunday morning news show, Rosemary Barton Live, hosted the "At Issue" segment on The National, and leads special coverage for the network including during elections, breaking news and national emergencies.
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Leonard Peikoff
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- radio personalitywriterteacherphilosopher
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Leonard Sylvan Peikoff is a Canadian American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and was a close associate of Ayn Rand, who designated him heir to her estate. He is a former professor of philosophy and host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show. He co-founded the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) in 1985 and is the author of several books on philosophy.
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Amanda Lang
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- journalistarchitect
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Amanda Lang is a Canadian business journalist, and host of Taking Stock, a weekly business news program on CTV, BNN Bloomberg and CP24. Previously, she was the host of Bloomberg North on Bloomberg TV Canada. Lang was formerly senior business correspondent for CBC News, where she anchored The Exchange with Amanda Lang daily on CBC News Network. Prior to her work with CBC, she worked as a print journalist for Canadian national newspapers and was an anchor for CNNfn and BNN.
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Niki Ashton
- Occupations
- politician
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Niki Christina Ashton MP is a Canadian politician. She is the New Democratic Member of Parliament for the federal electoral district of Churchill—Keewatinook Aski in Manitoba, Canada. She was first elected in the 2008 federal election. Ashton announced her intention to run for the leadership of the federal NDP on March 7, 2017. She placed third in the October 1, 2017 election.
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Judith Evelyn
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Judith Evelyn was an American-born Canadian stage and film actress who appeared in around 50 films and television series.
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Chelsea Carey
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Chelsea Danielle Carey is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of Manitoba. She is the 2016 and 2019 Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba provincial women's champion skip.
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Murray Sinclair
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- In 1979 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Calvin Murray Sinclair CC OM MSC was a Canadian politician who was a member of the Senate, and a First Nations lawyer who served as chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015.
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Harry Seidler
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Harry Seidler AC OBE was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.
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Andrew Coyne
- Occupations
- editorbloggercolumnist
- Biography
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James Andrew Coyne is a Canadian columnist with The Globe and Mail and a member of the At Issue panel on CBC's The National. Previously, he has been national editor for Maclean's and a columnist with National Post.
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Jim Carr
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianwriterbusinessperson
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James Gordon Carr PC OM was a Canadian politician, cabinet minister, journalist, and professional oboist. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as the member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre from 2015 until his death on December 12, 2022. Carr died days after his Private Members Bill, Bill C-235, An Act respecting the building of a green economy in the Prairies, passed the House and went to the Senate. He last served as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, until his resignation on September 29, 2022.
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Jamaluddin Jarjis
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Jamaluddin bin Mohd Jarjis was a Malaysian politician, diplomat and Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation. He served as the Chairman of the 1 Malaysia Peoples' Housing (PR1MA) and Malaysian special envoy to the United States.
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Michelle Rempel Garner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michelle L. Rempel Garner PC MP is a Canadian politician who sits in the House of Commons as the member of Parliament (MP) for the Alberta riding of Calgary Nose Hill. A member of the Conservative Party, she was initially elected to represent Calgary Centre-North in the 2011 federal election and served as a minister during Stephen Harper's premiership.
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Bakht Singh
- Occupations
- preacher
- Biography
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Bakht Singh Chabra also known as Brother Bakht Singh was a Christian evangelist in India and other parts of South Asia. He is often regarded as one of the most well-known Bible teachers and preachers and pioneers of the Indian Church movement and Gospel contextualization. According to Indian traditions, he is also known as 'Elijah of 21st Century' in Christendom. According to his autobiography, Bakht Singh became a Christian when he was an engineering student in Canada in 1929, even though previously he had torn up the Bible and was strongly opposed to Christianity. He was India's foremost evangelist, preacher and indigenous church planter who founded churches and established Hebron Ministries. He began a worldwide indigenous church-planting movement in India that grew to more than 10,000 local churches. Bakht Singh died on 17 September 2000, in Hyderabad, India.
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Bruce Flatt
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
- Occupations
- businesspersonbusiness executivefinancier
- Biography
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Bruce Flatt is a Canadian businessman and the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management. He joined Brookfield in 1990 and became CEO in 2002. He has been referred to as "Canada's Warren Buffett" due to his "value" investment style, extended tenure as CEO, and large investment in Brookfield. In 2022, he was ranked #622 on Forbes' Billionaires list with a net worth of US$4.5 billion.
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Humayun Akhtar Khan
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- politicianactuary
- Biography
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Humayun Akhtar Khan is a Pakistani politician, business tycoon and actuary. He has been elected as a member of the National Assembly four consecutive times between 1990 and 2007, having served as Federal Minister for Trade and Commerce from 2002 to 2007 and as Chairman Board of Investment / Minister of State for Investment from 1997 to 1999.
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Albert Chan
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- social workerpolitician
- 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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Edward Schreyer
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Edward Richard Schreyer PC CC CMM OM CD is a Canadian politician, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 22nd governor general of Canada from 1979 to 1984. He previously served as the 16th premier of Manitoba from 1969 to 1977.
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Elijah Harper
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elijah Harper OM was a Canadian Oji-Cree politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (MLA) from 1981 to 1992 and a member of Parliament (MP) from 1993 to 1997. Harper was elected chief of the Red Sucker Lake Indian Band in 1978, serving for four years and worked as a policy analyst prior to entering politics. He was a key factor in the rejection of the Meech Lake Accord, a proposed amendment of the Canadian constitution.
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Ryan Fry
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Ryan Bennett Fry is a retired Canadian curler currently living in Pickering, Ontario. He most recently played third on the Mike McEwen team and coached the Rachel Homan team. He currently coaches the Joël Retornaz rink. He previously played third for Team Brad Jacobs, and the team represented Canada and won the gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The team also won the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier. Fry won a silver medal at the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship.
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Desiree Scott
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Desiree Rose Marie Scott is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays for Ottawa Rapid FC in the Northern Super League and the Canada national team. Nicknamed "the destroyer", she won gold at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which was her third Olympic medal following bronze medals in 2012 in London and in 2016 in Rio.
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Israel Idonije
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Israel Idonije OM is a Nigerian-Canadian former professional football defensive end in the National Football League and actor. Idonije played CIS football at the University of Manitoba. A draft pick of the now defunct Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian Football League, for whom he never played a game, Idonije signed with the Cleveland Browns of the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2003.
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Charles Bouchard
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- military personnel
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Lieutenant General Joseph Jacques Charles "Charlie" Bouchard OC CMM MSC CD is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force general. He has served as Commander of 1 Canadian Air Division / Canadian NORAD Region, the Deputy Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Deputy Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples. On 25 March 2011, Bouchard was named Commander of the NATO military mission in Libya.
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David Kilgour
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- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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David William Kilgour PC was a Canadian human rights activist, author, lawyer, and politician. He was also a Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
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Brian Bowman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian Thomas Douglas Bowman is a Canadian politician, lawyer, and judge, who was the 43rd mayor of Winnipeg from 2014 to 2022. He was first elected in the 2014 municipal election and was re-elected mayor for a second term in October 2018, increasing his plurality from 47% in the last election to a majority of 53%. Bowman was sworn in as a judge of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba in March 2024.
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Nahlah Ayed
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Nahlah Ayed is a Canadian journalist, who is currently the host of the academic documentary program Ideas on CBC Radio One and a reporter with CBC News. She was previously a foreign correspondent with the network and has also worked as a parliamentary correspondent under The Canadian Press. Her reporting on contemporary Middle Eastern politics has garnered multiple awards, both domestic and international.
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Greg Selinger
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Gregory Francis Selinger OM is a former Canadian politician who served as the 21st premier of Manitoba from 2009 until 2016, leading an NDP government. From 1999 to 2009 he was the Minister of Finance in the government of his immediate predecessor, Gary Doer. Selinger was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Boniface from 1999 until his resignation in early 2018. His party was defeated by Brian Pallister and the Progressive Conservatives in the 2016 Manitoba general election.
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Leo Panitch
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Leo Victor Panitch FRSC was a Canadian research professor of political science and a Canada Research Chair in comparative political economy at York University. From 1985 until the 2021 edition, he served as co-editor of the Socialist Register, which describes itself as "an annual survey of movements and ideas from the standpoint of the independent new left". Panitch himself saw the Register as playing a major role in developing Marxism's conceptual framework for advancing a democratic, co-operative and egalitarian socialist alternative to capitalist competition, exploitation, and insecurity.
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W. G. Unruh
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- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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William George Unruh is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver who described the hypothetical Unruh effect in 1976.
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Yuliya Lyovochkina
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yuliya Volodymyrivna Lyovochkina is a Ukrainian politician who was a People's Deputy, having served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2007 to 2022. Formerly a member of the Party of Regions, Opposition Bloc, and Opposition Platform — For Life, she is a member of Platform for Life and Peace.
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Vic Toews
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Victor Toews PC KC is a Canadian politician and jurist. Toews is a justice of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba. He represented Provencher in the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 until his resignation on July 9, 2013, and served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, most recently as Minister of Public Safety. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. Prior to his appointment to the judiciary, Toews was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Frances Gertrude McGill
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- criminologistpathologist
- Biography
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Frances Gertrude McGill was a Canadian forensic pathologist, criminologist, bacteriologist, allergologist and allergist. Nicknamed "the Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan" for her deductive skills and public fame, McGill influenced the development of forensic pathology in Canadian police work and was internationally noted for her expertise in the subject.
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Selena Njegovan
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Selena Njegovan is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays third on Team Kaitlyn Lawes.
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Tyler Sanders
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Tyler James "TJ" Sanders is a former professional Canadian male volleyball player. He was a member of the Canada men's national volleyball team, representing Canada in the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. He also was a gold medallist at the 2015 NORCECA Championship, and a bronze medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games and a bronze medalist at the 2017 World League where he ranked statistically as the top setter.
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Yvonne Brill
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- In 1945 graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics
- Occupations
- technicianengineerinventorchemist
- Biography
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Yvonne Madelaine Brill was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT/Resistojet), a fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps today’s satellites in orbit, and holds a patent for its invention. During her career she was involved in a broad range of national space programs in the United States, including NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization.
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David Matas
- Occupations
- lawyeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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David Matas CM is the senior legal counsel of B'nai Brith Canada who currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has maintained a private practice in refugee, immigration, and human rights law since 1979, and has published various books and manuscripts.
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Sam Katz
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Samuel Michael Katz OM is a Canadian businessman and former politician who was the 42nd mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 2004 to 2014. He is the owner of the Winnipeg Goldeyes and a member of the Order of Manitoba. He was owner of the Winnipeg Thunder and served as president of the short-lived National Basketball League.
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Marcel Dzama
- Occupations
- film directorserigrapherpaintergraphic designerartist
- Biography
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Marcel Dzama is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his ink and watercolor drawings.
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Janice Filmon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janice Clare Filmon OC OM is a Canadian former social worker who served as the 25th lieutenant governor of Manitoba from 2015 to 2022. Her appointment became effective June 19, 2015. She was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III of Canada in the Province of Manitoba.
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Job Getcha
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priesttheologian
- Biography
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Job of Pisidia is an Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who is the Permanent Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches and the Dean of the Institute for Orthodox Theology Higher Studies at Chambésy, Switzerland. He was the Archbishop of Telmessos and was elected on July 22, 2022, as the new metropolitan of Pisidia.
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Kirsten Hillman
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyer
- Biography
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Kirsten Hillman is a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who was appointed as Canadian ambassador to the United States on March 26, 2020. She is the first woman to serve in this role. In 2019, she had been appointed as acting ambassador, taking over from David MacNaughton. Prior to this, she served as deputy ambassador at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.
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Kelvin Goertzen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kelvin Goertzen MLA is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd premier of Manitoba from September to November, 2021. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, he is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Steinbach, first elected in the 2003 provincial election, and was re-elected in 2007, 2011, 2016, 2019 and most recently in 2023. Goertzen served as interim leader of the PC party, from September 1, 2021 to October 30, 2021. He was sworn as premier on September 1, 2021. Goertzen was succeeded as premier on the afternoon of November 2, 2021, by Heather Stefanson who won the PC leadership election on October 30. Goertzen, upon his swearing-in, selected Rochelle Squires as his deputy premier. Goertzen resumed his role as Deputy Premier of Manitoba on November 3, 2021. His final posts in the Stefanson Government were Government House Leader, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and Minister responsible for Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI). He currently serves as the Deputy Leader of the PC Party alongside Kathleen Cook.
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George Ayittey
- Occupations
- writereconomist
- Biography
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George B. N. Ayittey was a Ghanaian economist and author. He was president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington, D.C., a professor at American University, and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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Dan Vandal
- Occupations
- politicianboxer
- Biography
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Daniel Vandal PC MP is a Canadian politician. He represented St. Boniface on the Winnipeg City Council from 1995 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2014, and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Winnipeg in 2004, coming in second to Sam Katz. He briefly served as acting mayor of Winnipeg following Glen Murray's resignation. On October 19, 2015, he was elected as the member of Parliament for Saint Boniface—Saint Vital in the House of Commons of Canada. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada and served as the Federal Minister of Northern Affairs in Justin Trudeau's cabinet. On October 26, 2021, he was also named Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister responsible for the Prairies Economic Development Agency of Canada, positions he held until 2024.
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Claude Castonguay
- Occupations
- politicianactuary
- Biography
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Claude Castonguay, CC GOQ was a Canadian politician, educator, and businessman.
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Ovide Mercredi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ovide William Mercredi OC OM is a Canadian politician. He is Cree and a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He is also the former president of the Manitoba New Democratic Party.
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Rana Bokhari
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rana Bokhari is a politician in Manitoba, Canada who was the leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party from 2013 until 2016.
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Israel Nathan Herstein
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Studied in 1945
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Israel Nathan Herstein was a mathematician, appointed as professor at the University of Chicago in 1951. He worked on a variety of areas of algebra, including ring theory, with over 100 research papers and over a dozen books.
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Riaz Mamdani
- Born in
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Uganda - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Riaz Mamdani is the founder and CEO of Strategic Group, a real estate investment and development company located in Calgary, Canada. In the 1990s, Mamdani gained recognition in Calgary as a financier of various startups before shifting his business efforts in the early 2000s to real estate. In part as a result of Mamdani's success in real estate, he is considered "one of Calgary’s wealthiest men".
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Joe Fafard
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Joseph Fafard CM SOM was a Canadian sculptor.
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Dougald Lamont
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dougald Francis Lamont is a Canadian politician, who was leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party from 2017 to 2023. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, representing the constituency of St. Boniface from July 2018 to October 2023.
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Philip S. Lee
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Philip Siu Lun Lee CM OM was the 24th lieutenant governor of Manitoba. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999 and received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.
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Anita Neville
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anita Ruth Neville PC OM is a former Canadian politician from Manitoba, who has served as the province's 26th lieutenant governor since 2022. She was also a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada, first being elected in the general election of 2000. She was re-elected in 2004, 2006, and 2008. After serving for more than ten years, she lost her seat in the election of 2011.
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Dufferin Roblin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dufferin "Duff" Roblin PC CC OM was a Canadian businessman and politician. He served as the 14th premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967. Roblin was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In the government of Brian Mulroney, he served as government leader in the Senate. He was the grandson of Sir Rodmond Roblin, who also served as Manitoba Premier. His ancestor John Roblin served in the Upper Canada assembly.
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El Jones
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- activistpoetteacherwriterjournalist
- Biography
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El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015.
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Daniel Abraham Yanofsky
- Occupations
- lawyerchess player
- Biography
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Daniel Abraham Yanofsky (March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000) was a Canadian chess player, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, and politician. An eight-time Canadian chess champion, Yanofsky was Canada's first grandmaster and the first grandmaster of the British Commonwealth.
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James Coyne
- Occupations
- bankereconomistlawyer
- Biography
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James Elliott Coyne, OM was the second governor of the Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had a much-publicized debate with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, a debate often referred to as the "Coyne Affair" (or sometimes the "Coyne Crisis"), which led to his resignation and, eventually, to greater central-bank independence in Canada.
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Mitchell Sharp
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomateconomist
- Biography
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Mitchell William Sharp PC CC FRCMT was a Canadian civil servant and politician, most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister. He served in both the private and public sectors during his long career.
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Jagrup Brar
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jagrup Brar is a Canadian politician. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia, representing the riding of Surrey-Panorama Ridge from 2004 to 2009, then Surrey-Fleetwood from 2009 to 2013 and since 2017. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), he currently serves as Minister of Mining and Critical Minerals. Previously, he served as the Minister of State for Trade from 2022 until 2024.
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Venla Hovi
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerice hockey coach
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Venla Hovi is a Finnish ice hockey coach and former ice hockey forward. She is an assistant coach for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey program, and was head coach of the Metropolitan Riveters in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) during the 2022–23 PHF season.
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Bob Dyce
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Bob Dyce is a Canadian football coach who is the head coach and special teams coordinator for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was formerly the interim head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He is a Grey Cup champion after winning as an assistant coach with the Roughriders in 2013 and with the Redblacks in 2016. He attended the University of Manitoba where he played wide receiver with the Manitoba Bisons.
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Cameron Friesen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cameron Scott Friesen, is a Canadian politician and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Morden-Winkler. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, he was first elected in the 2011 provincial election, and re-elected in 2016 and 2019.
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Denni Neufeld
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Dennison "Denni" Neufeld is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Joy Smith
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- politician
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Joy Ann Smith is a Canadian politician. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba between 1999 and 2003, and was in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2015.
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Winston Dookeran
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- politicianeconomist
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Winston Chandarbhan Dookeran ORTT is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician and economist as well as international public official. Dookeran is the current secretary-general of EUCLID, an intergovernmental institution of higher learning. He previously served as political leader of the Congress of the People, central bank governor, minister of finance, and minister of foreign affairs.
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Ray Henault
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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General Raymond Roland Joseph Henault CM CMM MSC CD is a retired Canadian Air Force officer. He was the Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada from June 28, 2001 to June 17, 2005 and then Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2005 until 2008, when he retired.
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Brian Talboys
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatfarmer
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Sir Brian Edward Talboys CH KCB AC PC was a New Zealand politician who served as the seventh deputy prime minister of New Zealand for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the abortive "Colonels' Coup" against Muldoon had been successful, Talboys would have become Prime Minister himself.
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Elizabeth Carriere
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- diplomatcivil servantgovernor
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Elizabeth Anne Carriere OBE is a former British civil servant working in international development. From 2015 to 2018, she served as Governor of Montserrat.
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Frank Pickersgill
- Occupations
- spySOE agent
- Biography
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Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill was a Canadian Special Operations Executive agent.
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Murray Murdoch
- Years
- 1904-2001 (aged 97)
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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John Murray Murdoch was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. He played for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937, never missing a game in his career. With the Rangers Murdoch won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1928 and in 1933. After his playing career, he coached Yale University from 1938 to 1965.
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Patrick Lau
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- 1964-1969 graduated with Bachelor of Architecture in architecture
- Occupations
- justice of the peacepoliticianarchitect
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Patrick Lau Sau-shing SBS is a Hong Kong architect, legislative councillor, educator and civil servant. He had been a representative on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as a member for the Architectural, Surveying and Planning Functional Constituency, as well as a member of the Professional Forum party, between 2004 and 2012.
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Jack Pickersgill
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- businesspersonpoliticianwriter
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John Whitney Pickersgill PC CC was a Canadian civil servant and politician. He was born in Ontario, but was raised in Manitoba. He was Clerk of the Privy Council in the early 1950s. He was first elected to federal parliament in 1953, representing a Newfoundland electoral district and serving in Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's cabinet. In the mid-1960s, he served again in cabinet, this time under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Pickersgill resigned from Parliament in 1967 to become the president of the Canadian Transport Commission. He was awarded the highest level of the Order of Canada in 1970. He wrote several books on Canadian history. He died in 1997 in Ottawa.
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Craig Baines
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Vice-Admiral Craig Alan Baines CMM MSC CD is a retired senior Royal Canadian Navy officer who served as Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy from 2021 to 2022.
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John Dick
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- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- researcher
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John Edgar Dick FRS FRSC is Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Biology, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto in Canada. Dick is credited with first identifying cancer stem cells in certain types of human leukemia. His revolutionary findings highlighted the importance of understanding that not all cancer cells are the same and thus spawned a new direction in cancer research. Dick is also known for his demonstration of a blood stem cell's ability to replenish the blood system of a mouse, his development of a technique to enable an immune-deficient mouse to carry and produce human blood, and his creation of the world's first mouse with human leukemia.
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Anthony Coombs
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- Canadian football player
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Anthony Coombs is a Canadian former professional football wide receiver who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football with the Manitoba Bisons.
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Doug Eyolfson
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- politicianphysician
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Doug Eyolfson is a Canadian physician and was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley. He was elected in the 2015 federal election and was defeated in the 2019 Canadian federal election. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Health, the Standing Committee on Veteran Affairs and the Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada. He was also the chair of the Manitoba Liberal Caucus.
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Wayne Stetski
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- civil servantpolitician
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Wayne L. Stetski is a Canadian politician and former provincial park Regional Manager. He served as the Member of Parliament for Kootenay—Columbia in the 42nd Canadian Parliament. He was elected to that position in the 2015 Canadian federal election as a member of the New Democratic Party. During that parliament he sponsored two private member bills: one to make the Friday before Thanksgiving Day be known as "National Local Food Day" and another to add various lakes and rivers to Navigable Waters Protection Act. Stetski acted as the NDP Critic for National Parks for the duration of the 42nd Canadian Parliament. He was defeated in the 2019 Canadian federal election.
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Peter Allen
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- composerfilm score composer
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Peter Allen is a Canadian composer, organist, and keyboard player. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositions encompass a broad repertoire from film scores and commercial jingles to sacred music and avant-garde electroacoustic music. He has composed numerous works for CBC Radio and CBC Television.
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Robert Houle
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- painter
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Robert Houle RCA is a Saulteaux First Nations Canadian artist, curator, critic, and educator. Houle has had an active curatorial and artistic practice since the mid-1970s. He played an important role in bridging the gap between contemporary First Nations artists and the broader Canadian art scene through his writing and involvement in early important high-profile exhibitions such as Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 1992). As an artist, Houle has shown both nationally and internationally. He is predominantly a painter working in the tradition of Abstraction, yet he has also embraced a pop sensibility by incorporating everyday images and text into his works. His work addresses lingering aspects of colonialism and their effects on First Nation peoples. Houle often appropriates historical photographs and texts, repurposing and combining them with Anishnaabe language and traditionally used materials such as porcupine quills within his works.
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Kienan LaFrance
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Kienan LaFrance is a Canadian professional football running back. He made his professional debut for the Ottawa Redblacks, where he won the 104th Grey Cup in 2016, and has also been a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and BC Lions.
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James Beddome
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- politician
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James Robert Beddome is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was the former leader of the Green Party of Manitoba from November 2014 to March 2023. He has run in several elections for the provincial party, and was also the Green Party of Canada candidate in Winnipeg South Centre for the 2019 federal election. He works as a lawyer in Manitoba.
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Olawale Sulaiman
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- neurosurgery
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Professor Olawale Sulaiman CON is a Canadian and american-trained neurosurgeon, academician and physician executive of nigerian heritage. He is the CEO and chief medical director of RNZ Global Ltd, a healthcare development, operations and management company he started in 2010. He is also the chief medical officer of RNZ Clinic.
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Prabhat Jha
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- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Prabhat Jha OC is an Indian-Canadian epidemiologist currently working in the field of global health.
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Sam Gindin
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- economist
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Sam Gindin is a Canadian intellectual and activist known for his expertise on the labour movement and the economics of the automobile industry.
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Harry Prosen
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- psychiatrist
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Harry Prosen was a North American psychiatrist. He was Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA; Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Canada; and past president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. He held leadership roles with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Psychiatric Association.
