100 Notable alumni of
University of Toronto
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The University of Toronto is 36th in the world, 18th in North America, and 1st in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Toronto sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 4 individuals affiliated with the University of Toronto won Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
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Donald Sutherland
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in engineering and drama fiction
- Occupations
- spokespersonstage actorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Donald McNichol Sutherland CC was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Considered one of the best actors never nominated for an Academy Award, he was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2017. Sutherland was a prominent anti-war activist during the Vietnam War era.
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Stana Katic
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorfilm directoractor
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Stana Katić is a Canadian actress and producer. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the psychological thriller series Absentia (2017–2020).
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Margaret Atwood
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- non-fiction writernovelistscience fiction writerpoetpedagogue
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
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Maye Musk
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- modeldietitian
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Maye Musk is a model and dietitian. She has been a model for 50 years, appearing on the covers of magazines, including a Time magazine health edition, Women's Day, international editions of Vogue, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She is the mother of Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk. She holds Canadian, South African, and American citizenship. She is a registered dietitian and earned two masters degrees in diet and nutrition.
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David Cronenberg
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm editoractortelevision actor
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David Paul Cronenberg CC OOnt is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983) and The Fly (1986), though he has also directed dramas, psychological thrillers and gangster films.
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Victor Garber
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- musiciantelevision presentersingervoice actorstage actor
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Victor Garber, OC is a Canadian stage and film actor and singer. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, four Tony Awards, and six Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2022, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Scott Speedman
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Robert Scott Speedman is a Canadian actor and model. He is known for portraying Ben Covington in the coming-of-age drama television series Felicity, Lycan–Vampire hybrid Michael Corvin in the gothic horror–action Underworld films, and Barry "Baz" Blackwell in the TNT crime drama series Animal Kingdom. His other film work includes Duets, Dark Blue, XXX: State of the Union, The Strangers, Barney's Version, The Vow, and Crimes of the Future. In 2021, he returned to Grey's Anatomy as a main character following a guest role in season 14 as Dr. Nick Marsh.
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Lin Chi-ling
- Occupations
- film actormodelfilm directoractor
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Lin Chi-ling is a Taiwanese actress, model, and television personality.
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Malcolm Gladwell
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- sociologistscreenwriterpodcasterwriterjournalist
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell CM is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.
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Robert Herjavec
- Occupations
- businesspersonfilm producer
- Biography
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Robert Herjavec is a Croatian-Canadian businessman, investor, and television personality.
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Sarah Gadon
- Occupations
- film actorfashion modeldirectoractor
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Sarah Lynn Gadon is a Canadian actress. She began her acting career guest-starring in a number of television series, such as Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1999), Mutant X (2002), and Dark Oracle (2004). She also worked as a voice actress on various television productions. Gadon gained recognition for her roles in David Cronenberg's films A Dangerous Method (2011), Cosmopolis (2012), and Maps to the Stars (2014). She also starred in Denis Villeneuve's thriller Enemy (2013), the period drama Belle (2013), and the action horror film Dracula Untold (2014).
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Caterina Scorsone
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- actorfilm actor
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Caterina Scorsone is a Canadian actress. She is known for playing neurosurgeon Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy and its spin-offs Private Practice (2010–2013) and Station 19 (2020–2024). Prior to this, she made her debut as a child actor on the Canadian children's program Mr. Dressup. She also appeared in a number of films, including 2010's Edge of Darkness and 2014's The November Man. Other television credits include Jess Mastriani on Missing, Callie Wilkinson on Crash, and Alice Hamilton on Alice.
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Lorne Michaels
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorfilm directorproducer
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Lorne Michaels CC is a Canadian-American television writer and film producer. He created and produced Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, 1985–present) and produced the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995), and The Tonight Show (since 2014).
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Sergio Marchionne
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- industrialistbusiness executivelawyerentrepreneuraccountant
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Sergio Marchionne was an Italian-Canadian businessman, widely known for his turnarounds of the automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his business acumen and his outspoken and often frank approach, especially when dealing with unpalatable issues related to his companies and the automotive industry.
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Frederick Banting
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- physicianresearcherpharmacologist
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod.
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Naomi Klein
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- screenwriterwritereconomistdocumentary filmmakerclimate activist
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Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism. In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of the newly launched Centre for Climate Justice since 2021.
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Erving Goffman
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- In 1945 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- anthropologistnon-fiction writersociologist
- Biography
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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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Paul Shaffer
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- musiciansongwriterbandleaderpianistactor
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Paul Allen Wood Shaffer CM is a Canadian singer, keyboardist, composer, actor, author, comedian, and musician who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader, and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015).
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Julie Payette
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- In 1990 graduated with Master of Applied Science in computer engineering
- Occupations
- astronautpoliticianengineer
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Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD FCAE is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation.
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Robert Goulet
- Occupations
- stage actoractorsingerfilm actormusicologist
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Robert Gérard Goulet was an American and Canadian singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, until age 13, and then spent his formative years in Canada. Cast as Sir Lancelot and originating the role in the 1960 Broadway musical Camelot starring opposite established Broadway stars Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, he achieved instant recognition with his performance and interpretation of the song "If Ever I Would Leave You", which became his signature song. His debut in Camelot marked the beginning of a stage, screen, and recording career. A Grammy Award winner, his career spanned almost six decades. He starred in a 1966 television version of Brigadoon, a production which won five primetime Emmy Awards. In 1968, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for The Happy Time, a musical about a French-Canadian family set in Ottawa.
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Geoffrey Hinton
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- psychologistneuroscientistuniversity teacherartificial intelligence researchercomputer scientist
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Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, and Nobel Prize winner in Physics, known for his work on artificial neural networks which earned him the title as the "Godfather of AI".
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Enrico Colantoni
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- television producerfilm directorfilm screenwriterfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Enrico Colantoni is a Canadian actor and director, best known for portraying Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom Just Shoot Me!, Keith Mars on the television series Veronica Mars, Louis Utz on the short-lived sitcom Hope & Gloria, crime lord Carl Elias on Person of Interest, and Sergeant Greg Parker on the television series Flashpoint. He has also had supporting roles in such films as The Wrong Guy, Galaxy Quest, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Contagion, and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and guest appearances on Monk, Numb3rs, Party Down, Stargate SG-1, and Bones. He also starred as Allen Conner in Remedy and played Laura Hollis's father in season three of the online web series Carmilla and on TV program ‘Allegience’
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Agnes Chan
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- tarentoactorsingeractivistprofessor
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Agnes Meiling Kaneko Chan is a Hong-Kong-born Japanese singer, television personality, university professor, essayist and novelist. Since 1998, Chan has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and supports the Japan Committee for UNICEF. In Japan she is professionally known as Agnes Chan (アグネス・チャン), Agnes being her Christian name.
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William Lyon Mackenzie King
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- politiciandiaristeconomistministerjournalist
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William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC was a Canadian statesman and politician who was the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. King is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Great Depression and the Second World War. In August 1944, he ordered the displacement of Japanese Canadians out of the British Columbia Interior, mandating that they either resettle east of the Rocky Mountains or face deportation to Japan after the war. He played a major role in laying the foundations of the Canadian welfare state and establishing Canada's international position as a middle power. With a total of 21 years and 154 days in office, he remains the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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- politicianwriternon-fiction writereconomistuniversity teacher
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John Kenneth Galbraith OC, also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.
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David Sutcliffe
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorfilm directoractor
- Biography
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David Sutcliffe is a Canadian former actor. He is known for playing Christopher Hayden on the television series Gilmore Girls and Detective Aidan Black on the television series Cracked.
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Norman Jewison
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- film actorscreenwriterfilm directorproducerdirector
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Norman Frederick Jewison CC OOnt was a Canadian filmmaker. He was known for directing films which addressed topical social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences. Among numerous other accolades, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades, for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and Moonstruck (1987). He was nominated for an additional four Oscars, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, and won a BAFTA Award. He received the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1999.
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Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
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- actorpresenter
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Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is a South Korean-Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera Train 48 (2003–2005) and as family patriarch Appa in the play Kim's Convenience (2011) and its television adaptation (2016–2021).
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Paul Martin
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- entrepreneurpoliticianlawyer
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Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 21st prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2003 to 2006.
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William B. Davis
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- television produceractorfilm actorscreenwritertelevision actor
- Biography
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William Bruce Davis is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files. Besides appearing in many TV programs and movies, he founded his own acting school, the William Davis Centre for Actors Study. In his personal life, he is an avid water-skier, lectures on skepticism at events such as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's CSICon, and advocates for action on climate change. In 2011 he published his memoir, Where There's Smoke... The Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man.
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David Shore
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- screenwriterfilm directorshowrunnerwritertelevision producer
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David Shore is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South, also producing many episodes of the latter. He created the critically acclaimed series House and more recently, Battle Creek and The Good Doctor.
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Yann Le Cun
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- Graduated with postdoctoral researcher
- Occupations
- professorelectrical engineerartificial intelligence researchercomputer scientistsoftware engineer
- Biography
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Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Vice President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
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Raymond Massey
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- film actorscreenwriterstage actoractor
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Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role as Lincoln on television and in How the West Was Won (1962). Among his other well-known roles were Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series Dr. Kildare (1961–1966), John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1940) and Seven Angry Men (1955), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
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Lester B. Pearson
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- ice hockey playermilitary personnelpoliticianhistoriandiplomat
- Biography
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Lester Bowles Pearson PC OM CC OBE was a Canadian politician, diplomat, statesman, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as MP for Algoma East, whose largest municipality was the then-new City of Elliot Lake.
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Lyse Doucet
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- directorjournalisttelevision presenter
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Lyse Marie Doucet CM OBE is a Canadian journalist who is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and senior presenter. She presents on BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television, and also reports for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News in the United Kingdom. She also makes and presents documentaries.
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Charles Coughlin
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- radio personalitywriterCatholic priestjournalist
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Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian–American Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed "The Radio Priest " and considered a leading demagogue, he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience. During the 1930s, when the U.S. population was about 120 million, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned in to his weekly broadcasts.
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Jim Balsillie
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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James Laurence Balsillie is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was the former chair and co-chief executive officer of the Canadian technology company Research In Motion (BlackBerry), which at its 2011 peak made US$19.9 billion (equivalent to $26.6 billion in 2023) in annual sales.
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Selena Li
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Selena Lee Sze-wa, former stage name Selena Lee Sze-Wan (Chinese: 李詩韻; pinyin: Lǐ Shīyùn), is a Hong Kong-born actress and former beauty pageant contestant.
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Brian George
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- film actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Brian George is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Pakistani restaurateur Babu Bhatt in Seinfeld (1989–1998), the Indian gynecologist father of Raj Koothrappali in The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), the voice of Chutney in Father of the Pride (2004–2005), and spiritual guide Guru Pathik in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008).
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John Roberts
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- journalist
- Biography
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John David Roberts is a Canadian-American television journalist currently working for the Fox News Channel, as the co-anchor of America Reports. Roberts formerly worked as the Fox News Chief White House Correspondent from 2017 to 2021, covering the Donald Trump presidency.
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Lee Jae-yoon
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- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Lee Jae-yoon is a South Korean-Canadian actor and model. He is best known for his roles in the television dramas My Love By My Side (2011), Heartless City (2013), Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2015–2016) and Mother (2018).
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Atom Egoyan
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- directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm directorfilm editor
- Biography
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Atom Egoyan CC is a Egyptian filmmaker, typically working in Canada. Emerging in the 1980s as part of the Toronto New Wave, he made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set in a strip club. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter (1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations. His biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe (2009).
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John Tory
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Howard Tory OOnt KC is a Canadian lawyer, broadcaster, businessman, and former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007 while he was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2004 to 2009.
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Michael Ondaatje
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- 1964-1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- authorpoetfilm screenwriterfilm actorfilm editor
- Biography
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Philip Michael Ondaatje CC FRSL is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
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Derek Tsang
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- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung is a Hong Kong filmmaker and actor. The son of actor Eric Tsang, Tsang got his start in the Hong Kong film industry working for director Peter Chan after graduating from University of Toronto Scarborough in 2001. He made his acting debut in Men Suddenly in Black (2003) and directorial debut with Lover's Discourse (2010), sharing the directing credit with Jimmy Wan Chi-man. The duo was nominated for Best New Director at the 47th Golden Horse Awards.
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William Osler
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- writerphysicianprofessor
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Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS FRCP was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope". In addition to being a physician he was a bibliophile, historian, author, and renowned practical joker. He was passionate about medical libraries and medical history, having founded the History of Medicine Society (formally "section"), at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He was also instrumental in founding the Medical Library Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and the (North American) Association of Medical Librarians (later the Medical Library Association) along with three other people, including Margaret Charlton, the medical librarian of his alma mater, McGill University. He left his own large history of medicine library to McGill, where it became the Osler Library.
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Norman Bethune
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- surgeonphysicianteacher
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Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of socialized medicine, and member of the Communist Party of Canada. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline trauma surgeon supporting the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, and later supporting the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Bethune helped bring modern medicine to rural China, treating both sick villagers and wounded soldiers.
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Brian Kernighan
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- Studied in 1960-1964
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistprofessorwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Brian Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language (The C Programming Language) with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan affirmed that he had no part in the design of the C language ("it's entirely Dennis Ritchie's work").
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Kathleen Wynne
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- Graduated with Master of Arts in linguistics
- Graduated with Master of Education in adult education
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathleen O'Day Wynne is a former Canadian politician who served as the 25th premier of Ontario and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. She was member of provincial parliament (MPP) for Don Valley West from 2003 to 2022. Wynne is the first female premier of Ontario and the first openly gay premier in Canada.
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Paul Hellyer
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- ufologistpoliticianwriterbusinessperson
- Biography
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Paul Theodore Hellyer PC was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his death.
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Jean Yoon
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- writertelevision actorpoetactor
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Jean Yoon is an American-born Canadian actress and writer of Korean descent. Yoon is best known for originating the role of family matriarch Umma in the 2011 play Kim's Convenience and in the award-winning CBC Television series adapted from the play, for which she won an ACTRA Award and received two Canadian Screen Award nominations.
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John McCrae
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- In 1898 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physicianmilitary personnelphysician writerpathologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.
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Dan Snaith
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- composerrecord producermusiciansingermathematician
- Biography
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Daniel Victor Snaith is a Canadian composer, musician, and recording artist. He has released 11 studio albums since 2000 and has recorded and performed under the stage names Caribou, Manitoba, and Daphni. His Caribou album Andorra (2008) was awarded the 2008 Polaris Music Prize, and his Caribou album Swim (2010) was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize and was named the Best Album of 2010 by Resident Advisor. His follow-up Our Love (2014) was also shortlisted for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
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Michael Ignatieff
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- philosopherpoliticianwriternovelisthistorian
- Biography
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Michael Grant Ignatieff PC CM is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Toronto. Most recently, he was rector and President of Central European University; he held this position from 2016 until July 2021.
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Rob Pike
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- writercomputer scientistengineerprogrammer
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Robert Pike is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team.
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Arthur Hiller
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- film produceractorfilm actordirectorfilm director
- Biography
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Arthur Hiller, OC was a Canadian television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s, he was directing films, most often comedies, but also dramas and romantic subjects, such as in Love Story (1970), which was nominated for seven Oscars.
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Guy Gavriel Kay
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- lawyerwriter
- Biography
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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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Adrienne Clarkson
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- politicianwriterautobiographernovelistfilm director
- Biography
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Adrienne Louise Clarkson PC CC CMM COM CD FRSC FRAIC(hon) FRCPSC(hon) (Chinese: 伍冰枝; née Poy; born February 10, 1939) is a Hong Kong–born Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as the 26th governor general of Canada from 1999 to 2005.
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Abdulhamid Dbeibeh
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- businesspersonpoliticiancivil servant
- Biography
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Abdul Hamid Muhammad Abdul Rahman al-Dbeibeh is a Libyan politician and businessman who is the prime minister of Libya under the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli. Dbeibeh was appointed on 15 February 2021 through the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, and he was expected to hold the office until elections on 24 December 2021, which were later postponed.
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Kuniko Tanioka
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kuniko Tanioka is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Osaka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada and gained a bachelor's degree in developmental biology. She was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007. She is president of Shigakkan University.
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Bob Rae
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- politicianpianistlawyer
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Robert Keith Rae PC CC OOnt KC is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who is the current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020. He previously served as the 21st premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996, and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. Between 1978 and 2013, he was elected 11 times to federal (Broadview, Broadview-Greenwood, Toronto Centre) and provincial (York South) parliaments.
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Sue Johanson
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- psychologistwriternursesex educator
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Susan Avis Bailey Johanson CM was a Canadian registered nurse and sex educator. She operated a birth control clinic in Toronto and hosted a series of radio and television programmes on birth control, safer sex and sexual health. She also published several books and wrote a newspaper column promoting sexual health.
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George Leslie Mackay
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- missionarypriest
- Biography
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George Leslie Mackay was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary. He was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan (then Formosa), serving with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is among the best known and most influential Westerners to have lived in Taiwan.
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Philipp Hildebrand
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- bankeruniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Philipp Michael Hildebrand is a Swiss banker who has been a vice chairman of BlackRock since 2012.
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Lawrence Ho
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Lawrence Ho Yau-lung is a Canadian businessman. Starting his career as an investment banker at Jardine Fleming and Citibank, in 2001 he took over operations at Melco International. Later named chairman and CEO, Ho refocused the company on leisure and entertainment, building and operating casino resorts in Macau, the Philippines, and Cyprus. With an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, he was named "Asia’s Best CEO" at the Asian Excellence Awards for the seventh time in 2018.
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Farley Mowat
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- writerenvironmentalistbiologist
- Biography
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Farley McGill Mowat, OC was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as People of the Deer (1952) and Never Cry Wolf (1963). The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in the Arctic, was made into a film of the same name released in 1983. For his body of work as a writer he won the annual Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in 1970.
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Northrop Frye
- Occupations
- clericpedagoguepoetliterary criticwriter
- Biography
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Herman Northrop Frye CC FRSC was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
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Graham Yost
- Occupations
- showrunneractorscreenwriterdirectortelevision director
- Biography
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Graham John Yost is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified and Silo.
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Bonnie Henry
- Occupations
- chief medical officer
- Biography
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Bonnie J. Fraser Henry is a Canadian epidemiologist, physician, and public servant who has been the provincial health officer at the British Columbia Ministry of Health since 2014. Henry is also a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine, and is a family doctor. In her role as provincial health officer, Henry notably led the response to COVID-19 in British Columbia (BC).
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Barbara Hannigan
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- opera singerperforming artistconductor
- Biography
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Barbara Hannigan CM is a Canadian soprano and conductor, known for her performances of contemporary classical music.
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David Easton
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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David Easton FRSC was a Canadian-born American political scientist. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
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Lyndie Greenwood
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Lyndie Greenwood is a Canadian actress best known for her recurring role of Sonya on The CW's Nikita and being a series regular cast member of FOX's Sleepy Hollow, playing the role of Jenny Mills in 2013. In 2019, she joined the cast of the Amazon Prime Video series The Expanse in the recurring role of Dr. Elvi Okoye. Beginning in 2021, she has been acting and leading in several Hallmark movies.
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Mychael Danna
- Occupations
- film score composercomposermusic arrangerfilm producer
- Biography
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Mychael Danna is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on the miniseries World Without End.
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R. H. Thomson
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Robert Holmes Thomson CM, known as R. H. Thomson, is a Canadian television, film, and stage actor. With a career spanning five decades he remains a regular presence on Canadian movie screens and television. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the arts, and to war veterans.
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Roberta Bondar
- Occupations
- physicianastronautphotographerbiologistneurologist
- Biography
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Roberta Lynn Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
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Mary Berg
- Occupations
- cooktelevision celebrity cheftelevision personalitycookbook writer
- Biography
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Mary Berg is a Canadian television host, author and cook, who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of MasterChef Canada. She has been the host of two television cooking shows, Mary's Kitchen Crush and Mary Makes It Easy, and the daytime talk show, The Good Stuff with Mary Berg. She has released three cookbooks, Kitchen Party, Well Seasoned and In Mary's Kitchen.
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Mike Keenan
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerice hockey coach
- Biography
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Michael Edward Keenan is a Canadian former professional hockey coach. Previously, he served as head coach and/or general manager with several NHL teams between 1984 and 2009. He currently ranks fifth in playoff wins with 96. He is noted for his early career success in coaching Team Canada to win the 1987 Canada Cup round-robin tournament in a thrilling best-of-three series finale against Viktor Tikhonov's Red Army team. He is one of three coaches to coach in a playoff Game 7 ten times, for which he won five times. Keenan was the third person to lead three different teams (Philadelphia, Chicago, New York) to the Stanley Cup Finals; only one coach has accomplished the feat since Keenan.
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Craig Kielburger
- Occupations
- entrepreneurmanagerwriter
- Biography
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Craig Kielburger CM MSM OMC is a Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, with his brother Marc Kielburger, of the WE Charity, as well as We Day and the independent, social enterprise Me to We. On April 11, 2008, Kielburger was named a member of the Order of Canada.
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Catherine McKenna
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Catherine Mary McKenna PC is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, McKenna was the minister of environment and climate change from 2015 to 2019 and minister of infrastructure and communities from 2019 to 2021. She was the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre from 2015 to 2021, but decided not to seek reelection in the 2021 federal election.
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Raine Maida
- Occupations
- singerrecord producersongwriter
- Biography
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Raine Maida CM is a Canadian musician best known as being the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. He has come to be known for his unique countertenor nasal falsetto singing voice, as well as his cryptic and poetry-influenced song lyrics. He occasionally plays certain instruments, such as the acoustic guitar, while performing with Our Lady Peace. Following guitarist Mike Turner's departure from Our Lady Peace in 2001, Maida is the only remaining original member of the band.
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Susan Li
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Susan Li is a TV journalist who works for American television channel Fox Business Network.
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
- Occupations
- psychologistpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga GCB OC OQ is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She is the first and to date only woman to hold the post and the most recent to be re-elected for a second term.
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Stephen Leacock
- Occupations
- political scientisthumoristeconomistshort story writerwriter
- Biography
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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock FRSC was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.
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Johann Olav Koss
- Occupations
- speed skaterphysician
- Biography
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Johann Olav Koss is a former speed skater from Norway. He won four Olympic gold medals, including three at the 1994 Winter Olympics in his home country.
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Arthur Currie
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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General Sir Arthur William Currie, GCMG, KCB was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps. Currie's success was based on his ability to rapidly adapt brigade tactics to the exigencies of trench warfare, using set piece operations and bite-and-hold tactics. He is generally considered to be among the most capable commanders of the Western Front, and one of the finest commanders in Canadian military history.
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Anastasia Lin
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- modelhuman rights activistbeauty pageant contestantactor
- Biography
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Anastasia Lin is a Chinese-Canadian actress, model, beauty pageant titleholder and human rights advocate.
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Margaret MacMillan
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Margaret Olwen MacMillan, is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). MacMillan is an expert on the history of international relations.
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R. James Long
- Years
- 1938-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- medieval historianphilosopher
- Biography
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Raymond James Long is an American academic and professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is also a faculty member at St. John Fisher Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut. Long was the president of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.
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Owen Pallett
- Occupations
- composersongwriterpianistsinger
- Biography
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Michael James Owen Pallett-Plowright, known professionally as Owen Pallett, is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. Pallett is also known for their contributions to Arcade Fire, having toured with the band and been credited as an arranger and instrumentalist on each of their studio albums. In January 2014, Pallett and Arcade Fire member William Butler were nominated for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their original score of the film Her (2013).
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Jeff Skoll
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- philanthropistentrepreneurfilm producermanagerengineer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Stuart Skoll OC is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from University of Toronto in 1987 and left Canada to attend Stanford University's business school in 1993.
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Jeffrey Buttle
- Occupations
- figure skaterfigure skating choreographer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Buttle is a Canadian figure skater and choreographer. He is the 2006 Winter Olympics bronze medalist, the 2008 World champion, the 2002 and 2004 Four Continents champion and the 2005–2007 Canadian champion. On March 22, 2008, Buttle became the first Canadian man since Elvis Stojko in 1997 to win the World Title. He announced his retirement from competitive skating on September 10, 2008.
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Bonnie Crombie
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in international relations and political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bonnie-Michelle Teresa Bernadette Stack Sawarna Crombie is a Canadian politician and businesswoman who has been the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party since December 2, 2023.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- In 1993 graduated with joint honours degree in physics and mathematics
- Occupations
- physicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Nima Arkani-Hamed is an Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics. Arkani-Hamed is a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is also director of the Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation at the Institute and director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in Beijing, China.
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Matthew Ko
- Occupations
- modelactortelevision actor
- Biography
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Matthew Ko Kwan-yin is a Hong Kong actor. In September 2014, Ko left TVB after his contract ended to later sign with Catchy Tone Artists in Mainland China.
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Leslyn Lewis
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Leslyn Ann Lewis MP is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Haldimand—Norfolk since 2021. A member of the Conservative Party, Lewis contested the party leadership in the 2020 and 2022, placing third both times. She was the first visible minority woman to run for the federal Conservative Party leadership. She is known for her socially conservative views and has called for Canada to withdraw from the United Nations.
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Jane Philpott
- Enrolled in the University of Toronto
- Graduated with Master of Public Health
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Jane Pauline Philpott PC is a physician, academic administrator, and former Canadian politician who represented the riding of Markham—Stouffville in the House of Commons. She was first elected in the 2015 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015. On March 4, 2019, she resigned from her cabinet position as President of the Treasury Board over the SNC-Lavalin affair. On April 2, 2019, she and Jody Wilson-Raybould were expelled from the Liberal caucus in the aftermath of the controversy.
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Michael Coren
- Occupations
- radio personalitywriterjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Michael Coren is a British-Canadian writer and clergyman. A long-time television personality, Coren hosted The Michael Coren Show on the Crossroads Television System from 1999 to 2011 before moving to the Sun News Network to host The Arena with Michael Coren, from 2011 until the channel's demise in early 2015. He has also been a long-time radio personality, particularly on Toronto talk radio station CFRB. Coren is currently a columnist for the Toronto Star and iPolitics.
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Dillon Casey
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Dillon Francis Casey is an American-Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Sean Pierce in The CW's action-thriller television series Nikita.
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Jay Bahadur
- Occupations
- photographerjournalistphotojournalist
- Biography
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Jay Bahadur is a Canadian journalist and author. He became known for his reporting on piracy in Somalia, writing for The New York Times, The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Times of London. Bahadur has also worked as a freelance correspondent for CBS News and he has advised the U.S. State Department on piracy. His first book, The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (2011), is his account of living with the pirates for several months in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in the northeast of Somalia. Bahadur lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Michael Spence
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistprofessorscientist
- Biography
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Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
