Does anybody know any famous canadians?

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snowboarder_ashley

i did that in grade 6 as well i did Alexander Graham Bell the inventer of the telephone

other good ones are:
Terry Fox
Tommy Douglas
Wayne Gretzky
Mike Myers
Jim Carrey
David Suzuki
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Avril Lavigne

those where the ones that did well becaue they had lots of information

-hope you do well on the project
-ashley =D

crazygirl

Shure CÃ©line Dion, Brian Adams,Pamela Anderson Lee, Richard Dean Anderson, Shania Twain,Keanu Reeves, Alanis Morrisette,Jim Carrey and Avril Lavigne, Alexander Graham Bell are Canadian. I lam Irish but like Canada. Your not stupid like some countries. I used to work with Canadians and ye have good manners. I hate ignorant people. Keep rolling in the talent.

Try

http://pages.infinit.net/garrick/canada/canpeople.html

Big list their

old lady

Kim Campbell was Canada's first female prime minister.
Roberta Bondar was Canada's first female astronaut.
Emily Carr is a world famous painter
Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, world famous authors

Karen C

Remembrance Day being only just past, The people that come to mind are WWII War heroes. There are a lot of them for you to chose from. There are 2 from Alberta that I had the great pleasure to know personally. They were P.O.W.s in a camp for Officers who had tried several times to escape from the Nazis. There is a ton of information on almost all of our WWII heroes on the web. The two I knew - they have both since passed away - are Flight Lieutenants Donald S. Thom from Edmonton, Alberta and Don Donaldson from Lethbridge, Alberta. You can find some info here
http://www.colditzcastle.net/british-pows/raf-pow-photos/

If you are in Calgary, there is a book called "Detour" at the Military Museum just off Crowchild Trail South. This book was given to me by Mr. Thom and I in turn gave it to the Museum. There is info in it on both gentlemen. If you are in Lethbridge, you should be able to find the propeller from Mr. Donaldson's plane which was returned to him in the 1990's and is most likely at the Legion in Lethbridge.

Another Canadian who is famous among WWII history buffs is Sir William Stephenson. He was a Master Spy (like James Bond only better - he was real) during the war. He was from Manitoba and had something to do with just about every daring, exciting and scary spy thing done during the war. A book was written about him - you may find it in a library - called "A Man Called Intrepid". I would like to be able to say I knew him but, alas, I didn't. But I sure know all about him. He is one of my own personal heroes and he is one of Canada's National heroes. You can find out more about him here
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007701

I know these are not as famous as Celine Dion or Gordie Lightfoot or Wayne Gretsky but they are very important people who should be as famous. There are war heroes in every city and town in Canada. Take a walk over to your nearest cenotaph and read the names there.

If you chose this type of famous person for your assignment, then I hope I have been of some help. And I wish you well on your assignment.

hollyann_79

There are tons of them! Try searching on yahoo search or google to find them.

Xopher

Michael J Fox
The Entire cast of "the kids in the hall"
The entire cast of "SCTV"

David V

Howie Mandel...........Marshall McLuhan
Steppenwolf.........Raymond Burr
Avril Lavigne............Barenaked Ladies
Pamela Anderson.......Margaret Atwood
Keanu Reeves.........John Candy
Alanis Morissette..........Emily Carr
William Shatner...........Paul Shaffer
Jim Carrey..................Tommy Chong
Rae Dwan Chong..........Donald Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland.........Leonard Cohen
Dan Aykroyd..............Yvonne DeCarlo
Linda Evangelista..........Glenn Ford
Alex Trebek..............Terry Fox
Brendan Fraser...........Shania Twain
Samuel Goldwyn..........Lorne Green
Pierre Trudeau........Natasha Henstridge
Monty Hall.........Jacques Villeneuve
Jeffy Healey............Peter Jennings
Fay Wray.........Jack Kerouac
Margot Kidder..........Neil Young
Gordon Lightfoot............Mike Myers
Kevin Zegers.............Anne Murray
Rick Moranis...........Leslie Nielsen
Michael Ondaatje.........Our Lady Of Peace
The Guess Who.........Mary Pickford
Jason Priestley........Matthew Perry
Mordecai Richler........Rush
Saga.........Robbie Robertson

Guglielmo Marconi....invented the Am Radio
Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor & Robert Kerr .......invented the IMAX [projector and system.
Alexander Graham Bell......invented the telephone
Gideon Sunback......invented the Zipper
Hugh LeCaine.....invented the music Synthesizer
Chris Hillier and Scott Abbott.....invented Trivial Pursuit.
Eli Franklin Burton, Cecil Hall, James Hillier and Albert Prebus.......invented the Electron Microscope.

enjoy
take care
dave.

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Man

Sorry. Celine Dion, Terry Fox, Wayne Gretzky, Alexander Graham Bell, Jacques Cartier/explorers, John Garrand (gun maker you probably never heard about that made the most used American rifle in WW2 the Garrand M1. I might have spelled it wrong), Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister who was equally as charismatic as Obama), Kim Campbell (First Female Prime Minister, a legacy the Americans haven't had yet), and Jean Chretien is all I can think of currently. The answerer Karen C also made me think about Laura Secord from the War of 1812 when she said war heroes.

Greg T

Justin Morneau, Russel Martin, Eric Gagne there all baseball players. umm there is Celin Dion a singer, and a bunch of actors can't think of their names of hand

Adrian T. "Captain Canuck&q

Mike from Cambridge

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