Famous Canadian Celebrities
Famous Canadian Celebrities
| Alex Trebek | Game show host, "Jeopardy" |
| Art Linkletter | TV personality, wrote a book too |
| Conrad Black | publisher, turned crook |
| David McTaggart | co-founder of Greenpeace |
| Douglas Cardinal | architect, "Canadian Museum of Civilization", "National Museum of the American Indian |
| Garth Drabinsky | entertainment mogul |
| Howie Mandell | comedian, actor. Co-hosted Regis and Kathie Lee. Was in TV show St.Elsewhere. Now the host of Deal or No Deal, a job he does extremely well. |
| Jack Warner | co-founder of Warner Brothers |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | economist, advisor to many US presidents |
| Keith Morrison | journalist, "Dateline NBC". Worked at CTV before that. Stepfather to Mathew Perry |
| Kimberly Conrad Hefner | The name should say it all. One of Hef's wives, I think his only WIFE. |
| Lester B. Pearson | Former Prime Minister of Canada, gave us the Maple Leaf Flag, won Nobel Peace Prize for efforts in peace-keeping. Author of the "Prime Directive" that is mentioned occasionally on Star Trek. (Star Trek writers just modified it for alien worlds). |
| Linda Evangelista | supermodel |
| Lorne Michaels | creator, producer,director of Saturday Night Live, Austin Powers, Happy Gilmore, Caddyshack |
| Marshall McLuhan | |
| Michael Copland | founder, CEO of Corel |
| Monty Hall | "Let's Make a Deal" |
| Moses Znaimer | TV mogul |
| Paul Shaffer | Lettermans music man. When he got his star on Canada's Walk of Fame, he impressed all with his music and his vigor. |
| Peter Jennings | ABC news anchorman |
| Pierre Trudeau | Prime Minister of Canada during the FLQ crisis, which he handled well |
| Rich Little | The most famous of all impersonators, 'cause he was the best. |
| Rick Hansen | Went around the world in a wheelchair. |
| Robert MacNeil | US TV news commentator |
| Shannon Tweed | actress, Playboy Playmate |
| Terry Fox | Died of cancer trying to run across Canada on one leg. Other leg lost to cancer. His courage and death sparked runs for cancer all across Canada. Now there's a hero. |
| Winnie the Pooh | toy bear named by Canadian soldiers after the city of Winnipeg |
| Wop May | Canadian bush pilot and WW1 flying ace, helped bring down the Red Baron. Rock on Mars named after him by NASA. |