User:Robkelk/sandbox/Famous Canadians by city
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Starting with the Wikipedia lists linked at the start of each city's list, with the scientists, sports stars, military men, and politicians removed.
Now what?
- Leave the redlinks and count on Wiki Magic to fill in the gaps? C'mon, these are Canadians; almost nobody outside Canada has heard of most of them, and almost nobody in Canada cares.
- Delete the redlinks? A lot of these people should have pages here, though.
If we need to make pages for cities, see w:Category:Canada in fiction by city for starting lists of works set in Canadian cities.
Headers for the "Some famous cityites" sections:
Actors
Artists
Authors
Comedians
Directors and Producers
Musicians
Voice Actors
Others
UNSORTED
People from Ottawa
(Yeah, we'll need a page for Ottawa to put this on. Under the Umbrella Tree was filmed in Ottawa. See w:Category:Ottawa in fiction for more works. OSFS might be able to provide a list of F&SF works set in Ottawa - query email sent on Nov 11, 2019. Ottawa Independent Writers might be able to help with more mainstream works set in Ottawa. GoodReads has a list. This list is ready to go.)
Wikipedia has a larger list of people from Ottawa.
Actors
- Dan Aykroyd
- Jay Baruchel
- Elisha Cuthbert
- Lorne Greene - "The Voice of Doom" on CBC Radio, then typecast as a wise and understanding patriarchal figure whose family works with him under his command on a professional basis (in Bonanza, the original Battlestar Galactica and Code Red).
- Sandra Oh
- Matthew Perry
- Ryan Reynolds
- Melinda Shankar
Authors
Comedians
Musicians
- Paul Anka
- Bruce Cockburn
- Kathleen Edwards
- Jeremy Gara - Drummer for Arcade Fire
- Alanis Morissette
- Andrew Scott - Drummer for Sloan
Other Creators
- Travis Gordon - Film producer, screenwriter, and director
- Rich Little - Impressionist and voice actor
- Trevor Matthews - Film producer and actor
People from Toronto - Completed
The list of some famous Torontonians is now on the Toronto page.
People from Montreal
(If needed, see also w:Category:Montreal in fiction)
Needs winnowing... but don't delete any bluelinks!
Wikipedia has a larger list of people from Montreal.
Actors
- Jay Baruchel -- television and movie actor
- Christopher Plummer -- actor
- William Shatner -- actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek
Artists
Authors
- Gilles Archambault -- novelist
- Doug Beardsley -- poet and educator
- Louise Belcourt -- artist
- Saul Bellow -- novelist
- Louise Anne Bouchard – writer
- Louis Dudek -- poet
- David Fennario -- playwright
- Mavis Gallant -- author
- Jonathan Goldstein -- author, humourist and radio producer
- Adam Gopnik -- writer, essayist
- A. M. Klein -- author
- Naomi Klein -- author and activist
- Dany Laferrière -- author
- Mado Lamotte -- drag queen and author
- Irving Layton -- poet, essayist, short story writer
- Yann Martel -- writer, Man Booker Prize 2002
- Ken McGoogan -- writer
- Émile Nelligan -- poet
- Frank L. Packard -- novelist
- Mordecai Richler -- writer
- Mark Shainblum -- comics writer and co-creator of Northguard and Angloman
- Jaspreet Singh -- author
- Michel Tremblay -- novelist, playwright
- Tony Tremblay -- poet, radio personality
- William Weintraub -- author, filmmaker
Comedians
- David Acer -- magician and comedian, star of Mystery Hunters
- Jon Lajoie -- comedian
- Kevin McDonald -- actor/comedian/voice actor, member of The Kids in the Hall
Directors and Producers
- Paul Almond -- director
- Patricia Chica -- film and TV director
- Sidney M. Cohen -- television director
- Phil Comeau -- film and TV director
- Harold Greenberg -- movie producer, founder of Astral Media
- Sid and Marty Krofft -- producers/creators of H.R. Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost, The Lost Saucer
- Cynthia Scott -- Academy Award-winning director
Musicians
- Leonard Cohen -- poet and singer
- Céline Dion -- singer
- Sara Quin -- musician
- Martha Wainwright -- singer/songwriter
- Rufus Wainwright -- singer/songwriter
Professional Wrestlers
- Roger Barnes -- professional wrestler
- Chris Benoit -- pro wrestler, born in Montreal, raised in Edmonton, Alberta
- Sylvain Grenier -- WWE wrestler
- Ian Hodgkinson -- professional wrestler, lived in Montreal while in WCW
- Vanessa Kraven - professional wrestler.
- Jos LeDuc -- professional wrestler
- Maurice Vachon -- also known as Mad Dog Vachon; wrestling champion
- Sami Zayn -- professional wrestler, signed to the WWE
Voice Actors
- Peter Cullen -- voice actor (voice of Optimus Prime in the film Transformers)
- Barbara Dunkelman -- voice actress for Rooster Teeth
- Paul Schoeffler -- voice actor, actor
Others
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- Scott Abbott -- co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
- Martha Allan -- founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre
- Melissa Sue Anderson; American-Canadian actress. Known for her role as Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie
- René Angélil -- singer, actor, Celine Dion's husband and manager
- Francois Arnaud -- actor
- Melissa Auf der Maur -- rock musician (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins)
- René Balcer -- television writer and producer, known for the US television show Law and Order
- Charlie Biddle -- Montreal Jazz pioneer, Juno Award winner
- Yannick Bisson -- actor known for playing Det. Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries and Jack in Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye
- Bless -- hip-hop artist
- Paul Bley -- jazz pianist
- La Bolduc -- real name Mary Travers, singer
- Pierre Bouvier -- frontman of Simple Plan; songwriter
- Justin Bradley -- actor, based out of Montreal and Toronto, sometimes works in Los Angeles
- Tim Brady -- guitarist, composer
- Glenda Braganza -- Hollywood actress, 10.5: Apocalypse
- Edwin Orion Brownell -- pianist, vocalist
- Geneviève Bujold -- actress
- Win Butler -- singer/songwriter
- Jesse Camacho -- actor
- Mark Camacho -- actor
- Terri Clark - country singer
- Paul Cargnello -- singer/songwriter
- Robert Charlebois -- singer/songwriter
- Régine Alexandra Chassagne -- singer, musician
- Emmanuelle Chriqui -- actress
- Terri Clark -- country singer/songwriter
- Françoise de Clossey -- pianist and organist
- John Colicos -- actor
- Charles Comeau -- drummer of Simple Plan and songwriter
- Marc Costanzo -- singer
- Corneille -- singer
- Elisha Cuthbert -- actress
- May Cutler -- publisher and journalist; founder of Tundra Books; first Canadian woman to publish children's books; first woman to serve as Mayor of Westmount, Quebec
- Mitch Davis -- film programmer, filmmaker, journalist
- Stéphane Demers -- actor
- Bernard Derome -- anchorman
- David Desrosiers -- bassist of Simple Plan and vocalist; born in Sept-Îles
- Caroline Dhavernas -- actress
- Sara Diamond -- member of the American girl group Clique Girlz
- Xavier Dolan – actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume director, producer
- Audrey Capel Doray – artist
- Fifi D'Orsay -- actress
- Glen Drover -- guitarist for Megadeth
- Shawn Drover -- drummer for Megadeth
- Jean Duceppe -- actor
- Iwan Edwards -- conductor, Member of the Order of Canada
- Empire I -- pop and dancehall singer, songwriter
- Mylène Farmer -- singer
- Maynard Ferguson -- jazz trumpet player and bandleader
- Jennifer Finnigan -- Hollywood actress
- André Gagnon -- composer, pianist
- Patsy Gallant -- pop singer
- Kathleen Gati -- actress
- James Gelfand -- pianist, composer, arranger
- Jessalyn Gilsig -- actress
- Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) -- artist and inspiration for the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint
- Huntley Gordon -- actor
- Philip Guston -- painter and printmaker
- Dayle Haddon -- model and actress
- Marc-André Hamelin -- pianist and composer
- Chris Haney -- co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
- Corey Hart -- singer
- Thomas Hellman -- pop singer
- Carl Henry -- singer
- Prudence Heward -- Beaver Hall Group artist
- David Julian Hirsh -- actor
- Steve Holt -- jazz pianist, AC singer-songwriter
- William Hope -- actor
- Anna Hopkins -- actress
- Norman Iceberg -- singer/songwriter
- René Jodoin -- film animator and producer
- Oliver Jones -- jazz pianist
- Sass Jordan -- singer
- Robert Joy -- actor
- Claude Jutra -- filmmaker
- Daniel Kash -- actor
- Kaytranada -- electronic musician, producer, DJ
- Kid Koala -- DJ
- Franklin Kiermyer -- drummer, composer
- Andy Kim -- singer/songwriter
- Benjamin Kowalewicz -- singer of Billy Talent
- David Kristian -- electronic musician
- Florence La Badie -- actress
- Corky Laing -- musician
- Guy Laliberté -- founder and CEO of Cirque de Soleil
- Ryan Larkin -- animator
- Lisa Lavie -- singer-songwriter
- Louise Lecavalier -- dancer
- Ranee Lee -- jazz singer
- Sébastien Lefebvre -- guitarist of Simple Plan and vocalist
- Rachelle Lefevre -- actress
- Jean Leloup -- musician
- Vanessa Lengies -- actress
- Guy A. Lepage -- television personality
- André Éric Létourneau -- intermedia artist, composer
- Shawn Levy -- director and actor
- Liu Fang -- musician
- Colin Low -- filmmaker
- Lunice -- musician
- Arnaud Maggs -- artist, photographer
- Massari -- singer
- Patricia McKenzie -- actress
- Norman McLaren -- film animation pioneer
- Luck Mervil -- singer, actor
- Terry Mosher -- editorial cartoonist
- Ben Mulroney -- television host; son of Brian Mulroney
- Narcy -- hip hop artist
- P. Reign -- hip hop artist, born in Montreal, raised in Toronto
- Michel Pagliaro -- musician
- Jessica Paré -- actress
- Trevor W. Payne -- founder and music director of the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
- Wilfrid Pelletier -- symphony conductor
- Missy Peregrym -- actress
- Oscar Peterson -- jazz pianist
- André Pijet -- artist
- Antoni Porowski -- chef, actor, and television personality
- Nathalie Quagliotto -- visual artist
- Jesse Rath -- actor
- Meaghan Rath -- actress
- Ginette Reno -- singer
- Caroline Rhea -- actress
- Sam Roberts -- musician
- Percy Rodrigues -- actor
- Sasha Roiz -- actor
- Cristina Rosato -- actress
- Ethel Rosenfield -- sculptor
- Charlie J. Ross -- vaudeville performer
- Anne Savage -- artist
- Douglas Shearer -- Academy Award-winning motion picture sound engineer
- Norma Shearer -- Academy Award-winning actress
- Madeleine Sherwood -- actress, played Mother Superior in The Flying Nun
- Karen Simpson -- actress and fashion designer
- David Six -- artist
- Wonny Song -- classical concert pianist
- Jeff Stinco -- lead guitarist of Simple Plan
- Tiga -- electronic musician, singer, DJ
- Alain Trudel -- conductor
- David Usher -- singer/songwriter
- Stevie Vallance -- also known as Louise Vallance; singer, musician, actress, voice actress and director
- Gino Vannelli -- singer/songwriter
- Chris Velan -- singer/songwriter
- Roch Voisine -- singer
- Amanda Walsh -- actress
- Danny Wells -- actor; played bartender on The Jeffersons and Luigi in The Super Mario Brothers Super Show
- Alissa White-Gluz -- singer-songwriter; former vocalist of The Agonist; current vocalist of Arch Enemy
- Joseph Wiseman -- actor, known for playing Dr. Julius No in the first James Bond film Dr. No
- Karl Wolf -- singer
- Joel Yanofsky -- writer
- Nikki Yanofsky -- jazz singer
- Joel Zifkin -- electric violinist, singer/songwriter
- Moses Znaimer -- co-founder of Toronto's CityTV
People from Vancouver
I haven't even started this section yet... (If needed, see also w:Category:Vancouver in fiction)
Wikipedia has a larger list of people from Vancouver.
Actors
Artists
Authors
Comedians
Directors and Producers
Musicians
Voice Actors
Others
UNSORTED
People from Halifax
Adding this list to an entire draft page for Halifax.