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* [[Sandra Oh]]
* [[Matthew Perry]]
* [[Ryan Reynolds]]
* [[Melinda Shankar]]
* [[Trevor Matthews]] - Film producer and actor
== People from [[Toronto]] - Completed ==
The list of some famous Torontonians is now on the [[Toronto]] page.
Wikipedia has a larger [[w:List of people from Montreal|list of people from Montreal]].
'''Actors'''<br />
* [[Jay Baruchel]] -- television and movie actor
* [[Christopher Plummer]] -- actor
* [[William Shatner]] -- actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in ''[[Star Trek]]''
'''Artists'''
* [[Saul Bellow]] -- novelist
* [[Louise Anne Bouchard]] – writer
* [[Leonard Cohen]] -- poet and singer
* [[Louis Dudek]] -- poet
* [[David Fennario]] -- playwright
* [[Émile Nelligan]] -- poet
* [[Frank L. Packard]] -- novelist
* [[Mordecai Richler]] -- writer
* [[Mark Shainblum]] -- comics writer and co-creator of [[Northguard]] and [[Angloman]]
* [[Jaspreet Singh]] -- author
* [[Cynthia Scott]] -- [[Academy Award]]-winning director
'''Musicians'''<br />
* [[Leonard Cohen]] -- poet and singer
* [[Céline Dion]] -- singer
* [[Tegan and Sara|Sara Quin]] -- musician
* [[Martha Wainwright]] -- singer/songwriter
* [[Rufus Wainwright]] -- singer/songwriter
'''Professional Wrestlers'''
* [[René Balcer]] -- television writer and producer, known for the US television show ''[[Law and Order]]''
* [[Jay Baruchel]] -- television and movie actor
* [[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]]''
* [[Terri Clark]] -- country singer/songwriter
* [[Françoise de Clossey]] -- pianist and organist
* [[Leonard Cohen]] -- poet and singer
* [[John Colicos]] -- actor
* [[Charles Comeau]] -- drummer of [[Simple Plan]] and songwriter
* [[Caroline Dhavernas]] -- actress
* [[Sara Diamond]] -- member of the American girl group [[Clique Girlz]]
* [[Céline Dion]] -- singer
* [[Xavier Dolan]] – actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume director, producer
* [[Audrey Capel Doray]] – artist
* [[Oscar Peterson]] -- jazz pianist
* [[André Pijet]] -- artist
* [[Christopher Plummer]] -- actor
* [[Antoni Porowski]] -- chef, actor, and television personality
* [[Nathalie Quagliotto]] -- visual artist
* [[Tegan and Sara|Sara Quin]] -- musician
* [[Jesse Rath]] -- actor
* [[Ginette Reno]] -- singer
* [[Caroline Rhea]] -- actress
* [[Mordecai Richler]] -- writer
* [[Sam Roberts]] -- musician
* [[Percy Rodrigues]] -- actor
* [[Anne Savage (artist)|Anne Savage]] -- artist
* [[William Shatner]] -- actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in ''[[Star Trek]]''
* [[Douglas Shearer]] -- Academy Award-winning motion picture sound engineer
* [[Norma Shearer]] -- [[Academy Award]]-winning actress
* [[Roch Voisine]] -- singer
* [[Martha Wainwright]] -- singer/songwriter
* [[Rufus Wainwright]] -- singer/songwriter
* [[Amanda Walsh]] -- actress
* [[Danny Wells]] -- actor; played bartender on ''[[The Jeffersons]]'' and Luigi in ''[[The Super Mario Brothers Super Show]]''
* [[Joel Zifkin]] -- electric violinist, singer/songwriter
* [[Moses Znaimer]] -- co-founder of Toronto's [[CityTV]]
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== People from [[Vancouver]] ==
'''I haven't even started this section yet...'''
''(If needed, see also [[w:Category:Vancouver in fiction]])''
== People from Halifax ==
DoAdding wethis wantlist ato [[User:Robkelk/sandbox/Halifax|an entire draft page for Halifax?.]]
Works set there include ''Theodore Tugboat'', a bunch of non-fiction books set against the backdrop of the Halifax Explosion, and ... according to DuckDuckGo, nothing else. Wikipedia doesn't have a list. ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]'' is set in Dartmouth, just across the Narrows. ''The Surgeon's Mate'', the seventh of the ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' books, starts in Halifax.
On the other hand, "Halagonian" is a fun word to say...
{{examples|Some famous Halagonians}}
Needs winnowing... but don't delete any bluelinks!
Wikipedia has a larger [[w:List of people from the Halifax Regional Municipality|list of people from Halifax]].
'''Actors''' and Directors
*[[Walter Borden]] (born 1942), Shakesperian stage, TV and film actor
*[[Henry Beckman]] (1921–2008), actor, stage, film, and television
*[[Cory Bowles]] (born 1973), actor, writer, director
*[[Chuck Campbell]] (born 1969), actor
*[[Mike Clattenburg]] (born 1968), TV and film director, creator of the [[Trailer Park Boys]]
*[[Barrie Dunn]] (born 1952), actor, writer, director, producer, lawyer
*[[Thom Fitzgerald]] (born 1968), filmmaker
*[[Peter Flemming]] (born 1967), actor
*[[Eli Goree]], actor ([[The 100 (TV series)|The 100]])
*[[Tamara Hickey]], actress
*[[Leslie Hope]] (born 1965), actress
*[[Michael Jackson (actor)|Michael Jackson]] (born 1970), actor
*[[Ruby Keeler]] (1909–1993), actress, dancer
*[[David Manners]] (1900–1998), actor known for role in Tod Browning's, [[Dracula (1931 English-language film)|Dracula]]
*[[Forbes March]] (born 1973), actor born in UK but raised in Halifax
*[[Peter North (actor)|Peter North]] (born 1957), adult film actor, director, producer
*[[Sonja O'Hara]] (born 1987), actress
*[[Craig Olejnik]] (born 1979), actor, [[The Listener (TV series)|The Listener]]
*[[Ty Olsson]] (born 1974), actor
*[[Ellen Page]] (born 1987), [[Academy Award]]-nominated actress
*[[John Reardon]] (born 1975), actor and former university football player
*[[Laura Regan]] (born 1977), actress
*[[Cindy Sampson]] (born 1978), actress
*[[Anthony Sherwood]] (born 1949), actor, producer, director, writer, and R&B singer
*[[Jonathan Torrens]] (born 1972), actor, television personality
*[[John Paul Tremblay]] (born 1968), actor and writer
*[[Karen Walton]], screenwriter
*[[Robb Wells]], actor and writer
'''Artists'''
*[[Bob Chambers (cartoonist)|Bob Chambers]], (1905–1996), political cartoonist
*[[Joey Comeau]] (born 1980), author and co-creator of the [[webcomic]] ''[[A Softer World]]''
*[[Gerald Ferguson]], artist
*[[Hal Foster]] (1892–1982), comic book artist
*[[Sarah Jackson (artist)|Sarah Jeanette Jackson]], artist
*[[Garry Kennedy|Garry Neill Kennedy]], artist, [[NSCAD University]] president 1967–1996, recipient of the Order of Canada award
*[[Ernest Lawson]] (1873–1939), artist
*[[Owen McCarron]] (1929–2005), cartoonist
*[[George Steeves]] (born 1945), contemporary photographer
*[[Marguerite Porter Zwicker]] (1904–1993), painter and art promoter
'''Authors'''
*[[Catherine Banks]], 2-time [[Governor General's Award]]-winning playwright
*[[Kris Bertin]], 2017 [[Danuta Gleed Award]]-winning author
*[[Bill Bissett]] (born 1939), poet
*[[Lesley Choyce]] (born 1951), U.S.-born poet, novelist, academic
*[[George Elliott Clarke]] (born 1960), poet and academic
*[[Don Domanski]] (born 1950), poet
*[[George Grant (philosopher)]] (1918–1988), philosopher, academic
*[[Susan Goyette]] (born 1964), poet
*[[Amelia Clotilda Jennings]] (died 1895), writer
*[[Stephen Kimber]] (born 1949), journalist, editor, broadcaster, professor
*[[Steven Laffoley]] (born 1965), author
*[[Wendy Lill]] (born 1950), playwright
*[[Alexander MacLeod (writer)|Alexander MacLeod]] (born 1972), writer and academic
*[[Donna Morrissey]] (born 1956), novelist
*[[Sarah Mian]], novelist
*[[Thomas Head Raddall]] (born 1903), novelist
*[[Russell Smith (writer)|Russell Smith]] (born 1963), writer
*[[Henri-Dominique Paratte]], writer and literary critique
'''Comedians'''
*[[Mark Farrell (comedian)|Mark Farrell]] (born 1968), comedian, writer, producer
*[[Ron James (comedian)|Ron James]] (born 1958), comedian and actor
*[[Nikki Payne]] (born 1976), comedian
*[[Picnicface]], comedy troupe
*[[The Unknown Comic]], real name Murray Langston (born 1945), actor, comedian
'''Directors and Producers'''
'''Musicians'''
===Classical===
*[[Denise Djokic]] (born 1980), cellist
*[[Barbara Fris]] (born 1956), operatic soprano
*[[Barbara Hannigan]] (born 1971), operatic soprano
*[[Portia White]] (1911–1968), operatic contralto
===Country===
*[[Brian Ahern (producer)|Brian Ahern]], music producer
*[[Ridley Bent]] (born 1979), country singer songwriter
*[[The Guthries]] (country-rock band), active from 1998–2002
*[[Eddy (M) Melanson]], 1950s rockabilly singer
*[[Hank Snow]] (1914–1999), country music legend, from Liverpool, N.S., career started in Halifax
*[[Gordon Stobbe]] (born 1946), fiddler, TV host
===Folk===
*[[Ben Caplan]], folk musician
*[[Melanie Doane]] (born 1967), singer, songwriter
*[[Rose Cousins]] (born 1977), singer-songwriter
*[[Denny Doherty]] (1940–2007), singer, songwriter, a founding member of [[The Mamas & the Papas]]
*[[Jenn Grant]] (born 1980), singer-songwriter
*[[Dylan Guthro]] (born 1991), singer/songwriter from [[Cape Breton Island|Cape Breton]], now based in Halifax
*[[The Halifax Three]], 1960s folk group
*[[Rebekah Higgs]] (born 1982), singer-songwriter
*[[Mo Kenney]] (born 1990), singer/songwriter
*[[Daniel Ledwell]], record producer and multi-instrumentalist
*[[Ryan MacGrath]], singer/songwriter
*[[Ruth Minnikin]], singer/songwriter
*[[Old Man Luedecke]], Juno winning singer/songwriter
*[[The Stanfields]], folk rock band
*[[Al Tuck]] (born 1966), singer/songwriter from P.E.I., based in Halifax since 1980s
===Jazz, Blues and Soul===
*[[Jill Barber]] (born 1980), Halifax based singer-songwriter
*[[Gary Beals]] (born 1982), singer
*[[Holly Cole]] (born 1963), singer
*[[Gypsophilia]] (formed 2004), jazz band
*[[JRDN]] (Ralph Jordon Croucher), R&B recording artist
*[[Dutch Mason]] (1938–2006), jazz musician and Order of Canada inductee
*[[David Myles (musician)|David Myles]] (born 1981), musician originally from [[Fredericton]], now lives and records in Halifax
*[[Joe Sealy]] (born 1939), pianist, composer (''[[Africville Suite]]'')
*[[Nelson Symonds]] (1933–2008), jazz guitarist
===Hip Hop and Rap===
*[[Buck 65]] (born 1972), rapper, hip hop artist, MC, CBC personality
*[[Classified (rapper)|Classified]], real name Luke Boyd, rapper
*[[Tanya Davis]], spoken word poet and singer
*[[Hip Club Groove]], 1990s hip hop band
*[[Sixtoo]], 1990s hip hop artist
*[[Wordburglar]], alternative hip hop artist
===Rock and Pop===
*[[Alert the Medic]] (formed 2006), rock band
*[[April Wine]] (band), formed in 1969
*[[Rich Aucoin]], indie-rock musician
*[[Rob Benvie]], guitarist, singer/songwriter
*[[Brendan Croskerry]] (born 1985), singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
*[[Dog Day (band)|Dog Day]] (formed 2004), indie-rock duo
*[[The Flashing Lights]], indie rock band 1990s–2000s
*[[Ryan Hemsworth]], DJ and producer
*[[The Hylozoists]] (formed 2001), instrumental rock group
*[[In-Flight Safety]] (formed in 2003), indie-rock band originally from [[Sackville, New Brunswick|Sackville]]
*[[Jale]] (band), formed in 1992
*[[Ria Mae]], singer and songwriter
*[[Matt Mays]] (born 1979), singer, songwriter
*[[Sarah McLachlan]] (born 1968), singer, songwriter, pianist
*[[Kevin MacMichael]] (1951–2002), [[Cutting Crew]] guitarist
*[[Mir (band)|Mir]], alternative band, 1998–2010
*[[Matt Murphy (Canadian musician)|Matt Murphy]], singer/songwriter guitarist, actor (''[[The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico]]'')
*[[Neon Dreams]] (band), Alt-Pop Duo (formed 2013)
*[[Dale Murray (musician)|Dale Murray]], musician, guitarist and vocalist for [[Cuff the Duke]]
*[[North of America]] (1997–2003), indie-rock band
*[[Joel Plaskett]] (born 1974), singer, songwriter
*[[Port Cities (band)|Port Cities]] (band formed in 2015)
*[[Sloan (band)|Sloan]] (band), formed in 1991
*[[The Stolen Minks]] (formed in 2003), garage-punk band
*[[The Super Friendz]], indie rock band, 1994–1997, 2003–2004
*[[Thrush Hermit]], 90s alternative rock band
*[[Wintersleep]] (band), formed in 2001
'''Others'''
*[[Cheryl Wagner]], clown and puppeteer
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