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Scott Abbott and Chris Haney (inventors of game "Trivial Pursuit") Dan Aykroyd (movie actor; Elwood of "The Blues Brothers") Bryan Adams (rock singer, musician, and songwriter) Pamela Anderson (actress on "Baywatch") Paul Anka (singer and songwriter; writer of song "My Way") Donovan Bailey (sprinter; 100m Olympic Gold Medalist) Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) (rock group; writers of song "You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet") The Band (rock group; performed extensively with Bob Dylan) Frederick Banting and Charles Best (discoverers of diabetes drug insulin, 1921) Barenaked Ladies (rock group) Raymond Burr (star of "Perry Mason" television show) James Cameron (director of movie "The Titanic") John Candy (comedic actor; police officer Burton Mercer of "The Blues Brothers") Jim Carrey (comedic actor) Cirque de Soleil (acrobatic circus performers) Douglas Coupland (writer; author of "Generation X") David Cronenberg (movie director; Cannes Jury Prize winner, 1996) Celine Dion (ballad singer) James Doohan (actor; Scotty of "Star Trek") Percy Faith (composer and arranger, esp. for movie scores) JSir Sandford Fleming (creator of Universal Standard Time, 1879 & 1884) Michael J. Fox (television and movie actor) James Gosling (author of Java computer language) Glenn Gould (classical piano player) Lorne Greene (star of television show "Bonanza") Wayne Gretzky (hockey superstar) The Guess Who (rock band; writers of song "American Woman") Monty Hall (host of television show "Let's Make a Deal") Phil Hartman (comedian on Saturday Night Live) Douglas Henning (magician, and advocate of Transcendental Meditation) IMAX Corporation (group of Canadians that invented the IMAX movie format, 1970) Kenneth Iverson (author of APL computer language) Peter Jennings (ABC television news host) Norman Jewison (movie director; winner of 1999 Special Academy Award) Brian Kernighan (co-author of C computer language) W.P. Kinsella (author of novel "Shoeless Joe", later made into movie "Field of Dreams") Diana Krall (jazz singer) k.d. lang (rock/country singer and songwriter) Avril Lavigne (young rock singer and songwriter) Mario Lemieux (hockey superstar) Gordon Lightfoot (folk singer and songwriter) Rich Little (voice impressionist) Guy Lombardo (big-band leader; 1929-62 performer of "Auld Lang Syne" in New York on New Year's Eve) Howie Mandel (comedic actor) Sarah McLachlan (rock singer and songwriter; Lilith Fair organiser) David McTaggart (co-founder of Greenpeace) Mike Meyers (comedic actor) Lorne Michaels (creator and producer of "Saturday Night Live") Joni Mitchell (folk singer and songwriter) Rick Moranis (comedic actor) Alanis Morissette (rock singer) Anne Murray (pop singer) James Naismith (inventor of basketball [the sport], 1892) Leslie Nielsen (comedic movie actor) Matthew Perry (actor; Chandler of T.V. show "Friends") Oscar Peterson (jazz piano player) Mary Pickford (early movie actor) Christopher Plummer (movie actor) Keanu Reeves (movie actor) Rush (progressive rock / heavy metal group) Paul Shaffer (band leader on David Letterman's "Late Night" television show) William Shatner (actor; Captain Kirk of "Star Trek") Martin Short (comedic actor) Joe Shuster (creator of "Superman" character, 1938) Elvis Stojko (figure skater) Donald Sutherland (movie actor) Alex Trebek (host of television show "Jeopardy") Shania Twain (country singer and songwriter) Jacques Villeneuve (racecar driver; Grand Prix world champion) Mike Weir (golf champion) Neil Young (singer, musician, and songwriter) Robert Young (co-founder of Red Hat linux company) Submitted by Rudy D. |
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