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Rupi Kaur
Canadian poet
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish programmer and creator of PHP
Chris Hadfield
Canadian astronaut
Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
Thomas Christopher Collins
Catholic cardinal
Heather Moyse
Canadian multi-sport athlete
Chris Williams
American animator, film director and screenwriter
Godwin Friday
Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines since 2025
Kevin O'Leary
Terrence Thomas Kevin O'Leary, self stylized as Mr. Wonderful, is a Canadian businessman, television personality and actor. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows, including the business news program The Lang and O'Leary Exchange as well as reality show Dragons' Den. O'Leary hosted Discovery Channel's Project Earth in 2008 and has appeared on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den, since 2009. He made his feature film debut as Milton Rockwell in Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme (2025).
Madeline Schizas
Canadian figure skater
Ingrid Mattson
Canadian/American Islamic scholar
Erik Demaine
Canadian computer scientist and sculptor (born 1981)
Václav Chvátal
Czech-Canadian mathematician
Mark Irwin
Canadian cinematographer
Evi Nemeth
American engineer (1940–2013)
Chamath Palihapitiya
Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American businessman and CEO of Social Capital
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Canadian American psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist
Peter McLaren
Canadian academic
John Friedlander
Canadian mathematician
Carsten Thomassen
Danish mathematician
Jonathan Schaeffer
Canadian computer scientist
Catalina Yue
Canadian singer
Anne Innis Dagg
Canadian zoologist
Ron Sider
Canadian theologian
Bardish Chagger
Canadian politician
Nancy Reid
Canadian statistician, University of Toronto
Robert Tibshirani
Canadian statistician
Anne M. Archibald
Canadian astronomer
Tom Duff
American computer programmer
Mark Tilden
Canadian roboticist
Anthony Mancini
Canadian Catholic prelate
William Reeves
Canadian animator and technical director
James Lau
Hong Kong civil servant
William J. Cook
American mathematician
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Nigerian entrepreneur
Awad al-Baraasi
Libyan politician
Disguised Toast
Canadian Twitch streamer (born 1991)
George Elliott Clarke
Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic (born 1960)
Andrew Telegdi
Canadian politician (1946-2017)
James Alan Gardner
Canadian writer (1955-)
Filomena Tassi
Canadian politician and lawyer
Steve Smith
Canadian actor, writer and comedian
Rahmon Ade Bello
Former, Vice-Chancellor at University of Lagos
Glenn Howard
Canadian curler and coach
Douglas N. Walton
Canadian academic (1942–2020)
V. K. Aatre
Indian Scientist and former head of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, India's premier Defence R&D Organization
Anwar Fituri
Libyan politician
Matei Zaharia
Romanian-Canadian computer scientist and engineer
David Cheriton
Canadian businessman and computer scientist
Ryan Merkley
former CEO of Creative Commons
Joëlle Pineau
Canadian computer scientist
Penny Haxell
Canadian mathematician
Charles Colbourn
Canadian computer scientist and mathematician
Gail Bowen
Canadian playwright and writer
Neil Robertson
Canadian-American graph theorist (born 1938)
Gary Goodyear
Canadian politician
Chiamaka Okoli
Nigerian astrophysicist
Frank Baylis
Canadian politician
Brad Templeton
Canadian businessman
Reza Farajidana
Iranian politician