100 Notable alumni of University of British Columbia
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of British Columbia is ranked #29 in the world and #2 in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of British Columbia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of British Columbia won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Simon Barry
1966-. (aged 60)
screenwriter
executive producer
television director
television producer
Simon Barry is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, director and television producer.
2. Brian Wong
1991-. (aged 35)
businessperson
Brian Wong is a Canadian Internet entrepreneur. In 2010, Wong co-founded Kiip (pronounced "keep"), a company offering a mobile app rewards platform through which computer game players would receive real-world rewards from brands and companies for in-game achievements.
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3. Svend Robinson
1952-. (aged 74)
lawyer
politician
trade unionist
Svend Robinson is a Canadian politician. He was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2004, representing suburban Vancouver-area constituencies in the city of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP). He was the first member of Parliament in Canadian history to come out as gay while in office. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to stealing an expensive ring...
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4. Gordon Neufeld
1947-. (aged 79)
psychologist
Gordon Neufeld is a developmental psychologist from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of the book Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (co-authored with Canadian physician Gabor Maté).
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5. Charles Kupperman
1950-. (aged 76)
Charles Martin Kupperman is a former United States Deputy National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump, a position he held from January to September 2019. He also was the acting United States National Security Advisor for eight days in September 2019 between John Bolton and Robert C. O'Brien.
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6. Michael A. Klaper
1947-. (aged 79)
documentary participant
physician
Michael A. Klaper is an American physician, vegan health educator, conference and event speaker, and an author of articles and books of vegan medical advice. Graduating from medical school in 1972, Klaper became a vegan ten years later and subsequently became active in the area, publishing three books advocating veganism and serving as a founding director of the Institute of...
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7. Alex Zahara
voice actor
television actor
actor
film actor
Alex Zahara is a Canadian television, film, and voice actor, born in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Engaging in theatre from a young age, most notably performing in a stage adaptation of M*A*S*H, he later taught Acting for Teens at the Vancouver Film School. Zahara holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, earned after studies at the University of Alberta and the...
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8. Shahrzad Rafati
1980-. (aged 46)
entrepreneur
Shahrzad Rafati is an Iranian-Canadian chairwoman and CEO of RHEI, formerly BBTV, – a global tech company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, which develops AI solutions for content creators and media companies, including its "emotionally intelligent" Made platform, and data licensing solution, RHEI Data Pro.
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9. Clint Hocking
1972-. (aged 54)
video game designer
video game director
video game developer
video game producer
Clint Hocking is a Canadian video game designer and director. He has primarily worked at the Canadian divisions of Ubisoft, where he developed three titles, and briefly worked at LucasArts, Valve, and Amazon Game Studios.
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10. Adrian Dix
1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Adrian Dix MLA is a Canadian politician who is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), he was the party's leader and Leader of the Opposition in British Columbia from 2011 to 2014, resigning after losing the 2013 provincial election in an upset....
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11. Tasha de Vasconcelos
1966-. (aged 60)
model
actor
Tasha Sandra Mota e Cunha de Vasconcelos is a Mozambican-born Portuguese-Canadian model, actress and humanitarian ambassador. She is also the ambassador for the Institut Pasteur. She has just been appointed as a UN Women Global champion for Planet 50-50 by 2030.
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12. Hart Hanson
1957-. (aged 69)
screenwriter
showrunner
film producer
television producer
Hart Hanson is an American-born television writer and producer, as well as an author. He is best known as the creator, executive producer, and writer of the TV series Bones.
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13. Philip E. Tetlock
1954-. (aged 72)
academic
university teacher
political scientist
psychologist
economist
Philip Eyrikson Tetlock is a Canadian-American political psychologist and writer, and is currently the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is cross-appointed at the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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14. Yasmine Mohammed
1974-. (aged 52)
human rights defender
Yasmine Mohammed is a Canadian university instructor, human rights activist and author. Mohammed escaped from a forced, abusive marriage to Al-Qaeda operative Essam Marzouk and became an advocate for freethinkers from Muslim communities through her non-profit organization Free Hearts Free Minds. She is a member of the Center for Inquiry Speaker's Bureau and is the co-founder and co-director of the...
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15. Michael Smith
1979-. (aged 47)
sports journalist
sports commentator
Michael Smith CC OBC FRS was a British-Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis. Following a PhD in 1956 from the University of Manchester, he undertook postdoctoral research with Har Gobind Khorana (himself a Nobel Prize winner) at the British Columbia Research Council in Vancouver,...
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16. Ann Makosinski
1997-. (aged 29)
inventor
student
Ann Makosinski is a Canadian inventor and public speaker. She is known for her invention of the thermoelectric flashlight in 2011.
17. Kevin Reynolds
1990-. (aged 36)
figure skater
Kevin Reynolds is a retired Canadian figure skater. He is the 2013 Four Continents champion, 2010 Four Continents bronze medallist, 2014 Winter Olympics team silver medallist and a six-time Canadian national medallist (2012–14, 2017 silver; 2010, 2016 bronze). His highest place at a World Championship is fifth, achieved at 2013 World Championships. On the junior level, he is the 2006...
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18. Robert Gentleman
1959-. (aged 67)
bioinformatician
statistician
Robert Clifford Gentleman is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician who is currently the founding executive director of the Center for Computational Biomedicine at Harvard Medical School. He was previously the vice president of computational biology at 23andMe. Gentleman is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language and the Bioconductor project.
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19. Julia Sarah Stone
1997-. (aged 29)
actor
film actor
Julia Sarah Stone is a Canadian actress. She began studying theater at the age of six, and appeared in a number of school plays over the following years. After booking a small part in an independent short film in 2009, she won her breakthrough role in the 2011 feature The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, for which she received...
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20. Linna Huynh
1991-. (aged 35)
beauty pageant contestant
Linna Huynh is a Canadian television presenter, actress and model currently based in Hong Kong under contract with TVB.
21. Patricia Churchland
1943-. (aged 83)
university teacher
neuroscientist
philosopher
Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she has taught since 1984. She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989. She is a...
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22. Suzanne W. Simard
1960-. (aged 66)
naturalist
ecologist
university teacher
Suzanne Simard is a Canadian forestry scientist and conservationist who is best known for her research on forest ecology and plant intelligence.
23. David Nykl
1967-. (aged 59)
screenwriter
stage actor
television actor
actor
film actor
David Nykl is a Czech-Canadian actor who has worked in film, television, commercials and theater. He is best known for portraying Dr. Radek Zelenka in the SyFy television series Stargate Atlantis and Anatoly Knyazev in the DC Comics series Arrow.
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24. Anastasia Phillips
1983-. (aged 43)
actor
film actor
Anastasia Phillips is a Canadian actress. She appeared in films Don't Talk to Irene, Ghostland (2018) and Tammy's Always Dying (2019), and the TV series Bomb Girls and Reign. In 2021, she began starring in the CBC drama series, Moonshine.
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25. Lorna Slater
1975-. (aged 51)
engineer
politician
Lorna Slater is a Canadian politician in Scotland who served as Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity in the Scottish Government from 2021 to 2024. She was co-leader of the Scottish Greens, alongside Patrick Harvie, from 2019 to 2025, and was one of the first Green politicians in the UK to serve as government ministers.
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26. James Sinclair
1908-1984 (aged 76)
civil engineer
businessperson
politician
James Sinclair PC was a British-born Canadian politician and businessman. He was the maternal grandfather of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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27. Rebecca Marino
1990-. (aged 36)
tennis player
Rebecca Catherine Marino is a Canadian professional tennis player. On 11 July 2011, she reached her best WTA singles ranking of No. 38. Marino was awarded Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada two times, in 2010 and 2011.
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28. Hugh Ross
1945-. (aged 81)
astrophysicist
astronomer
physicist
Hugh Norman Ross is a Canadian astrophysicist, Christian apologist, and old-Earth creationist.
29. Arthur Hill
1922-2006 (aged 84)
film actor
television actor
stage actor
Arthur Edward Spence Hill was a Canadian actor. He was known in British and American theatre, film, and television.
30. Robert Langlands
1936-. (aged 90)
university teacher
mathematician
physicist
Robert Phelan Langlands, CC FRS FRSC is a Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize. He is emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office...
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31. Dennis McKenna
1950-. (aged 76)
anthropologist
ethnobotanist
Dennis Jon McKenna is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He is the brother of well-known psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna and is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines.
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32. Shannon Chan-Kent
1988-. (aged 38)
voice actor
stripper
singer
actor
Shannon Chan-Kent is a Canadian voice and stage actress. She is known for her roles as Silver Spoon, Smolder and the singing voice of Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Misa Amane in the English dub of Death Note, and the Biskit twins and Youngmee Song on Littlest Pet Shop. She also portrays Joy Pepper in the...
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33. Robert Mundell
1932-2021 (aged 89)
university teacher
economist
Robert Alexander Mundell CC was a Canadian economist who was a professor of economics at Columbia University, McGill University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas.
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34. Jade Kwan
1979-. (aged 47)
singer
songwriter
recording artist
Kwan Wai-Man, better known professionally as Jade Kwan Sum-Yin (Chinese: 關心妍), is a Hong Kong and Canadian singer and philanthropist. Originally from Vancouver, she entered the music industry after winning the 1999 New Talent Singing Awards Canada Finals and the Best Potential Newcomer Award at the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals of the same year. She debuted under BMA...
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35. Carat Cheung
1987-. (aged 39)
actor
Carat Cheung Ming-nga is a Canadian-Chinese actress, model and former beauty pageant winner currently based in Hong Kong and previously under Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) management. She is the winner of Miss Hong Kong 2012.
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36. Ian Hacking
1936-2023 (aged 87)
historian
philosopher
professor
Ian MacDougall Hacking CC FRSC FBA was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and was a member of many prestigious groups, including the Order of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.
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37. Nazanin Afshin-Jam
1979-. (aged 47)
singer
model
beauty pageant contestant
human rights defender
musician
Nazanin Afshin-Jam is an Iranian-Canadian human rights activist, author, public speaker and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Canada 2003. She is also president and co-founder of Stop Child Executions, as well as the founder of The Nazanin Foundation. She emigrated to Canada with her family in 1981 and is married to Peter MacKay, former Minister of Justice...
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38. Rick Hansen
1963-. (aged 63)
politician
Richard Marvin Hansen CC OBC is a Canadian track and field athlete (Paralympic Games and Olympic Games), activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. When Rick was 15, he was riding in the back of a pickup truck after a fishing trip with his friend, when the driver lost control and the vehicle rolled over. Hansen was trapped on the...
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39. Irshad Manji
1968-. (aged 58)
women's rights activist
writer
journalist
Irshad Manji is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator. She is the author of The Trouble with Islam Today (2004) and Allah, Liberty and Love (2011), both of which have been banned in several Muslim countries. She also produced a PBS documentary in the America at a Crossroads series, titled Faith Without Fear, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008....
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40. Dominic Barton
1962-. (aged 64)
manager
consultant
chief executive officer
adviser
Dominic Barton, known as Bao Damin (Chinese: 鲍达民) in China, is a Canadian business executive, author, and diplomat. He is the current chairman of the private investment firm LeapFrog Investments and was the Chancellor of the University of Waterloo from 2018 to 2024. He served as the Canadian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 2019 to 2021. Prior...
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41. Jennifer Tse
1982-. (aged 44)
actor
Jennifer Tse Ting-ting is a Hong Kong actress and model. She is the daughter of actors Patrick Tse and Deborah Lee, and the younger sister of singer and actor Nicholas Tse.
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42. Kiril Petkov
1980-. (aged 46)
entrepreneur
politician
Kiril Petkov Petkov is a Bulgarian politician, economist, and entrepreneur, who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from December 2021 to August 2022. He was the co-founder of We Continue the Change, a political party, alongside Assen Vassilev.
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43. Julia Benson
1979-. (aged 47)
film actor
Julia Benson is a Canadian actress. She played the character Vanessa James in the science fiction series Stargate Universe.
44. Anne Heung
1974-. (aged 52)
actor
Anne Heung Hoi-lam is a Hongkonger-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was formerly under contract to the television station TVB. She left TVB in 2008 for new business ventures but returned to media work in 2015.
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45. Patrick Moore
1947-. (aged 79)
consultant
writer
environmentalist
Patrick Albert Moore is a Canadian industry consultant, former activist and an early member and past president of Greenpeace Canada. Since leaving Greenpeace in 1986, Moore has criticized the environmental movement for what he sees as scare tactics and disinformation, saying that the environmental movement "abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism". Greenpeace has criticized Moore, calling...
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46. Phil Lam
1985-. (aged 41)
singer
songwriter
Phil Lam Yik-hong is a Canadian-born Hong Kong artist and sing-songwriter. Born in Nanaimo and raised in Qualicum Beach, he signed a contract with Sony Music Hong Kong in 2009. He rose to fame in Hong Kong in 2014 with the song Hills and Valleys (高山低谷), which earned him a Top 20 Gold Song Award in the 2014 Jade Solid...
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47. Bernice Liu
1979-. (aged 47)
singer
model
musician
actor
film actor
Bernice Jan Liu Bik-yee is a Canadian actress, singer, and commercial model based in Hong Kong. She has previously held the title Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 as well as Miss Chinese International 2001, the latter position bringing her fame in Hong Kong. Liu left Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) in 2011 and returned to Canada to continue her education. As of...
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48. Gloria Tang
1992-. (aged 34)
actor
Gloria Tang Pui-yee is a Hong Kong Canadian actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She is the winner of Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant 2012 and Miss Chinese International Pageant 2013.
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49. Camille Sullivan
1975-. (aged 51)
film actor
actor
stage actor
Camille Sullivan is a Canadian actress. Among her notable television appearances are Rookie Blue, Da Vinci's Inquest, Intelligence and Shoresy. She won a Leo Award for her role in the drama film Normal (2007). Other film credits include The Butterfly Effect (2004), Sisters & Brothers (2011), and Ally Was Screaming (2014). Sullivan was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2008...
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50. Yael Cohen Braun
1986-. (aged 40)
activist
Yael Cohen Braun is a South African–born Canadian health activist. The former wife of Scooter Braun, she is the founder of the organization "Fuck Cancer", a nonprofit charity.
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51. Leanne Li
1984-. (aged 42)
actor
television presenter
Leanne Li Yanan is a Chinese-born Canadian actress and television host. She was the 2005 Miss Chinese International Pageant winner hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia.
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52. Jim Pattison
1928-. (aged 98)
entrepreneur
businessperson
James Allen Pattison OC OBC is a Canadian business magnate and investor. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he holds the position of chief executive officer, chairman and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, Canada's second largest privately held company, with more than 45,000 employees worldwide, and annual sales of $10.1 billion. The Group is active in...
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53. Loujain al-Hathloul
1989-. (aged 37)
activist
human rights defender
Loujain al-Hathloul is a Saudi women's rights activist, social media figure, and political prisoner. She was arrested on several occasions for defying the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. In May 2018, she and several prominent women's rights activists were kidnapped in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and deported to Saudi Arabia where they were charged with "attempting to...
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54. Ashleigh Banfield
1967-. (aged 59)
journalist
Ashleigh Dennistoun Banfield is a Canadian-American journalist and former host of Banfield on the NewsNation network. She is also a former host of Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield and Early Start on CNN.
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55. Carly Pope
1980-. (aged 46)
actor
film actor
Carly Pope is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles on The WB's drama series Popular (1999–2001), supernatural drama series The Collector (2004–2005), USA Network's legal drama series Suits (2016–2017) and The CW's Arrow (2016–2017).
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56. Milena Roucka
1979-. (aged 47)
manager
professional wrestler
model
Milena Leticia Roucka is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, valet and model. She was known for her time in WWE under the ring name Rosa Mendes. She managed former WWE Tag Team Champions Primo & Epico from 2011 to 2013. She was also a main cast member on the E! reality series Total Divas.
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57. John Turner
1929-2020 (aged 91)
athletics competitor
lawyer
politician
John Napier Wyndham Turner was the 17th prime minister of Canada, serving from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 1984 to 1990.
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58. Paul Johansson
1964-. (aged 62)
screenwriter
film director
television actor
actor
film actor
Paul Johansson is a Canadian actor and director in film and television, best known for playing Dan Scott on the WB/CW series One Tree Hill, and for his role as Nick Wolfe on the short-lived series Highlander: The Raven, a spin-off of Highlander: The Series. He directed the 2011 film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged: Part I.
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59. Adrian Smith
1944-. (aged 82)
architect
Adrian Devaun Smith is an American architect. He designed the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower. A long-time principal of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he founded his own architectural partnership firm, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, in Chicago in 2006. Among his other projects, he was the senior...
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60. Jason Gray-Stanford
1970-. (aged 56)
television presenter
television actor
voice actor
actor
film actor
Jason Gray-Stanford is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Lieutenant Randy Disher in the USA Network television series Monk and for voicing the role of Raditz in the Ocean Productions dub of Dragon Ball Z.
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61. Emily Perkins
1977-. (aged 49)
actor
film actor
Emily Jean Perkins is a Canadian actress, known for her roles as Crystal Braywood in the TV series Hiccups, young Beverly Marsh in Stephen King's It, and Brigitte Fitzgerald in Ginger Snaps. Since the late 1980s, she has appeared in various films and television series.
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62. Jacqueline Wong
1989-. (aged 37)
actor
beauty pageant contestant
Jacqueline Wong Sum-wing is a Hong Kong actress, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Miss Hong Kong 2012 first runner-up title and placed in the top 12 talents at Miss World 2013. In 2022, her contract with TVB ended.
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63. Nardwuar
1968-. (aged 58)
disc jockey
journalist
singer
radio personality
Nardwuar the Human Serviette CM, or simply Nardwuar, is a Canadian journalist and musician. He formed the Vancouver-based garage rock band the Evaporators in 1986, for which he serves as lead singer and keyboardist. He is best known for his in-depth interviews with musicians, celebrities, and politicians, where his thorough research and extensive knowledge often surprises them—uncovering forgotten details or...
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64. Linda Chung
1984-. (aged 42)
singer
composer
film actor
recording artist
musician
Linda Chung Ka-yan is a Hong Kong-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter. She signed a long-term contract with TVB in 2004 after winning the Miss Chinese International Pageant. Chung ended her contract with TVB in early 2018.
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65. Torrance Coombs
1983-. (aged 43)
television actor
film actor
Torrance Coombs is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Thomas Culpepper in The Tudors (2007–2010), Sebastian "Bash" de Poitiers - the illegitimate son of King Henry II of France and his chief mistress Diane de Poitiers - in Reign (2013–2017), and Declan in The Originals.
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66. Albert Bandura
1925-2021 (aged 96)
university teacher
educator
psychologist
Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist and professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University, who contributed to the fields of education and to the fields of psychology, e.g. social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and influenced the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. Bandura also is known as the originator of the social learning theory, the social...
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67. Michael Shanks
1970-. (aged 56)
screenwriter
film director
television actor
actor
film actor
Michael Garrett Shanks is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and as Dr. Charles Harris in the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope. He is also known for his work on low budget genre work filmed in Canada.
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68. Ludi Lin
1984-. (aged 42)
film actor
stage actor
model
Ludi Lin is a Chinese-Canadian actor and model. He is known for playing Zack Taylor in the 2017 Power Rangers reboot, the underwater warrior Murk in Aquaman (2018), and Liu Kang in the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot.
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69. Deborah Kara Unger
1966-. (aged 60)
executive producer
television actor
actor
film actor
Deborah Kara Unger is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the films Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994), Crash (1996), The Game (1997), Payback (1999), The Hurricane (1999), White Noise (2005), Silent Hill (2006), 88 Minutes (2008) and The Way (2010).
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70. Kenneth Ma
1974-. (aged 52)
actor
film actor
Kenneth Ma Kwok-ming is a Hong Kong actor contracted to TVB.
71. Tosca Musk
1974-. (aged 52)
film director
film producer
Tosca Jane Musk is a South African filmmaker. She is an executive producer and director of feature films, television programs, and web content. Her work includes K. Bromberg's Driven, Rachel van Dyken's Matchmaker's Playbook, and her web series, Tiki Bar TV. Tosca is the younger sister of Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk, and daughter of Errol Musk and Maye Musk....
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72. Manny Jacinto
1987-. (aged 39)
dancer
television actor
Manuel Luis Jacinto is a Canadian actor. After several small roles on television, his breakout role came as Jason Mendoza on the NBC sitcom The Good Place (2016–2020). Jacinto had minor roles in Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), and portrayed the Stranger/"Qimir" in the Star Wars series The Acolyte (2024). He also provided...
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73. Eddie Peng
1982-. (aged 44)
model
television actor
singer
film actor
Edward Peng Yu-Yan is a Taiwanese actor, singer and model. He is best known for starring in the films Hear Me (2009), Unbeatable (2013), Fleet of Time (2014), Operation Mekong (2016), Duckweed (2017), Wu Kong (2017), and Hidden Man (2018). In 2024, Peng starred in Black Dog, which premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain...
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74. William Gibson
1948-. (aged 78)
executive producer
television actor
writer
film actor
prose writer
William Ford Gibson is a speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of...
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75. Evangeline Lilly
1979-. (aged 47)
model
flight attendant
actor
film actor
Nicole Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author. She gained popularity for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama series Lost (2004–2010), which garnered her six nominations for the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
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76. Justin Chatwin
1982-. (aged 44)
film actor
actor
television actor
Justin Chatwin is a Canadian actor. He began his career in 2001 with a brief appearance in the musical comedy Josie and the Pussycats. Following his breakthrough role as Robbie Ferrier in the blockbuster War of the Worlds (2005), Chatwin headlined studio films such as The Invisible (2007) and Dragonball Evolution (2009), an action-adventure feature based on the manga series...
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77. Madeleine Thien
1974-. (aged 52)
novelist
short story writer
writer
Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expression and politics inside Cambodia and China, as well as within diasporic East Asian communities. Thien's critically acclaimed novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, won the 2016 Governor...
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78. Ujjal Dosanjh
1947-. (aged 79)
community organizer
lawyer
politician
Ujjal Dev Dosanjh PC KC is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 33rd premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. He was minister of health from 2004 until 2006, when the party lost government. He then served in the Official Opposition from...
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79. Tony Buzan
1942-2019 (aged 77)
writer
psychologist
Anthony Peter "Tony" Buzan was an English author and educational consultant.
80. Jody Wilson-Raybould
1971-. (aged 55)
activist
Crown attorney
lawyer
politician
Jody Wilson-Raybould PC OBC KC, also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas, is an Indigenous Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician who was Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2015 to 2019. First elected in the 2015 election as the member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver Granville with the Liberal Party, Wilson-Raybould...
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81. Sahar Biniaz
1986-. (aged 40)
actor
beauty pageant contestant
model
Sahar Biniaz is a Persian-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Canada 2012 and Miss Universe Persia 2025. She had a recurring role on the hit TV show Sanctuary as the Hindu goddess of power Kali. She was set to represent Iran at Miss Universe 2025 pageant held in Thailand but later withdrew in solidarity with...
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82. Albert Chan
1955-. (aged 71)
social worker
politician
Albert Chan Wai-yip, also known by his nickname "Big Piece", is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories West constituency. He has served as a legislator from 1991 to 2016 except for the periods 1997–2000 and Jan–May 2010. Chan, formerly a social worker, was a member of the Tsuen Wan District Council.
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83. Joe Clark
1939-. (aged 87)
politician
lecturer
lawyer
diplomat
journalist
Charles Joseph Clark is a Canadian businessman, writer, and retired politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980. He served as leader of the Official Opposition from 1976 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1983 and led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1976 to 1983, and again from 1998 to 2003.
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84. Bertram Brockhouse
1918-2003 (aged 85)
university teacher
nuclear physicist
physicist
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC FRSC FRS was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1994, shared with Clifford Shull) "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".
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85. Bjarni Tryggvason
1945-2022 (aged 77)
engineer
astronaut
physicist
Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason was an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a nearly 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere. Bjarni is the first, and as of 2024, only Canadian astronaut of Icelandic birth.
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86. Hannah Simone
1980-. (aged 46)
model
actor
Hannah Simone is a British and Canadian actress. She portrayed Cece Parikh on the Fox sitcom New Girl.
87. Justin Trudeau
1971-. (aged 55)
actor
jurist
lawyer
minister
teacher
Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. He led the Liberal Party from 2013 until his resignation in 2025 and was the member of Parliament (MP) for Papineau from 2008 until 2025.
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88. Emily Haines
1974-. (aged 52)
singer
pianist
singer-songwriter
keyboardist
musician
Emily Savitri Haines is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she has performed under her own name and as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. Haines possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano.
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89. Grace Park
1974-. (aged 52)
model
television actor
actor
film actor
Grace Park, born Park Ji-eun (Korean: 박지은), is a South Korean retired professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. She was a member of the LPGA Tour from 2000 until her retirement in 2012 and won six LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career.
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90. Leila Araghian
1983-. (aged 43)
architect
Leila Araghian is an Iranian architect. She has a master's degree in architecture from the University of British Columbia, where she won the UBC Architecture Alumni Henry Elder Prize. She previously studied architecture in Iran, at Shahid Beheshti University.
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91. Wong Kam-sing
1963-. (aged 63)
architect
Wong Kam-sing, GBS, JP, is a Hong Kong architect and the former Secretary for the Environment, Wong had held a number of public service positions before joining the Government, including the first Chairman of the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Chairman of the Professional Green Building Council and the Vice Chairman of...
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92. Kayi Cheung
1983-. (aged 43)
actor
beauty pageant contestant
model
Kayi Cheung is a Hongkonger-Canadian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Hong Kong 2007 and 1st Runner-up of the Miss Chinese International 2008. She also received the Miss Vitality Ambassador award. Cheung had said her goal is to become a successful programme host and to promote healthy living.
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93. Yung Hoi Yan
1977-. (aged 49)
politician
Eunice Yung Hoi-yan is a Hong Kong barrister and pro-Beijing politician. Once the vice-chairman of the New People's Party (NPP), she became a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for New Territories East in 2016 and for Election Committee in 2021. She stepped down in 2025 amidst concerns that she may not be able to seek another term...
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94. Kim Campbell
1976-. (aged 50)
aircraft pilot
military officer
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is a Canadian politician who was the 19th prime minister of Canada from June to November 1993. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the...
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95. Andrew D. Hamilton
1952-. (aged 74)
chemist
Andrew David Hamilton FRS is a British-American chemist and academic administrator who served as the 16th president of New York University from 2016 to 2023. He previously served as vice chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2009 to 2015 and provost of Yale University from 2004 to 2008.
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96. Boris Malagurski
1988-. (aged 38)
screenwriter
political analyst
film director
documentarian
film producer
Boris Malagurski is a Serbian-Canadian film director, producer, writer, political commentator, television host, and activist. His films include the documentary series The Weight of Chains.
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97. Jeff Wall
1946-. (aged 80)
art historian
artist
printmaker
photographer
Jeffrey Jeff Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian photographer. He is an artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often...
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98. Gábor Máté
1944-. (aged 82)
physician
psychotherapist
writer
Gábor Máté is a Hungarian actor and film director. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1976.
99. Patrick Soon-Shiong
1952-. (aged 74)
entrepreneur
chief executive officer
university teacher
surgeon
philanthropist
Patrick Soon-Shiong is a South African and American businessman, investor, medical researcher, and transplant surgeon. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, which is used for lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer. He has received US FDA approval for a new class of immunotherapy drug called Anktiva in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in 2024. Soon-Shiong is the founder of NantWorks,...
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100. Tenzin Gyatso
1935-. (aged 91)
Lama
Buddhist monk
politician
The 14th Dalai Lama is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959 and subsequently led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India.
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