100 Notable alumni of University of Toronto
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Toronto is ranked #14 in the world and #1 in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Toronto 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 Toronto won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Jeffrey Buttle
1982-. (aged 44)
figure skater
figure skating choreographer
Jeffrey Buttle is a Canadian figure skater and choreographer. He is the 2006 Winter Olympics bronze medalist, the 2008 World champion, the 2002 and 2004 Four Continents champion and the 2005–2007 Canadian champion. On March 22, 2008, Buttle became the first Canadian man since Elvis Stojko in 1997 to win the World Title. He announced his retirement from competitive skating...
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2. Arthur Meighen
1874-1960 (aged 86)
diplomat
lawyer
politician
Arthur Meighen was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Canada from 1920 to 1921 and from June to September 1926. He led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 and from 1941 to 1942.
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3. Leslyn Lewis
lawyer
politician
Leslyn Ann Lewis MP is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Haldimand—Norfolk since 2021. A member of the Conservative Party, Lewis contested the party leadership in the leadership elections of 2020 and 2022, placing third both times. She was the first visible minority woman to run for the federal Conservative Party...
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4. Anastasia Lin
1990-. (aged 36)
model
human rights defender
beauty pageant contestant
actor
Anastasia Lin is a Chinese-Canadian actress, model, beauty pageant titleholder and human rights advocate.
5. Jeff Skoll
1965-. (aged 61)
entrepreneur
film producer
manager
engineer
computer scientist
Jeffrey Stuart Skoll OC is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. Born...
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6. Owen Pallett
1979-. (aged 47)
composer
songwriter
pianist
singer
Michael James Owen Pallett-Plowright, known professionally as Owen Pallett, is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. Pallett is also known for their contributions to Arcade Fire, having served as a string arranger and touring member of the band. In January...
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7. Matthew Ko
1984-. (aged 42)
actor
television actor
model
Matthew Ko Kwan-yin is a Hong Kong actor. In September 2014, Ko left TVB after his contract ended to later sign with Catchy Tone Artists in Mainland China.
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8. Nima Arkani-Hamed
1972-. (aged 54)
physicist
theoretical physicist
Nima Arkani-Hamed is an Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics. Arkani-Hamed is a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is also director of the Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation. He is also director of The Center...
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9. Susan Li
1985-. (aged 41)
journalist
Susan Li is a TV journalist who works for American television channel Fox Business Network.
10. Arthur Currie
1875-1933 (aged 58)
military officer
General Sir Arthur William Currie, GCMG, KCB was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps. Currie's success was based...
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11. Stephen Leacock
1869-1944 (aged 75)
short story writer
writer
political scientist
humorist
economist
Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.
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12. Margaret MacMillan
1943-. (aged 83)
historian
university teacher
Margaret Olwen MacMillan is a Canadian historian and emeritus professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). MacMillan is an expert on the history of international relations.
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13. Lyndie Greenwood
1983-. (aged 43)
actor
Lyndie Greenwood is a Canadian actress best known for her recurring role of Sonya on The CW's Nikita and being a series regular cast member of FOX's Sleepy Hollow, playing the role of Jenny Mills in 2013. In 2019, she joined the cast of the Amazon Prime Video series The Expanse in the recurring role of Dr. Elvi Okoye. Beginning...
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14. Mychael Danna
1958-. (aged 68)
composer
music arranger
film producer
film score composer
Mychael Danna is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on the miniseries World Without End.
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15. R. James Long
1938-. (aged 88)
medieval historian
philosopher
Raymond James Long is an American academic and professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is also a faculty member at St. John Fisher Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut. Long was the president of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.
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16. Dominic LeBlanc
1967-. (aged 59)
notary
lawyer
politician
Dominic A. LeBlanc is a Canadian lawyer and politician who serves as President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada, Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy, and Minister of Internal Trade. A member of the Liberal Party, LeBlanc is the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauséjour since 2000. He has held several Cabinet portfolios throughout...
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17. Mike Keenan
1949-. (aged 77)
ice hockey player
ice hockey coach
Michael Edward Keenan is a Canadian-American former professional hockey coach. Previously, he served as head coach and/or general manager with several NHL teams between 1984 and 2009. He currently ranks sixth in playoff wins with 96. He is noted for his early career success in coaching, which started with reaching the Stanley Cup Finals in his rookie season in 1985....
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18. Raine Maida
1970-. (aged 56)
singer
record producer
songwriter
Raine Maida CM is a Canadian musician best known as being the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. He has come to be known for his unique countertenor nasal falsetto singing voice, as well as his cryptic and poetry-influenced song lyrics. He occasionally plays certain instruments, such as the acoustic guitar, while performing...
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19. Bonnie Crombie
1960-. (aged 66)
public affairs consultant
entrepreneur
politician
Bonnie-Michelle Teresa Bernadette Stack Sawarna Crombie is a Canadian politician and businesswoman who was the sixth mayor of Mississauga from 2014 to 2024 and the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2023 to 2026.
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20. Bonnie Henry
1966-. (aged 60)
chief medical officer
Bonnie J. Fraser Henry is a Canadian epidemiologist, physician, and public official who has been the provincial health officer at the British Columbia Ministry of Health since 2014. Henry is also a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine, and is a family doctor. In her role as...
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21. Lawrence Ho
1977-. (aged 49)
businessperson
Lawrence Ho Yau-lung is a Canadian businessman. Starting his career as an investment banker at Jardine Fleming and Citibank, in 2001 he took over operations at Melco International. Later named chairman and CEO, Ho refocused the company on leisure and entertainment, building and operating casino resorts in Macau, the Philippines, and Cyprus. With an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion,...
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22. Northrop Frye
1912-1991 (aged 79)
pedagogue
poet
literary critic
writer
philosopher
Herman Northrop Frye CC FRSC was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
23. Farley Mowat
1921-2014 (aged 93)
writer
biologist
environmentalist
scientific collector
Farley McGill Mowat, OC was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as People of the Deer (1952) and Never Cry Wolf (1963). The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in...
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24. Barbara Hannigan
1971-. (aged 55)
performing artist
conductor
opera singer
Barbara Hannigan CM is a Canadian soprano and conductor known for her performances of contemporary classical music. In 2025, she received the Polar Music Prize.
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25. R. H. Thomson
1947-. (aged 79)
actor
television actor
Robert Holmes Thomson CM, known as R. H. Thomson, is a Canadian television, film, and stage actor. With a career spanning five decades he remains a regular presence on Canadian movie screens and television. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the arts, and to war veterans.
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26. Graham Yost
1959-. (aged 67)
actor
screenwriter
director
television director
television producer
Graham John Yost is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified and Silo.
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27. Kuniko Tanioka
1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Kuniko Tanioka is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Osaka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada and gained a bachelor's degree in developmental biology. She was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in...
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28. Sue Johanson
1930-2023 (aged 93)
writer
nurse
sex educator
psychologist
Susan Avis Bailey Johanson CM was a Canadian registered nurse and sex educator. She operated a birth control clinic in Toronto and hosted a series of radio and television programmes on birth control, safer sex and sexual health. She also published several books and wrote a newspaper column promoting sexual health.
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29. Mary Berg
cook
television celebrity chef
television personality
cookbook writer
Mary Berg is a Canadian television host, author and cook, who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of MasterChef Canada. She has been the host of two television cooking shows, Mary's Kitchen Crush and Mary Makes It Easy, and the daytime talk show, The Good Stuff with Mary Berg, and is set to return to the...
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30. Bob Rae
1948-. (aged 78)
pianist
lawyer
ambassador
politician
Robert Keith Rae is a Canadian politician and diplomat who served as the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations from 2020 to 2025. Rae previously served as the 21st premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996, and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013....
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31. Guy Gavriel Kay
1954-. (aged 72)
lawyer
writer
Guy Gavriel Kay CM is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. The majority of his novels take place in fictional settings that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization of these works as historical...
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32. Arthur Hiller
1923-2016 (aged 93)
director
film director
film producer
actor
film actor
Arthur Hiller, OC was a Canadian film and television director. He directed over 33 feature films during a 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s, he was directing films, most often comedies, but also dramas and romantic subjects, such as in Love Story (1970), which was nominated for...
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33. Adrienne Clarkson
1939-. (aged 87)
autobiographer
novelist
film director
musicologist
journalist
Adrienne Louise Clarkson is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as the 26th governor general of Canada from 1999 to 2005.
34. Philipp Hildebrand
1963-. (aged 63)
university teacher
economist
banker
Philipp Michael Hildebrand is a Swiss banker who has been a vice chairman of BlackRock since 2012.
35. Michael Ignatieff
1947-. (aged 79)
novelist
historian
university teacher
journalist
philosopher
Michael Grant Ignatieff PC CM is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Toronto. Most recently, he was rector and president of...
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36. Paul Hellyer
1923-2021 (aged 98)
ufologist
merchant
engineer
politician
writer
Paul Theodore Hellyer PC was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his death.
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37. John McCrae
1872-1918 (aged 46)
pathologist
university teacher
painter
poet
physician
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of...
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38. Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh
1959-. (aged 67)
civil servant
businessperson
politician
Abdul Hamid Muhammad Abdul Rahman al-Dbeibeh is a Libyan politician and businessman who is the prime minister of Libya under the internationally recognised Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli. Dbeibeh was appointed on 15 February 2021 through the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), and he was expected to hold the office until elections on 24 December 2021, which were...
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39. Rob Pike
1956-. (aged 70)
computer scientist
engineer
programmer
writer
Robert Pike is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team.
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40. Anita Anand
1967-. (aged 59)
lawyer
law professor
university teacher
minister
academic
Anita Indira Anand is a Canadian politician, lawyer and former academic who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, Anand was elected to the House of Commons in 2019 and is the member of Parliament (MP) for Oakville East. She has held a number of Cabinet portfolios since 2019.
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41. Brian Kernighan
1942-. (aged 84)
university teacher
writer
computer scientist
engineer
programmer
Brian Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language (The C Programming Language) with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan affirmed that he had no part in the...
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42. Kathleen Wynne
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Kathleen O'Day Wynne is a former Canadian politician who served as the 25th premier of Ontario and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. She was member of provincial parliament (MPP) for Don Valley West from 2003 to 2022. Wynne is the first female premier of Ontario and the first openly gay premier in Canada.
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43. Jean Yoon
1962-. (aged 64)
actor
poet
writer
Jean Yoon is an American and Canadian actress and writer. An actress of Korean descent, Yoon is best known for originating the role of family matriarch Umma in the 2011 play Kim's Convenience and in the award-winning CBC Television series adapted from the play, for which she won an ACTRA Award and received two Canadian Screen Award nominations.
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44. Atom Egoyan
1960-. (aged 66)
film producer
film director
film editor
cinematographer
actor
Atom Egoyan CC is an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker. One of the most preeminent directors of the Toronto New Wave, he emerged during the 1980s and made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a hyperlink film set in a strip club. He followed this with his most critically acclaimed film, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), an adaptation of the Russell Banks novel of...
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45. John Tory
1954-. (aged 72)
lawyer
politician
John Howard Tory is a Canadian lawyer, broadcaster, businessman, and former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007 while he was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2004 to 2009.
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46. Derek Tsang
1979-. (aged 47)
actor
screenwriter
film director
Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung is a Hong Kong filmmaker and actor. The son of actor Eric Tsang, Tsang got his start in the Hong Kong film industry working for director Peter Chan after graduating from University of Toronto Scarborough in 2001. He made his acting debut in Men Suddenly in Black (2003) and directorial debut with Lover's Discourse (2010), sharing the...
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47. Norman Bethune
1890-1939 (aged 49)
physician
teacher
surgeon
Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of socialized medicine, and member of the Communist Party of Canada. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline trauma surgeon supporting the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, and later supporting the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War....
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48. Brian George
1952-. (aged 74)
film actor
television actor
voice actor
Brian George is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Pakistani restaurateur Babu Bhatt in Seinfeld (1989–1998), the Indian gynecologist father of Raj Koothrappali in The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), the voice of Chutney in Father of the Pride (2004–2005), and spiritual guide Guru Pathik in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008).
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49. John Roberts
1955-. (aged 71)
teacher
jurist
art theorist
lawyer
judge
John David Roberts is a Canadian-American television journalist. He has been working for the Fox News Channel, as the co-anchor of America Reports. Roberts joined Fox News in January 2011 as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. He was the Fox News Chief White House Correspondent from 2017 to 2021, covering the first Donald Trump presidency.
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50. Selena Li
1981-. (aged 45)
actor
Selena Lee Sze-wa, former stage name Selena Lee Sze-Wan (Chinese: 李詩韻), is a Hong Kong-born actress and former beauty pageant contestant.
51. Charles Coughlin
1891-1979 (aged 88)
Catholic priest
journalist
radio personality
writer
Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Catholic priest based near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed "The Radio Priest " and considered a leading demagogue, he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience. During the 1930s, when the U.S....
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52. Lyse Doucet
1958-. (aged 68)
television presenter
director
journalist
Lyse Marie Doucet is a Canadian journalist who is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and senior presenter. She presents on BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television, and also reports for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News in the United Kingdom, including Newshour and Newscast. She also makes and presents documentaries.
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53. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
1972-. (aged 54)
actor
presenter
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera Train 48 (2003–2005) and as family patriarch Appa in the play Kim's Convenience (2011) and its television adaptation (2016–2021).
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54. William B. Davis
1938-. (aged 88)
screenwriter
television actor
television producer
actor
film actor
William Bruce Davis is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files. Besides appearing in many TV programs and movies, he founded his own acting school, the William Davis Centre for Actors Study. In 2011 he published his memoir, Where There's Smoke... The Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man.
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55. Lester B. Pearson
1897-1972 (aged 75)
university teacher
historian
diplomat
military personnel
writer
Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian politician, diplomat, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1958 to 1968 and as leader of the Official Opposition from 1958 to 1963.
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56. Raymond Massey
1896-1983 (aged 87)
screenwriter
stage actor
actor
film actor
Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian actor known for his commanding stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role as Lincoln on television and in How the West Was Won (1962). Among his other well-known roles were Dr. Gillespie in the NBC...
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57. David Sutcliffe
1969-. (aged 57)
television actor
film director
actor
film actor
David Sutcliffe is a Canadian former actor. He is known for playing Christopher Hayden on the television series Gilmore Girls and Detective Aidan Black on the television series Cracked.
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58. John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-2006 (aged 98)
non-fiction writer
economist
university teacher
ambassador
diplomat
John Kenneth Galbraith OC, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration...
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59. Jim Balsillie
1961-. (aged 65)
businessperson
James Laurence Balsillie is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was the former chair and co-chief executive officer of the Canadian technology company Research In Motion (BlackBerry), which at its 2011 peak made US$19.9 billion in annual sales.
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60. Norman Jewison
1926-2024 (aged 98)
film director
producer
director
actor
film screenwriter
Norman Frederick Jewison CC OOnt was a Canadian filmmaker. He is known for directing films which addressed topical social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences. Among numerous other accolades, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades, for In the Heat of the Night (1967),...
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61. Robert Goulet
1933-2007 (aged 74)
singer
film actor
musicologist
voice actor
stage actor
Robert Gérard Goulet was an American-Canadian singer and actor. His parents and ancestry were French Canadians. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, until age 13, and then spent his formative years in Canada.
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62. Ilya Sutskever
1986-. (aged 40)
computer scientist
mathematician
artificial intelligence researcher
Ilya Sutskever FRS is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. With Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, he co-invented AlexNet, a convolutional neural network.
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63. Enrico Colantoni
1963-. (aged 63)
film director
film screenwriter
film producer
actor
film actor
Enrico Colantoni is a Canadian actor and director, known for portraying Mathesar in Galaxy Quest, Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom Just Shoot Me!, Keith Mars on the television series Veronica Mars, Louis Utz on the short-lived sitcom Hope & Gloria, crime lord Carl Elias on Person of Interest, and Sergeant Greg Parker on the television series Flashpoint. He has also...
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64. William Lyon Mackenzie King
1874-1950 (aged 76)
scientific collector
minister
diarist
journalist
diplomat
William Lyon Mackenzie King was the prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. With a total of 21 years and 154 days in office, he remains the longest-serving prime minister in...
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65. Agnes Chan
1955-. (aged 71)
singer
activist
professor
tarento
actor
Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan is a Hong-Kong-born Japanese singer, television personality, university professor, essayist and novelist. Since 1998, Chan has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and supports the Japan Committee for UNICEF. In Japan she is professionally known as Agnes Chan (アグネス・チャン), Agnes being her Christian name.
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66. Erving Goffman
1922-1982 (aged 60)
sociologist
anthropologist
non-fiction writer
Erving Goffman was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
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67. Frederick Banting
1891-1941 (aged 50)
pharmacologist
biologist
writer
researcher
physician
Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod.
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68. Paul Shaffer
1949-. (aged 77)
bandleader
pianist
actor
voice actor
conductor
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer CM is a Canadian musician, actor, and comedian who served as David Letterman's musical director, bandleader, and sidekick on Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015).
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69. Malcolm Gladwell
1963-. (aged 63)
screenwriter
podcaster
writer
journalist
sociologist
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell CM is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.
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70. Lorne Michaels
1944-. (aged 82)
film director
producer
television actor
executive producer
television producer
Lorne Michaels is a Canadian and American television and film producer, comedian, screenwriter and director. He created and produced Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, since 1985) and produced the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995), and The Tonight Show (since 2014).
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71. Robert Herjavec
1963-. (aged 63)
businessperson
film producer
Robert Herjavec is a Croatian-Canadian businessman, investor, and television personality.
72. Sarah Gadon
1987-. (aged 39)
fashion model
director
actor
film actor
Sarah Lynn Gadon is a Canadian actress. She began her acting career guest-starring in a number of television series, such as Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1999), Mutant X (2002), and Dark Oracle (2004). She also worked as a voice actress on various television productions. Gadon gained recognition for her roles in David Cronenberg's films A Dangerous Method (2011),...
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73. Caterina Scorsone
1981-. (aged 45)
actor
film actor
Caterina Scorsone is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her portrayal of neurosurgeon Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the ABC primetime medical drama Grey's Anatomy and its spin-offs Private Practice (2010–2013) and Station 19 (2020–2024). Prior to this, she made her debut as a child actor on the Canadian children's program Mr. Dressup. She also appeared in a number...
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74. Margaret Atwood
1939-. (aged 87)
pedagogue
writer
inventor
essayist
literary critic
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's...
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75. David Cronenberg
1943-. (aged 83)
film director
film screenwriter
director
producer
television actor
David Paul Cronenberg CC OOnt is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981),...
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76. Victor Garber
1949-. (aged 77)
voice actor
stage actor
actor
television actor
narrator
Victor Garber, OC is a Canadian stage and film actor, and a singer. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, four Tony Awards and six Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2022 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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77. Lin Chi-ling
1974-. (aged 52)
model
film director
actor
film actor
Lin Chi-ling is a Taiwanese actress, model, and television personality.
78. Donald Sutherland
1935-2024 (aged 89)
voice actor
stage actor
television actor
film actor
peace activist
Donald McNichol Sutherland CC was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Considered one of the best actors never nominated for an Academy Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017.
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79. Stana Katic
1978-. (aged 48)
television actor
film director
actor
film actor
Stana Katić is a Canadian and American actress. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the psychological thriller series Absentia (2017–2020).
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80. David Easton
1917-2014 (aged 97)
university teacher
political scientist
David Easton FRSC was a Canadian-born American political scientist. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
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81. David Shore
1959-. (aged 67)
showrunner
writer
television producer
film producer
jurist
David Shore is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South. He created the series House and more recently, Battle Creek and developed The Good Doctor, an American adaptation of the South Korean series of the same name.
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82. Craig Kielburger
1982-. (aged 44)
writer
entrepreneur
manager
Craig Kielburger CM MSM OMC is a Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, with his brother Marc Kielburger, of the WE Charity, as well as We Day and the independent, social enterprise Me to We. On April 11, 2008, Kielburger was named a member of the Order of Canada.
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83. Scott Speedman
1975-. (aged 51)
film actor
actor
television actor
Robert Scott Speedman is a Canadian actor and model. He is known for portraying Ben Covington in the coming-of-age drama television series Felicity, Lycan–Vampire hybrid Michael Corvin in the gothic horror–action Underworld films, and Barry "Baz" Blackwell in the TNT crime drama series Animal Kingdom. His other film work includes Duets, Dark Blue, XXX: State of the Union, The Strangers,...
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84. Roberta Bondar
1945-. (aged 81)
biologist
neurologist
physician
astronaut
photographer
Roberta Lynn Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
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85. Sergio Marchionne
1952-2018 (aged 66)
business executive
lawyer
entrepreneur
accountant
industrialist
Sergio Marchionne was an Italian-Canadian businessman, widely known for his turnarounds of the automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his business acumen and his outspoken and often frank approach, especially when dealing with unpalatable issues related to his companies and the automotive industry.
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86. Olivia Chow
1957-. (aged 69)
teacher
politician
mayor
sculptor
Municipal Councillor
Olivia Chow is a Canadian politician who has been the 66th and current mayor of Toronto since July 12, 2023. Previously, Chow served as the New Democratic Party (NDP) member of Parliament (MP) for Trinity—Spadina from 2006 to 2014, and was a councillor on the Metro Toronto Council from 1992 to the 1998 amalgamation followed by Toronto City Council until...
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87. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
1937-. (aged 89)
university teacher
psychologist
politician
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga GCB OC OQ is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth president of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She is the first and to date only woman to hold the post and the most recent to be re-elected for a second term.
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88. Catherine McKenna
1971-. (aged 55)
politician
teacher
lawyer
executive director
businessperson
Catherine Mary McKenna PC is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who was Minister of Environment and Climate Change from 2015 to 2019 and Minister of Infrastructure and Communities from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, McKenna was the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre from 2015 to 2021.
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89. Julie Payette
1963-. (aged 63)
engineer
astronaut
politician
Julie Payette is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served as the 29th governor general of Canada from 2017 to 2021.
90. Michael Ondaatje
1943-. (aged 83)
film actor
film editor
university teacher
voice actor
film director
Philip Michael Ondaatje CC FRSL is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
91. Lee Jae-yoon
1984-. (aged 42)
film actor
actor
television actor
Lee Jae-yoon is a South Korean-Canadian actor and model. He is best known for his roles in the television dramas My Love By My Side (2011), Heartless City (2013), Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2015–2016) and Mother (2018).
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92. George Leslie Mackay
1844-1901 (aged 57)
missionary
priest
George Leslie Mackay was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary. He was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan (then Formosa), serving with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is among the best known and most influential Westerners to have lived in Taiwan.
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93. Geoffrey Hinton
1947-. (aged 79)
university teacher
artificial intelligence researcher
computer scientist
psychologist
neuroscientist
Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI".
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94. Dan Snaith
1978-. (aged 48)
singer
mathematician
composer
record producer
musician
Daniel Victor Snaith is a Canadian composer, musician, and recording artist. He has released 11 studio albums since 2000 and has recorded and performed under the stage names Caribou, Manitoba, and Daphni. His Caribou album Andorra (2008) was awarded the 2008 Polaris Music Prize, and his Caribou album Swim (2010) was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize...
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95. Michael Coren
1959-. (aged 67)
writer
journalist
television presenter
radio personality
Michael Coren is a British-Canadian writer and clergyman. A long-time television personality, Coren hosted The Michael Coren Show on the Crossroads Television System from 1999 to 2011 before moving to the Sun News Network to host The Arena with Michael Coren, from 2011 until the channel's demise in early 2015. He has also been a long-time radio personality, particularly on...
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96. Naomi Klein
1970-. (aged 56)
economist
documentary filmmaker
climate activist
sociologist
journalist
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism. In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice...
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97. Paul Martin
1938-. (aged 88)
businessperson
lawyer
entrepreneur
politician
Paul Gerard Martin SM is a New Zealand prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the seventh Metropolitan Archbishop of Wellington and eighth ordinary of the see of Wellington, since 4 May 2023 (having served as coadjutor Archbishop of Wellington from January 2021 until he succeeded to the see). From March 2018 until January 2021, he was...
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98. Yann Le Cun
1960-. (aged 66)
artificial intelligence researcher
computer scientist
software engineer
professor
electrical engineer
Yann André Le Cun is a French–American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before leaving to work on his...
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99. Maye Musk
1948-. (aged 78)
model
dietitian
Maye Musk is a model and dietitian. She has been a model for 50 years, appearing on the covers of magazines, including a Time magazine health edition, Women's Day, international editions of Vogue, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She is the mother of Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk. She holds Canadian, South African and American citizenship. She is...
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100. Johann Olav Koss
1968-. (aged 58)
speed skater
physician
Johann Olav Koss is a former speed skater from Norway. He won four Olympic gold medals, including three at the 1994 Winter Olympics in his home country.
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