List of Indo-Canadians
Encyclopedia

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  • Bharat Agnihotri
    Bharat Agnihotri
    Bharat Agnihotri is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He represented the constituency of Edmonton Ellerslie, sitting as a Liberal...

     - Alberta
    Alberta
    Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

     Liberal MLA
    Legislative Assembly of Alberta
    The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is one of two components of the Legislature of Alberta, the other being the Queen, represented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta. The Alberta legislature meets in the Alberta Legislature Building in the provincial capital, Edmonton...

  • Nira Arora
    Nira Arora
    Nira Arora is a Canadian radio broadcaster.She is the co-host of The Kid Carson Show with Nira Arora and Amy Beeman, a morning radio program on CFBT-FM in Vancouver, Canada. She was also a reporter and host for Shaw TV and a fill-in host for World Beats on Channel M.Arora is currently doing the...

     - morning show radio host for CFBT-FM
    CFBT-FM
    CFBT-FM is a Canadian contemporary hit radio radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia...

     94.5 in Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

    , BC
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...


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  • Anita Rau Badami
    Anita Rau Badami
    Anita Rau Badami is an Indian-Canadian novelist. Born in Rourkela, Orissa, India, she was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia College in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary...

     - novelist
  • Ashish Bagai
    Ashish Bagai
    Ashish Bagai is the captain of the Canadian cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman who specializes as a wicketkeeper. He studied at St. Columba's School during his brief stay in Delhi, India...

     - captain of the Canadian Cricket team
  • Ravi Baichwal
    Ravi Baichwal
    Ravi Baichwal is a news anchor and reporter at WLS-TV in Chicago. In 2008 he won the Chicago Emmy Award for best anchor from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He was a CTV News Channel Morning anchor weekdays from 6 AM to 10 AM from 2002 to 2006...

     - news anchor and reporter at WLS-TV
    WLS-TV
    WLS-TV, virtual channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The station operates their full power digital operations on UHF channel 44, with their digital fill-in translator on VHF channel...

  • Hardial Bains
    Hardial Bains
    Hardial Bains was the founder of the Communist Party of Canada and its leader until his death...

     - founder and leader of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
    Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)
    The Communist Party of Canada is a Canadian federal Marxist–Leninist political party.The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada...

     from 1970–1997
  • Harry Bains
    Harry Bains
    Harry Bains is the current MLA for Surrey-Newton in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.- Career :...

     - British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

     New Democratic
    New Democratic Party of British Columbia
    The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...

     MLA
    Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
    The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....

  • Navdeep Bains
    Navdeep Bains
    Navdeep Singh Bains, PC is a Canadian politician from Ontario, Canada. He is the former Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga—Brampton South.-Early life:...

     - Liberal
    Liberal Party of Canada
    The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

     Member of Parliament
  • Shauna Singh Baldwin
    Shauna Singh Baldwin
    Shauna Singh Baldwin is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize , and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

     - novelist
  • Bas Balkissoon
    Bas Balkissoon
    Bas Balkissoon is a politician in Toronto, Ontario. Formerly the Toronto city councillor representing Ward 41 in northeast area of Scarborough, Balkissoon won election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on November 24, 2005 as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for Scarborough—Rouge...

     - MPP
  • Nirmala Basnayake - rock singer (controller.controller
    Controller.controller
    controller.controller was a Canadian indie rock band from Toronto, Ontario. The band consisted of vocalist Nirmala Basnayake, guitarists Colwyn Llewellyn-Thomas and Scott Kaija, bassist Ronnie Morris and drummer Jeff Scheven. The band took its name from a song by Shotmaker. The band formed in 2002...

    )
  • Sheela Basrur
    Sheela Basrur
    Sheela Basrur, O.Ont was a Canadian medical doctor and former Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Health. She resigned from these positions late in 2006 to undergo treatment for cancer.-Life and training:Basrur was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1956 to...

     - former Ontario
    Ontario
    Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

     Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Health
  • Nuvraj Singh Bassi - professional football player
  • Robin Bawa
    Robin Bawa
    Robin N. Bawa is a retired former professional ice hockey player who spent parts of four seasons in the National Hockey League between 1989 and 1994.-Playing career:...

     - played for several NHL teams and in minor leagues
  • Nadira Begg
    Nadira Begg
    Nadira Begg is a Canadian television journalist, who was the former anchor of CBC News: Northbeat on the CBC North system in the Canadian territories. Born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Begg is of mixed Gwich'in and Indo-Fijian descent...

     - television journalist
  • Neil Bissoondath
    Neil Bissoondath
    Neil Devindra Bissoondath is a Canadian author who lives in Ste-Foy, Quebec. He is a noted writer of fiction, and also an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multiculturalism. He is the nephew of authors V.S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul.-Biography:Bissoondath attended St. Mary's College in...

     - author
  • Glenda Braganza
    Glenda Braganza
    Glenda Braganza currently lives in Montreal, Canada, is a Canadian television and stage actress who has appeared in several Canadian and American television shows and films....

     - actress
  • Jagrup Brar
    Jagrup Brar
    Jagrup Brar, is a Member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia, Canada. He represents the riding of Surrey-Fleetwood as a member of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia.-Early life:...

     - British Columbia NDP MLA

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  • Baljit Singh Chadha
    Baljit Singh Chadha
    Baljit Singh Chadha, PC is president and founder of Balcorp Limited, an international trade and marketing firm. He is also a well known philanthropist and a leader of the Sikh community in Canada....

     - businessman and member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee
  • Gulzar Singh Cheema
    Gulzar Singh Cheema
    Gulzar Singh Cheema is an Indian-born doctor and a Canadian politician. Dr. Cheema was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1993, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2004, making him one of only a few Canadian politicians to sit in two...

     - Manitoba
    Manitoba
    Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

     and British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

     MLA
  • Jasbir Singh Cheema
    Jasbir Singh Cheema
    Jasbir Singh Cheema is a Canadian television personality and politician.In the 2004 federal election, he ran for and won the Conservative Party of Canada nomination against Chuck Cadman, the sitting Member of Parliament for the riding of Surrey North...

     - politician
  • Paul Chohan
    Paul Chohan
    Paul Satinder "Bubli" Chohan is a former field hockey player from Canada.-International senior competitions:* 1975 – Pan American Games, Mexico * 1976 – Olympic Games, Montreal...

     - field hockey player
  • Raj Chouhan
    Raj Chouhan
    Raj Chouhan is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as the MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds in the 2005 provincial election. He served as Opposition Critic for Mental Health; Human Rights, Immigration and Multiculturism. He was re-elected in 2009...

     - British Columbia NDP MLA

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  • Cindy Daniel
    Cindy Daniel
    Cindy Daniel is a Canadian singer. She is well known in the French-Canadian public, mostly in the province of Quebec, where she started her career. The song "Sous une pluie d'étoiles" has made her known to the audience and was ranked on the top 10 billboard of 2006...

     - singer
  • Joe Daniel
    Joe Daniel
    Joe Daniel is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. He represents the electoral district of Don Valley East as a member of the Conservative Party.-Before politics:...

     - Conservative MP and first Malayali
    Malayali
    Malayali is the term used to refer to the native speakers of Malayalam, originating from the Indian state of Kerala...

     elected to parliament.
  • Agam Darshi
    Agam Darshi
    Agam Darshi is an English-born actress, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:Agam Darshi was born Agamdeep Darshi in Birmingham, UK. At a very young age she and her family moved to Canada. At the age of 14 she left home and moved to Calgary, to pursue a career of acting -...

     - actress and filmmaker
  • Karen David
    Karen David
    Karen Shenaz David is an Indian-born American actress and singer-songwriter who is best known for portraying Francesca Kirby in the BBC series Waterloo Road.- Early life :...

     - pop singer
  • Deesha
    Deesha
    Deesha is a Canadian singer/songwriter/producer. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the youngest of 3 children.In 2003 Deesha released her first single to Canadian radio, a song called 'Falling In Love'. She independently pushed that record to Canadian radio and managed to get significant...

     - R&B musician
  • Monika Deol
    Monika Deol
    Monika Deol is a Canadian television personality. She began as a reporter for Citytv in Toronto, and later became a VJ for MuchMusic, hosting and co-producing Electric Circus from 1988 to 1996...

     - former MuchMusic
    MuchMusic
    MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...

     host and CIVT
    CIVT-TV
    CIVT-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Television Network...

     news anchor
  • Ranjeev Deol
    Ranjeev Deol
    Ranjeev Deol is a Canadian field hockey player, who plays for Surrey Lions FHC.-Career:He played club hockey in the Netherlands since 2003, first at HC Rotterdam then HC MOP and later on with HC Den Bosch....

     - field hockey player
  • Sudi Devanesen
    Sudi Devanesen
    Sudarshan Devanesen, CM , is an Indian-Canadian family physician and educator, public health activist, and member of the Order of Canada....

     - physician and member of the Order of Canada
    Order of Canada
    The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...

  • Herb Dhaliwal
    Herb Dhaliwal
    Harbance Singh Dhaliwal, PC is a Canadian politician.Born to a Sikh family in Punjab, India, Dhaliwal's family immigrated to Vancouver when he was six. He attended John Oliver Secondary School, graduating in 1972...

     - Liberal MP and the first Indo-Canadian cabinet
    Cabinet (government)
    A Cabinet is a body of high ranking government officials, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee.- Overview :...

     minister
  • Sukh Dhaliwal
    Sukh Dhaliwal
    Sukh Dhaliwal, MP is a businessman and politician in British Columbia, Canada, who was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Newton—North Delta from 2006 to 2011....

     - Liberal MP
  • Ruby Dhalla
    Ruby Dhalla
    Ruby Dhalla is a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Brampton—Springdale in the Canadian House of Commons from 2004 to 2011 as a member of the Liberal Party...

     - Liberal MP
  • Sunil Dhaniram
    Sunil Dhaniram
    Sunil Dhaniram is a Canadian cricket player, who formerly played for Guyana from 1993 to 1995. He made his Canadian debut on 2 October 2003 playing against the Windward Islands. He made his ODI debut for Canada on 16 May 2006 against Zimbabwe, and has played four ODIs in total...

     - cricket player
  • Bob Singh Dhillon
    Bob Singh Dhillon
    Bob Singh Dhillon is a Punjabi Indian-Canadian Sikh, property Multi-Millionaire businessman. His family comes from Tallewal in the district of Barnala Punjab, India. His grandfather left for Hong Kong for business reasons and set-up the North China Shipping Company to carry back between Japan. He...

     - is a Punjabi Indo-Canadian Sikh property businessman
  • Haninder Dhillon
    Haninder Dhillon
    Haninder Dhillon is a Canadian cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his debut for Canada on 28 May 2004 in an ICC Intercontinental Cup game against the USA in Florida. He has played five games in that tournament in total...

     - cricket player
  • R Paul Dhillon
    R Paul Dhillon
    R. Paul Dhillon is an Indo-Canadian journalist and head of MMM Films and Blueberry Street Motion Pictures. Dhillon is also a film writer, director, producer and cinematographer. Dhillon is a graduate of Simon Fraser University....

     - director, producer, writer and journalist
  • Vekeana Dhillon
    Vekeana Dhillon
    Vekeana Dhillon, is a Canadian screenwriter, television presenter and actress.-Early life and education:She was born in New Delhi, India on July 13, 1970, but two years later her family migrated to Toronto, Canada...

     - Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

     Screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

    , Television Presenter, Actress
  • Vic Dhillon
    Vic Dhillon
    Vic Dhillon is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the constituency of Brampton West for the Ontario Liberal Party. Dhillon is one of the three Sikh Members of the Legislature, all of whom are members of the Liberal Party.-Early...

     - Ontario
    Ontario
    Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

     Liberal MPP
  • Vikram Dhillon
    Vikram Dhillon
    Vikram Dhillon born on September 5, 1973 in Toronto, Ontario. Dhillon is a Canadian Producer, Director, Actor and a former VJ.-Career:Vikram Dhillon began his career as a VJ for Rupert Murdoch’s Channel V where he hosted the shows V Challenge, Cool Maal and Late Night V...

     - Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

     Producer
    Television producer
    The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

    , Director
    Television director
    A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

    , Actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     and Television Presenter
  • Ujjal Dosanjh
    Ujjal Dosanjh
    Ujjal Dev Singh Dosanjh, PC, QC, is a Sikh Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as 33rd Premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011 including a stint as Minister of Health from 2004 until 2006 when the party lost...

     - former Premier of British Columbia
    Premier of British Columbia
    The Premier of British Columbia is the first minister, head of government, and de facto chief executive for the Canadian province of British Columbia. Until the early 1970s the title Prime Minister of British Columbia was often used...

    , the first Indian-Canadian premier, former federal Minister of Health
    Minister of Health (Canada)
    The Minister of Health is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's health department and the enforcing the Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada Health Act, the law governing Medicare...

    , and current National Defence Critic
  • Shamir Doshi - publisher and co-owner of two of Vancouver newspapers, The Asian Star and The Punjabi Star
  • John Dossetor
    John Dossetor
    John Beamish Dossetor, OC is a Canadian physician and bioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the first kidney transplant in Canada and the Commonwealth....

     - physician and bioethicist, member of the Order of Canada
    Order of Canada
    The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...

  • Ian D'Sa
    Ian D'Sa
    Ian Michael D'Sa is the guitarist for the Canadian band Billy Talent.-Early life and career:Ian's family moved from the UK to Canada when he was 3 years old. He is of Indian Goan descent and grew up in Mississauga, Ontario learning guitar at the age of 13...

     - rock musician

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  • Nisha Ganatra
    Nisha Ganatra
    Nisha Ganatra is a Canadian film director, film producer, writer and actor of Indian ancestry. She is most well known for her acclaimed films Chutney Popcorn and Cosmopolitan.-Biography:...

     - film director, film producer, writer and actor
  • Shuman Ghosemajumder
    Shuman Ghosemajumder
    Shuman Ghosemajumder is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He is the former click fraud czar at Google, the author of works on digital distribution including the Open Music Model, and co-founder of TeachAIDS.-Early life:...

     - businessman and computer scientist
  • Sara Ghulam
    Sara Ghulam
    Sara Ghulam is a Canadian model. She comes from a multicultural family of Pakistani, Maltese, and Scottish backgrounds....

     - Miss World Canada
    Miss World Canada
    The Miss World Canada contest is an beauty pageant, held mostly annually in various incarnations and with several different names since 1957, to select Canada's representative to the Miss World contest. The Canadian franchise was currently owned by Upstage This! Productions, based in Vancouver,...

     2007
  • Raminder Gill
    Raminder Gill
    Raminder Singh Gill is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003, and has unsuccessfully sought election to the Canadian House of Commons on three separate occasions. He currently serves as a citizenship judge. Gill was born...

     - former Ontario Progressive Conservative
    Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
    The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

     MPP and federal Conservative
    Conservative Party of Canada
    The Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...

     candidate
  • Gurmant Grewal
    Gurmant Grewal
    Gurmant Singh Grewal, is a Canadian politician and former Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament. Gurmant and his wife, Nina Grewal, were the first married couple to serve in the Canadian House of Commons at the same time...

     - former Conservative MP, half (with Nina, listed below) of the first married couple to serve as MPs in the same session of Parliament
  • Nina Grewal
    Nina Grewal
    Narinder Kaur Grewal, MP , is a Canadian politician of the Conservative Party. She was elected in the general election of June 2004 to represent the constituency of Fleetwood—Port Kells, British Columbia....

     - Conservative MP, half (with Gurmant) of the first married couple to serve as MPs in the same session of Parliament.

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  • Ian Hanomansing
    Ian Hanomansing
    Ian Hanomansing is a Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . He currently reports for CBC Television's nightly newscast, The National.-Early life:...

     - CBC
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

     journalist
  • Tara Singh Hayer
    Tara Singh Hayer
    Tara Singh Hayer, OBC was a Sikh Canadian newspaper publisher who was murdered.Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India...

     - newspaper publisher
  • Kash Heed
    Kash Heed
    Kash P. Heed is a Canadian politician, who was elected as a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2009 provincial election, representing the riding of Vancouver-Fraserview....

     - former chief constable of West Vancouver Police Department
    West Vancouver Police Department
    West Vancouver Police Department is a police force for the district municipality of West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Organization:...

     and a former superintendent with the Vancouver Police Department
    Vancouver Police Department
    The Vancouver Police Department is the police force for the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Area and is the second largest police force in the province after RCMP "E" Division.VPD was the first Canadian police force...

  • Kamal Heer
    Kamal Heer
    -Compilations:-Music videos:-Videography:-Concerts/Tours:-Other:-Awards and nominations:-External links:* * *...

     - singer
  • Rena Heer
    Rena Heer
    Rena Heer is a Canadian television personality on CP24 as of February 2009. From January 28, 2008 to June 6, 2008, she handled weather along with Jeff Hutcheson on CTV's Canada AM which was a revamped version of the national Canada AM show. On June 6, 2008, CTV announced that it was cancelling the...

     - worked with Channel M
    Channel m
    Channel M is a regional television station, based in Manchester, England. It began broadcasting on 14 February 2000 as Manchester Student Television and is owned and operated by the Guardian Media Group.-Coverage:...

     then with Global BC and now on CTV
    CIVT-TV
    CIVT-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Television Network...


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  • Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri - photographer, director, TV personality and model
  • Chin Injeti
    Chin Injeti
    Chin Injeti is a singer, musician, and music producer who got his start as a founding member of Juno award-winning group Bass is Base, he continues to thrive as an artist releasing his recent solo album "D'tach" and its reworked version "Re'tach" . Working in genres ranging from country to rock...

     - R&B musician
  • Anosh Irani
    Anosh Irani
    Anosh Irani is an Indian-Canadian novelist and playwright. An Irani , he was born and raised in Mumbai, although he has indicated that he personally prefers the city's traditional English name, Bombay...

     - novelist and playwright

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  • Mobina Jaffer
    Mobina Jaffer
    Mobina S. B. Jaffer, QC is a Canadian Senator representing British Columbia. She is the first South Asian and the first Muslim woman appointed to the Upper House....

     - senator
  • Rahim Jaffer
    Rahim Jaffer
    Rahim Nizar Jaffer is a former Canadian politician and a former Member of Parliament. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2008, representing the Alberta riding of Edmonton—Strathcona as a member of the Conservative Party. He was the first Muslim elected to the Canadian Parliament...

     - former Alberta Conservative MP (Edmonton-Strathcona)
  • Jazzy B
    Jazzy B
    Jaswinder Singh Bains, more popularly known as Jazzy B, is a Punjabi language bhangra singer-songwriter. He was born on April 1, 1975 in Durgapur, Nawanshahr, Punjab, India. When he was 5 years old, his family moved to Vancouver, Canada. He has released 12 studio albums, including two religious ones...

     - singer
  • Aditya Jha
    Aditya Jha
    Aditya Jha, LL.D is a celebrated Indo-Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist with active involvement in Canadian public affairs. His business portfolio consists of several start-ups and turn-arounds...

     - Canadian Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
  • Bidhu Jha
    Bidhu Jha
    Bidhu Shekhar Jha is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 2003, representing the Winnipeg division of Radisson as a member of the New Democratic Party.-Private life and career:...

     - Manitoba NDP
    New Democratic Party of Manitoba
    The New Democratic Party of Manitoba is a social-democratic political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is the provincial wing of the federal New Democratic Party, and is a successor to the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...

     MLA
  • Prakash John
    Prakash John
    Prakash John is a Canadian rock bassist.Born in Bombay, India, John was a student at the Cathedral and John Connon School, enrolling at the age of four in 1951. He migrated to Toronto in 1960....

     - R&B musician
  • Avan Jogia
    Avan Jogia
    Avan Tudor Jogia is a Canadian actor and singer best known for playing Beck Oliver on Victorious.-Early life:Jogia was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father is a Gujarati Indian originally from London, England. His mother is Canadian, with her roots originating from Wales...

     - actor

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  • Ravi Kahlon
    Ravi Kahlon
    Ravinder Kahlon is a Canadian field hockey player.Kahlon earned his first international senior cap for the Men's National Team in 2000 against Malaysia in Brussels...

     - field hockey player
  • Remi Kaler - actor
  • Hari Kant
    Hari Kant
    Hari Kant is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Canada.Kant started to play in the 1981 Ontario Summer Games, at age eleven, when opportunity to travel provided ample incentive to participate...

     - former field hockey goalkeeper
  • Vim Kochhar
    Vim Kochhar
    Vim Kochhar is a Canadian businessman and former Senator, the first person of Indo-Canadian heritage appointed to the Senate of Canada on January 29, 2010. Vim Kochhar obtained an engineering degree from the University of Texas and came to Canada in 1967. He acquired Canadian citizenship in 1974...

     - businessman and senator
  • Koushik
    Koushik
    Koushik Ghosh is a Canadian electronic musician from Dundas, Ontario. Koushik is signed to Stones Throw Records and has released a collection of singles and EPs from 2001–2005 on that label, Be With , and the debut full length, Out my Window...

     - hip hop musician
  • Kuldip Singh Kular - Ontario Liberal MPP
  • Bindi Kullar
    Bindi Kullar
    Bindi Singh Kullar is a Canadian field hockey player, who played his first international senior tournament for the Men's National Team in 1996, at the World Cup Preliminary in Sardinia...

     - field hockey player

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  • Harold Sonny Ladoo
    Harold Sonny Ladoo
    Harold Sonny Ladoo was a Caribbean novelist and author of two books documenting the struggles of living in poverty in the Hindu communities of Trinidad and Tobago.Ladoo was born and grew up in an environment much like the world of his novels...

     - novelist and author
  • Vaughn Lal - bassist and backing vocalist for heavy metal band Brown Brigade
    Brown Brigade
    Brown Brigade is a reggae-influenced heavy metal band created by former Sum 41 guitarist Dave "Brownsound" Baksh, after leaving Sum 41 in May 2006...

  • Harry Lali
    Harry Lali
    Harry Lali is the current MLA for Fraser-Nicola in the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the 1991 election he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as MLA for Yale-Lillooet, and was re-elected in 1996. Lali served as the Minister of Transportation from 1998 to 2001. For the 2001 election,...

     - BC NDP MLA
  • Nancy Lee
    Nancy Lee (writer)
    Nancy Lee is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Cardiff, Wales to parents of Chinese and Indian descent, she moved with her family to Vancouver, British Columbia in childhood....

    , short story writer and novelist.
  • Sunny Leone
    Sunny Leone
    Not to be confused with fellow pornographic actress Sunny LaneSunny Leone is an Indo-Canadian pornographic actress, actress, businesswoman and model. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003 and was a contract star for Vivid Entertainment...

     - model

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  • Shaun Majumder
    Shaun Majumder
    -Life and career:Majumder was born in Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador to a European descended mother from Newfoundland and an Indian father. He started his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show CLIPS, and soon was hosting the network's popular morning kids show Brain...

     - actor/comedian
  • Gurbax Singh Malhi - Liberal MP
  • Manny Malhotra
    Manny Malhotra
    Emmanuel Noveen Malhotra is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League , serving as an alternate captain. During his NHL career he has additionally played for the Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets, San Jose Sharks and New...

     - plays for the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL
  • Samir Mallal
    Samir Mallal
    Samir Mallal was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is best known for directing three documentaries: Discordia, Bombay Calling and Nollywood Babylon...

     - filmmaker
  • Amrit Mangat
    Amrit Mangat
    Amrit Mangat is a Canadian politician. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Mississauga—Brampton South. She is a member of the Liberal Party, and is the first woman of South Asian heritage to serve as a Member of...

     - Ontario Liberal MPP
  • Irshad Manji
    Irshad Manji
    Irshad Manji is a Canadian author, journalist and an advocate of "reform and progressive" interpretation of Islam. Manji is director of the Moral Courage Project at the Robert F...

     - author
  • Harbhajan Mann
    Harbhajan Mann
    Harbhajan Mann is a Punjabi singer and actor. Although not known much for his singing he soon became a Punjabi all rounder star in the entertainment industry. He got spotlight in Punjabi music industry with his astonishing performance and miraculous voice in "Husn Jawani"...

     - singer
  • Salim Mansur
    Salim Mansur
    Salim Mansur is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is a columnist for the London Free Press and the Toronto Sun, and has contributed to various publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag. He often...

     - columnist for the London Free Press
    London Free Press
    The London Free Press is a daily newspaper based in London, Ontario, Canada.The London Free Press began as the Canadian Free Press, founded by William Sutherland in 1847. It first began printing as a weekly newspaper in 1849. In 1852, it was purchased for $500 by Josiah Blackburn, who renamed it...

    and the Toronto Sun
    Toronto Sun
    The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative editorial stance.-History:...

  • Suleka Mathew
    Suleka Mathew
    Suleka "Sue" Mathew is a Canadian actress, known for her portrayal of Dr. Sunita Ramen on the Canadian television series Da Vinci's Inquest....

     - actress
  • Ashok Mathur
    Ashok Mathur
    Ashok Mathur is an Indo-Canadian writer and visual artist, an associate professor of English and modern languages at Thompson Rivers University. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry, and is the director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in...

     - writer and professor
  • Devika Mathur
    Devika Mathur
    Devika Mathur, is a Mumbai-born , Singer, Radio Jockey and Voice Over Artist based in Toronto, Canada.-Biography:Devika Mathur is a popular radio show host, syndicated in the United States on WorldBand Media. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, Mathur has a masters in clinical psychology and worked...

     - singer, radio personality and Canadian Idol
    Canadian Idol
    Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...

    2005 contestant
  • Suhana Meharchand
    Suhana Meharchand
    Suhana Meharchand is a CBC News Network anchor and host of CBC News Now from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on weekdays.-Early life:Born in Durban, South Africa, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Meharchand is a graduate of broadcast journalism from Toronto's Ryerson University...

     - journalist, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

  • Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

     - film director (Bollywood/Hollywood
    Bollywood/Hollywood
    Bollywood/Hollywood is a 2002 film by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. It is lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented in nature, as opposed to Mehta's other films , which feature very serious themes and focus on social issues.The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at...

    , Fire, Earth
    Earth (1998 film)
    Earth is a 1998 film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, . Earth is the second part of Mehta's Elements trilogy...

    , Water)
  • Nicky Mehta
    Nicky Mehta
    Nicky Mehta is a mezzo singer-songwriter, and member of Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys.-Biography:Before fully entering into a life of music, Mehta attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where she attained an honours degree in Media Studies. She also has a certificate in...

     - singer
  • Richie Mehta
    Richie Mehta
    Richie Mehta is a Canadian film director. His first feature film, Amal, was released in 2008, and has been nominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Director at the 29th Genie Awards....

     - director
  • Shaun Mehta
    Shaun Mehta
    Shaun Mehta is a Canadian writer. He has published one novel and one short story collection to date, and also collaborated with his brother, film director Richie Mehta, on the screenplay for Richie's debut film Amal, which was based on one of Shaun's short stories.Shaun and Richie Mehta were...

     - writer
  • Rohinton Mistry
    Rohinton Mistry
    Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai, Zoroastrian and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate .-Biography:Rohinton Mistry was...

     - novelist
  • Shani Mootoo
    Shani Mootoo
    Shani Mootoo is a writer who was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958 to Trinidadian parents. She was raised in Trinidad, where she initially began to explore the artistic and literary world. She began writing and creating visual that drew on her ideas regarding sexual relations between members of the...

     - writer
  • M. Ram Murty
    M. Ram Murty
    Maruti Ram Pedaprolu Murty, FRSC is an Indo-Canadian mathematician, currently head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University, where he holds a Queen's Research Chair in mathematics.-Career:...

     - head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University
    Queen's University
    Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

  • Tad Murty
    Tad Murty
    Tad S. Murty is an Indian-Canadian oceanographer and expert on tsunamis. He is the former president of the Tsunami Society. He is an adjunct professor in the departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa...

     - an oceanographer

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  • Rob Nijjar
    Rob Nijjar
    Rob Nijjar is a Canadian Liberal politician. He has lived all his life on Vancouver's East side. He attended school in southeast Vancouver and Langara College before attending Simon Fraser University, where he earned a Bachelors Degree in General Studies in 1992. After graduation and before...

     - former BC Liberal MLA
  • Naheed Nenshi
    Naheed Nenshi
    Naheed Kurban Nenshi is a Canadian politician, who was elected to succeed Dave Bronconnier as mayor of Calgary, Alberta in the 2010 Calgary municipal election.- Biography :...

     - Calgary Mayor

O

  • Deepak Obhrai
    Deepak Obhrai
    Deepak Obhrai is a Canadian politician, representing the riding of Calgary East for the Conservative Party of Canada. He is currently serving as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs....

     - Alberta Conservative MP, Calgary.
  • Wally Oppal
    Wally Oppal
    Wallace Oppal, Q.C. is a Canadian lawyer, former judge and provincial politician, who is currently serving as the Chancellor of the Thompson Rivers University...

     - Attorney General of British Columbia
    Attorney General of British Columbia
    The Ministry of the Attorney General of British Columbia is a provincial government department responsible for the oversight of the justice system within the province of British Columbia, Canada...


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  • Lata Pada
    Lata Pada
    Lata Pada, CM is a Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer of Indian descent. Pada is the Founder and Artistic Director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance Company that performs South Asian dance...

     - Bharatanatyam dancer
  • Raj Pannu
    Raj Pannu
    Raj Pannu is a Canadian educator and politician, who led the Alberta New Democratic Party from 2000 to 2004.Pannu was born in Punjab, India completing an undergraduate degree before immigrating to Canada in 1962...

     - former leader of the Alberta New Democrats, the first Indian-Canadian leader of a political party
    Political party
    A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

  • Ashish Patel
    Ashish Patel
    Ashish Patel is a Canadian cricketer. A medium-pacer, he took his place in the team given the absence of several players for the 2001/02 Americas Cup, followed by a strong performance in the ICC 6 Nations Challenge in Namibia....

     - cricket player
  • Jitendra Patel
    Jitendra Patel
    Jitendra Motibhai Patel is a Ugandan-born former cricketer for Canada. He played three One Day Internationals in the 1979 World Cup, as well as appearing for the country in the 1979 ICC Trophy tournament.-External links:...

     - cricket player
  • Nilesh Patel
    Nilesh Patel (filmmaker)
    -Early life:Patel was raised in Prince George, British Columbia and attended Duchess Park Secondary School, where he was first exposed to the Brocket 99 audio tape. He attended the city's College of New Caledonia and then obtained a degree in molecular biology from the University of Victoria...

     - director and producer of films
  • Jason Patraj
    Jason Patraj
    Jason Patraj is a cricketer who has played two One Day Internationals for Canada.- External links :**...

     - cricket player
  • Russell Peters
    Russell Peters
    Russell Dominic Peters is an Indo-Canadian comedian, actor and disc jockey. He began performing in Toronto in 1989 and has been nominated for four Gemini Awards.-Early life :...

     - stand-up comedian
  • Prashant Pathak
    Prashant Pathak
    Prashant Pathak is an Indo-Canadian investor, businessman and philanthropist based in Toronto. He is Managing Partner of ReichmannHauer Capital Partners, a business building oriented principal investing and private equity firm based in Toronto. He along with Philip Reichmann and Frank Hauer...

     - Young Entrepreneur

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  • Raghav
    Raghav
    Raghav Mathur , known professionally as Raghav, is a Canadian singer currently signed to Cordova Bay Records. He is best known for his single "Angel Eyes" which peaked at number 7 in the UK in 2005...

     - R&B/desi singer
  • Rai, Pamela Leila Canadian Olympic swimmer 1984 bronze medallist, first Punjabi woman to win an Olympic medal
  • Mohit Rajhans
    Mohit Rajhans
    Mohit Rajhans is a Canadian writer, director, producer and reporter for multiple media outlets. He has many television and film credits to his name....

     - television producer
  • Monita Rajpal
    Monita Rajpal
    Monita Rajpal is a Canadian CNN International news anchor, based at the network's London office, where she anchors World One, along with her co-anchor Zain Verjee.-Career:...

     - CNN International
    CNN International
    CNN International is an international English language television network that carries news, current affairs, politics, opinions, and business programming worldwide. CNN is one of the world's largest news organizations. It is owned by Time Warner, and is affiliated with CNN, which is mainly...

     news anchor
  • Rudy Ramcharan
    Rudy Ramcharan
    Rudy Ramcharan is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. He played second for three seasons for Kevin Martin from 1996-97 to 1998-99. He won a Brier as a member of the team in 1997....

     - curler
  • Natasha Ramsahai
    Natasha Ramsahai
    Natasha Ramasahai is a Canadian meteorologist who currently works as the 6pm News meteorologist at CityNews in Toronto. Previously, she worked at CBLT's CBC News at Six from 2002 to 2007 and as the weekend meteorologist at CBC News Network until February 2011...

     - meteorologist who currently works at CBLT's CBC News at Six
    CBC News at Six
    CBC News produces a variety of local newscasts for CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations throughout Canada. On most stations, the local news operation is currently titled CBC News: [city/province name], such that the 6:00 p.m. newscast on CBLT is named CBC News: Toronto at 6...

  • Emile Ramsammy
    Emile Ramsammy
    Emile Ramsammy is a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing Champion jockey. He had more than 500 victories racing in the Caribbean before emigrating to Canada in the early 1990s....

     - thoroughbred horse racer
  • Lisa Ray
    Lisa Ray
    Lisa Ray , born 4 April 1972, is a Canadian actress and former model.-Early life:Lisa Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Indian father and a Polish mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke...

     - Bollywood
    Bollywood
    Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

     actress (Kasoor
    Kasoor
    Kasoor is a 2001 Bollywood suspense thriller film. The film, produced under Mukesh Bhatt's Vishesh Entertainment Ltd. is directed by Vikram Bhatt and features Aftab Shivdasani in his second Bollywood appearance and Lisa Ray in her Bollywood debut. Ray's voice was dubbed by Divya Dutta. The film...

    , Bollywood/Hollywood
    Bollywood/Hollywood
    Bollywood/Hollywood is a 2002 film by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. It is lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented in nature, as opposed to Mehta's other films , which feature very serious themes and focus on social issues.The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at...

    , Water)
  • Ajmer Rode
    Ajmer Rode
    Ajmer Rode is a Canadian author writing in Punjabi as well as in English. His first work was non-fiction Vishva Di Nuhar on Einstein's Relativity in dialogue form inspired by Plato's Republic. Published by the Punjabi University in 1966, the book initiated a series of university publications on...

     - poet and playwright
  • Renee Rosnes
    Renee Rosnes
    Irene Louise Rosnes , professionally known as Renee Rosnes , is a pianist, composer and arranger in the hard bop and post-bop mediums.-Biography:...

     - jazz pianist and composer/arranger

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  • Vik Sahay
    Vik Sahay
    Vikram "Vik" Sahay is a Canadian actor best known for playing Lester Patel, a member of the Nerd Herd in the NBC television series Chuck on which he became a series regular from the second season, and Rama in the Roxy Hunter Saga.-Life and career:...

     - actor
  • Patty Sahota
    Patty Sahota
    Patty Sahota is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Burnaby-Edmonds in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005...

     - former BC Liberal MLA
  • Sugar Sammy
    Sugar Sammy
    Samir Khullar, better known as Sugar Sammy, is a canadian comedian, actor, writer and producer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His irreverent style is what sets the tone for his brand of unique and off the wall comedy. He is known as much for his no holds barred style of comedy as he is for his...

     - comedian
  • Emanuel Sandhu
    Emanuel Sandhu
    Emanuel Sandhu is a Canadian figure skater and dancer. He is a three-time Canadian national champion and the 2004 Grand Prix champion.-Personal life:...

     - figure skater
  • Shamsher Singh Sandhu
    Shamsher Singh Sandhu
    Shamsher Singh Sandhu is a well known Punjabi lyricist. He is best known for his songs penned down for Surjit Bindrakhia,though he has written songs for many other Punjabi artists including Hans Raj Hans, Sarabjit Cheema, Satwinder Bitti and Gurdas Mann among others.His most popular songs include...

     - oet
  • Surendra Seeraj
    Surendra Seeraj
    Surendra Seeraj is a Canadian cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman. He has played two matches for Canada, making his debut in the One Day International against Bermuda on 21 August 2006 and also playing in the ICC Americas Championship game against the USA shortly afterwards.-Source:*...

     - cricket player
  • Sarika Sehgal
    Sarika Sehgal
    Sarika Sehgal is a Canadian broadcast journalist. Sehgal's broadcasting career began in Toronto as a producer for a national morning show. From there, she served as an anchor and reporter for CICI in Sudbury. Similar duties soon followed at CKEM in Edmonton where she was a key part of the special...

     - CBC
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

     broadcast journalist
  • Melinda Shankar
    Melinda Shankar
    Melinda Shankar is a Canadian actress who is best known for playing Alli Bhandari beginning in season 8 of Degrassi: The Next Generation...

     - actress
  • Devi Sharma
    Devi Sharma (politician)
    Devi Sharma is a Canadian politician, who was elected to Winnipeg City Council in the 2010 municipal election, representing the Old Kildonan ward...

     - Winnipeg City Council
    Winnipeg City Council
    The Winnipeg City Council is the governing body of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors.-2006-2010:Council elected in the 2006 election:-2010-2014:...

    lor
  • Rekha Sharma
    Rekha Sharma
    Rekha Shanti Sharma is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Tory Foster on Battlestar Galactica.Her ancestors are from the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, which they left during the British period. Her family resettled in the Fiji Islands and her parents moved to Canada...

     - actress
  • Robin Sharma
    Robin Sharma
    Robin Sharma is an author. Sharma has written 11 books; including "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" and "The Greatness Guide". His latest book is "The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable On Real Success in Business and in Life".-His Life:...

     - author
  • Devinder Shory
    Devinder Shory
    Devinder Shory is is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Calgary Northeast as a federal Member of Parliament....

     - Member of Parliament
  • Haroon Siddiqui
    Haroon Siddiqui
    Haroon Siddiqui, CM, O.Ont is an Indo-Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor.-Early life and career:...

     - reporter, editor and columnist
  • Moe Sihota
    Moe Sihota
    Munmohan Singh "Moe" Sihota is a former Canadian broadcaster and politician.He was born in Duncan, British Columbia and attended St. George's Boys School, Vancouver, on scholarship...

     - former British Columbia NDP MLA and television host
  • Bobby Singh
    Bobby Singh
    Bobby Singh is a retired professional American and Canadian football guard. He last played for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders in the first round of the 1999 CFL Draft....

     - played for the BC Lions
    BC Lions
    The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of Canadian Football League . Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Lions play their home games at BC Place Stadium in Downtown Vancouver, having previously played at Empire Stadium in East Vancouver from 1954...

     in the CFL
  • Jaggi Singh
    Jaggi Singh
    Jaggi Singh is one of Canada's most high-profile anti-globalization and social justice activists. He is an anarchist. Singh lives in Montreal where he works with groups such as Solidarity Across Borders and the No One Is Illegal collective, among others. Singh graduated from St...

     - anti-globalisation and social justice activist
  • Jaspreet Singh
    Jaspreet Singh
    Jaspreet Singh is a Canadian writer.He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. Singh is the author of the novel Chef , and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories. He is a former research scientist who holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University...

     - author
  • Tiger Jeet Singh
    Tiger Jeet Singh
    Jagjit Singh Hans is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth . Singh wrestled in Japan for 22 years...

     - wrestler currently in Japan
  • Errol Sitahal
    Errol Sitahal
    Errol Sitahal is an Indo- Trinidadian actor, residing in Canada, who has acted in several Hollywood films. In 1995, he played Ram Das, the Indian manservant, in the film, A Little Princess. The same year he also appeared with Chris Farley and David Spade in a scene from the movie Tommy Boy, where...

     - actor
  • Ashwin Sood
    Ashwin Sood
    Ashwin Sood is a Canadian musician. Sood plays drums, percussion, keyboards, and sings.Sood was Sarah McLachlan's drummer, and was also married to McLachlan, although they are now separated....

     - drummer for (and former husband of) Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

  • Manoj Sood
    Manoj Sood
    Manoj Sood is a Kenyan Canadian film and television actor. Manoj immigrated with his family to Canada in 1964 when he was 18 months old. He grew up in Calgary, Alberta. Later, he went to filming school in St Michaels University School in Victoria, BC.- Life and career :Manoj Sood was born in...

     - actor (Little Mosque on the Prairie
    Little Mosque on the Prairie
    Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom on CBC, created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures. It is filmed in Toronto, Ontario and Indian Head, Saskatchewan...

    )
  • Veena Sood
    Veena Sood
    Veena Sood is a Canadian-based film and television actress of Punjabi descent.She works in both the UK and Canada. She starred in ITV's Compulsion featuring Ray Winstone and Parminder Nagra. She has also starred in the UK film Nina's Heavenly Delights,as well as the Canada/UK film Touch of Pink,...

     - actress
  • Durand Soraine
    Durand Soraine
    Durand Soraine is an Indian-born Canadian cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and right arm medium pace bowler. He made his senior debut for Canada in the ICC Americas Championship One Day International against Bermuda on 21 August 2006, and went on to play for them in the remaining...

     - cricket player
  • Shweta Subram
    Shweta Subram
    Shweta Subram is Dubai-born Indo-Canadian singer, songwriter and performer based in Toronto, Canada. She primarily sings in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada, but has also sung in Arabic and French. Shweta has an active participant in the International Indian Film Academy Awards...

     - Urban Bollywood singer
  • Rajiv Surendra
    Rajiv Surendra
    Rajiv Surendra is an Canadian film and television actor, best known for playing Kevin Gnapoor in the film Mean Girls.Surendra was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the son of Tamil immigrants.-Biography:...

     - actor
  • Ajit H. Someshwar
    Ajit H. Someshwar
    Ajit H. Someshwar is an Indo-Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist based in Toronto, Canada. He is President & CEO of CSI Group of Companies. As per the Canadian Immigrant , he owns and has investments in dozens of others companies from custom draperies to real estate...

     - Businessman and philanthropist
  • Dr. Chandrakant Shah
    Chandrakant Shah
    Chandrakant Shah, OOnt, MD, FRCP, FAAP, SM is a Canadian doctor, researcher and social activist. Dr. Shah is the clinical coordinator of Anishnawbe Health Toronto, where he has been a staff physician since 1996, providing primary health care to Toronto’s aboriginal community as well as people who...

     - Canadian academic/researcher, doctor and social activist; Recipient of Order of Ontario

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  • Harinder Takhar
    Harinder Takhar
    Harinder Jeet Singh Takhar is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Takhar was born to a Sikh family in the Indian state of Punjab, with a background in farming and civil service work. He moved to Canada in 1974, and arrived in Mississauga, Ontario in 1977...

     - Ontario Liberal MPP and Minister of Transportation

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  • Sugith Varughese
    Sugith Varughese
    Sugith Varughese is an Indian-born Canadian writer, director and actor.Born in Cochin, Kerala, into a Syrian Christian family , he immigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a child when his neurosurgeon father obtained a professional appointment there...

     - actor
  • M.G. Vassanji - novelist
  • Aliza Vellani
    Aliza Vellani
    Aliza Vellani is a Canadian television actress, who currently plays the role of Layla Siddiqui in Little Mosque on the Prairie. Born in Vancouver to immigrants from East Africa...

     - actress (Little Mosque on the Prairie
    Little Mosque on the Prairie
    Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom on CBC, created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures. It is filmed in Toronto, Ontario and Indian Head, Saskatchewan...

    )
  • Ali Velshi
    Ali Velshi
    Ali Velshi is a Canadian-American television journalist best known for his work on CNN. He is CNN's Chief Business Correspondent, Anchor of CNN's Wake Up Call and a co-host of CNN's weekday morning show American Morning.-Personal life:...

     - stock analyst and television journalist
  • Murad Velshi
    Murad Velshi
    Murad Velshi is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He is an Indian Muslim who lived in Kenya and migrated to Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990.-Background:...

     - former Ontario Liberal MPP
  • Neelam Verma
    Neelam Verma
    Neelam Verma is a Canadian television anchor and former Miss Canada. -Biography:Verma was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, her parents migrated from India. She graduated from York University's Schulich School of Business and worked for Procter and Gamble in marketing before entering the...

     - Miss Universe Canada
    Miss Universe Canada
    -External links:*...

     2002

See also

  • Indian American
    Indian American
    Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Indigenous peoples of the Americas who are commonly referred to as American Indians.-The term: Indian:...

  • British Indian
    British Indian
    The term British Indian refers to citizens of the United Kingdom whose ancestral roots lie in India. This includes people born in the UK who are of Indian descent, and Indian-born people who have migrated to the UK...

  • Indo-Canadian
  • Indian South Africans
    Indian South Africans
    Indian South Africans are people of Indian descent living in South Africa and mostly live in and around the city of Durban, making it 'the largest 'Indian' city outside India'. Most Indians in South Africa are descendents of migrants from colonial India during late 19th-century through early...

  • List of Indian Americans
  • List of Indian Britons
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