List of members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
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This list shows all the members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame is a hall of fame established in 1955 to "preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canada's heritage of sport." It is located at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta...

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  • Bob Abate
    Bob Abate
    Robert Abate was a Canadian sports coach and the driving force behind the Elizabeth Playground sports teams in Toronto...

    , 1976
  • Jack Adams, 1975
  • Frank Amyot
    Frank Amyot
    Francis Amyot was a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the 1930s.Born in Thornhill, Ontario, he won Canada's only gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the C-1 1000m canoeing event. This proved embarrassing to Canadian officials who had refused to pay his way...

    , 1955
  • Doug Anakin
    Doug Anakin
    Competitor for CanadaDouglas Thomas Anakin is a former Canadian bobsleigh competitor. He was born in Chatham, Ontario and was selected by Vic Emery as a member of Canada's gold medal-winning four-man bobsleigh team at the 1964 Winter Olympics. Anakin was also one of the driving forces behind the...

    , 1964
  • George Anderson, 1973
  • Syl Apps
    Syl Apps
    Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps, CM of Paris, Ontario, was a Canadian pole vaulter and professional hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948 and a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario.-Athletic career:Apps was a strong athlete, 6 feet tall, weighing 185 pounds,...

    , 1975
  • Don Arnold, 1957
  • George Athans
    George Athans
    George Athans, CM is a former Canadian world-champion water skier who won 10 consecutive national titles from 1965 to 1974, the first at age 13...

    , 1974
  • Marcel Aubut
    Marcel Aubut
    Marcel Aubut, is a Canadian lawyer, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and former president and Chief Executive Officer of the Quebec Nordiques of the National Hockey League .-Personal life:...

    , 1999

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  • Donovan Bailey
    Donovan Bailey
    Donovan Bailey is a retired Canadian sprinter, who once held the world record for the 100 metres race following his gold medal performance in the 1996 Olympic Games. He was the first Canadian to legally break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m...

    , 2004
  • Dan Bain
    Dan Bain
    Donald Henderson "Dan" Bain was a Canadian athlete and merchant. He was an all-around athlete, competing in ice hockey, roller skating, gymnastics, figure skating, golf, cycling and shooting among other sports. He was a member of the Winnipeg Victorias hockey team from 1894 until 1902 with whom he...

    , 1971
  • Norm Baker
    Norm Baker
    Norman Henry Baker was a Canadian basketball and lacrosse player, voted Canada's top basketball player of the first half of the 20th century in a Canadian Press poll in December 1950....

    , 1955
  • Al Balding
    Al Balding
    Allan George Balding was a Canadian professional golfer, who won four events on the PGA Tour. In 1955 he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in the United States; Canadians Ken Black and Jules Huot had won PGA Tour events in Canada in the 1930s.Balding was born in Toronto,...

    , 1969
  • Matt Baldwin
    Matt Baldwin
    Matthew M. Baldwin is a Canadian curler from Edmonton.Baldwin is a three time Brier champion, having skipped to the Canadian men's championship in 1954, 1957 and 1958....

    , 1973
  • James Ball, 1959
  • Norval Baptie
    Norval Baptie
    Norval Baptie was a World record holding speed skater, a champion figure skater, and pioneering ice showman. He was inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1963....

    , 1963
  • Carling Bassett-Seguso
    Carling Bassett-Seguso
    Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Bassett is the daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John Bassett and politician and brewery executive John Carling.-Tennis career:In 1981, Bassett won the Canadian junior...

    , 2001
  • Harry Batstone
    Harry Batstone
    Harry "Red" Batstone was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for three seasons for the Toronto Argonauts. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:*...

    , 1975
  • Father David Bauer, 1973
  • Steve Bauer
    Steve Bauer
    Steven Todd Bauer, MSM is a former professional road bicycle racer from Canada. He is an Olympic medallist and winner of several professional races.-Cycling career:...

    , 2005
  • Alex Baumann
    Alex Baumann
    Alexander "Sasha" Baumann, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian athlete, who won two gold medals and set two world records in swimming at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.Born in Prague , Baumann...

    , 1987
  • Robert Bédard
    Robert Bedard
    Robert Bédard is a retired professional wrestler better known as the #1 Frenchman Rene Goulet. He began his career in Quebec City, QC in 1957 with his first match being against Gerard Dugas....

    , 1996
  • Myriam Bédard
    Myriam Bédard
    Myriam Bédard, MSC is a Canadian biathlete , winner of two Olympic gold medals.-Olympic career:Born in Neufchâtel, Quebec, Bédard learned marksmanship as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets' 2772 cadet corps, which she joined at the age of 15, and participated in her first biathlon event at...

    , 1998
  • George Beers, 1979
  • Paul Beeston
    Paul Beeston
    Paul McGill Beeston, CM is the former president of Major League Baseball and current president of the Toronto Blue Jays. On October 27th, 2009 Rogers Media announced the appointment of Paul Beeston as President and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club and Rogers Centre for a three year...

    , 2005
  • Frenchy Belanger, 1956
  • Jean Beliveau
    Jean Béliveau
    Jean Arthur "Le Gros Bill" Béliveau, is a former professional ice hockey player who played parts of 20 seasons with the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens. As a player, he won the Stanley Cup 10 times, and as an executive he was part of another seven championship teams, the most Stanley...

    , 1975
  • Jane Bell, 1955
  • Marilyn Bell
    Marilyn Bell
    Marilyn Bell Di Lascio is a retired long distance swimmer, born October 19, 1937, in Toronto, Ontario. She was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and later swam the English Channel and Strait of Juan de Fuca.-Swimming career:...

    , 1958
  • Big Ben
    Big Ben (horse)
    Big Ben was a world champion show jumping horse.-Birth and Acquisition by Ian Millar:First named "Winston", Big Ben was born at the van Hooydonk Farm in Kalmthout . Although his dam was only 15 hh, Big Ben grew to be a very large horse of 17.3 hands high...

    , 1996
  • Sylvie Bernier
    Sylvie Bernier
    Sylvie Bernier, CM, CQ is an Olympic athlete from Sainte-Foy, Quebec) in Canada. She won the gold medal in the Women's 3m Springboard Diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....

    , 1987
  • Jack Bionda
    Jack Bionda
    John Arthur James "Jack" Bionda was a lacrosse and hockey player. He was a lacrosse superstar, dominating the sport throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.-Lacrosse:...

    , 1982
  • Toe Blake
    Toe Blake
    Hector "Toe" Blake, CM was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League .-Nickname:His nickname came out of his childhood for his younger sister was unable to pronounce his name...

    , 1975
  • The Bluenose, 1955
  • Gilmour Boa, 1958
  • Martin Boland, 1977
  • Arnie Boldt, 1977
  • Mike Bossy
    Mike Bossy
    Michael Dean Bossy is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played for the New York Islanders for his entire career and was part of their four-year reign as Stanley Cup champions in the early 1980s...

    , 2007
  • Frank Boucher
    Frank Boucher
    François-Xavier "Raffles" Boucher was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive. Boucher played the forward position for the Ottawa Senators and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League and the Vancouver Maroons in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association...

    , 1975
  • Gaétan Boucher
    Gaétan Boucher
    Gaétan Boucher, OC, CQ is a former Speed skating Olympic champion from Canada.A four-time Olympic medalist, Boucher was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's outstanding male athlete of 1984. He was named number 10 on the list of Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century...

    , 1984
  • Norris Bowden
    Norris Bowden
    Robert Norris Bowden was a Canadian figure skater.Born in Toronto, Bowden won championships in every division of Canadian figure skating...

    , 1955
  • Johnny Bower
    Johnny Bower
    John William Bower , nicknamed "The China Wall", is a Hockey Hall of Fame goalie.-Playing career:...

    , 1999
  • Scotty Bowman
    Scotty Bowman
    William Scott "Scotty" Bowman is a retired National Hockey League head coach. He holds the record for most wins in league history, with 1,244 wins in the regular season and 223 in the Stanley Cup playoffs. He coached the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, and...

    , 2004
  • Ab Box
    Ab Box
    Albert George "Ab" Box was a Canadian professional football halfback, quarterback and punter.Born in Toronto, Box attended Malvern Collegiate Institute where he played on the football team and later on the Malvern Grads junior team from 1928-1929 under coach Ted Reeve...

    , 1975
  • Beverly Boys
    Beverly Boys
    Beverly Boys is a retired diver from Canada, who represented her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968....

    , 1979
  • Isabelle Brasseur
    Isabelle Brasseur
    Isabelle Brasseur, MSM is a pair skater from Canada.She started skating with Lloyd Eisler in 1987. They won five Canadian pairs championships, the 1993 World Figure Skating Championships, and they won bronze medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics...

    , 1996
  • Joe Breen
    Joe Breen
    Joseph M. Breen was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for two seasons for the Toronto Argonauts. Later, he coached at the University of Western Ontario and was a referee from 1935 through 1940...

    , 1975
  • Carl Brewer
    Carl Brewer
    Carl Thomas Brewer was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He had attended De La Salle College prior to his hockey career....

    , 2002
  • Cal Bricker, 1956
  • Lela Brooks, 1972
  • Eugene Brosseau, 1956
  • Lou Brouillard
    Lou Brouillard
    Lucien Pierre Brouillard, better known as Lou Brouillard, , was a professional boxer in the welterweight division....

    , 1955
  • George Brown, 1956
  • Kurt Browning
    Kurt Browning
    Kurt Browning, CM is a Canadian figure skater, choreographer and commentator. He is a four-time World Champion and four-time Canadian national champion.-Life and career:...

    , 1994
  • Ellen Burka
    Ellen Burka
    Ellen Burka, CM is a Dutch former figure skater and a Canadian figure skating coach. She was the coach for Toller Cranston, Karen Magnussen, and her daughter Petra Burka....

    , 1996
  • Petra Burka, 1965
  • Sylvia Burka
    Sylvia Burka
    Sylvia Burka is a former ice speed skater from Canada of Latvian descent, who represented her native country at three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan....

    , 1977
  • Des Burke, 1972
  • Tommy Burns
    Tommy Burns (boxer)
    Tommy Burns , born Noah Brusso, is the only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer. The first to travel the globe in defending his title, Tommy made 11 title defenses despite often being the underdog due to his size. Burns famously challenged all comers as Heavyweight Champion, leading to...

    , 1955

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  • Larry Cain
    Larry Cain
    Laurence J. Cain, is a Canadian sprint canoer, having begun his career in 1974 at the Oakville Racing Canoe Club, now the Burloak Canoe Club, in Oakville, Ontario....

    , 1997
  • Jackie Callura
    Jackie Callura
    John "Jackie" Callura was a Canadian featherweight boxer.He was born and died in Hamilton, Ontario,.Callura won the national featherweight title in 1931 and was a member of the 1932 Summer Olympics team....

    , 1969
  • Michelle Cameron
    Michelle Cameron
    Michelle A. Cameron-Coulter, is a Canadian Olympic synchronized swimmer, who won the gold medal with Carolyn Waldo, in the Synchronized Swimming, Women's Duet event at the 1988 Summer Olympics....

    , 1991
  • Cassie Campbell
    Cassie Campbell
    Cassie Campbell-Pascall is a former Canadian female ice hockey player. She was the captain of the Canadian ice hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics and led the team to a gold medal...

    , 2007
  • Clarence Campbell
    Clarence Campbell
    Clarence Sutherland Campbell OBE, QC was the third president of the National Hockey League from 1946 to 1977.-Early life and career:...

    , 1975
  • Herb Carnegie
    Herb Carnegie
    Herbert H. Carnegie, CM, O.Ont is a former Canadian ice hockey player. Born in Toronto, Ontario to Jamaican parents, Carnegie was the first African-Canadian hockey player to be offered an opportunity to play in the National Hockey League.-Playing career:Carnegie’s hockey career began in 1938 with...

    , 2001
  • Ethel Catherwood
    Ethel Catherwood
    Competitor for CanadaEthel Mary Catherwood was a Canadian athlete.Born in Hannah, North Dakota, USA, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she excelled at athletics, including baseball, basketball and track and field...

    , 1955
  • George Chenier, 1971
  • George Chuvalo
    George Chuvalo
    George Louis Chuvalo, CM is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxer who was never knocked down in ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979. He is often considered to have had the greatest chin in the history of boxing and to be one of its most durable fighters...

    , 1990
  • King Clancy
    King Clancy
    Francis Michael "King" Clancy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, referee, coach and executive. Clancy played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was a member of three Stanley Cup championship teams and won All-Star honours...

    , 1975
  • Dit Clapper
    Dit Clapper
    Aubrey Victor "Dit" Clapper was a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player....

    , 1975
  • Leslie Cliff, 1984
  • Betsy Clifford
    Betsy Clifford
    Betsy Clifford is a retired Canadian alpine skier.At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she was the youngest Canadian skier ever to compete. She finished 7th at the 1970 Alpine Skiing World Cup and 10th at the 1971 Alpine Skiing World Cup...

    , 1970
  • Cyril Coaffee
    Cyril Coaffee
    Cyril Coaffee was a Canadian track and field athlete.Born in Edmonton Greater London UK, he tied Charlie Paddock's world record for the 100 yard dash at the 1922 Canadian championships....

    , 1956
  • Jim Coleman, 1985
  • Charlie Conacher
    Charlie Conacher
    Charles William "The Big Bomber" Conacher, Sr. was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and New York Americans in the National Hockey League. An early power forward, Conacher was nicknamed "The Big Bomber," for his size, powerful...

    , 1975
  • Lionel Conacher
    Lionel Conacher
    Lionel Pretoria Conacher, MP , nicknamed "The Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championships in numerous sports. His first passion was football; he was a member of the 1921 Grey Cup champion Toronto...

    , 1955
  • Bill Cook
    Bill Cook
    William Osser Xavier Cook was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League and Saskatoon Crescents in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association....

    , 1975
  • Myrtle Cook
    Myrtle Cook
    Competitor for CanadaMyrtle Alice Cook was a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.-Career:...

    , 1955
  • Gerard Cote
    Gérard Côté
    Gérard Côté, was a Canadian marathon runner and a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon.Born in Saint-Barnabé-Sud, Quebec, Côté was training to be a boxer when he switched to running marathons. He competed in his first Boston Marathon in 1936 and won the race in 1940, 1942, 1943, and 1948...

    , 1956
  • Johnny Coulon
    Johnny Coulon
    John Frederic Coulon was the bantamweight boxing champion of the world from 6 March 1910, when he wrested the crown from England's Jim Kendrick, until 1914, when he was defeated by Kid Williams.-Biography:...

    , 1955
  • Gary Cowan
    Gary Cowan
    Gary Cowan is a Canadian golfer who has achieved outstanding results at the highest class in amateur competition.-Biography:...

    , 1967
  • Ernie Cox
    Ernie Cox
    Ernest "Ernie" Cox , was a star football player in the Canadian Football League.Cox was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He played for eleven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers...

    , 1975
  • Eric Coy
    Eric Coy
    Eric Eaton Coy was a discus thrower and shot putter, who represented Canada at the 1948 Summer Olympics.He was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and died in Winnipeg, Manitoba....

    , 1971
  • Ross B. Craig
    Ross Craig
    Ross B. Craig was a star football player in Canadian football in the early 20th century. He played for several intermediate teams before playing for the Hamilton Alerts for two years where he won a Grey Cup championship in 1912...

    , 1975
  • Toller Cranston
    Toller Cranston
    Toller Shalitoe Montague Cranston, CM is a Canadian figure skater and painter. He is the 1971-1976 Canadian national champion, the 1974 World bronze medalist, and the 1976 Olympic bronze medalist....

    , 1977
  • Dennis Croke, 1977
  • Bill Crothers
    Bill Crothers
    Bill Crothers is a retired Canadian athlete.At one point, Crothers held the Canadian record in all distances from 400 metres to 1500 metres and was holder of the world 800 metres indoor record. In 1963, he ran the two fastest 800 metres races of the year...

    , 1971
  • Wes Cutler
    Wes Cutler
    Wesley "Wes" Cutler was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for six seasons for the Toronto Argonauts. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1968 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:* *...

    , 1975
  • Louis Cyr
    Louis Cyr
    Louis Cyr was a famous Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds with one finger and carrying 4,337 pounds on his back, show Cyr to be, according to former International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness...

    , 1955

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  • Frances Dafoe
    Frances Dafoe
    Frances Dafoe, was a Canadian pair skater. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. She competed with Norris Bowden. The couple captured four Canadian titles and two World Figure Skating Championships, and won the silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics.In 1991, she was made a Member of the Order of...

    , 1955
  • Jack Davies
    Jack Davies
    Jack Davies may refer to:*Jack Davies , English cricketer, rugby union player and psychologist*Jack Davies , English screenwriter, producer, editor and actor...

    , 1978
  • Victor Davis
    Victor Davis
    Victor Davis, CM was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer, a well known breaststroker from Canada. He also enjoyed success in the individual medley and the butterfly.-Biography:...

    , 1990
  • Jim Day
    Jim Day
    James E. "Jim" Day is a Canadian Olympic equestrian show jumping champion and thoroughbred horse trainer....

    , 1968
  • John Degruchy
    John DeGruchy
    John DeGruchy was the president of the Ontario Rugby Football Union for 25 years, and he promoted the Thanksgiving Day Classic between the Sarnia Imperials and the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of...

    , 1975
  • Victor Delamarre, 1973
  • Jack Delaney
    Jack Delaney
    Jack Delaney was a former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world and contender for the heavyweight crown...

    , 1955
  • Jack Dennett
    Jack Dennett
    Jack Dennett was a Canadian radio and television announcer. He began his career at the age of sixteen at Calgary's CFAC doing odd jobs such as filing. He began filling in for the regular announcer, when he didn't show up for work. In 1935, Dennett began conducting hockey interviews of players in...

    , 1975
  • Etienne Desmarteau
    Etienne Desmarteau
    Competitor for CanadaÉtienne Desmarteau was a Canadian athlete, winner of the weight throwing event at the 1904 Summer Olympics...

    , 1955
  • Phyllis Dewar
    Phyllis Dewar
    Phyllis Dewar was a Canadian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.She was born in Moose Jaw and died in Toronto....

    , 1971
  • Glen Dexter, 1981
  • Walter D'Hondt
    Walter D'Hondt
    Walter Ignace D'Hondt is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion. Brother of Miss Canada 1959 Canadian-American-British Actress restauranteur and author, Danica d'Hondt...

    , 1957
  • Marcel Dionne
    Marcel Dionne
    Marcel Elphege "Little Beaver" Dionne is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers...

    , 1997
  • George Dixon
    George Dixon (boxer)
    George Dixon was the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion.George was born in Africville, Halifax, Nova Scotia...

    , 1955
  • Paul Dojack
    Paul Dojack
    Paul Dojack was a Canadian CFL referee.He officiated in 546 CFL games including 15 Grey Cup finals....

    , 1995
  • Jack Donohue
    Jack Donohue (basketball)
    John 'Jack' Donohue M.S.M. posthumous was an American born head coach of the Canadian national men's basketball team for 17 years, leading them to many international successes....

    , 2004
  • David Dore
    David Dore
    -Personal life:Dore was born in Toronto in 1940. After he was stricken with polio at the age of 12, he took up skating to strengthen his legs. He competed at the national level within Canada. He has two sons, Chris and Paul...

    , 2008
  • Clare Drake
    Clare Drake
    Clare Drake is a retired Canadian ice hockey head coach. He is the winningest coach in Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s hockey history. In his 28 years as the head coach of the University of Alberta men's ice hockey team, he coached the Alberta Golden Bears to 6 University Cup championships...

    , 1989
  • Jerome Drayton
    Jerome Drayton
    Jerome Drayton is a former long-distance runner who competed internationally for Canada. He was born as Peter Buniak in Germany. A prominent runner in the 1970s, he won the Fukuoka Marathon on three occasions, in 1969, 1975, and 1976...

    , 1978
  • Gordie Drillon
    Gordie Drillon
    Gordon Arthur Drillon was a Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame ice hockey player. Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. From 1936 through to 1942 he was part of one of the NHL's most prolific scoring lines as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs...

    , 1989
  • Ken Dryden
    Ken Dryden
    Kenneth Wayne Dryden, PC, is a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender. Dryden is married with two children and four grandchildren and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame...

    , 1984
  • George Duggan, 1962
  • Don Duguid
    Don Duguid
    Donald G. Duguid is a Canadian champion curler. A three-time winner of the Canadian Brier and two-time World Curling Championships champion, Duguid won the Brier in 1965, 1970 and 1971, and the Worlds in 1970 and 1971...

    , 1991
  • Milt Dunnell
    Milt Dunnell
    Milt Dunnell was a Canadian sportswriter, known chiefly for his work at the Toronto Star.Born in St. Marys, Ontario, Dunnell entered journalism with the Stratford Beacon Herald in the 1920s, later becoming the sports editor. He joined the Star as a sportswriter in 1942, becoming sports editor in...

    , 1991
  • Yvon Durelle
    Yvon Durelle
    Yvon Durelle , born in Baie-Ste-Anne, New Brunswick, Canada, was a French Canadian champion boxer.-Early life and career:...

    , 1975
  • Bill Durnan
    Bill Durnan
    William Ronald Durnan was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...

    , 1986
  • George Duthie, 1969

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  • Phil Edwards, 1997
  • Lloyd Eisler
    Lloyd Eisler
    Lloyd Edgar Eisler, MSM is a Canadian pair skater. With partner Isabelle Brasseur, he is the 1992 and 1994 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1993 World Champion.-Career:...

    , 1996
  • James Elder, 1968
  • Eddie Emerson
    Eddie Emerson
    Edward Kramer Emerson was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for twenty two seasons for the Ottawa Rough Riders. Fondly known as the "Iron Man" of football, Emerson led his team to two Grey Cup wins, in 1925 and 1926...

    , 1975
  • John Emery
    John Emery (bobsleigh)
    John Emery is a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the mid 1960s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. He was born in Montreal, Quebec....

    , 1964
  • Victor Emery
    Victor Emery
    Victor John Emery was a British specialist on superconductors and superfluidity. His model for the electronic structure of the copper-oxide planes is the starting point for many analyses of high-temperature superconductors and is commonly known as the Emery model.-Early life:Emery was born in...

    , 1964
  • Johnny Esaw
    Johnny Esaw
    Johnny Esaw, CM is a retired Canadian sports broadcaster and television network executive. He was a pioneer of sports broadcasting in Canada, best known for his involvement with figure skating, football, and international hockey....

    , 1991
  • Phil Esposito
    Phil Esposito
    Philip Anthony Esposito, OC is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and is considered to be one of the best to have...

    , 1989
  • Walter Ewing
    Walter Ewing
    Walter Henry Ewing was a Canadian sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.In the 1908 Olympics he won a gold medal in the individual trap shooting event and silver medal in team trap shooting event.-External links:**...

    , 1958

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  • 1996 Summer Olympics
    1996 Summer Olympics
    The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

     4x100m track & field relay team, 2008
    • Donovan Bailey
      Donovan Bailey
      Donovan Bailey is a retired Canadian sprinter, who once held the world record for the 100 metres race following his gold medal performance in the 1996 Olympic Games. He was the first Canadian to legally break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m...

    • Robert Esmie
      Robert Esmie
      Robert Esmie is a Canadian athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics....

    • Glenroy Gilbert
      Glenroy Gilbert
      Glenroy John Gilbert is a Canadian former athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics....

    • Bruny Surin
      Bruny Surin
      Bruny Surin is a Canadian athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 2008 he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as part of the 1996 Summer Olympics 4x100 relay team.-Career:...

  • Edouard Fabre
    Édouard Fabre
    Édouard Fabre was a Canadian marathon runner.Born in Sainte-Geneviève, Quebec, he won the Boston Marathon in 1915, with a time of 2:56:41.8. In 1914, he had come in second in the Boston Marathon to fellow Canadian James Duffy...

    , 1964
  • Bernie Faloney
    Bernie Faloney
    Bernie Faloney was a professional football player in the Canadian Football League and an outstanding American college football player at the University of Maryland...

    , 1999
  • Cap Fear
    Cap Fear
    Alfred Henry "Cap" Fear was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for seven seasons for the Toronto Argonauts. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1967 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:*...

    , 1975
  • Elmer Ferguson
    Elmer Ferguson
    Elmer Ferguson was a Canadian sports journalist. Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Ferguson moved to Montreal in 1910 and became the sports editor of the Montreal Herald in 1913. Ferguson was one of the most respected and promiant columnists of his time...

    , 1968
  • Hervé Filion
    Hervé Filion
    Hervé Filion, is a Canadian harness racer.Born in Angers, Quebec, Filion was the first driver to win over 400 races in a year in 1968 and was able to achieve this accomplishment 14 more times...

    , 1969
  • Howard Firby, 1979
  • Hugh Fisher
    Hugh Fisher (canoeist)
    Hugh Fisher, is a New Zealand-born Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the mid 1970s to the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Los Angeles with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events.Fisher also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World...

    , 2000
  • Billy Fitzgerald, 1961
  • Pat Fletcher
    Pat Fletcher
    Pat Fletcher was a Canadian professional golfer.In 1954, at the Point Grey Golf Club in Vancouver, he became the first Canadian since 1914 to win the Canadian Open...

    , 1975
  • Doug Flutie
    Doug Flutie
    Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and United States Football League...

    , 2007
  • Hans Fogh
    Hans Fogh
    Hans Fogh, is one of the very successful competitive sailors in history, with dozens of national and international championships and in many different classes, including two Olympic medals. Born March 8, 1938, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Hans grew up on in a family of gardners and was expected to take...

    , 1985
  • Sylvie Fortier, 1977
  • Red Foster, 1984
  • Terry Fox
    Terry Fox
    Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox , was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research...

    , 1981
  • Sylvie Frechette
    Sylvie Fréchette
    Sylvie Fréchette, MSC is a retired Canadian synchronized swimmer, who won a gold medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics and a silver in the 1996 Summer Olympics...

    , 1999
  • Lori Fung
    Lori Fung
    Lori Fung Methorst, CM, OBC is a Canadian gymnastics coach and retired rhythmic gymnast.Fung was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the 1984 Summer Olympics, she was the first gold medal winner awarded for the sport of Rhythmic Gymnastics. She has been a coach for the Canadian National Team,...

    , 2004

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  • Tony Gabriel
    Tony Gabriel
    Tony Gabriel is a former professional Canadian football pass receiver who played in the Canadian Football League from 1971 to 1981. He played for both the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Ottawa Rough Riders...

    , 1985
  • Bob Gainey
    Bob Gainey
    Robert Michael "Le Capitaine" Gainey is the former executive vice president and general manager of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League . He is also a former professional ice hockey player who played for the Canadiens from 1973 until 1989...

    , 1995
  • Marc Gagnon
    Marc Gagnon
    Marc Gagnon is a French Canadian short track speed skater. He is a four-time Overall World Champion for 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and winner of three Olympic gold medals....

    , 2008
  • Sheldon Galbraith
    Sheldon Galbraith
    Sheldon William Galbraith, is a Canadian figure skating coach whose students have won all three categories at World Championships and have won Canada's first Olympic gold medals in ladies' and pairs' competitions....

    , 1980
  • Hugh Gall
    Hugh Gall
    Hugh Gall was a Canadian football player considered to be one of the best runners and punters of his era.After playing half-back in Toronto for Parkdale Collegiate, Gall joined the University of Toronto varsity team in 1907 and played there for four seasons...

    , 1975
  • Danny Gallivan
    Danny Gallivan
    Danny Gallivan was a Canadian radio and television broadcaster and sportscaster.-Early life and career:Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Gallivan began his broadcast career at a local radio station in Antigonish, Nova Scotia while attending St. Francis Xavier University...

    , 1989
  • Nancy Garapick
    Nancy Garapick
    Nancy Ellen Garapick is a former Canadian Olympic swimmer. She won two bronze medals in the 100m backstroke and 200m backstroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal at the age of 14, setting a new Olympic Record for the 100m backstroke during heats.Garapick's Olympic performances came on the...

    , 2008
  • Charlie Gardiner
    Charlie Gardiner (ice hockey player)
    Charles Robert "Chuck" Gardiner was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Gardiner moved with his family to Canada as a child...

    , 1975
  • George Gate, 1983
  • Jake Gaudaur Jr.
    Jake Gaudaur
    For the former world champion sculler see Jake Gaudaur Snr.Jacob Gill "Jake" Gaudaur, Jr., OC was a Canadian Football League player, executive, and commissioner...

    , 1990
  • Jake Gaudaur Sr., 1956
  • Tom Gayford, 1968
  • George Genereux
    George Genereux
    George Patrick Genereux was a Canadian Gold medal winning trap shooter and physician.Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, he won the Gold medal in the Olympic Trap at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland....

    , 1955
  • Bernie Geoffrion
    Bernie Geoffrion
    Joseph André Bernard Geoffrion , nicknamed Boom Boom, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered as one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972 following a 16-year career with the Montreal Canadiens and New York...

    , 1994
  • Eddie Gerard
    Eddie Gerard
    Edward George Gerard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada he played professionally for 10 seasons for the hometown Ottawa Senators and was member of several Stanley Cup-winning teams before retiring as a player in 1923...

    , 1975
  • George "Mooney" Gibson, 1958
  • Pat Gillick
    Pat Gillick
    Lawrence Patrick David Gillick is a retired American professional baseball executive. He was the general manager of four Major League Baseball teams, and guided two teams to three World Series championships in his career: in 1992 and 1993 titles with the Toronto Blue Jays, and a 2008 title with...

    , 2008
  • Tony Golab
    Tony Golab
    Anthony Charles Golab, CM was a retired Canadian football player.Born in Windsor, Ontario, he played with the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1939 to 1950. He was part of the 1941 and 1948 Grey Cup finalists teams and was part of the winning 1940 Grey Cup champions.In 1985, he was made a Member of the...

    , 1975
  • Avelino Gomez
    Avelino Gomez
    Avelino Gomez was a Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Havana, Gomez began a career as a jockey at the urging of a family member...

    , 1990
  • Charles Gorman
    Charles Gorman (speed skater)
    Charles Ingraham Gorman was a Canadian speed skater who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics and in the 1928 Winter Olympics.He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick....

    , 1955
  • George Goulding
    George Goulding
    George Henry Goulding was a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 10 kilometre walk. He was born in Hull, England....

    , 1955
  • Geoff Gowan, 2002
  • Laurie Graham
    Laurie Graham
    Laurie Graham, is a Canadian downhill skier who represented Canada at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics. She won six World Cup victories and three National Downhill titles in her eleven years on the National Ski Team. She was the first North American woman to win a World Cup Super Giant...

    , 1993
  • George Gray, 1973
  • Nancy Greene
    Nancy Greene
    Nancy Catherine Greene, OC, OBC, OD is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century...

    , 1967
  • Jean Grenier
    Jean Grenier
    Jean Grenier was a French philosopher and writer. He taught for a time in Algiers, where he became a significant influence on the young Albert Camus.-Biography:...

    , 1992
  • Wayne Gretzky
    Wayne Gretzky
    Wayne Douglas Gretzky, CC is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. Nicknamed "The Great One", he is generally regarded as the best player in the history of the National Hockey League , and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters,...

    , 2000
  • Harry Griffith, 1975
  • George Gross, 2005
  • Jack Guest
    Jack Guest
    John "Jack" Schofield Guest was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1928 he won the silver medal with his partner Joseph Wright, Jr. in the double sculls competition....

    , 1955
  • Horace "Lefty" Gwynne
    Horace Gwynne
    Horace "Lefty" Gwynne was a bantamweight professional boxer from Canada, who competed in the 1930s and won the gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was still an amateur when he won the gold medal....

    , 1955

H

  • Glenn Hall
    Glenn Hall
    Glenn Henry "Mr. Goalie" Hall is a former professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St. Louis Blues, Hall seldom missed a game and was a consistent performer, winning the Vezina Trophy three times, and the...

    , 1993
  • Sydney Halter
    Sydney Halter
    Gerald Sydney Halter, was a Canadian lawyer and the first commissioner of the Canadian Football League.-Biography:...

    , 1975
  • Jack Hamilton, 1972
  • Ned Hanlan
    Ned Hanlan
    Edward "Ned" Hanlan was a World Champion professional sculler, hotelier, and alderman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Early life:...

    , 1955
  • Rick Hansen
    Rick Hansen
    Richard M. Hansen, CC, OBC is a Canadian Paralympian and an activist for people with spinal cord injuries. Following a car crash at the age of 15, Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the waist down. Hansen is most famous for his Man In Motion World Tour...

    , 2006
  • Fritz Hanson
    Fritz Hanson
    Melvin "Fritz" Hanson was a Canadian football player for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Calgary Stampeders. Hanson was signed by the Blue Bombers for $125 a game and free room and board, which was a considerable sum in the cash-strapped dirty thirties...

    , 1987
  • Curt Harnett
    Curt Harnett
    Curtis Melvin Harnett is a Canadian racing cyclist. He began cycling as a way to stay in shape for hockey...

    , 2005
  • Barney Hartman, 1980
  • Doug Harvey, 1975
  • Sandy Hawley
    Sandy Hawley
    Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...

    , 1998
  • Bob Hayward
    Bob Hayward
    Robert D. Hayward was a Canadian powerboat racer who was a three-time winner of the Harmsworth Cup as the pilot of Miss Supertest III....

    , 1960
  • Kathleen Heddle
    Kathleen Heddle
    Kathleen Joan Heddle, is a Canadian rower. Heddle and her long-time rowing partner Marnie McBean were the first Canadians to win three Olympic Gold medals....

    , 1997
  • Anne Heggtveit
    Anne Heggtveit
    Anne Heggtveit, CM is a Canadian alpine skier born in Ottawa, Ontario.- Biography :Her father, Halvor Heggtveit, a Canadian cross-country champion, encouraged her at a young age. A student at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, she learned to ski in the nearby Gatineau Hills of Quebec...

    , 1960
  • Paul Henderson
    Paul Henderson
    Paul Henderson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A left winger, Henderson played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames...

    , 1995
  • Doug Hepburn
    Doug Hepburn
    Doug Ivan Hepburn was a Canadian world-champion weightlifter.Born in Vancouver with a club foot and cross-eyed, Hepburn overcame these handicaps, setting a Canadian record for weightlifting in 1950 and winning gold medals at the 1953 world championships in Stockholm and the 1954 British Empire and...

    , 1955
  • Foster Hewitt
    Foster Hewitt
    Foster William Hewitt, OC was a Canadian radio broadcaster most famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada. He was the son of W. A. Hewitt, and the father of Bill Hewitt.-Early life and career:...

    , 1975
  • Ike Hildebrand
    Ike Hildebrand
    Isaac Bruce Hildebrand was a Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he played for the Chicago Black Hawks and the New York Rangers of the `original six' NHL teams 1949–1953....

    , 1985
  • John Hiller
    John Hiller
    John Frederick Hiller is a former left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Detroit Tigers. After suffering a heart attack in 1971, he returned to the team and recorded 38 saves in – a major league record until 1983, and a team record until 2000...

    , 1999
  • George Hodgson
    George Hodgson
    George Ritchie Hodgson was a Canadian swimmer of the early 20th century, and considered by many to be the greatest swimmer in Canadian history.He was born and died in Montreal....

    , 1955
  • Abby Hoffman, 2004
  • Tim Horton
    Tim Horton
    Myles Gilbert "Tim" Horton was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in 24 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. He was also a businessman and a co-founder of Tim Hortons. He died in an...

    , 2002
  • Kid Howard
    Kid Howard
    Avery "Kid" Howard was an American jazz trumpeter associated with the New Orleans jazz scene....

    , 1972
  • Gordie Howe
    Gordie Howe
    Gordon "Gordie" Howe, OC is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League , and the Houston Aeros and New England Whalers in the World Hockey Association . Howe is often referred to as Mr...

    , 1975
  • Bobby Hull
    Bobby Hull
    Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull, OC is a former Canadian ice hockey player. He is regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time and perhaps the greatest left winger to ever play the game. Hull was famous for his blonde hair, blinding skating speed, and having the hardest shot, earning...

    , 1988
  • George Hungerford
    George Hungerford
    George William Hungerford, is a Canadian lawyer and Olympic gold medalist rower. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia....

    , 1964
  • Bill Hunter, 2001
  • Jules Huot, 1978
  • Ralph Hutton
    Ralph Hutton
    Ralph Hutton is a former Canadian swimmer. Hutton won a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.-References:* , from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-11-28....

    , 1977

J

  • Sam Jacks
    Sam Jacks
    Samuel Perry Jacks was the Canadian inventor of the sport of ringette and floor hockey. He was posthumously inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2007....

    , 2007
  • Donald Jackson
    Donald Jackson
    Donald George Jackson, CM is a retired Canadian figure skater. He captured four Canadian titles and a bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics...

    , 1962
  • Harvey "Busher" Jackson
    Busher Jackson
    Harvey "Busher" Jackson was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger and defenceman who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, and New York Americans in the National Hockey League....

    , 1975
  • Roger Jackson
    Roger Jackson
    Roger Charles Jackson, is a Canadian academic and Olympic gold medalist rower. He was born in Toronto, Ontario....

    , 1964
  • Russ Jackson
    Russ Jackson
    Russell Stanley "Russ" Jackson, OC is a former professional Canadian football quarterback. Jackson spent his entire 12-year professional football career with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League...

    , 1975
  • Edward James
    Edward James
    Edward William Frank James was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.-Early life and marriage:...

  • Maria Jelinek
    Maria Jelinek
    Maria Jelinek is a Canadian pair skater. She competed with her brother Otto Jelinek. They are the 1962 World Champions, the 1961 North American national champions, and 1961-1962 Canadian national champions...

    , 1962
  • Otto Jelinek
    Otto Jelinek
    Otto John Jelinek, PC is a businessman, former figure skater, and Canadian politician. Jelinek's family fled to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the beginning of the Cold War.-Figure skating career:...

    , 1962
  • Ferguson Jenkins
    Ferguson Jenkins
    Ferguson Arthur "Fergie" Jenkins, CM, is a Canadian former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He was a three-time All-Star and the 1971 NL Cy Young Award winner. In 1991, Jenkins was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. During a 19-year career, he pitched for four different teams,...

    , 1987
  • Harry Jerome
    Harry Jerome
    Henry "Harry" Winston Jerome, was a Canadian track and field runner. He was the grandson of John Howard, a railway porter who represented Canada in the 1912 Summer Olympics....

    , 1971
  • Aurel Joliat
    Aurel Joliat
    Aurèle Émile "Mighty Atom, Little Giant" Joliat was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens....

    , 1975
  • Andreas Josenhans, 1981
  • Gordon Juckes
    Gordon Juckes
    Gordon Juckes was a minor league hockey player and long-time hockey executive. He was a guiding force between the development of high-level youth hockey and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979.Today, each year the Gordon Juckes Award is given by Hockey Canada to a person who has made...


K

  • Red Kelly
    Red Kelly
    Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly, CM is a retired Canadian ice hockey player in the NHL. He played on more Stanley Cup winning teams than any player who never played for the Montreal Canadiens, and is the only player to be part of two of the nine dynasties recognized by the NHL in its history...

    , 1975
  • Duncan Kennedy
    Duncan Kennedy
    Duncan Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a founder of critical legal studies as movement and school of thought. Kennedy has been a member of the ACLU since 1967. According to his own testimony, he has never forgotten to pay his dues.-Education and...

    , 1994
  • Robert Kerr, 1955
  • Bruce Kidd
    Bruce Kidd
    Bruce Kidd, is a Canadian academic, author, and athlete.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was a member of the University of Toronto track and field team. He won 18 national senior championships in Canada, the United States, and Britain...

    , 1968
  • Peter Kirby
    Peter Kirby
    Peter Kirby was a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the mid-1960s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. He was born in Montreal, Quebec....

    , 1964
  • Walter Knox
    Walter Knox
    Walter Knox was a Canadian track and field athlete.Born in Listowel, Ontario, Knox moved to Orillia, Ontario at the age of 15. In 1903, he attended Beloit College in Wisconsin. At the 1907 Canadian track championships, Knox won five national titles: 100 yards, pole vault, long jump, discus, and...

    , 1955
  • George Knudson
    George Knudson
    George Alfred Christian Knudson, CM was a Canadian professional golfer, who along with Mike Weir holds the record for the Canadian with the most wins on the PGA Tour, with eight career victories....

    , 1969
  • Kathy Kreiner
    Kathy Kreiner
    Kathy Kreiner-Phillips is a former Canadian alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria...

    , 1976
  • Joe Krol
    Joe Krol
    Joe "King" Krol was a Canadian football quarterback, running back, defensive back, and placekicker/punter from 1942 to 1953 and 1955...

    , 1975
  • Joseph Kryczka, 1990
  • Norman Kwong
    Norman Kwong
    Norman Lim "Normie" Kwong, CM, AOE is a former professional athlete, sports executive, and was the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta...

    , 1975

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  • Guy Lafleur
    Guy Lafleur
    Guy Damien "The Flower" / "Le Démon Blond" Lafleur, OC, CQ is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player who is widely regarded as one of the most naturally gifted and popular players ever to play professional ice hockey...

    , 1996
  • Patrick Lally, 1965
  • Newsy Lalonde
    Newsy Lalonde
    Édouard Cyrille "Newsy" Lalonde was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League and a professional lacrosse player, regarded as one of hockey's and lacrosse's greatest players of the first half of the 20th century and one of sport's most colourful characters...

    , 1955
  • Nathalie Lambert
    Nathalie Lambert
    Nathalie Lambert is a Canadian Olympic Medalist in Short-track speed skating. She won one Gold medal and two Silver medals at the Olympics. She is also a three-time Overall World Champion for 1991, 1993 and 1994.Lambert won the 11 international competitions in which she participated, between 1992...

    , 2002
  • Ron Lancaster
    Ron Lancaster
    Ronald "Ron" Lancaster was one of the pre-eminent quarterbacks of the Canadian Football League during his playing career; after his retirement as a player, he was also coach and general manager in the same league, and a sports announcer for CBC Television...

    , 1985
  • Sam Langford
    Sam Langford
    Sam Langford was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN. He was rated #2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". Langford was originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova...

    , 1955
  • Silken Laumann
    Silken Laumann
    Silken Suzette Laumann, MSC is a Canadian champion rower.Starting in 1976, Laumann won a number of awards, including a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the U.S. Championships, two gold medals in single sculls at the Pan American Games, a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics in the double sculls with...

    , 1998
  • Jack Laviolette
    Jack Laviolette
    Jean-Baptiste "Jack" Laviolette was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played nine seasons for the Montreal Canadiens hockey club and was their first Captain, Coach, and General Manager....

    , 1960
  • Smirle Lawson
    Smirle Lawson
    Dr. Alexander Smirle Lawson was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for four seasons for the Toronto Argonauts. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:*...

    , 1975
  • Frank Leadley
    Pep Leadley
    Frank "Pep" Leadlay was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for seven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:*...

    , 1975
  • René Lecavalier
    René Lecavalier
    René Lecavalier, OC, CQ was a Canadian French language radio show host and sportscaster on SRC in Quebec. During his career in radio Lecavalier won several Radiomonde Trophies. He was also the first commentator for La Soirée du hockey, the French language version of Hockey Night in Canada...

    , 1994
  • Kerrin Lee-Gartner
    Kerrin Lee-Gartner
    Kerrin Lee-Gartner is a former alpine ski racer. She was born in Trail, British Columbia, Canada.Lee-Gartner started skiing for the Canadian Women's Ski Team in 1982, but suffered a number of knee operations over the years including two complete reconstructions...

    , 1995
  • Catriona LeMay Doan
    Catriona LeMay Doan
    Catriona Ann Le May Doan, OC is a Canadian speed skater and a double Olympic champion in the 500 m. The proper pronunciation of her first name is "Kah-TREE-O-nah".-Speed skating:...

  • Mario Lemieux
    Mario Lemieux
    Mario Lemieux, OC, CQ is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is acknowledged to be one of the best players of all time. He played 17 seasons as a forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 1984 and 2006...

    , 1998
  • Stan Leonard
    Stan Leonard
    Stan Leonard was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s. Leonard won three PGA Tour events, eight Canadian PGA Championships, and 16 other events on the Canadian Tour. He is a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.-Early years:Leonard was born in...

    , 1964
  • Lucille Lessard
    Lucille Lessard
    Lucille Lessard is a Canadian archer. She gained the title of women's champion of World Field in 1974, champion of Americas in 1975, and earned the Canadian championship twice. After having been classified seventh with the championships of the world, in 1975, she was held with high hopes for the...

    , 1977
  • Jean-Louis Lévesque
    Jean-Louis Lévesque
    Jean-Louis Lévesque, was a Canadian entrepreneur, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist....

    , 1986
  • Lennox Lewis
    Lennox Lewis
    Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the most recent British undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship...

    , 2008
  • Dorothy Lidstone, 1977
  • Ted Lindsay
    Ted Lindsay
    Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay is a former professional ice hockey player, a forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League . He scored over 800 points in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1950, and won the Stanley Cup four times...

    , 2002
  • Don Loney
    Don Loney
    Don Loney is a retired professional Canadian football centre. He played for the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1947 to 1951, winning the Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy in 1950 . He later was head football coach of St. Francis Xavier University between 1957 and 1973. Since 1973, the Atlantic Bowl MVP award...

    , 1988
  • Tom Longboat
    Tom Longboat
    Cogwagee was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Indian reserve near Brantford, Ontario, and for much of his career the dominant long distance runner of the time...

    , 1955
  • Johnny Longden
    Johnny Longden
    John Eric Longden was an American Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England but his father wanted to build a better life for his family so in 1909 emigrated to Canada, settling in Taber, Alberta. By 1912 Longden Sr. had saved enough money to send for his wife and young son...

    , 1958
  • Lorne Loomer
    Lorne Loomer
    Lorne Loomer is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Archibald McKinnon, Walter D'Hondt and Donald Arnold....

    , 1957
  • Jocelyn Lovell
    Jocelyn Lovell
    Jocelyn Bjorn Lovell is a former cyclist from Canada.Lovell dominated Canadian cycling in the 1960s and 1970s; winning dozens of national titles as well as gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games...

    , 1985
  • Sammy Luftspring
    Sammy Luftspring
    Sammy Luftspring was a Jewish Canadian boxer. A former Canadian Welterweight Champion and highly ranked in the Welterweight class during his career, Luftspring was forced to retire from the sport due to an eye injury. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.-Early...

    , 1985
  • Cliff Lumsdon
    Cliff Lumsdon
    Clifford Douglas "Cliff" Lumsdon Jr., CM, O.Ont was a Canadian world champion marathon swimmer.From New Toronto, Lumsdon was coached by Gus Ryder at the Lakeshore Swimming Club. He turned professional when he was 16 and would later say that the only regret in his career was giving up his amateur...

    , 1976
  • George Lyon
    George Lyon (golfer)
    George Seymour Lyon was a Canadian golfer, an Olympic gold medallist, an eight-time Canadian Amateur Championship winner, and a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame....

    , 1955

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  • Irene MacDonald
    Irene MacDonald
    Irene Margaret MacDonald, OBC was a Canadian athlete, sports executive and broadcaster from Hamilton, Ontario...

    , 1981
  • Noel MacDonald, 1971
  • Hartland MacDougall
    Hartland MacDougall
    Hartland Brydges MacDougall was a notable Canadian ice hockey player and stockbroker generally regarded as versatile player of the pre-NHL era of the sport. He initially played the position of Goaltender but ended his career playing Point...

    , 1976
  • Ada MacKenzie, 1955
  • Dan MacKinnon, 1957
  • Sandy MacMillan, 1981
  • Karen Magnussen
    Karen Magnussen
    Karen Diane Magnussen, OC is a Canadian figure skater. She won the silver medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics, and is 1973 World Champion....

    , 1973
  • Frank Mahovlich
    Frank Mahovlich
    Francis William "The Big M" Mahovlich, CM is a Canadian Senator, and a retired NHL ice hockey player, nicknamed the "Big M." He played on six Stanley Cup-winning teams and is an inductee of the Hockey Hall of Fame.-Playing career:...

    , 1990
  • Joe Malone, 1975
  • George Mara
    George Mara
    George Edward Mara, CM was a Canadian businessman and Olympian hockey player. He was a member of the Ottawa RCAF Flyers who won the gold medal in ice hockey for Canada at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz....

    , 1993
  • Phil Marchildon
    Phil Marchildon
    Philip Joseph "Babe" Marchildon was a Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher.Born in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Marchildon pitched 1,214 innings with a record of 68 wins and 75 losses and a career ERA of 3.93 for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox from 1940 to 1942 and from 1945 to...

    , 1976
  • Wilbert Martel, 1962
  • Paul Martini
    Paul Martini
    Paul Lloyd Martini is a Canadian pair skater. With partner Barbara Underhill, he is the 1979-1983 Canadian national champion, the 1984 World champion, and the 1978 World Junior champion...

    , 1988
  • Charles Mayer
    Charles Mayer
    Charles James Mayer, PC is a Canadian businessman and former federal Minister of Agriculture. He is Chairman of the Board of agricultural chemical manufacturer Agronix and is also chair of the Manitoba Crop Insurance Corporation....

    , 1971
  • Marnie McBean
    Marnie McBean
    Marnie Elizabeth McBean is a Canadian rower.McBean competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the coxless pairs and eights events, winning gold medals in both. At the 1996 Summer Olympics she competed in the double and quadruple sculls, winning gold in the double and bronze in the quadruple...

    , 1997
  • Harry McBrien, 1978
  • Daniel McCarthy, 1977
  • Dennis McCarthy , 1977
  • Earl McCready
    Earl McCready
    Earl Gray McCready was an amateur wrestler who competed in the U.S. for Oklahoma State University in folkstyle, and as a Canadian freestyle sport wrestler who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics....

    , 1967
  • Jack McCullough, 1960
  • Frank McGill
    Frank McGill
    Frank McGill was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers. He played college football at McGill University, where he also starred at hockey, water polo and swimming...

    , 1959
  • Archie McKinnon, 1957
  • Jimmy McLarnin
    Jimmy McLarnin
    James McLarnin, known as Jimmy McLarnin , was an Irish Canadian professional boxer who became two-time welterweight world champion and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.-Background:McLarnin was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, into a large Methodist family who emigrated...

    , 1963
  • Samuel McLaughlin
    Samuel McLaughlin
    Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, CC, ED, CD was an influential Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He started the McLaughlin Motor Car Co...

    , 1963
  • Duncan McNaughton
    Duncan McNaughton
    Duncan Anderson McNaughton was a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. He went on a career in petroleum geology....

    , 1963
  • Donald McPherson, 1963
  • Johnny Miles
    Johnny Miles
    John "Johnny" C. Miles, CM was a Canadian marathon runner. He won the Boston Marathon in 1926 and 1929....

    , 1967
  • Ian Millar
    Ian Millar
    Ian Millar, CM is a Canadian show jumping world champion and Olympic silver medalist. Due to his longevity and accomplishments, he is often nicknamed "Captain Canada" in his sport. He is tied with Austrian sailor Hubert Raudaschl for most Olympic appearances .-Biography:Millar was born in Halifax,...

    , 1996
  • Miss Supertest III
    Miss Supertest III
    Miss Supertest III was a Canadian-designed and built hydroplane that won the 1959 Detroit Memorial Regatta and the 1959, 1960 and 1961 Harmsworth Cup races -- the only four races it ever entered. It was the only three-time Harmsworth Cup winner and the first non-U.S. winner in 39 years.Racing out...

    , 1960
  • Ray Mitchell, 1973
  • Percy Molson, 1975
  • Howie Morenz
    Howie Morenz
    Howard William Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played centre for three National Hockey League teams: the Montreal Canadiens , the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers...

    , 1955
  • Alwyn Morris
    Alwyn Morris
    Alwyn Morris, CM is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Los Angeles in 1984 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events....

    , 2000
  • Teddy Morris
    Teddy Morris
    Allan Byron Morris was a Canadian Football Hall of Fame player and coach for the Toronto Argonauts.Morris began playing Canadian football with Toronto playground teams and moved on to the Winnipeg Native Sons junior football team. Upon his return to Toronto he joined the Argonauts junior squad...

    , 1975
  • Al Morrow, 2006
  • Debbie Muir, 1995
  • Athol Murray
    Athol Murray
    Monsignor Athol Murray, was a Canadian priest and educator.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was educated at Loyola College, St. Michael's College School, St. Hyacinthe College, and Université Laval....

    , 1972
  • Ken G. Murray, 1980

N

  • James Naismith
    James Naismith
    The first game of "Basket Ball" was played in December 1891. In a handwritten report, Naismith described the circumstances of the inaugural match; in contrast to modern basketball, the players played nine versus nine, handled a soccer ball, not a basketball, and instead of shooting at two hoops,...

    , 1955
  • Susan Nattrass
    Susan Nattrass
    Susan "Sue" Marie Nattrass, is a Canadian shooter and medical researcher in osteoporosis. She was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta. She competed at six Olympic Games in 1976, 1988, 1992, and 2000 to 2008; she is one of sixteen shooters worldwide to compete at at least six Olympic Games...

    , 1977
  • Cindy Nicholas
    Cindy Nicholas
    Cynthia Maria Nicholas, CM is a former athlete and former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990.-Background:...

    , 1993
  • Frank Nighbor
    Frank Nighbor
    Julius Francis "Pembroke Peach" Nighbor was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League and National Hockey Association and Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL, Toronto Blueshirts of the NHA and Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific...

    , 1975
  • Moe Norman
    Moe Norman
    Murray Irwin "Moe" Norman was a Canadian professional golfer. He was widely considered the best ball striker who ever lived among the best players in the world...

    , 2006
  • Ron Northcott
    Ron Northcott
    Ronald Charles "Owl" Northcott, CM is a three-time Canadian and World curling champion and a Hall of Fame member....

    , 1970
  • Northern Dancer
    Northern Dancer
    Northern Dancer was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history"....

    , 1965
  • John Nugent, 1977

O

  • Andy O'Brien, 1980
  • Joe O'Brien, 1965
  • Bill O'Donnell
    Bill O'Donnell
    William Arthur O'Donnell is a prominent harness racer.O'Donnell's parents, Etta and Henry, were both heavily involved in the local racing circuit...

    , 1992
  • John O'Neill, 1966
  • Tip O'Neill, 1994
  • Bobby Orr, 1982
  • Brian Orser
    Brian Orser
    Brian Ernest Orser, OC is a Canadian retired competitive and professional figure skater. He is the 1984 and 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1987 World champion and the 1981-1988 Canadian national champion....

    , 1991
  • George Orton
    George Orton
    George Washington Orton was a Canadian middle-distance runner. In 1900, he became the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal.-Biography:...

    , 1977
  • Anne Ottenbrite
    Anne Ottenbrite
    Anne Ottenbrite is a former breaststroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There she won three medals: gold , silver , and bronze...

    , 1994
  • Gerry Ouellette
    Gerry Ouellette
    Gerald Adrian Ouellette was a professional ice hockey player who played 34 games in the National Hockey League. He played with the Boston Bruins.- References :...

    , 1957

P

  • Percy Page, 1955
  • Paris Crew
    Paris Crew
    The Paris Crew is the name given to a quartet of Canadian sport rowers from Saint John, New Brunswick.Robert Fulton, George Price, Samuel Hutton, and Elijah Ross, along with reserve oarsman James Price, became Canada's first-ever international sporting champions when they defeated the London Rowing...

    , 1956
    • Robert Fulton
    • Samuel Hutton
    • George Price
    • Elija Ross
  • Jackie Parker
    Jackie Parker
    John Dickerson "Jackie" Parker was an American football player who became an All-American in college football and an outstanding professional football player in the Canadian Football League at the running back, quarterback, defensive back, and kicker positions. He is primarily known for his play...

    , 1987
  • Tom Pashby
    Tom Pashby
    Thomas Joseph Pashby, CM was an ophthalmologist and advocate of safety in ice hockey in Canada.Pashby helped push the use of safety equipment for hockey players including mandatory helmets and face guards...

    , 2000
  • Frank Patrick, 1975
  • Lester Patrick
    Lester Patrick
    Curtis Lester "The Silver Fox" Patrick born in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada, was a professional ice hockey player and coach associated with the Victoria Aristocrats/Cougars of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association , and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League...

    , 1975
  • Robert Paul
    Robert Paul
    Robert Paul was a Canadian figure skater, who competed in pairs with Barbara Wagner. He was born in Toronto. From their start as a team in 1952, they captured five Canadian titles and four world titles, and capped their career by winning the gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.After skating as...

    , 1957
  • Bobby Pearce, 1975
  • Doug Peden
    Doug Peden
    James Douglas Peden was a Canadian basketball player who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics....

    , 1979
  • Torchy Peden, 1955
  • Lloyd Percival
    Lloyd Percival
    Lloyd Percival , was an innovative and controversial Canadian sports pioneer and sports entrepreneur....

    , 1976
  • Karen Percy
    Karen Percy
    Karen Percy Lowe is a former Canadian alpine skier. She was born in Banff, Alberta. She won 2 bronze medals in skiing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics...

    , 1994
  • Gordon Perry
    Gordon Perry (Canadian football)
    Gordon Perry was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1970 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:*...

    , 1975
  • Norman Perry
    Norm Perry (Canadian football)
    Norman Perry was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for the Sarnia Imperials for eight seasons. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:*...

    , 1975
  • Garth Pischke,1999
  • Jacques Plante
    Jacques Plante
    Joseph Jacques Omer Plante was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. During a career lasting from 1947–1975, he was considered to be one of the most important innovators in hockey...

    , 1981
  • Steve Podborski
    Steve Podborski
    Stephen Gregory Podborski, is a Canadian former World Cup and Olympic downhill ski racer with Ukrainian ancestry.-Racing career:...

    , 1987
  • Sam Pollock
    Sam Pollock
    Samuel Patterson Smyth "Sam" Pollock, OC, CQ was a general manager in the National Hockey League.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Sam was a keen evaluator of talent. In 1950, with the Montreal Junior Canadiens and in 1958, with the Ottawa Junior Canadiens, he won the Memorial Cup...

    , 1982
  • Bob Porter, 1969
  • Sandra Post
    Sandra Post
    Sandra Post, CM is a Canadian professional golfer. She was the first Canadian to play on the LPGA Tour.-Early years, junior and amateur golf:...

    , 1988
  • Denis Potvin
    Denis Potvin
    Denis Charles Potvin is a former defenseman and team captain for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League and cornerstone for the Islanders' four Stanley Cup championship teams in the early 1980s. His brother, Jean Potvin, was also an NHL defenseman and the brothers were teammates for...

    , 2001
  • Walter Power, 1977
  • Jonathon Power
    Jonathon Power
    Jonathon Tyler Power is a retired professional squash player from Canada. In 1999, he became the first North American squash player to reach the World No. 1 ranking...

    , 2006
  • Gerald Presley
    Gerald Presley
    Gerald Presley was a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the mid-1960s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 1965 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz....

    , 1965
  • Harry Price, 1970
  • Joe Primeau
    Joe Primeau
    Alfred Joseph Francis "Gentleman Joe" Primeau , was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.-Playing career:...

    , 1975
  • John Primrose
    John Primrose (sport shooter)
    John Nairn Primrose, born 28 May 1942 in Ottawa, is a Canadian trap shooter who competed at six Olympics from 1968 to 1992 . His best position was seventh in the Mixed Trap in the 1972 and 1976 Olympics...

    , 1977
  • Jack Purcell
    Jack Purcell
    John Edward "Jack" Purcell was a Canadian world champion badminton player. Purcell was the Canadian National Badminton Champion in 1929 and 1930, and declared the world champion in 1933. He retired in 1945, and pursued a career as a stock broker...

    , 1955

R

  • Pat Ramage, 1984
  • Claude Raymond
    Claude Raymond (baseball)
    Jean Claude Marc Raymond was a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox , Milwaukee Braves/Atlanta Braves , Houston Colt .45's/Houston Astros and Montreal Expos...

    , 2005
  • Harold Rea, 1976
  • Ken Read
    Ken Read
    Ken Read, CM is a retired Canadian Olympic alpine ski racer, Corporate Director, sport advocate and international sports leader....

    , 1986
  • George Reed
    George Reed
    George Robert Reed, CM is a former American college football and Canadian Football League player. Reed, along with Mike Pringle and Johnny Bright, is one of the players most often mentioned as being the greatest running back in CFL history...

    , 1984
  • Ted Reeve
    Ted Reeve
    Edward Henry "Ted" Reeve was a multi-sport Canadian athlete and sports journalist. He was on two Grey Cup winning teams as a football player, a Mann Cup championship as a lacrosse player and three Yates Cup championships as a coach for Queen's University. He is a member of Canada's Sports Hall of...

    , 1959
  • Henri Richard
    Henri Richard
    Joseph Henri Richard is a former professional ice hockey player who played centre with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1955 to 1975...

    , 1992
  • Maurice Richard
    Maurice Richard
    Joseph Henri Maurice "the Rocket" Richard, Sr., was a French-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League from 1942 to 1960. The "Rocket" was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, the first to achieve the feat of 50 goals in 50...

    , 1975
  • Richardson Curling Team, 1968
    • Arnold Richardson
      Arnold Richardson
      Arnold W. Richardson is a Canadian curler. He played third for the "World famous Richardsons", which won four Briers and four World Curling Championships....

    • Ernie Richardson
      Ernie Richardson
      Ernest M. Richardson, CM is a Canadian and world curling champion.Ernie Richardson was the skip of the Regina-based team made up of his brother Garnet and cousins Arnold, Wes Richardson, and Mel Perry who replaced Wes in 1963 due to back issues...

    • Garnet Richardson
      Garnet Richardson
      Garnet Samuel "Sam" Richardson is a Canadian curler. He played second for the "World famous Richardsons", which won four Briers and four World Curling Championships....

    • Wes Richardson
      Wes Richardson
      Wesley H. "Wes" Richardson is a Canadian curler. He played lead for the "World famous Richardsons", winning three of their four Briers and World Curling Championships....

  • Con Riley, 1974
  • Al Ritchie, 1964
  • Bruce Robertson, 1977
  • Blondie Robinson, 1971
  • Larry Robinson
    Larry Robinson
    Larry Clark Robinson is a former ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League. Robinson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995 and is currently the defensive coach for the New Jersey Devils...

    , 2004
  • Fred Robson, 1971
  • Doug Rogers
    Doug Rogers
    For the writer, see Douglas Rogers Douglas "Doug" Rogers is a former Canadian Olympic competitor in judo. He is an honoured member in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. His best results were a silver medal in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and gold medals at two Pan American Games, in 1965 and 1967...

    , 1977
  • Shotty Rogers, 1973
  • Bobbie Rosenfeld
    Bobbie Rosenfeld
    Fanny Rosenfeld was a Canadian athlete, who earned a gold medal for the 400 metre relay and a silver medal for the 100 metre at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She was called the "best Canadian female athlete of the half-century" and a star at basketball, hockey, softball, and tennis...

    , 1955
  • Art Ross
    Art Ross
    Arthur Howey "Art" Ross was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and executive from 1905 until 1954. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era by his peers, he was one of the first to skate with the puck up the ice rather than pass it to a forward...

    , 1975
  • William James Roué, 1955
  • Paul Rowe, 1975
  • Louis Rubenstein
    Louis Rubenstein
    Louis Rubenstein was a Canadian figure skater, sportsman and politician. Rubenstein is considered the "Father of Canadian Figure Skating." After retirement from skating in 1892, Rubenstein became involved in the sports of bowling, curling, and cycling...

    , 1955
  • Jeff Russel, 1975
  • Joe Ryan, 1975
  • Thomas F. Ryan
    Thomas F. Ryan
    Thomas F. "Tommy" Ryan was a Canadian sportsman and entrepreneur who created five-pin bowling.Born in Guelph, Ontario, Ryan moved to Toronto at age 18...

    , 1971
  • Gus Ryder, 1963

S

  • Emile St. Godard
    Emile St. Godard
    Emile St. Godard was a Canadian dog musher and dog sled racer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was a renowned musher in the 1920s and 30's, with much of his fame derived from racing Leonard Seppala and his victory in the demonstration race at the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York...

    , 1956
  • Claude Saunders
    Claude Saunders
    Claude "Sandy" Saunders was a Canadian rower who competed in the Olympic games in 1936 in Berlin. He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in men's eights, but did not win a medal. He was also a spare at the 1948 Summer Olympics and coached Canada's rowing team at the 1958 British Empire and...

    , 1982
  • Julie Sauvé, 2006
  • Terry Sawchuk
    Terry Sawchuk
    Terrance Gordon Sawchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.-Early life and playing career:Sawchuk was born and raised...

    , 1975
  • Milt Schmidt
    Milt Schmidt
    Milton Conrad Schmidt is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre, coach and general manager, mostly for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.-Early years:...

    , 1975
  • Schmirler Curling Team, 2000
    • Jan Betker
      Jan Betker
      Janice "Jan" Betker is a Canadian curler. Betker is best known for playing third on the Sandra Schmirler rink that won three world championships and an Olympic gold medal in the 1990s...

    • Marcia Gudereit
      Marcia Gudereit
      Marcia Gudereit is a Canadian curler.Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she was part of Team Schmirler, the women's curling team that won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. This team is the only 3-time winner of the World Curling Championship...

    • Joan McCusker
      Joan McCusker
      Joan McCusker , grew up in Saltcoats. She is a Canadian curler who played second on the team of Sandra Schmirler at the provincial, national and international level. As part of the Schmirler rink, McCusker won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics...

    • Sandra Schmirler
      Sandra Schmirler
      Sandra Marie Schmirler, SOM , was a Canadian curler, who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler skipped her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year curling was a medal sport...

  • Bert Schneider, 1975
  • Louis Scholes, 1955
  • Barbara Ann Scott, 1955
  • Beckie Scott
    Beckie Scott
    Rebecca "Beckie" Scott, MSM is a retired Canadian cross-country skiing athlete and as of February 23, 2006, an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu....

    , 2007
  • Bob Secord, 1993
  • Frank J. Selke
    Frank J. Selke
    Francis Joseph Aloysius Selke was a Canadian hockey manager in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens and a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee....

    , 1975
  • Peggy Seller, 1966
  • Frank Shaughnessy, Jr., 1974
  • Marjory Shedd, 1970
  • Bill Sherring, 1955
  • Eddie Shore
    Eddie Shore
    Edward William Shore was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, principally for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and the longtime owner of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League, iconic for his toughness and defensive skill.Shore won the Hart Trophy as the...

    , 1975
  • Ben Simpson
    Ben Simpson
    Benjamin L. Simpson was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for seven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:* *...

    , 1975
  • Bullet Joe Simpson
    Bullet Joe Simpson
    Harold Edward Joseph "Bullet Joe" Simpson was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Edmonton Eskimos and New York Americans. In 1932 Simpson was a member of the Winnipeg Hockey Club which won the World Championships and Olympic gold medal for Canada.He was born in...

  • William Simpson, 1971
  • Ethel Smith, 1955
  • Graham Smith
    Graham Smith (swimmer)
    Graham Smith was a Canadian swimmer, who won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He did so alongside Stephen Pickell, Clay Evans, and Gary MacDonald...

    , 1986
  • Herman Smith-Johannsen
    Herman Smith-Johannsen
    Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, CM was a Norwegian-Canadian supercentenarian who gained widespread recognition for being one of the first people to introduce the sport of cross-country skiing to Canada and North America...

    , 1982
  • Conn Smythe
    Conn Smythe
    Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens...

    , 1975
  • Ross Somerville
    Ross Somerville
    Charles Ross "Sandy" Somerville was a Canadian golfer and all-around athlete.Somerville was born in London, Ontario. He won six Canadian Amateur Championship golf titles between 1926 and 1937, and in 1932 became the first Canadian to win the U.S. Amateur...

    , 1955
  • Gerry Sorensen
    Gerry Sorensen
    Gerry Sorensen is a former Canadian alpine skier.Sorensen was born on October 15, 1958 in Kimberley, British Columbia, and began skiing at the age of 10.- World Cup victories :-External links:*...

    , 1989
  • Ron Southern
    Ron Southern
    Ronald D. Southern, CC, CBE is a Canadian businessman. He is chairman of Calgary-based ATCO Ltd. and is also the founder of the Spruce Meadows equestrian center....

     and Margaret Southern
    Margaret Southern
    Margaret E. Southern, CC, LVO, AOE is a Canadian businessperson, noted as a co-founder of the Spruce Meadows equestrian park near Calgary....

    , 2006
  • Jim Speers
    Robert James Speers
    Robert James "Jim" Speers was a Canadian businessman and Canadian Sports Hall of Fame inductee who made a major contribution to the growth of Thoroughbred horse racing in Western Canada....

    , 1966
  • Dave Sprague
    David Sprague
    David S. Sprague was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for eleven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers and the Ottawa Rough Riders. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.Sprague represented Elmdale Ward...

    , 1975
  • Frank Stack
    Frank Stack (speed skater)
    Frank Stack was a Canadian speed skater and Olympic medalist. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba....

    , 1974
  • Robert Steadward
    Robert Steadward
    Robert Steadward, OC, AOE is a Canadian "author, sport scientist, manager, counsellor, consultant and community volunteer", who was the founding president of the International Paralympic Committee , which he presided from 1989 to 2001. Prior to that, he had founded the Canadian Sports Fund for the...

    , 2007
  • Dave Steen
    Dave Steen
    David Lee Steen, CM is a retired Canadian decathlete, a three-time member of the Canadian Summer Olympic Games team and the first Canadian to score more than 8,000 points in the decathlon....

    , 1992
  • Nels Stewart
    Nels Stewart
    Robert Nelson "Old Poison" Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Maroons, New York Americans and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League...

    , 1975
  • Ron Stewart
    Ron Stewart (football player)
    Ronald L. Stewart is a former Canadian running back for Queen's University and the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League.-Rough Rider career:...

    , 1989
  • Bummer Stirling, 1975
  • Elvis Stojko
    Elvis Stojko
    Elvis Stojko, MSC, MSM is a Canadian figure skater. He is a three-time World champion , two-time Olympic silver medalist , and seven-time Canadian champion ....

    , 2006
  • Red Storey
    Red Storey
    Roy Alvin "Red" Storey, CM was a Canadian football player and National Hockey League referee.-Early life and career:...

    , 1986
  • Marlene Streit
    Marlene Streit
    Marlene Stewart Streit, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian amateur golfer, and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.She was born in Cereal, Alberta. She learned golf from Gordon McInnis Sr. at the Lookout Point Golf Club in Fonthill, Ontario...

    , 1962
  • Hilda Strike
    Hilda Strike
    Competitor for CanadaHilda H. Strike was a Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist. She was born in Montreal and died in Ottawa....

    , 1972
  • Annis Stukus
    Annis Stukus
    Annis Paul Stukus was a Canadian football player, coach and general manager, and ice hockey general manager....

    , 1991
  • Jack Sullivan
    Jack Sullivan
    Jack Sullivan was an assistant director.He won the Best Assistant Director award at the 9th Academy Awards for The Charge of the Light Brigade....

    , 1983
  • Summit Series Hockey Team, 2005
    • Don Awrey
      Don Awrey
      Donald William "Elbows" Awrey is a former professional hockey player, who played 979 career NHL games with the Boston Bruins, St...

    • Red Berenson
    • Gary Bergman
      Gary Bergman
      Gary Gunnar Bergman was a professional ice hockey defenceman playing in the NHL mostly for the Detroit Red Wings...

    • Wayne Cashman
      Wayne Cashman
      Wayne Cashman is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and a former NHL head coach.-Playing career:Cashman played his junior hockey as a teammate of Bobby Orr's on the Oshawa Generals of the OHA...

    • Bobby Clarke
      Bobby Clarke
      Robert Earle Clarke, OC , better known as Bobby Clarke or, in later life, Bob Clarke, is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played his entire National Hockey League career with the Philadelphia Flyers and is currently an executive with the team...

    • Yvan Cournoyer
      Yvan Cournoyer
      Yvan Serge "The Roadrunner" Cournoyer is a retired Canadian hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens from 1963 to 1979. Cournoyer was born in Drummondville, Quebec. He was nicknamed "The Roadrunner" due to his small size and blazing speed, which he...

    • Ron Ellis
      Ron Ellis
      Ronald John Edward Ellis is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs.-Playing career:...

    • Tony Esposito
      Tony Esposito
      For the Italian musician, please see Tony Esposito .Anthony James "Tony O" Esposito is a retired Canadian-American professional ice hockey goaltender, who played in the National Hockey League, most notably for the Chicago Black Hawks. He was one of the pioneers of the now popular butterfly style....

    • John Ferguson
      John Ferguson, Sr.
      John Bowie "Fergy" Ferguson Sr. was a professional ice hockey player. Ferguson played as a left-winger for the Montreal Canadiens from 1963 to 1971.-Early years:...

    • Rod Gilbert
      Rod Gilbert
      Rodrigue Gabriel Gilbert is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. He played right wing on the GAG line that also featured Vic Hadfield and Jean Ratelle...

    • Brian Glennie
      Brian Glennie
      Brian "Blunt" Glennie is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the NHL from 1969 until 1979. Glennie was a master of the hip-check.-Amateur career:...

    • Bill Goldsworthy
      Bill Goldsworthy
      William Alfred Goldsworthy was a professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League for 14 seasons between 1964 and 1978, most notably for the Minnesota North Stars.-Playing career:...

    • Jocelyn Guevremont
      Jocelyn Guevremont
      Jocelyn Marcel Guevremont is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played nine season in the National Hockey League...

    • Vic Hadfield
      Vic Hadfield
      Victor Edward Hadfield is a retired professional ice hockey player. One of the most popular players in New York Rangers history, Hadfield had a sixteen-year career in the NHL, tallying 323 goals and 389 assists with 1154 penalty minutes in 1002 career games with the Rangers and the Pittsburgh...

    • Dennis Hull
      Dennis Hull
      Dennis William Hull is a retired professional ice hockey left winger, most notably for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League...

    • Eddie Johnston
      Eddie Johnston
      Edward Joseph Johnston is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender and former coach and general manager in the National Hockey League...

    • Guy Lapointe
      Guy Lapointe
      Guy Gerard "Pointu" Lapointe is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League...

    • Peter Mahovlich
      Peter Mahovlich
      Peter Joseph "Little M" Mahovlich , known in his playing years as "Little M", is a retired Canadian professional hockey forward and head coach.-Playing career:...

    • Richard Martin
      Rick Martin
      Richard Lionel Martin was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings for 11 seasons between 1971 and 1982...

    • Stan Mikita
      Stan Mikita
      Stanislav "Stan" Mikita , is a Slovak-born Canadian retired professional ice hockey player, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. In 1961, he won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks, with whom he played his entire career.-Early life:Mikita was born in Sokolče, Slovak Republic...

    • J. P. Parisé
    • Brad Park
      Brad Park
      Douglas Bradford Park is a retired ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings...

    • Gilbert Perreault
      Gilbert Perreault
      Gilbert Perreault is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played for seventeen seasons with the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League. He was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990. Known for his ability to stickhandle in close quarters, he was regarded as one of the...

    • Jean Ratelle
      Jean Ratelle
      Joseph Gilbert Yvon "Jean" Ratelle is a former Canadian ice hockey player and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. It has often been said of Jean Ratelle that he was so consistently effective at a high level of play day in and day out that he has been overlooked by some as one of the greatest to...

    • Mickey Redmond
    • Serge Savard
      Serge Savard
      Serge Aubrey "The Senator" Savard, OC, CQ is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman, most famously with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League . He is also a local businessman in Montreal, and is nicknamed the Senator.-Playing career:Savard played minor league hockey with the...

    • Harry Sinden
      Harry Sinden
      Harry James Sinden was the long-time general manager, coach, and president for the Boston Bruins NHL hockey team, and was the coach of Team Canada during the 1972 Summit Series...

    • Pat Stapleton
    • Dale Tallon
      Dale Tallon
      Dale Tallon is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and current General Manager for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League ....

    • Bill White

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  • Elaine Tanner
    Elaine Tanner
    Elaine Tanner-Watt, OC is a retired Canadian swimmer.-Career:Nicknamed "Mighty Mouse" partly because of her small stature and partly due to her competitive drive, Tanner had a large impact on Canadian swimming and is considered one of the top performers in the sport.During the 1966 Commonwealth...

    , 1971
  • Cyclone Taylor
    Cyclone Taylor
    Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor, OBE, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. Taylor was one of the earliest professional players. He played professionally for the Portage Lakes Hockey Club, the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Vancouver Millionaires from 1905 to 1923...

    , 1975
  • E. P. Taylor
    E. P. Taylor
    Edward Plunket Taylor was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. Known to his friends as "Eddie", he is universally recorded as "E. P...

    , 1974
  • Ron Taylor
    Ron Taylor (baseball)
    Ronald Wesley Taylor is a former professional baseball player. He was a pitcher over parts of 11 seasons with the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, New York Mets and San Diego Padres. Taylor was a member of two World Series-winning teams: the 1964 St. Louis Cardinals and the...

    , 1993
  • Mark Tewksbury
    Mark Tewksbury
    Mark Tewksbury, MSM is a Canadian former swimmer. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the 100 metres backstroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics...

    , 1995
  • Linda Thom
    Linda Thom
    Linda Mary Alice Thom, CM, née Malcolm, is a Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning shooter.Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from Carleton University....

    , 1992
  • Jim Thompson
    Jim Thompson (powerboat racing)
    James "Jim" G. Thompson is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and sportsman. He is best-known for designing and building the Miss Supertest hydroplanes....

    , 1960
  • Earl Thomson
    Earl Thomson
    Earl John "Tommy" Thompson was Canadian athlete, a specialist in the high hurdles....

    , 1955
  • Cliff Thorburn
    Cliff Thorburn
    Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn CM, known as Cliff Thorburn is a retired professional Canadian snooker player...

    , 2001
  • Brian Timmis
    Brian Timmis
    Brian Timmis was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for twenty seasons, mainly for the Hamilton Tigers and the Ottawa Rough Riders. Timmis's teams won three Grey Cups. He later coached the Hamilton Flying Wildcats, leading them to the 31st Grey Cup championship...

    , 1975
  • Andy Tommy
    Andy Tommy
    Andy Tommy Sr. was a star professional Canadian football player for eleven seasons for the Ottawa Rough Riders and one season for the Toronto Argonauts. Tommy led his team to two Grey Cup wins, in 1940 and 1945...

    , 1976
  • Cathy Townsend, 1977
  • Jim Trifunov
    Jim Trifunov
    James "Jim" Trifunov was a Canadian freestyle sport wrestler who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1932 Summer Olympics.He was born and died in Winnipeg....

    , 1960
  • Joe Tubman
    Joe Tubman
    Robert Joseph "Joe" Tubman was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for thirteen seasons for the Ottawa Rough Riders. Tubman led his team to two Grey Cup wins, in 1925 and 1926. After retiring from the field, Tubman worked as a referee for 15 years...

    , 1975
  • Ron Turcotte
    Ron Turcotte
    Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte, CM is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973....

    , 1980
  • Dave Turner, 1955

W

  • Barbara Wagner
    Barbara Wagner
    Barbara Aileen Wagner is a former Canadian pair skater who competed with Robert Paul. The couple captured five Canadian titles and four world titles, and capped their career by winning the gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.After her competitive career, she married fellow skater James Grogan...

    , 1957
  • Carolyn Waldo
    Carolyn Waldo
    Carolyn Jane Waldo, is a former synchronized swimmer from Canada.Competing both as a solo and as part of a duo with Michelle Cameron, Waldo experienced tremendous success in international competition...

    , 1991
  • Larry Walker
    Larry Walker
    Larry Kenneth Robert Walker is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1989 through 2005, Walker played for the Montreal Expos , Colorado Rockies , and St. Louis Cardinals...

    , 2007
  • Nick Wall
    Nick Wall
    Nicholas J. "Nick" Wall was a Canadian jockey who competed successfully in Canada and was the 1938 Champion rider in the United States....

    , 1979
  • Angus Walters, 1955
  • Dorothy Walton
    Dorothy Walton
    Dorothy Louise Walton, CM, née McKenzie was a Canadian badminton player who is the only Canadian ever to win the All England Open Badminton Championships, winning the Women Singles in 1939....

    , 1961
  • Keith Waples
    Keith Waples
    Keith Waples is a Hall of Fame sulky driver and trainer in the sport of harness racing. In 1959, Waples became the first driver to record a sub two-minute mile in Canada and the first to win a $100,000 race in Canada.In 1962, Keith Waples drove Tie Silk to victory in the International Trot at...

    , 1973
  • Ken Watson
    Ken Watson
    James Kenneth Watson, CM was a Canadian curler.Watson was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba and moved to Winnipeg later. He was the first man to skip his rink to three Brier championships in 1936, 1942 and 1949....

    , 1969
  • Hawley Welch
    Huck Welch
    Hawley "Huck" Welch was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for eight seasons for the Hamilton Tigers and the Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1964 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.-References:*...

    , 1975
  • Nick Weslock, 1971
  • John Whalen, 1977
  • Lucille Wheeler
    Lucille Wheeler
    Lucille Wheeler, CM is a Canadian former Alpine skiing world champion. She was born in Montreal, Quebec.-Biography:Wheeler grew up in the village of Sainte-Jovite, Quebec, in the Laurentian mountains...

    , 1958
  • Denis Whitaker
    Denis Whitaker
    Brigadier-General William Denis Whitaker, was a Canadian soldier, business man, and author.-Early life:...

    , 1990
  • Percy Williams
    Percy Williams
    Percy Alfred Williams, OC was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 m and 200 m races at the 1928 Summer Olympics.- Biography :Williams was born in Vancouver and he died in Vancouver....

    , 1955
  • Bruce Wilson
    Bruce Wilson (soccer)
    Bruce Alec Wilson was a NASL and Canadian international soccer player. He played the second most games of any player in the former league, 299 . He also captained the Canadian team at the 1986 FIFA World Cup finals, the sole time Canada has appeared...

    , 2000
  • Harold Wilson, 1975
  • Jean Wilson
    Jean Wilson (speed skater)
    Jean Wilson was an Olympic Speed Skater.She was born on July 19, 1910 in Glasgow but her family emigrated to Canada when she was a child. She began to skate at the age of 15 and represented Canada at the 1932 Olympics where Women's speed skating was a demonstration event...

    , 1955
  • Walter Windeyer, 1972
  • Pappy Wood
    Pappy Wood
    D. J. Howard "Pappy" Wood, Sr. was a Canadian curler.Wood played ice hockey, lacrosse and soccer in his youth, but is most notable for his curling achievements.One of Wood's most notable feats is participating in 71...

    , 1977
  • George Woolf
    George Woolf
    George Monroe Woolf , nicknamed "The Ice Man", was a Canadian-born thoroughbred race horse jockey and the namesake of the annual jockey's award given by the United States Jockeys' Guild....

    , 1956
  • Jim Worrall, 1987
  • Harold Wright, 1987
  • Jack Wright
    Jack Wright (tennis)
    Jack Wright was a noted Canadian tennis player.Wright captured the Canadian National tennis tournament singles title three times, in 1927, 1929, and 1931, and the doubles title four times, in with Willard Crocker in 1923, 1925, and 1929, and once with Marcel Rainville, in 1931.Wright competed...

    , 1955
  • Joe Wright Jr., 1955
  • Joe Wright Sr., 1955

Y

  • George Young
    George Young (swimmer)
    George Young was a Canadian marathon swimmer who on 15–16 January 1927 became the first swimmer to swim the channel between Catalina Island and the mainland of California. This took place during a contest called the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, sponsored by chewing gum and sports magnate William...

    , 1955
  • Jim Young
    Jim Young
    James Norman "Dirty Thirty" Young is a former professional American football and Canadian football player. Young played running back and wide receiver for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings for one season , and the CFL's BC Lions for twelve seasons...

    , 2002
  • Michael Young
    Michael Young (bobsleigh)
    Michael Young was a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the 1960s. He won two medals at the 1965 FIBT World Championships in St...

    , 1965
  • Steve Yzerman
    Steve Yzerman
    Stephen Gregory "Steve" Yzerman is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League...

    , 2008


See also

  • Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
  • Lou Marsh Trophy
    Lou Marsh Trophy
    The Lou Marsh Trophy, also known as the Lou Marsh Memorial Trophy and Lou Marsh Award, is a trophy that is awarded annually to Canada's top athlete, professional or amateur. It is awarded by a panel of journalists, with the vote taking place in December. It was first awarded in 1936...

  • Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century
    Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century
    Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century as voted on in a 1999 survey of newspaper editors and broadcasters conducted by the Canadian Press and Broadcast News:-Top 10 Female Athletes:# Nancy Greene , skier# Silken Laumann , rower...

  • Bobbie Rosenfeld Award
    Bobbie Rosenfeld Award
    The Bobbie Rosenfeld Award is an annual award given to Canada's female athlete of the year. The sports writers of the Canadian Press first conducted a poll to determine the nation's top female in 1933, naming golfer Ada Mackenzie the winner. The CP formalized the poll into an award in 1978,...

     (female)
  • Velma Springstead Trophy
    Velma Springstead Trophy
    The Velma Springstead Trophy is an award presented annually to Canada's outstanding female athlete. It is named in honour of track athlete Velma Springstead whose career ended prematurely when she died from pneumonia in 1927 when only 20 years old. The Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada...

     (female)
  • Lionel Conacher Award
    Lionel Conacher Award
    The Lionel Conacher Award is an annual award given to Canada's male athlete of the year. The sports writers of the Canadian Press first conducted a poll to determine the nation's top athlete, of either gender, in 1932. Separate polls for the best male and female athletes were conducted beginning...

    (male)
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