List of people from Greater Sudbury
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Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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

. It includes people from all communities within the current city boundaries.

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  • Robert Adetuyi
    Robert Adetuyi
    Robert Adetuyi is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. A graduate of York University, where he studied communications and sociology, he moved to Hollywood in 1992....

    , screenwriter (Stomp the Yard
    Stomp the Yard
    Stomp the Yard is a 2007 drama and dance film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures' Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007. Directed by Sylvain White, Stomp the Yard centers around DJ Williams, a college student at a fictional historically Black university who pledges...

    )
  • Kelley Armstrong
    Kelley Armstrong
    Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works.She has published sixteen fantasy novels , set in the world of the Women of the Otherworld and the Darkest Powers series, also two crime novels in 2007 and 2009...

    , author, creator of the Women of the Otherworld
    Women of the Otherworld
    Women of the Otherworld is the name of a fantasy series by Canadian author Kelley Armstrong.The books feature werewolves, witches, necromancers, and vampires struggling to fit as "normal" in today's world...

    book series
  • Al Arbour
    Al Arbour
    Alger Joseph "Radar" Arbour is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and a coach and executive in the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...

    , NHL hockey coach
  • Larry Aurie
    Larry Aurie
    Harry Lawrence "Little Dempsey" Aurie was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Cougars, Detroit Falcons and Detroit Red Wings.- Playing career :Aurie was considered by owner James Norris as the heart and soul of the...

    , former captain of the Detroit Red Wings
    Detroit Red Wings
    The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...


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  • 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...

    , Olympic gold medalist (1984)
  • Rick Bartolucci
    Rick Bartolucci
    Rick Bartolucci is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has represented Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty...

    , politician
  • Larry Berrio
    Larry Berrio
    Larry Berrio is a Canadian country music singer. Berrio's debut album, RPM, was released in March 2009 by 306 Records. The album was produced and recorded with Gil Grand and Brady Seals together with band members from Jason Aldean's band in Nashville. He was the featured artist online CMT from...

    , country musician
  • Hector "Toe" Blake, NHL hockey player, coached eight Stanley Cup
    Stanley Cup
    The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...

     teams
  • Michel Bock
    Michel Bock
    Michel Bock is a Canadian historian, who specializes in the history of Franco-Ontarian communities and cultures. His book Quand la nation débordait les frontières: les minorités françaises dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx was the winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award in the French language...

    , historian and winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award
    2005 Governor General's Awards
    The nominees for the 2005 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 17. Winning titles were announced on November 16...

     for French language
    French language
    French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

     non-fiction
  • Tessa Bonhomme
    Tessa Bonhomme
    Tessa Bonhomme is an Olympic Gold Medalist and member of the Canadian national women's hockey team. She was also a member and co-captain of the Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey team in the NCAA....

    , member of Team Canada women's hockey
  • Joe Bowen
    Joe Bowen
    Joe Bowen , is a Canadian sportscaster. He is known as "The Voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs", having broadcast over 2,100 Leaf Games. He started calling games for the Leafs in 1982, after calling games for the Nova Scotia Voyageurs.Bowen's catchphrase is "Holy Mackinaw!", typically used when an...

    , Canadian sportscaster (Molson Leafs Hockey)
  • Andrew Brunette
    Andrew Brunette
    Andrew Brunette is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:Brunette grew up in the small community of Valley East, Ontario just outside of Sudbury...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Daryl Brunt
    Daryl Brunt
    Daryl Milton Byron Brunt is a Sudbury, Ontario resident and was contestant on the third season of the hit reality show Canadian Idol. He began his high school career in 2002 as a vocal major at Sudbury Secondary School and left the vocal program to became a drama major in his third year...

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

    competitor
  • Cummy Burton
    Cummy Burton
    Cumming Scott Burton was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings....

    , NHL hockey player Detroit Red Wings, and OHL Sudbury Wolves

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  • Robert Campeau
    Robert Campeau
    Robert Campeau is a Canadian financier and real estate developer.-Early years:His formal education ended in grade eight, at the age of 14. He talked himself into jobs at Inco as a general labourer, carpenter and machinist. In 1949 he entered the residential end of the construction business...

    , financier
  • Randy Carlyle
    Randy Carlyle
    Randolph Robert Carlyle is a former ice hockey defenceman and formely the head coach of the Anaheim Ducks. He was raised in Azilda, just northwest of Sudbury, Ontario.-Career:...

    , NHL hockey player, NHL hockey coach
  • Judy Feld Carr
    Judy Feld Carr
    Judith Feld Carr, CM is a Canadian Jewish musician and human rights activist known for secretly smuggling thousands of Jews out of Syria over a period of 28 years.-Biography:...

    , humanitarian who rescued over 3,000 Jewish people from wartorn Syria
    Syria
    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

     in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Margaret Christakos
    Margaret Christakos
    Margaret Christakos is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto.-Life:Christakos was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. Christakos received her B.F.A. in Visual Arts from York University in 1985. She lived in Montreal from 1985 to 1987, settling in Toronto in 1988. She went on to pursue an M.A...

    , poet
  • Kevin Closs
    Kevin Closs
    Kevin Closs is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Manitowaning, Ontario. Born in Sault Ste. Marie in 1963, Closs was raised on Manitoulin Island, and currently lives in Onaping Falls. An independent recording artist since 1987, he works both as a solo performer and with his rock band The Nobs.Closs...

    , singer-songwriter
  • Cindy Cook
    Cindy Cook
    Cindy Cook is a Canadian children's entertainer.A graduate of York University's theatre program , she auditioned for the long-running children's series Polka Dot Door in 1981, and became the longest-serving host in the program's history...

    , children's entertainer and former host of Polka Dot Door
    Polka Dot Door
    Polka Dot Door was a long-running children's television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario from 1971 until 1993. The show, which aired Monday to Friday, was set in a large playhouse...

  • Sean Costello
    Sean Costello (author)
    Sean Costello is a Canadian author of horror fiction and an anesthesiologist living in Sudbury, Ontario.His first three novels, published in North America by Pocket Books, have been released in the UK by Tor Books and translated into Dutch, German and Russian...

    , author

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  • Jean-Marc Dalpé
    Jean-Marc Dalpé
    Jean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature....

    , dramatist and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award
    Governor General's Award
    The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields. The first was conceived in 1937 by Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor...

  • Andrew Desjardins
    Andrew Desjardins
    Andrew Desjardins is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...

     NHL hockey player with the San Jose Sharks
    San Jose Sharks
    The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...

  • Paul Desmarais
    Paul Desmarais
    Paul Desmarais, Sr., is a Canadian financier in Montreal. With an estimated net worth of $US 4.5 billion , Desmarais was ranked by Forbes as the 4th wealthiest person in Canada and 235th in the world.Desmarais also owns homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.He is CEO of the Power Corporation...

    , businessman
  • Robert Dickson
    Robert Dickson (writer)
    Robert Dickson was a Canadian poet, translator and academic.Dickson formerly worked as a professor for le Département d'études françaises et de traduction at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario...

    , poet and winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for French poetry
    2002 Governor General's Awards
    The 2002 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Tuesday, November 19...

  • Ron Duguay
    Ron Duguay
    Ronald Duguay is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach who played 12 seasons in the NHL from 1977 through 1989, and served four seasons as a minor league coach...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Rand Dyck
    Rand Dyck
    Dr. Perry Rand Dyck, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Laurentian University is the author of the Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches textbook which is used in many Canadian Universities, and taught to students studying Political Science, Law, Economics, Women's Studies, Philosophy,...

    , political scientist
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

     and professor at Laurentian University
    Laurentian University
    Laurentian University , was incorporated on March 28, 1960, is a mid-sized bilingual university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada....


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  • Judy Erola
    Judy Erola
    Judith Erola, née Jacobson, PC is a former Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Nickel Belt in the Canadian House of Commons from 1980 to 1984. She was a member of the Liberal Party....

    , former federal cabinet minister and Member of Parliament
  • 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....

    , Olympic gold medalist (1996)

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  • Mike Foligno
    Mike Foligno
    Michael Anthony Foligno is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League for fifteen seasons from 1979–80 until 1993–94...

    , NHL hockey player, OHL hockey coach
  • Marcus Foligno
    Marcus Foligno
    Marcus Foligno is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey player, who currently plays for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League . He was selected 104th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.-Personal:Foligno was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of former...

    , OHL hockey player, Silver Medalist at the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
  • Nick Foligno
    Nick Foligno
    Nicholas Foligno [pronounced Fo-lee-no] is a professional ice hockey player with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League . He was chosen in the first round, 28th overall by the club in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. His father, Mike Foligno, also played in the NHL.-U.S...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Dave Fortier
    Dave Fortier
    David Edward Fortier is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association during the 1970s.-Playing career:...

    , NHL and OHL hockey player
  • Pete Friesen
    Pete Friesen
    Pete Friesen is a guitarist who has toured the world and recorded with such acts as Alice Cooper, The Almighty and Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.-Biography:...

    , guitarist and songwriter with Alice Cooper and The Almighty

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  • Aaron Gavey
    Aaron Gavey
    Aaron Gavey is a retired ice hockey player. He last played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga for the Kölner Haie .-Playing career:...

    , hockey player
  • France Gélinas
    France Gélinas
    France Gélinas is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Nickel Belt in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 Ontario election. She is a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party....

    , politician
  • Eddie Giacomin
    Eddie Giacomin
    Edward "Ed" Giacomin is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League, as well as for the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League.-Playing career:Despite suffering serious burns in a kitchen accident,...

    , hockey player
  • Frank Giustra
    Frank Giustra
    Frank Giustra is a Canadian business executive, who has been particularly successful in the mining and filmmaking industries, and is a noted philanthropist.-Early life:...

    , business executive, particularly successful in the mining and filmmaking industries, noted philanthropist
  • Gerald S. Graham
    Gerald S. Graham
    Gerald Sandford Graham was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970...

    , imperial and naval historian; University of London professor
  • Gil Grand
    Gil Grand
    Gil Grand is a country music singer, best known for his hit "Famous First Words." Active since 1998, he has released three studio albums to date: 1998's Famous First Words, 2002's Burnin′ and 2006's Somebody's Someone...

    , country musician
  • Claude Gravelle
    Claude Gravelle
    Claude Gravelle is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the electoral district of Nickel Belt in the 2008 Canadian federal election. He is a member of the New Democratic Party....

    , politician

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  • Keith Hennessy
    Keith Hennessy
    Keith Hennessy is a San Francisco-based dancer, choreographer, and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of queer and AIDS-themed expressionist dance...

    , San Francisco-based dancer, choreographer, and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of queer and AIDS-themed expressionist dance
  • Tracy Horgan
    Tracy Horgan
    Tracy Horgan is a Canadian curler.Horgan is a three time Northern Ontario junior champion skip, having won the "provincial" championship in 2005, 2006 and 2007....

    , professional curler on the World Curling Tour
    World Curling Tour
    The Asham World Curling Tour is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male curlers in the world. A Women's World Curling Tour also exists....

    , three time provincial junior champion.

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  • James Jerome
    James Jerome
    James Alexander Jerome, PC was a Canadian jurist and former politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons....

    , former federal Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Commons
    Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
    The Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Parliament of Canada and is elected at the beginning of each new parliament by fellow Members of Parliament...

  • Rebecca Johnston
    Rebecca Johnston
    Rebecca Johnston is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team. Also she plays for Cornell University.-Canada Winter Games:...

    , Olympic gold medalist for Canada's women's hockey team
  • David Johnston
    David Johnston
    David Lloyd Johnston is a Canadian academic, author and statesman who is the current Governor General of Canada, the 28th since Canadian Confederation....

    , Current Governor General of Canada
    Governor General of Canada
    The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...


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  • Devon Kershaw
    Devon Kershaw
    Devon Kershaw is a Canadian cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. Growing up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, he split his time between several sports before choosing to focus on his skiing career.-Early life and career:...

    , competitive cross-country skier
  • Gary Kinsman
    Gary Kinsman
    Gary Kinsman is a Canadian sociologist. He is one of Canada's leading academics on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. In 1987, he wrote one of the key Canadian texts on LGBT social history, Regulation of Desire, reprinted in 1995...

    , sociologist
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

     and professor at Laurentian University

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  • François Lamoureux and Pierre Lamoureux, musicians (Brasse-Camarade
    Brasse-Camarade
    Brasse-Camarade was a francophone rock and blues group from Ontario, Canada during the 1990s. They were one of the most popular and successful musical groups in Franco-Ontarian history, scoring Top 40 hits in Quebec and Portugal and becoming in 1995 the first Franco-Ontarian group ever to reach #1...

    )
  • Floyd Laughren
    Floyd Laughren
    Floyd Laughren is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1998 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, and served as Finance Minister and Deputy Premier in the government of Bob Rae.-Background:Laughren's childhood was far...

    , former Member of Provincial Parliament and Ontario Minister of Finance
  • Nathan Lawr
    Nathan Lawr
    Nathan Lawr is a Canadian singer-songwriter, currently fronting the band Minotaurs.The original drummer for Royal City, Lawr left the band in 2002 to pursue a solo career...

    , singer-songwriter
  • Christie Lee
    Christie Lee
    Christie Lee is a pornographic actress who entered the industry in 2002. She left the porn industry in 2006 to help care for her sister, who had cancer.-Awards:*2004 XRCO Award nominee – Teen Cream Dream...

    , porn actress
  • Dave Lowry
    Dave Lowry
    David John Lowry is a retired professional ice hockey player from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He played in the National Hockey League from 1985 to 2004...

    , NHL hockey player

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  • Derek MacKenzie
    Derek MacKenzie
    Derek MacKenzie is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the National Hockey League's Columbus Blue Jackets. He was drafted 128th overall by the Atlanta Thrashers in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft...

    , NHL player
  • Dale McCourt
    Dale McCourt
    Dale Allen McCourt is a former NHL ice hockey forward. Dale began his junior hockey career with the Hamilton Red Wings in 1972–73. Two years later he was the team captain of the 1976 Memorial Cup champion Hamilton Fincups. In 1977 he led the team to the Hamilton Spectator Trophy...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Ross McLaren
    Ross McLaren (filmmaker)
    Ross McLaren is a Canadian artist and filmmaker, based in New York City.-Biography:McLaren was born in 1953 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and graduated with honors from Ontario College of Art, where he also did post-graduate work.-Advocacy:...

    , filmmaker and artist
  • Ken McGowan
    Ken McGowan
    Ken McGowan Is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, Information Architect and former politician.Mr. McGowan was the leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia in 2007-8. And was the GPNS candidate for the Electoral District of Annapolis in the Nova Scotia provincial election of 2006.Ken is a...

    . politician
  • Kate Maki
    Kate Maki
    -Biography:Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Maki studied neuroscience at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and education at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario...

    , singer-songwriter
  • Diane Marleau
    Diane Marleau
    Diane Marleau, PC, MP is a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Sudbury in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2008, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien...

    , politician
  • Elie Martel
    Elie Martel
    Elie Walter Martel is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1987, as a member of the New Democratic Party .-Personal life:...

    , politician
  • Shelley Martel
    Shelley Martel
    Shelley Dawn Marie Martel is a Canadian politician. A former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, she represented the riding of Sudbury East from 1987 to 1999, and Nickel Belt from 1999 until 2007, as a New Democrat....

    , politician
  • Jake Mathews
    Jake Mathews
    Jake Mathews is a country music singer, songwriter and performer.-Career:Jake's self-titled debut CD garnered six nationally charted hits: "I’ll Do You One Better," "Try Again Tomorrow," "That’s How Long," "Rush," "I’m Gone" and "There Ain’t No Such Thing."His second CD, Time After Time,...

    , country musician
  • Bruce Mau
    Bruce Mau
    Bruce Mau is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries.-Life and career:...

    , designer
  • Marc Mayer
    Marc Mayer
    Marc Mayer is a Canadian arts manager and curator, who was named the director of the National Gallery of Canada on December 8, 2008....

    , art curator and director of the National Gallery of Canada
    National Gallery of Canada
    The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...


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  • B. P. Paquette
    B. P. Paquette
    Benjamin Patrick Paquette , is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and academic.-Background:Born in London, Ontario, Paquette spent his childhood and adolescence in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. He graduated from Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Quebec,...

    , film director, screenwriter, producer, and academic
  • Robert Paquette
    Robert Paquette
    Robert Paquette is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter.In 1970, he worked with the theatre group at Laurentian University, composing songs for the franco-ontarian stage musical Moé, j'viens du nord, 'stie!. The troupe eventually evolved into the city's Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario...

    , singer-songwriter
  • Stéphane Paquette
    Stéphane Paquette
    Stéphane Paquette is a Franco-Ontarian singer-songwriter and actor from Canada.A founding member of the band Les Chaizes Muzikales in 1993, Paquette launched a solo career in 2002 with his first solo album, L'Homme exponentiel.Paquette is also known as an improv comedian and actor...

    , francophone singer-songwriter and actor (Météo+
    Météo+
    Météo+ is a Canadian television sitcom which began airing on TFO, the French language public broadcaster in Ontario, on February 14, 2008.-Overview:...

    )
  • Michael Persinger
    Michael Persinger
    Michael A. Persinger is a cognitive neuroscience researcher and university professor with over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He has worked at Laurentian University, located in Sudbury, Ontario, since 1971.-Early life:...

    , cognitive neuroscience researcher and professor at Laurentian University
    Laurentian University
    Laurentian University , was incorporated on March 28, 1960, is a mid-sized bilingual university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada....

  • Herb Petras
    Herb Petras
    Major-General Herb Petras, CMM, CD, began his military career at the age of 16 when he joined the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He attained the rank of Warrant Officer...

    , Major-General (Ret'd) Canadian Forces
  • Reg Plummer
    Reg Plummer
    Reginald Plummer is a former field hockey player from Canada.Plummer participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1976 in Montreal, Canada. There he finished in tenth place with the Men's National Team, just like the team did in Los Angeles, California...

    , Olympic field hockey player
  • Marie-Paule Poulin
    Marie-Paule Poulin
    Marie-Paule Poulin, née Charette is a Canadian senator and was the president of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2006 to 2008. She is married to international portrait artist Bernard Poulin.-Education:...

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


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  • Alex J. Robinson
    Alex J. Robinson
    Alex J. Robinson is a female country music singer/songwriter.-History:In 2008, Alex J. Robinson issued her debut album, Never Say Never. The album contained her debut single, "Breakin' on the Love Thing", which peaked at #21 on the Radio and Records Canadian country chart. Her second album, The...

    , country musician
  • Kimberly Rogers
    Kimberly Rogers
    Kimberly Rogers was a Canadian whose death in 2001, while under house arrest for welfare fraud, caused extensive controversy around Ontario Works...

    , woman whose death in 2001, while under house arrest
    House arrest
    In justice and law, house arrest is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to his or her residence. Travel is usually restricted, if allowed at all...

     for a disputed welfare fraud
    Fraud
    In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation...

     conviction, became a major political issue in Ontario
  • 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...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Sam Rothschild, NHL hockey player, first Sudburian to play on a Stanley Cup winning team, first Jewish hockey player in the NHL, nominated to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame

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  • Brian Savage
    Brian Savage
    Brian Savage is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues and Philadelphia Flyers.-Playing career:...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Sarah Selecky
    Sarah Selecky
    Sarah Selecky is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection This Cake is for the Party was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award in 2010....

    , writer
  • Eddie Shack
    Eddie Shack
    Edward Steven Phillip Shack , also known by the nicknames "The Entertainer" and "The Nose" is a retired Canadian hockey player who played for six National Hockey League teams from 1959 to 1975,Shack was born in Sudbury, Ontario...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Sandra Shamas
    Sandra Shamas
    Sandra Shamas is a Canadian comedic actress and writer.The oldest of three children born to Lebanese immigrants, Shamas left home at age 17 and moved to Toronto, where she held a variety of jobs before a workshop at The Second City inspired her to pursue a career in performing arts...

    , comedian
  • Irv Spencer
    Irv Spencer
    Irvin James Spencer was a professional ice hockey player who played 73 games in the World Hockey Association and 230 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Philadelphia Blazers, Vancouver Blazers, New York Rangers, and Detroit Red Wings.- References :...

    , NHL player with the New York Rangers
    New York Rangers
    The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...

    , Boston Bruins
    Boston Bruins
    The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...

    , and the Detroit Red Wings
    Detroit Red Wings
    The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...

  • Frederick Squire, musician

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  • Glenn Thibeault
    Glenn Thibeault
    Glenn Thibeault is a Canadian politician. Since 2008, he has represented the Ontario electoral district of Sudbury in the Canadian House of Commons...

    , politician
  • Alex Trebek
    Alex Trebek
    George Alexander "Alex" Trebek is a Canadian American game show host who has been the host of the game show Jeopardy! since 1984, and prior to that, he hosted game shows such as Pitfall and High Rollers. He has appeared in numerous television series, usually as himself...

    , television host (Jeopardy!
    Jeopardy!
    Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

    )
  • Dave Taylor, NHL hockey player
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