List of people from Manitoba

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Map and location of Manitoba in Canada

This is a list of notable people who are from Manitoba, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province.

Business professionals[edit]

Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, co-founder of the Reader's Digest
Chip and Pepper, founders of Chip and Pepper California
Ida Albo, managing partner of the Fort Garry Hotel
Gerald Smedley Andrews, land surveyor, Order of Canada recipient
Izzy Asper, founder of Global Television Network
Lloyd Axworthy, politician and former UW President, Nobel prize nominee
Tom Axworthy, Canadian civil servant
G. Michael Bancroft, chemist and synchrotron scientist, first director of the Canadian Light Source
Kathy Bardswick, President and CEO, The Co-operators
Earl Barish, basketball coach and founder of Dickie Dee and Salisbury House
George Montegu Black II, businessman, father of Conrad Black
Montegu Black, businessman, older brother of Conrad Black
Bill Blaikie, NDP politician
Margaret Bloodworth, National Security Advisor (BA 1970)
Saidye Rosner Bronfman, wife of businessman Samuel Bronfman
Samuel Bronfman, distillery magnate
Mark Chipman, founder of True North Sports & Entertainment
David Culver, businessman, former CEO of Alcan
Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Waldron Fox-Decent, mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman
Sydney Halter, lawyer, former CFL Commissioner, Officer of the Order of Canada
Bob Hunter, co-founder of Greenpeace
F. Ross Johnson, former head of RJR Nabisco, featured in the book and film Barbarians at the Gate
Jim Ludlow, president & CEO of True North Sports & Entertainment
Guy Maddin, film director
Frances Gertrude McGill, criminologist
Peter Nygård, founder of Nygård International
Sylvia Ostry, economist
John Paskievich, film director and photographer
Howard Pawley, former Premier of Manitoba
John Draper Perrin, business professional
Bill Richardson, CBC radio host
James Armstrong Richardson, businessman, politician, airport in Winnipeg was named for him
James Armstrong Richardson Sr., father of James Armstrong Richardson
Irv Robbins, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins
Andrea Slobodian, reporter^[1]
Susan Thompson, former mayor of Winnipeg
Jim Treliving, founder of Boston Pizza
Omar Zakhilwal, Afghan Finance Minister as well as the Chief Economic Advisor to the President of Afghanistan

Athletes[edit]

Hockey players[edit]

Basketball players[edit]

Todd MacCulloch, NBA player
Gordon Malone, NBA player (raised in Winnipeg)
Jack Madden, NBA referee
Chad Posthumus NBA player
MerleLynn Lange-Harris, WNBA Player
Edward Dawson, 1936 Olympic team member
Joey Johnson, wheelchair basketball player, member of Manitoba's Basketball Hall of Fame
Bennie Lands, 1948 Olympic team member
Martin Riley (basketball) Olympion
Bob Town 1976 Summer Olympics
Joey Vickery, pro player in Europe
Roy Williams, 1952 Olympic team member
Malcolm Wiseman, 1936 Olympic team member
Eric Bridgeland, coach and NBA ambassador
Carl Ridd Turned down an NBA contract
Roy Williams (Canadian basketball) 1952 Summer Olympics
Erfan Nasajpour in the Iranian Basketball Super League
Rick McNair basketball player and coach

Football players[edit]

CFL players[edit]

NFL players[edit]

Wrestlers[edit]

Bob Brown, wrestler and former WWE referee
Kerry Brown, wrestler for Stampede Wrestling
Don Callis, WWE and ECW (WWE) wrestler
Tony Condello, promoter
Cathy Corino, TNA and Ring of Honor
Steve Corino WWE, TNA, and ECW (WWE) wrestler
Chi Chi Cruz, former WWE wrestler
Allison Danger, TNA and Ring of Honor star
Johnny Devine, former WWE and ECW (WWE) wrestler
Paul Diamond, former WWE wrestler
Danny Duggan, WWE wrestler
Anthony Durante, former WWE wrestler
Robert Evans, TNA and Ring of Honor star
George Gordienko, wrestled for Stampede Wrestling
David Hohl, former Olympic wrestler
Ricky Hunter, WWE and NWA wrestler
Chris Jericho, WWE wrestler
Candice LeRae, NWA wrestler
Tom Magee, WWE wrestler and power lifter
Vance Nevada, former NWA wrestler
Kenny Omega, WWE wrestler
Fred Peloquin, AWA wrestler
Rowdy Roddy Piper, WWE Hall of Fame
Rosemary (wrestler), TNA wrestler
Courtney Rush, TNA wrestler
Sarah Stock, TNA and Ring of Honor star
Al Tomko, AWA wrestler
The Von Steigers, former WWE Tag team

Curlers[edit]

Speedskating[edit]

Susan Auch, Olympic medal winner
Clara Hughes, 6 time Olympic gold medallist in cycling and speedskating
Cindy Klassen, 6 time Olympic medallist
Doreen McCannell-Botterill

Olympic medal winners[edit]

Dominique Bosshart, Olympic medal winner, taekwondo
Jon Montgomery, Skeleton Racing Olympic gold medalist, host of The Amazing Race Canada
Joe Keeper Olympic Runner, Grandfather of Tina Keeper
Cyril Coaffee, track and field, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
John Morris (curler) Olympic gold medal winner
Carolyn McRorie Olympic Silver medal
Duncan Keith Olympic Gold medal
Jennifer Botterill Olympic Gold medal

Rugby[edit]

James Campbell, former rugby player
Jamie Cudmore, rugby player
Brian Erichsen, rugby player
Norm Hadley, former rugby player
Kevin Tkachuk, former rugby player
Amanda Thornborough, current Canada women’s 15’s rugby player

Golf[edit]

Volleyball[edit]

Water polo[edit]

Rachel Riddell, water polo
David Hart (water polo) Water polo
Nic Youngblud Water polo

Cricketers[edit]

Canadian icons[edit]

Terry Fox, cancer research activist, was named The Greatest Canadian
Betty Fox, mother of Terry Fox, founder of the Terry Fox Foundation

Soccer (football)[edit]

NASCAR drivers[edit]

Joe Mazzucco, racing driver
Bon MacDougall, racing driver

MMA/UFC fighters[edit]

Mark Berger, fighter
Robin Black, MMA fighter
Joe Doerksen, UFC fighter
Roland Delorme, UFC fighter
Baxter Humby, kick boxer, winner of an ESPY Award in the music video of Renegades (X Ambassadors song) in Spider-Man 3
Donny Lalonde, MMA fighter and boxer
Krzysztof Soszynski, UFC fighter on BuzzFeed in the movie Logan (film)

MLB/baseball players[edit]

Martha Rommelaere, former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Doris Barr, former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Dottie Hunter, former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Eleanor Callow, former baseball player
Russ Ford, former MLB player
Gene Ford, former MLB player
Audrey Haine, baseball player
Mel Kerr, MLB player
Corey Koskie, MLB player
Olive Little, former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Bud Sketchley, former MLB player
Evelyn Wawryshyn, former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player

Religious leaders[edit]

Abishabis, Aboriginal leader
John Bruce (Canada), Aboriginal leader
Rod Bushie, Aboriginal leader
David Chartrand, Aboriginal leader
Ken Courchene, Aboriginal leader
Ron Evans (politician), Aboriginal leader
Jerry Fontaine, Aboriginal leader
John Joseph Harper, Aboriginal leader
Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Archbishop of Saint Boniface, Manitoba
Tepastenam, Aboriginal leader
Marie-Louise Valade, established the Sisters of Charity at the Red River Mission
Frank Whitehead, Aboriginal leader

Singers, songwriters, musicians[edit]

Actors/actresses[edit]

Ted Atherton on Traders
Cameron Bancroft on Supernatural
Adam Beach on Suicide Squad
Erik J. Berg on The Big White with Robin Williams
Robert Bockstael (actor) on X-Men
Steve Braun on The Skulls III
Jay Brazeau voice actor on Mega Man
Greg Bryk on Immortals and The Incredible Hulk
Len Cariou on Prisoners
Jonas Chernick on The Best Laid Plans
Ari Cohen on A Little Thing Called Murder
Michael Cohen on Henry's World
Wallace Douglas on Spies of the Air
Brian Drader on Shall We Dance? (2004)
Ed Evanko on Double Jeopardy
Tibor Feheregyhazi actor
Brendan Fehr on Guardians of the Galaxy
Darcy Fehr on Desire
Ken Finkleman on Grease 2
Daniel Gillies in Spider-Man 2
Monty Hall, host of Let's Make a Deal
Joshua Henry on The Scottsboro Boys
Tom Jackson on Star Trek: The Next Generation
Gerald MacIntosh Johnston on Little Friend
Richard Kahan on Supernatural
Ryan Kennedy on Scream
Terry Klassen in Barbie
Jack Kruschen on Batman
Jeremy Kushnier actor
Fletcher Markle on Thriller
Paul Maxwell on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Tom McCamus on The Newsroom
Glen Meadmore friends with John Wayne Gacy
Lee Montgomery on The Million Dollar Duck
Peter Mooney on Camelot
Bob Nolan on Night Time in Nevada
John Paizs on The Kids in the Hall
Ross Petty on X-Men
Douglas Rain on The Man Who Skied Down Everest
Donnelly Rhodes on The Golden Girls
Kenny Robinson (comedian), friends with Russell Peters and Vince Carter
Ron Rubin (voice actor) is Morph in X-Men
Ted Rusoff on After Death
Aaron Schwartz (Canadian actor) on The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Kerry Shale on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
David Steinberg actor, winner of five Emmy Awards
Perry Mark Stratychuk actor
Robert Tinkler on Cyberchase, Beyblade, and Sailor Moon
Kristopher Turner on Saving Hope
Ryan Ward (actor) on Son of the Sunshine
Marshall Williams on How to Build a Better Boy
Ty Wood on Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story
Ken Kostick on The Food Network

Actresses[edit]

Nia Vardalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Nadia Litz in The Mighty
Claire Adams in The Big Valley
Martha Burns on Mad Ship
Sarah Carter on Smallville
Ma-Anne Dionisio on Les Misérables (musical)
Heather Doerksen on Pacific Rim (film)
Deanna Durbin on For the Love of Mary
Melissa Elias on Tamara (2005 film)
Ida Engel on The Gong Show
Dianne Heatherington on Zero Patience
Tina Keeper on For Angela
Mimi Kuzyk on A Christmas Wedding
Carla Lehmann on Fame Is the Spur (film)
Micheline Marchildon on Inertia (2001 film)
Mara Marini on Black-ish
Belinda Montgomery on Tron: Legacy
Libby Morris on Not Quite Paradise
Brooke Palsson on Between (TV series)
Anna Paquin on X-Men (film) and Phineas and Ferb
Dorothy Patrick Was married to Lynn Patrick
Shirley Patterson on Batman (serial)
Gwynyth Walsh on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Supernatural (season 1)
Courtney-Jane White on The Lookout (2007)
Catherine Wreford on Wrestlemaniac
Tracy Spiridakos on Revolution (TV series)
Sonia Sui in Toy Story 3

Performers[edit]

Paula Abdul, singer and judge on American Idol
Shawn Farquhar, magician on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Amber Fleury on Canadian Idol
Deven Green, comedian
Dean Gunnarson, magician
Doug Henning, magician
Ashley Leitão on Canadian Idol
Keith Macpherson on Canadian Idol
Luke McMaster on Canadian Idol
David Steinberg, comedian on The Johnny Carson Show
Meaghan Waller, winner of Canada's Next Top Model
Zack Werner, judge on Canadian Idol
Brian Zembic, magician

War heroes[edit]

Leo Clarke, Victoria Cross winner
Frederick William Hall, Victoria Cross winner in World War I
Coulson Norman Mitchell, Victoria Cross winner World War I
Andrew Charles Mynarski, Victoria Cross winner in World War II
Frank Pickersgill, SOE agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
Tommy Prince, highly decorated Aboriginal soldier with the Devil's Brigade in World War II
Robert Shankland, Victoria Cross winner in World War I
Sir William Stephenson (a.k.a. Intrepid), spy, man on whom the character of James Bond is based

Writers[edit]

David Bergen, novelist^[2]
Norman Cantor, writer, historian
Solomon Cleaver, writer
Betty Gibson, author
Paul Hiebert, author
Guy Gavriel Kay, novelist and poet
Margaret Laurence, novelist
Jake MacDonald, novelist
Mary MacLane, writer^[3]
Bill Mason, author, filmmaker, environmentalist
Marshall McLuhan, writer, media theorist
David Reimer, writer, sex reassignment
Gabrielle Roy, author
Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist
Miriam Toews, author
A. E. van Vogt, science fiction writer
Armin Wiebe, writer
Adele Wiseman, author
George Woodcock, writer

Cartoonists/Cartoons[edit]

George Freeman, artist for several comic books including Captain Canuck
Eric Gurney, cartoonist for Disney
Roy Peterson, editorial cartoonist
Jon St. Ables, cartoonist
James Simpkins, creator of Jasper the Bear
Charles Thorson, creator of Bugs Bunny
Colin Upton, cartoonist
Winnie-the-Pooh, one of Disney’s most known characters, named for Winnipeg

Journalists[edit]

Ralph Allen
Jeffrey Anderson, radio producer
Ashleigh Banfield, TV host and ABC news reporter
Rosemary Barton, broadcaster for The National
Paul Boyd, reporter for Inside Edition
Barry Broadfoot
Bertram Brooker
Cecily Brownstone
Tyler Brûlé
George Fisher Chipman
Lisa R. Cohen, producer for Oprah Winfrey Show
John Wesley Dafoe
Suzanne Goldenberg
Dawna Friesen, NBC correspondent
Kaj Hasselriis
Ella Cora Hind
Bob Hunter, co-founder of Greenpeace
Ben Metcalfe, former chairman of Greenpeace
Don Newman CBC broadcaster
Scott Oake, sports broadcaster father of Britain's Got Talent contestant Darcy Oake
Catherine Seipp
Linden Soles, CNN broadcaster
Diana Swain, CBC broadcaster
Brian Williams, sports broadcaster
Larry Zolf

Medical professionals and teachers[edit]

Teresa McDonell, nun, nurse and teacher
Robert Archambeau ceramic artist, Governor General's Award winner
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller F.R.S.C., FRS, mycologist
Aniruddha M. Gole, IEEE Fellow
Frank Hawthorne F.R.S.C., mineral sciences professor
Guy Maddin, film director and former professor
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, major founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement
Arthur Schafer, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics and prominent ethicist
Vaclav Smil, energy systems scientist and policy analyst
Jean Friesen, former Deputy Premier and Minister of Intergovernment Affairs of New Democratic Premier Gary Doer's cabinet
Reg Alcock, former President of the Treasury Board of Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin's cabinet
H. C. Wolfart, professor of linguistics
Patricia Churchland and Paul Churchland, former professors of philosophy, known for the school of eliminative materialism
Nathan Mendelsohn, professor of mathematics
Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Dr. Robert (Bob) Brent Thirsk, Canadian astronaut, STS-78 shuttle mission
Jim Peebles, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Criminals[edit]

Gerald Blanchard, robber
Scott Bairstow, rapist
John Martin Crawford, serial killer
Larry Fisher, murderer and rapist
Del Fontaine, boxer and murderer
Ken Leishman, robber
Benjamin Levin, sex offender
Karl McKay, murderer
Earle Nelson, serial killer
Nicole Redhead, murderer

Murder cases/ victims[edit]

Wrongfully convicted of murder[edit]

Politicians[edit]

Douglas R. Archer, former mayor of Regina
Niki Ashton
Grant MacEwan, former mayor of Calgary
Candice Bergen
Rana Bokhari
Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Premier of Manitoba, longest-serving Manitoba MLA
Maria Chaput
Thomas Crerar, Member of Parliament, Senator, leader of the Progressive Party, first politician appointed Companion of the Order of Canada
Marlene Cowling
Shari Decter Hirst
Bev Desjarlais
Dorothy Dobbie
Ruby Dhalla, Ontario Member of Parliament
Tommy Douglas, father of Medicare in Canada
Ronald Duhamel, Veterans Affairs minister in the Jean Chrétien government
Elijah Harper, Native leader, Manitoba MLA
John Harvard, Member of Parliament, CBC broadcaster, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
S. I. Hayakawa, United States senator
Francis Lawrence Jobin, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Stanley Knowles, Member of Parliament, Order of Canada recipient
Peter Liba, journalist, businessman, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Sterling Lyon, Premier of Manitoba
Hugh John Macdonald, Premier of Manitoba
John Stewart McDiarmid, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Pearl McGonigal, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
William John McKeag, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Gerry McGeer, former mayor of Vancouver
Daniel Hunter McMillan, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Roland Fairbairn McWilliams, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada
Darrell Pasloski, Premier of Yukon
Jack Pickersgill, former MP representing Newfoundland
Louis Riel, Metis leader, Member of Parliament
Dufferin Roblin, Premier of Manitoba
Denise Savoie, British Columbia Member of Parliament, Assistant Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
Edward Schreyer, Premier of Manitoba, Governor General of Canada
John Christian Schultz, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Alfred Henry Scott, Louis Riel delegate
Mitchell Sharp, Liberal federal cabinet minister
William Johnston Tupper, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Larissa Waters, Australian senator
J. S. Woodsworth, Member of Parliament, first leader of CCF

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