List of Canadian Jews

Artists

Aba Bayefsky, painter

Arnold Belkin, painter

Joyce Borenstein, animator, filmmaker, and cartoonist

Sam Borenstein, painter

Jennifer Cherniack, visual and media artist

Sorel Etrog, sculptor

Frank Gehry, architect

Albert Gilbert, photographer

Gerald Gladstone, sculptor

Simon Glass, photographer

Eric Goldberg, painter

Jack Goldstein, multimedia artist

Philip Guston, abstract expressionist

Mike Hammer, painter

Norman Leibovitch, painter and sculptor

Henry Orenstein, painter

Oscar Orenstein, painter

William Raphael, painter

Moshe Safdie, architect

Dana Samuel, visual and media artist; curator

Yechiel (Eli) Shainblum, painter, sculptor, and Montreal Jewish day-school teacher

Joe Shuster, Canadian-born co-creator of Superman

Erik Slutsky, painter

Max Stern, art dealer

Evan Tapper, media artist

Avrom Yanovsky, cartoonist; father of Zal Yanovsky

Business and philanthropy

Izzy Asper, businessman and media magnate

David Azrieli, real state magnate

Charles Bronfman, businessman and philanthropist

Leslie Dan, founder of Novopharm

Dorothy Dworkin, founder of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Ruth Goldbloom, co-founder of Pier 21, Canada's National Museum of Immigration

Roger Greenberg, executive chairman of Ottawa’s largest real estate developer, Minto Group; philanthropist; Officer of the Order of Canada

Daryl Katz, owner of Rexall and the Edmonton Oilers

Edward Reichmann, real estate magnate

Paul Reichmann, real estate magnate

Seymour Schulich, Director of the Newmont Mining Corporation; namesake of the Schulich School of Business

Gerald Schwartz, co-founder of CanWest Global Communications Inc. and Onex Corporation

Irving Schwartz, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Officer of the Order of Canada

Bernard Sherman, chairman and CEO of Apotex

Jeffrey Skoll, engineer and internet entrepreneur

Levy Solomons, merchant and fur trader

Larry Tanenbaum

Actors and performers

Liane Balaban

Lani Billard (1979– ), television actress (Ready or Not)

Neve Campbell, film and television actress (Scream)

Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor

Emmanuelle Chriqui, actress

Lauren Collins, television actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Drake, television actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Jake Epstein, teen idol/TV actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Stacey Farber, television actress (Degrassi: the Next Generation)

Celia Franca, ballerina

Jake Goldsbie, television actor (Degrassi: the Next Generation)

Lorne Greene, actor

Nathan Fielder, actor, comedian

Kenny Hotz, filmmaker, actor, producer, director, journalist, photographer and writer

Lou Jacobi, actor

Shane Kippel, television actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Mia Kirshner, actress

Rachelle Lefevre, actress

Sylvia Lennick, actress

Caissie Levy, stage actress and singer

Eugene Levy, actor, television director, producer and writer

Jaclyn Linetsky, television actress (15/Love)

Howie Mandel, actor and comedian

Rick Moranis, actor, comedian, musician

Harley Morenstein, actor and Internet personality

Spencer Rice, writer, director and performer

Seth Rogen, film and television actor (Freaks and Geeks)

Saul Rubinek, actor, director, producer and playwright

William Shatner, actor, director, and writer best known for his performances as Captain Kirk in Star Trek on both television and in film from 1966 to 1994

Frank Shuster, comedian

Anna Silk, actress starring in TV series Lost Girl

David Steinberg, comedian, actor, writer, director, and author

Tara Strong, actress

Kyle Switzer, television actor (15/Love)

Al Waxman, actor

Johnny Wayne, comedian

Directors and producers

David Cronenberg, filmmaker, screenwriter

Kenny Hotz, filmmaker, actor, producer, director, journalist, photographer and writer

Lorne Michaels, television producer, writer, comedian, and actor

Politicians

Mark Adler, MP

Michael Applebaum, Mayor of Montreal

Jack Austin, former senator and former cabinet minister; married to Natalie Veiner Freeman

Dave Barrett, former premier of British Columbia

Peter Bercovitch, Quebec MNA and MP

Lawrence Bergman, Quebec MNA and cabinet minister

David de Burgh Graham, Quebec MP

Jim Carr, MP and Minister of Natural Resources

Saul Cherniack, Manitoba MLA

Irwin Cotler, Quebec MP

David Croll, first Jewish senator

Julie Dabrusin, MP for Toronto-Danforth

Dr. Martin L. Dobkin, elected October 1, 1973 as first Mayor of the newly created City of Mississauga

Samuel Factor, first Jewish MP elected in Ontario

Sheila Finestone, former MP and senator

Raymonde Folco, MP

Myra Freeman, lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia

Victor Goldbloom, Quebec MNA and doctor

Yoine Goldstein, former senator

Karina Gould, MP and Minister of Democratic Institutions

Herb Gray, former deputy prime minister

Ezekiel Hart, the first Jew elected to a Canadian Parliament

Anthony Housefather, Canadian Member of Parliament and former Mayor of Côte Saint-Luc

Monte Kwinter, Ontario MPP

Mel Lastman, former Mayor of Toronto

Michael Levitt, MP for York Centre

David Lewis, former leader of the federal NDP

Stephen Lewis, former Leader of the Opposition in Ontario, leader of the Ontario NDP, Canadian ambassador to the United Nations

Stephen Mandel, mayor of Edmonton

Jack Marshall, former MP and Senator from Newfoundland

Tom Marshall, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador

Gila Martow, PC MPP for Ontario

Dr. Danny Nathanson, mayor of New Waterford, Nova Scotia in the 1960s and 1970s

Joe Oliver, MP and Minister of Finance

Nathan Phillips, mayor of Toronto

Jacques Saada, MP

Peter Shurman, Ontario MPP

Mira Spivak, former senator

Sidney Spivak, Manitoba MLA

Gerry Weiner, MP

Jurists and public servants

Rosalie Abella, Supreme Court Justice

Morris Fish, Supreme Court Justice

Bora Laskin, Supreme Court Justice

Michael Moldaver, Supreme Court Justice

Louis Rasminsky, Order of Canada, banker, economist, 3rd Governor of Bank of Canada, alternate chairman foreign Exchange Control board, member of Economic and Financial section of the League of Nations, contributed to the Bretton Woods Conference

Marshall Rothstein, Supreme Court Justice

Tillie Taylor, judge, first chair of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission

Activists

Bernie Farber, Labour leader, Jewish community leader, social activist

Henry Morgentaler, doctor and abortion activist

Judy Rebick, Labour activist

Popular musicians

Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter and poet

Drake, hip hop artist and actor

Jim Gelcer, jazz musician, singer, Kirtan music performer, composer, record producer, former member of the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band

Geddy Lee, lead singer, bassist and keyboardist for progressive rock band Rush

David Macklovitch, member of electrofunk duo Chromeo

Sophie Milman (1983– ), jazz musician

Steven Page, founding member of Barenaked Ladies

Robbie Robertson, composer and original lead guitarist of The Band

Paul Shaffer, bandleader

Amy Sky, singer-songwriter, record producer, theatre actress, and television host

Socalled, real name Josh Dolgin, rapper and producer

David Usher, former frontman for Moist

Nikki Yanofsky, jazz-pop singer

Zal Yanovsky, rock musician, guitarist with The Lovin' Spoonful

Alissa White-Gluz, melodic death metal musician (of Jewish and Lithuanian origin).

Authors

David Berman, author

David Bezmozgis, author

Leonard Cohen, poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter

Sheila Heti, novelist

Naomi Klein, author, activist, and filmmaker

Irving Layton, poet and author

Jack Ludwig, novelist and sportswriter

Eli Mandel, poet

Anne Michaels, poet and novelist; Jewish father

David Rakoff, author

Mordecai Richler, author, screenwriter and essayist

William Shatner, bestselling science fiction author; also actor and director

Karen X. Tulchinsky, author and screenwriter

Miriam Waddington, poet

Tom Wayman, poet

William Weintraub, author

Adele Wiseman, writer

Journalists

Barbara Amiel, journalist

Nathan Cohen, theatre critic, broadcaster

Red Fisher, sports journalist

Barbara Frum, journalist

Ariel Helwani, mixed martial arts journalist

Peter C. Newman, journalist

Evan Solomon, journalist

Larry Zolf, journalist

Athletes

Murray Bannerman, ice hockey, goaltender (NHL)

Maxie Berger, boxer, wore a Star of David on his trunks

Adam Braz, soccer, defender (Montreal Impact and national team)

Ross Brooks, ice hockey, goaltender (NHL)

Hy Buller, ice hockey, Canadian-born US, All-Star defenceman (NHL)

Michael Cammalleri, ice hockey, left wing (New Jersey Devils)

Noah Cantor, CFL player

Steve Dubinsky, ice hockey, center (NHL)

Daniel Erlich, ice hockey, forward (Guelph Storm, OHL)

Sharon Fichman, tennis player

Gottfried Fuchs, soccer, Germany/Canada (German national team)

Cecil Hart, Montreal Canadiens coach, namesake of the Hart Memorial Trophy

Lew Hayman, Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes coach

Adam Henrich, ice hockey, left wing/center (HC Asiago of the Italian Serie A)

Michael Henrich, ice hockey, right wing, 1st Jewish player drafted in NHL 1st round (by Edmonton Oilers)

Corey Hirsch, ice hockey, goaltender (NHL)

Max Labovitch, ice hockey, right wing (NHL)

Alex Levinsky, ice hockey, defenceman (NHL)

Sammy Luftspring, boxer, Canadian champion welterweight, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

David Nemirovsky, ice hockey, right wing (CSKA Moscow)

Bobby Nystrom, ice hockey, Swedish-born Canadian, right wing (NHL) (converted to Judaism)

Fred Oberlander, Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion

Cory Pecker, ice hockey, right wing (Nationalliga B's Switzerland team Lausanne HC), drafted 6th round by Calgary Flames in 1999

Goody Rosen, baseball player, outfielder, All-Star

Bobbie Rosenfeld, runner and long jumper, world record (100-yard dash); Olympic champion (4x100-m relay) and silver (100-m)

Louis Rubenstein, world figure skating champion

Trevor Smith, ice hockey, centre (Toronto Maple Leafs)

Adam Stern, baseball player, outfielder

Ronnie Stern, ice hockey, right wing (NHL)

Andrew Sznajder, tennis player

Mike Veisor, ice hockey, goaltender (NHL)

Stephen Weiss, ice hockey, forward (Detroit Red Wings, NHL)

Ethan Werek, ice hockey, forward (Kingston Frontenacs, OHL); New York Rangers 2009 draft pick traded to (Phoenix Coyotes) 2011

Bernie Wolfe, ice hockey, goaltender (NHL)

Larry Zeidel, ice hockey, defenceman (NHL)