List of people from Montreal

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Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit

Ramzi Abid – NHL player

David Acer – magician and comedian, star of Mystery Hunters

Andrew Allan – Allan Shipping Line

Sir Hugh Allan – Allan Shipping Line

Martha Allan – founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre

Sir Montague Allan – businessman, donated the Allan Cup

Paul Almond – director

Sidney Altman – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

René Angélil – singer, actor, Celine Dion's husband and manager

Richard Bladworth Angus – founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Joel Anthony – NBA basketball player

Gilles Archambault – novelist

Francois Arnaud – actor

Sam Arif – founder of La Diperie

Gabriel Aubry – model

Melissa Auf der Maur – rock musician (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins)

Nick Auf der Maur – journalist, municipal politician

Michel C. Auger – journalist

David Azrieli – real estate developer; bulldozed the Van Horne Mansion

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René Balcer – television writer and producer, known for the US television show Law and Order

Roger Barnes – professional wrestler

Jay Baruchel – television and movie actor

Doug Beardsley – poet and educator

Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien – broadcasting, magazines

Bianca Beauchamp – fetish fashion model

Mathieu Beaudoin – football player

Tanith Belbin – figure skater, Olympic silver medalist

Jean Béliveau – former NHL player

Saul Bellow – novelist

Chris Benoit – pro wrestler, born in Montreal, raised in Edmonton, Alberta

Eric Berne – psychiatrist; creator of Transactional Analysis; author of Games People Play

André Besette – CSC Holy Cross Brother, Miracle Worker of Montreal

Norman Bethune – physician, medical innovator, and political activist

Tim Biakabutuka – former NFL football player, Carolina Panthers

Charlie Biddle – Montreal Jazz pioneer, Juno Award winner

Yannick Bisson – actor known for playing Det. Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries and Jack in Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye

Sacha Dean Biyan – fashion photographer, raised in Montreal, now based in New York

Conrad Black – financier and newspaper magnate

Toe Blake – Montreal Canadiens hockey Legend

Bless – hip-hop artist

Paul Bley – jazz pianist

La Bolduc – real name Mary Travers, singer

Patrick Bordeleau – hockey player

Mike Bossy – Hockey Hall of Fame member

Eugenie Bouchard – tennis player

Louise Anne Bouchard – writer

Maurice "Mom" Boucher – ex-leader of Hell's Angels (as of 2014)

Henri Bourassa – political leader and publisher

Robert Bourassa – former Quebec premier

Pierre Bourque – mayor

Raymond Bourque – former NHL player

Pierre Bouvier – frontman of Simple Plan; songwriter

Scotty Bowman – hockey coach

Justin Bradley – actor, based out of Montreal and Toronto, sometimes works in Los Angeles

Tim Brady – guitarist, composer

Glenda Braganza – Hollywood actress, 10.5: Apocalypse

Kenneth "Kenny" Brain – Big Brother Canada contestant

Adam Braz – soccer defender, Montreal Impact and national team

Patrice Brisebois – NHL player, Montreal Canadiens

Annie Brocoli – reaL name Annie Grenier, children's performer

Martin Brodeur – NHL player, goaltender, New Jersey Devils

Charles Bronfman – businessman and philanthropist

Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – businessman

Edward Bronfman – businessman, philanthropist, member of the Bronfman family

Peter Bronfman – businessman, member of the Bronfman family

Saidye Rosner Bronfman – philanthropist, wife of Samuel Bronfman

Samuel Bronfman – liquor magnate

Edwin Orion Brownell – pianist, vocalist

Geneviève Bujold – actress

Hy Buller – former NHL All-Star player

Mario Bunge – philosopher, Frothingham Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University

Robin Burns – founder and owner, ITECH Hockey Equipment

Gerard Butler – Scottish actor; lived here briefly as a baby

Win Butler – singer/songwriter

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Mark Camacho – actor

Charles Sandwith Campbell – philanthropist, benefactor of Montreal

Paul Cargnello – singer/songwriter

Gerald Emmett Carter – former cardinal archbishop of Toronto

André Chagnon – Cable TV, broadcasting, philanthropist

Serge Chapleau – political cartoonist

Corinne Chaponnière – writer, journalist

Robert Charlebois – singer/songwriter

Gregory Charles – musician and radio host

Dov Charney – entrepreneur and CEO of American Apparel

Claude Charron – former politician, now TV host

Régine Chassagne – singer, musician

Patricia Chica – film and TV director

Emmanuelle Chriqui – actress

Denny Chronopoulos – Canadian football player

Terri Clark – country singer/songwriter

Françoise de Clossey – pianist and organist

Guy Cloutier – former artist manager

Kim Cloutier – fashion model

G. A. Cohen – political philosopher

Leonard Cohen – poet and singer

Mark Cohen – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD

Sidney M. Cohen – television director

Steven Cojocaru – fashion critic

John Colicos – actor

Charles Comeau – drummer of Simple Plan and songwriter

Phil Comeau – film and TV director

Ernest Cormier – engineer and architect

Corneille – singer

Irwin Cotler – law professor, politician

Jean Coutu – pharmacist

Corey Crawford – NHL starting goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks

Ron Crevier – former NBA basketball player

Peter Cullen – voice actor (voice of Optimus Prime in the film Transformers)

Elisha Cuthbert – actress

May Cutler – publisher and journalist; founder of Tundra Books; first Canadian woman to publish children's books; first woman to serve as Mayor of Westmount, Quebec

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Samuel Dalembert – NBA basketball player, Philadelphia 76ers

Peter Dalla Riva – football player, Montreal Alouettes

Roméo Dallaire – senator, Lieutenant-General

Vincent Damphousse – former NHL player

Shawn Daniels – Canadian football player

J. P. Darche – NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks

Mathieu Darche – NHL player, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens

Françoise David – politician

John Caswell Davis – politician

Mitch Davis – film programmer, filmmaker, journalist

Stéphane Demers – actor

Bernard Derome – anchorman

Pierre Desjardins – football player, Montreal Alouettes

André Desmarais – businessman

Paul Desmarais, Sr. – businessman

Paul Desmarais, Jr. – businessman

David Desrosiers – bassist of Simple Plan and vocalist; born in Sept-Îles

Caroline Dhavernas – actress

Sara Diamond – member of the American girl group Clique Girlz

Céline Dion – singer

Stéphane Dion – politician

Xavier Dolan – actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume director, producer

Jacob Dolson Cox – U.S. soldier and politician

Audrey Capel Doray – artist

Jean Doré – former mayor of Montreal

Fifi D'Orsay – actress

William Dow – brewer

Jean Drapeau – mayor of Montreal during Expo '67 and the 1976 Olympic Games

Glen Drover – guitarist for Megadeth

Shawn Drover – drummer for Megadeth

Steve Dubinsky – former NHL player

Gilles Duceppe – politician

Jean Duceppe – actor

Louis Dudek – poet

Jack Dunham – animator, television commercial producer, designer of the St-Hubert rooster mascot

Alexandre Dupuis – football player

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Keith Eaman – Canadian football player

Iwan Edwards – conductor, Member of the Order of Canada

Vic Emery – Olympic bobsleigh gold medalist

Empire ISIS – pop and dancehall singer, songwriter

Anke Engelke – German comedian, born in Montreal

Chad Erickson – Ringette coach

Angelo Esposito – hockey player

Cyrille Estève – Cyrille the Spoonman

Sam Etcheverry – former CFL and NFL football quarterback, Montreal Alouettes, St. Louis Cardinals

Terry Evanshen – former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders

Ken Evoy – founder of Sitesell; creator of SiteBuildIt!

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Mylène Farmer – singer

Lila Feng – weather presenter

David Fennario – playwright

Maynard Ferguson – jazz trumpet player and bandleader

Jennifer Finnigan – Hollywood actress

Marc-André Fleury – NHL Goalie

Louis-Joseph Forget – stockbroker, financier, statesman

Rodolphe Forget – businessman, politician, philanthropist

Samuel Fournier – former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats

René-Arthur Fréchet, architect

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Alfonso Gagliano – politician

André Gagné – professor and scholar, Concordia University

Éric Gagné – pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers

André Gagnon – composer, pianist

Marc Gagnon – Olympic gold medal speed skater

Howard Galganov – anglophone rights activist, radio personality

Céline Galipeau – anchorwoman

Patsy Gallant – pop singer

Mitch Garber – gaming, hotel executive, philanthropist, broadcaster

Arturo Gatti – professional boxer, world champion

Daniel Gauthier – co-founder of the Cirque du Soleil

James Gelfand – pianist, composer, arranger

Yasmeen Ghauri – supermodel

Ralph Gilles – designer of the Chrysler 300c

Jessalyn Gilsig – actress

Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) – artist and inspiration for the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint

Jonathan Goldstein – author, humourist and radio producer

John Gomery – jurist

Brian Goodwin – biologist

Adam Gopnik – writer, essayist

Huntley Gordon – actor

Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan – newspaper publisher

Stewart Francis Granger – former NBA basketball player

Howard Grant – former Canadian Olympics and Commonwealth boxer; trainer, UFC welterweight champion, Georges St-Pierre

Otis Grant – Jamaican-born former WBO Middleweight boxing champion

Harold Greenberg – movie producer, founder of Astral Media

Sylvain Grenier – WWE wrestler

Irving Grundman – businessman, hockey executive

Philip Guston – painter and printmaker

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Dayle Haddon – model and actress

Marc-André Hamelin – pianist and composer

Chris Haney – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit

Dan Hanganu – architect

Louise Harel – politician

Corey Hart – singer

Doug Harvey – Hall of Fame ice hockey player

Jacques Hébert – statesman

Thomas Hellman – pop singer

Carl Henry – singer

Prudence Heward – Beaver Hall Group artist

Alonzo Highsmith – former NFL football player

Dave Hilton, Jr. – World Champion boxer

Matthew Hilton – World Champion boxer

David Julian Hirsh – actor

Ian Hodgkinson – professional wrestler, lived in Montreal while in WCW

Thomas William Holmes – winner of the Victoria Cross

Herbert Samuel Holt – financier

Steve Holt – jazz pianist, AC singer-songwriter

William Hope – actor

Anna Hopkins – actress

Camillien Houde – former mayor of Montreal

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Norman Iceberg – singer/songwriter

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Marlene Jennings – politician

René Jodoin – film animator and producer

Daniel Johnson, Jr. – former premier of Quebec

Oliver Jones – jazz pianist

Sass Jordan – singer

Kris Joseph – basketball player

Robert Joy – actor

Claude Jutra – filmmaker

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Tommy Kane – former NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks

Daniel Kash – actor

Kenneth Kaushansky – Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, hematologist, Master of the American College of Physicians

Kaytranada – electronic musician, producer, DJ

George Kennedy – owner of Montreal Canadiens hockey team

Amir Khadir – physician and politician

Kid Koala – DJ

Franklin Kiermyer – drummer, composer

Andy Kim – singer/songwriter

A. M. Klein – author

Naomi Klein – author and activist

Leo Kolber – senator, de facto family member of the Bronfman family and empire

Benjamin Kowalewicz – singer of Billy Talent

David Kristian – electronic musician

Sid and Marty Krofft – producers/creators of H.R. Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost, The Lost Saucer

Joseph Kruger – of Kruger Inc.

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Florence La Badie – actress

Charline Labonté – hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2006, 2010, 2014

Hubert Lacroix – CBC President and CEO

Dany Laferrière – author

Guy Lafleur – NHL player, Montreal Canadiens

Jon Lajoie – comedian

Guy Laliberté – founder and CEO of Cirque de Soleil

Paul Lambert – left guard, Montreal Alouettes

Phyllis Lambert – architect and member of the Bronfman family

Mado Lamotte – drag queen and author

Jacques Lanctôt – FLQ member, convicted terrorist

Louise Lanctôt – FLQ member, convicted terrorist

Pascal Languirand – electronic music producer, founder of Trans-X

Jean Lapierre – politician

Éric Lapointe – CFL running back for the Montreal Alouettes

Pierre Laporte – politician

Georges Laraque – NHL player

Ryan Larkin – animator

Lisa Lavie – singer-songwriter

Irving Layton – poet, essayist, short story writer

Jack Layton – politician, leader of the federal New Democratic Party

Irina Lăzăreanu – fashion model

Louise Lecavalier – dancer

Vincent Lecavalier – NHL player

Jos LeDuc – professional wrestler

Ranee Lee – jazz singer

Sébastien Lefebvre – guitarist of Simple Plan and vocalist

Jean Leloup – musician

Mario Lemieux – NHL player

Vanessa Lengies – actress

Guy A. Lepage – television personality

René Lépine – real-estate developer

Chris Leroux – MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates)

Jean Lesage – lawyer, politician

Kristopher Letang – QMJHL player, NHL player, Pittsburgh Penguins

André Éric Létourneau – intermedia artist, composer

Jean-Louis Lévesque – stockbroker, horse racing builder

Shawn Levy – director and actor

Liu Fang – musician

Pascal Lochard – CFL player

William Edmond Logan – geologist

Jennifer Lonergan – educator, nonprofit executive, promoter of third-world women's craftmanship

Colin Low – filmmaker

Lunice – musician

Roberto Luongo – NHL goaltender

Yves A. Lussier – physician-scientist in translational bioinformatics

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William C. Macdonald – tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist

Danny Maciocia – CFL football coach

Don Macpherson – journalist

Nicolas Macrozonaris – sprinter, track and field

Arnaud Maggs – artist, photographer

Sean Patrick Maloney – Canadian-American politician and U.S. Representative for the state of New York since 2013

Jeanne Mance – founder of first hospital in North America, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, 1645

Rudolph A. Marcus – Nobel laureate of chemistry

Lou Marinoff – philosopher at City College of New York

Yann Martel – writer, Man Booker Prize 2002

Paul Martin – former Prime Minister of Canada

Russell Martin – baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays

Massari – singer

John McCallum – politician

John Wilson McConnell – businessman, publisher, philanthropist

David Ross McCord – lawyer, philanthropist

Kevin McDonald – actor/comedian/voice actor, member of The Kids in the Hall

Thomas D'Arcy McGee – politician

Ken McGoogan – writer

Duncan McIntyre – businessman

Scott McKay – former city counsellor and leader of the Green Party of Quebec

Patricia McKenzie – actress

Norman McLaren – film animation pioneer

Simon McTavish – businessman

Juan Mendez – former NCAA basketball player, Niagara University

Charles Meredith – president of the Montreal Stock Exchange

Frederick Edmund Meredith – lawyer, chancellor of Bishop's University

Vincent Meredith – first and last Baronet of Montreal; President of the Bank of Montreal

William Collis Meredith – Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec

Luck Mervil – singer, actor

Jim Miller – Canadian football player

Brenda Milner – neuropsychologist

Hartland Molson – brewer, World War II fighter pilot, statesman

John Molson – brewer, railway and steamship line builder

Percival Molson – athlete, soldier

Robert Moncel – commander of the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade in the Second World War

Édouard Montpetit – lawyer, economist, academic

Henry Morgan – department store founder

Henry Morgentaler – physician, advocate for women's rights to abortion

Terry Mosher – editorial cartoonist

Ben Mulroney – television host; son of Brian Mulroney

Brian Mulroney – former Prime Minister of Canada

Mila Mulroney – wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney

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The Narcicyst – hip hop artist

Émile Nelligan – poet

Hillel Neuer – human rights lawyer, Executive Director UN Watch

Kai Nielsen – naturalist philosopher at Concordia University

Craig Norman – head basketball coach of McGill University Redmen; former basketball player for Concordia University

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Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan – politician, Parti patriote member

Alexander Walker Ogilvie – miller, statesman

Maryse Ouellet – glamour model and former WWE wrestler

Caroline Ouellette – hockey player, Canadian women's Olympic team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006

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P. Reign – hip hop artist, born in Montreal, raised in Toronto

Frank L. Packard – novelist

Michel Pagliaro – musician

Vernon Pahl – Canadian football player

Jean Jacques Paradis – Commander of the Canadian Army

Jessica Paré – actress

Jacques Parizeau – politician, former Premier of Quebec

Julie Payette – scientist, astronaut

Trevor W. Payne – founder and music director of the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir

Cory Pecker – hockey player, right wing (EHC Visp)

Érik Péladeau – businessman (Québecor)

Pierre Péladeau – founder of Quebecor

Pierre Karl Péladeau – CEO of Quebecor Media

Wilfrid Pelletier – symphony conductor

Dr. Wilder Penfield – pioneering neurosurgeon, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute

David De La Peralle – football player

Missy Peregrym – actress

Oscar Peterson – jazz pianist

Autumn Phillips – wife of Peter Phillips, eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II

Mary Pierce – tennis player

André Pijet – artist

Steven Pinker – linguist and evolutionary psychologist

Susan Pinker – journalist and psychologist

Christopher Plummer – actor

Dick Pound – lawyer, Olympic Games executive

Cheryl Pounder – hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006

André Pratte – journalist, economist

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Sara Quin – musician

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Jesse Rath – actor

Meaghan Rath – actress

Claude Raymond – former baseball player and coach

Ariel Rebel – pornographic model

John Redpath – businessman, philanthropist

Ginette Reno – singer

Ahmed Ressam – al-Qaeda member

Caroline Rhea – actress

Mike Ribeiro – NHL player

Henri Richard – former NHL player

Maurice Richard – former NHL player

Mordecai Richler – writer

Vito Rizzuto – mobster

Alphonso Theodore Roberts – political activist, cricketer

Sam Roberts – musician

Percy Rodrigues – actor

Sasha Roiz – actor

Cristina Rosato – actress

Paul Rose – political figure

Charlie J. Ross – vaudeville performer

J.K.L. Ross – racehorse owner, philanthropist

Greg Rusedski – tennis player

Claude Ryan – publisher, statesman

Frank "Dunie" Ryan – mobster

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Roméo Sabourin – SOE agent, WW II hero executed by the Nazis

Martin St. Louis – NHL player

Georges St-Pierre – professional MMA fighter

Kim St-Pierre – hockey goaltender, Canadian Olympic women's team

Lino Saputo – businessman

Anne Savage – artist

Giancarlo Scalia – pianist and composer

Paul Schoeffler – voice actor, actor

Joseph A. Schwarcz – doctor of chemistry and professor at McGill University, formerly at Vanier College

Cynthia Scott – Academy Award-winning director

Frank Scott – scholar, poet, professor, lawyer

Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger – winner of the Victoria Cross in World War I

Marla Shapiro – CTV medical reporter and physician

William Shatner – actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek

Douglas Shearer – Academy Award-winning motion picture sound engineer

Norma Shearer – Academy Award-winning actress

Madeleine Sherwood – actress, played Mother Superior in The Flying Nun

Karen Simpson – actress and fashion designer

Jaspreet Singh – author

Charles Sirois – telecommunications

Jeff Skoll – Internet entrepreneur

Donald Smith – railway executive

George M. Smith – Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

Larry Smith – former CFL football player; former president of the Montreal Alouettes

Nahum Sonenberg – biochemist, professor at McGill University

Wonny Song – classical concert pianist

Sam Steinberg – supermarket founder

Ralph M. Steinman – 2011 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine

George Stephen – banker, railway executive

Jeff Stinco – lead guitarist of Simple Plan

P.J. Stock – NHL player

Bruny Surin – track and field athlete

Robert Augustus Sweeney – only African American double recipient of the American Medal of Honor

Sylvia Sweeney – former basketball player for the Canadian women's national team; TV journalist

Jack W. Szostak – Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

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Maxime Talbot – NHL player

Charles Taylor – philosopher emeritus at McGill

José Théodore – NHL player

Vincenzo Thoma – singer, songwriter

David Thompson – explorer

Ryan Thorne – head basketball coach for the McGill Martlets, former CIAU champion in basketball with Bishop's University

Tiga – electronic musician, singer, DJ

Josh Tordjman – NHL player

Ibrahim Tounkara – Canadian football player

Daniel Tracey – journalist, politician

Gérald Tremblay – former mayor of Montreal

Michel Tremblay – novelist, playwright

Tony Tremblay – poet, radio personality

Alexandre Trudeau – journalist; son of Pierre Trudeau, the former Prime Minister of Canada

Dennis Trudeau – journalist

Justin Trudeau – Member of Parliament; 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, son of Pierre Trudeau, a former Prime Minister of Canada

Pierre Trudeau – 15th Prime Minister of Canada

Alain Trudel – conductor

Jean-Claude Turcotte – Roman Catholic Cardinal

George Tutunjian – performer of Armenian revolutionary songs

David Tyler – voice actor

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David Usher – singer/songwriter

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Maurice Vachon – also known as Mad Dog Vachon; wrestling champion

Ernie Vandeweghe – former NBA basketball player, New York Knicks

Gino Vannelli – singer/songwriter

Chris Velan – singer/songwriter

Jacques Vieau – fur trader and early Wisconsin settler

Gilles Villeneuve – Formula One driver

Jacques Villeneuve – Formula One driver (1997 World Champion); 1995 IndyCar champion; son of Gilles Villeneuve

Marc-Édouard Vlasic – NHL player, currently playing for the San Jose Sharks

Roch Voisine – singer

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Martha Wainwright – singer/songwriter

Rufus Wainwright – singer/songwriter

Avi Wallerstein – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD

Amanda Walsh – actress

Dwight Walton – professional basketball player, Canadian Olympian

Ben Weider – co-founder of the IFBB (International Federation of BodyBuilders)

Joe Weider – creator of the Mr. Olympia and Ms. Olympia bodybuilding contests

William Weintraub – author, filmmaker

Danny Wells – actor; played bartender on The Jeffersons and Luigi in The Super Mario Brothers Super Show

Bill Wennington – former NBA basketball player, Chicago Bulls

Max Werner – founder of Montreal Pastry, world class pastry chef

Alissa White-Gluz – singer-songwriter; former vocalist of The Agonist; current vocalist of Arch Enemy

Trevor C. Williams – former member of the Canadian national basketball team; philanthropist

Cairine Wilson – first woman to serve in the Senate of Canada

Joseph Wiseman – actor, known for playing Dr. Julius No in the first James Bond film Dr. No

Karl Wolf – singer

William Workman – businessman and municipal politician

Peter Worrell – former NHL player

Aleksandra Wozniak – tennis player

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Joel Yanofsky – writer

Nikki Yanofsky – jazz singer

Wayne Yearwood – former professional basketball player; Canadian Olympian

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Sami Zayn – professional wrestler currently signed to the WWE

Larry Zeidel – NHL player

Joel Zifkin – electric violinist, singer/songwriter

David Zilberman – Olympic heavyweight wrestler

Moses Znaimer – co-founder of Toronto's CityTV

Mortimer Zuckerman – magazine editor, publisher, real estate tycoon