Russian Canadians comprise Canadian citizens of Russian heritage or Russians who emigrated to and reside in Canada. According to the 2011 Census, there were 550,520 Canadians who claimed full or partial Russian ancestry. The closely related groups are Ukrainian Canadians, the many East Slavic Canadians who also have Ukrainian ancestry, and Belarusian Canadians, the few East Slavic Canadians who also have Belarusian ancestry.
Data from this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.
Total: 500,605.
Single response: 98,245.
Multiple response: 402,360.
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.
Total: 40,155
Single response: 11,935
Multiple response: 28,220
Montreal (Census Metropolitan Area)
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.
Total: 98,800 (???)
Single response: 10,685
Multiple response: 25,115
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.
Total: 167,360
Single response: 39,660
Multiple response: 127,700
Toronto (Census Metropolitan Area)
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.
Total: 102,815
Single response: 29,695
Multiple response: 73,120
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.
Total: 92,020
Single response: 11,075
Multiple response: 80,940
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.
Total: 114,112
Single response: 21,740
Multiple response: 92,365
Many British Columbians of Russian descent are Doukhobors, historically concentrated in the West Kootenay and Boundary Country regions.
Arts, entertainment and literature
A-Trak - musician
Pamela Anderson - actress
Harvey Atkin - voice-over actor
Alex Battler - writer
Saul Bellow - writer; recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize and the National Medal of Arts
Arnold Belkin - painter
Chinawoman - singer
Ludmilla Chiriaeff - ballet dancer, choreographer and company director
Melyssa Ford - model and actress
Victor Garber - actor, Titanic, Argo, Star Trek
Natalie Glebova - Miss Universe 2005, Miss Universe Canada 2005
Anais Granofsky - actress, Degrassi Junior High
Lorne Greene - actor, Battlestar Galactica
George Grie - artist
Grimes - Juno Award-winning producer and musician
Melissa Hayden - ballerina
Jessica Parker Kennedy - actress, The Secret Circle, Smallville, Black Sails
K.d. lang - musician, winner of Juno and Grammy
Ezra Levant - media personality
Nadia Litz - actress
George London - singer
Eli Mandel - poet
Catherine Manoukian - violinist
Niall Matter - actor, Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, Melrose Place, 90210
Sophie Milman - jazz musician
Zara Nelsova - cellist
Sarah Polley - actress and film director, Order of Canada
Duncan Regehr - writer and actor, Star Trek
Coco Rocha - fashion model and cover girl
Sasha Roiz - actor
Elena Semikina - Miss Universe Canada 2010
Inga Skaya - Miss Universe Canada 2007
Socalled - musician
Ksenia Solo - actress, Black Swan
Madeline Sonik - writer
Jessica Trisko - Miss Earth 2007
Watts - produced for Method Man, Redman, and Snoop Dogg
Adele Wiseman - author
Business and other
Bluma Appel - philanthropist, recipient of the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario
John Boyarski - recipient of awards for bravery
Charles Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
Saidye Rosner Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family, founder of the Seagram Company
Samuel Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
Arcadi Gaydamak - businessman
Jamie Glazov - managing editor of Frontpage Magazine
Ben Hatskin - founder of the Winnipeg Jets
Gregory Lekhtman - inventor of exercise boots
Luka Magnotta - convicted murderer, harasser and body defiler
Sonia Scurfield - owner of the Calgary Flames in the 1980s and 1990s
Alex Shnaider - co-founder of the Midland Group, partner in the Trump International Hotel and Tower (Toronto)
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia - Russian Princess and youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Alex Atamanenko - Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada
Vasile Balabanov - Imperial Russian émigré
Martin Dobkin - mayor of Mississauga
Catherine Doherty - Imperial Russian émigré, social activist, recipient of the Order of Canada
Siegfried Enns - member of the Canadian House of Commons
Lois Hole - Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
George Ignatieff - Canadian diplomat
Michael Ignatieff - author, journalist, academic, politician
Ted Lipman - diplomat, ambassador to North Korea, and South Korea
Tom Nevakshonoff - Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Reynold Rapp - Member of the House of Commons of Canada
John Tory - mayor of Toronto
Peter Vasilevich Verigin - Doukhobor leader
Pyotr Verzilov - activist
Gregory Chamitoff - NASA astronaut and engineer
Michel Chossudovsky - writer and professor of economics at the University of Ottawa
Andrew Donskov - professor of modern languages at the University of Ottawa; world-renowned Leo Tolstoy expert
Israel Halperin - mathematician
Martin Kamen - physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb); discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14
Harry Medovy - pediatrician and academic, Order of Canada
Pierre Milman - mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Sergei Plekhanov - Professor of Political Science at York University; former Deputy Director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Russia
Louis Slotin - physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb)
George Volkoff, OC, MBE, FRSC - physicist who helped discover the existence of neutron stars
Violetta Afanasieva - figure skater
Nik Antropov - hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) and the KHL
Ivan Babikov - Olympic cross-country skier
Patricia Bezzoubenko - rhythmic gymnast
Boris Blumin - chess grandmaster
Mark Bluvshtein - chess grandmaster
Édouard Carpentier - professional wrestler
Joshua Ho-Sang - hockey player with the OHL
Igor Ivanov - chess grandmaster
Lioudmila Kortchguina - marathon runner
Crazy Leo - rally driver
Andrei Markov - NHL hockey player
Olga Ovtchinnikova - Olympic fencer
Andrei Rogozine - world champion figure skater
Bobbie Rosenfeld - Olympic gold medalist
Tamerlan Tagziev - wrestler, gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games
Igor Tikhomirov - Olympic champion in fencing
Marina Zoueva - ice dancing coach and choreographer
