List of people from Manitoba

David Chapman, cricketer
Sadie Grimm, motorcyclist, 1914 Manitoba Motorcycle Club's gold medal winner, first woman to win in a Canadian motorcycling event also open to men
David Hart, water polo
Bon MacDougall, NASCAR racing driver
Damian Mills, cricketer
Rachel Riddell, water polo
Nic Youngblud, water polo

Winter sports

Susan Auch, Olympic medalist (speed skating)
Clara Hughes, 6-time Olympic gold medalist (cycling and speed skating)
Cindy Klassen, 6-time Olympic medalist (speed skating)
Doreen McCannell-Botterill, speed skater
Jon Montgomery, Olympic gold medalist (skeleton racing), host of The Amazing Race Canada

Religious leaders[edit]

Abishabis, Aboriginal leader
John Bruce, Aboriginal leader
Rod Bushie, Aboriginal leader
David Chartrand, Aboriginal leader
Ken Courchene, Aboriginal leader
Ron Evans, 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]

Chad Allan, Juno Award-winning artist
Don Amero
Jeffrey Anderson, radio producer
W. H. Anderson
Maria Aragon, performed with Lady Gaga and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Randy Bachman
Tal Bachman
Tim Bachman
Del Barber
Ishq Bector
Steve Bell
Herbert Belyea
Lloyd Blackman
Heather Blush
Oscar Brand
Lenny Breau
Jon Buller
Stephen Carroll
Marco Castillo
Jason Churko
Tom Cochrane, Grammy-nominated artist
Amanda Cook
Burton Cummings
Mychael Danna
Victor Davies
Andy de Jarlis
Diz Disley
Mitch Dorge
Matt Epp
Ed Evanko
Christine Fellows
Brent Fitz
Ken Fleming
Fresh I.E.
Bryan Fustukian
Ian Gardiner
Heidi Gluck
Daniel Greaves
Frederick Grinke
David Guillas
Tim Harwill
Dianne Heatherington
Filmer Hubble
Terry Jacks
David James
Rob James
Gordie Johnson
Juliette
Jim Kale
James Keelaghan
Wab Kinew, now leader of the Manitoba NDP
Allan Kingdom, Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist
Ash Koley
Mark Korven
Chantal Kreviazuk
Joel Kroeker
Daniel Lavoie
Ashley Leitão
Greg Leskiw
Alana Levandoski
Cara Luft
Earl MacDonald
Gisele MacKenzie
Fraser MacPherson
Greg MacPherson
Keith Macpherson
Damian Marshall
Julie Masi
Romi Mayes
Donnie McDougall
Loreena McKennitt, Grammy-nominated artist
Holly McNarland
Glen Meadmore
Neil Merryweather
Amy Metcalfe
Jenn Mierau
Ruth Moody
Lorne Munroe
Bif Naked
Zara Nelsova
Jon Neufeld
Tim Neufeld
Bob Nolan
Tiny Parham
Brandon Paris
Fred Penner
Julie Penner
Johnny Perrin
Randolph Peters
Garry Peterson
William Prince
Eric Radford
Jackie Rae
Donn Reynolds
Brad Roberts
Dan Roberts, bassist
Ashley Robertson
Bob Rock
John K. Samson
Bernie Senensky
Joey Serlin
Remy Shand, nominated for 4 Grammy awards
Shingoose
Al Simmons
Son of Dave
Fred Turner
Venetian Snares
Lindy Vopnfjörð
Bill Wallace
Neil Young

Groups[edit]

Brother
Live on Arrival
LuLu and the TomCat
Sagkeeng's Finest, winners of Canada's Got Talent

Actors[edit]

Ted Atherton, on Traders
Cameron Bancroft, on Supernatural
Adam Beach, in Suicide Squad
Robert Bockstael, on X-Men (series)
Steve Braun, in The Skulls III
Jay Brazeau, voice actor on Mega Man (1994 series)
Greg Bryk, in Immortals (2011) and The Incredible Hulk
Len Cariou, in Prisoners (2013)
Jonas Chernick, on The Best Laid Plans
Ari Cohen, on A Little Thing Called Murder
Michael D. Cohen, on Henry's World
Wallace Douglas, on Spies of the Air
Brian Drader, in Shall We Dance? (2004)
Ed Evanko, in Double Jeopardy (1999)
Tibor Feheregyhazi, actor
Brendan Fehr, in Guardians of the Galaxy
Darcy Fehr, in Desire (2000)
Ken Finkleman, in Grease 2
Daniel Gillies, in Spider-Man 2
Monty Hall, host of Let's Make a Deal
Joshua Henry, in The Scottsboro Boys
Tom Jackson, on Star Trek: The Next Generation
Gerald MacIntosh Johnston, in Little Friend
Richard Kahan, on Supernatural
Ryan Kennedy, in Scream (1996)
Terry Klassen, in Barbie
Ken Kostick, on The Food Network
Jack Kruschen, on Batman
Jeremy Kushnier, actor
Fletcher Markle, on Thriller
Paul Maxwell, in 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, in the X-Men film series
Douglas Rain, in The Man Who Skied Down Everest
Donnelly Rhodes, on The Golden Girls
Kenny Robinson, friends with Russell Peters and Vince Carter
Ron Rubin, Morph in X-Men
Ted Rusoff, on After Death
Aaron Schwartz, on The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Kerry Shale, on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 series)
David Steinberg, actor, 5-time Emmy Award winner
Robert Tinkler, on Cyberchase, Beyblade, and Sailor Moon
Kristopher Turner, on Saving Hope
Ryan Ward, on Son of the Sunshine
Marshall Williams, on How to Build a Better Boy
Ty Wood, in Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story

Actresses[edit]

Claire Adams, in The Big Valley
Martha Burns, on Mad Ship
Sarah Carter, on Smallville
Ma-Anne Dionisio, in Les Misérables
Heather Doerksen, in Pacific Rim
Deanna Durbin, in For the Love of Mary
Melissa Elias, in Tamara (2005)
Ida Engel, on The Gong Show
Dianne Heatherington, in Zero Patience
Tina Keeper, in For Angela
Mimi Kuzyk, in A Christmas Wedding
Carla Lehmann, in Fame Is the Spur
Nadia Litz, in The Mighty
Mara Marini, on Black-ish
Belinda Montgomery, in Tron: Legacy
Libby Morris, on Not Quite Paradise
Brooke Palsson, on Between
Anna Paquin, in the X-Men film series and Phineas and Ferb
Dorothy Patrick, was married to Lynn Patrick
Shirley Patterson, on Batman serial
Tracy Spiridakos, on Revolution
Sonia Sui, in Toy Story 3
Sara Thompson, in The 100
Nia Vardalos, in My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Gwynyth Walsh, in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Supernatural, season 1
Catherine Wreford, on Wrestlemaniac

Performers[edit]

Shawn Farquhar, magician on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Amber Fleury, recording artist
Deven Green, comedian
Dean Gunnarson, magician
Doug Henning, magician
Ashley Leitão
Keith Macpherson
Luke McMaster
David Steinberg, comedian
Meaghan Waller, winner of Canada's Next Top Model
Zack Werner, judge
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]
Di Brandt, poet
Martha Brooks, writer
Norman Cantor, writer, historian
Solomon Cleaver, writer
Patrick Friesen, poet
Betty Gibson, author
Erving Goffman, writer, sociologist
Paul Hiebert, author
Edna Mayne Hull, science fiction writer
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
Duncan Mercredi, poet
Casey Plett, author
David Robertson, author
Gabrielle Roy, author
Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist
Joan Thomas, author
Miriam Toews, author
Andrew Unger, author
A. E. van Vogt, science fiction writer
Katherena Vermette, writer
Joshua Whitehead, author
Armin Wiebe, writer
Adele Wiseman, author
George Woodcock, writer

Cartoonists/characters[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 best-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 the Oprah Winfrey Show
John Wesley Dafoe
Dawna Friesen, NBC correspondent
Suzanne Goldenberg
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

Scientists, medical professionals, and teachers[edit]

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

Criminals[edit]

Scott Bairstow, rapist
Gerald Blanchard, robber
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 victims[edit]

Wrongfully convicted of murder[edit]

Politicians[edit]

This list mainly includes those people from Manitoba who had political careers outside of Manitoba, but also includes especially-notable people who had political careers within Manitoba (as presumably most Manitoba politicians are from Manitoba).

Douglas R. Archer, former mayor of Regina
Niki Ashton
Candice Bergen
Rana Bokhari
Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Premier of Manitoba, longest-serving Manitoba MLA
Maria Chaput
Marlene Cowling
Thomas Crerar, Member of Parliament, Senator, leader of the Progressive Party, first politician appointed Companion of the Order of Canada
Shari Decter Hirst
Bev Desjarlais
Ruby Dhalla, Member of Parliament in Ontario
Dorothy Dobbie
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 and son of Canada's first prime minister (John A. Macdonald)
Grant MacEwan, former mayor of Calgary
John Stewart McDiarmid, Manitoba lieutenant governor
Gerry McGeer, former mayor of Vancouver
Pearl McGonigal, Manitoba lieutenant governor
William John McKeag, Manitoba lieutenant governor
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
Daniel Vandal
Larissa Waters, Australian senator
J. S. Woodsworth, Member of Parliament, first leader of CCF

Notable families[edit]

Asper family – Izzy Asper, founder of Global Television Network
Black family – George Montegu Black Sr., businessman
- Conrad Black, newspaper publisher
- George Montegu Black II, 1950s president of Canadian Breweries
- David Culver, former CEO of Alcan (father's sister was the maternal grandmother of Conrad Black)^[4]
Richardson family – James Richardson, businessman and founder of James Richardson & Sons
- James Armstrong Richardson Sr., businessman, grandson of James Richardson
  - James Armstrong Richardson II, businessman and politician, for whom the Winnipeg airport was named
  - Agnes Benidickson (raised in Winnipeg), first female chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
  - William Moore Benidickson, Dauphin-born Member of Parliament for Kenora—Rainy River, husband of Agnes Benidickson
  - Kathleen M. Richardson, philanthropist

Other notable people[edit]

David Reimer, man raised as a girl who became a famous case in sexology

References[edit]

^ "Andrea Slobodian: Weather Anchor". GlobalWinnipeg.com. Shaw Media Inc. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
^ "Author: Bergen, David". Manitoba Author Publication Index. Archived from the original on November 4, 2005.
^ "Mary MacLane". IMDB.com.
^ Expect Miracles: Recollections of a Lucky Life

[globalwinnipeg1-1] "Andrea Slobodian: Weather Anchor". GlobalWinnipeg.com. Shaw Media Inc. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2011.

[2] "Author: Bergen, David". Manitoba Author Publication Index. Archived from the original on November 4, 2005.

[3] "Mary MacLane". IMDB.com.

[4] Expect Miracles: Recollections of a Lucky Life

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