List of Canadians
This is a list of well-known Canadians.
Business personalities
- Max Aitken, (1879-1964), "Lord Beaverbrook" - publishing baron, entrepreneur
- Izzy Asper, (1932-2003)
- Conrad Black, (born 1944), "Lord Black of Crossharbour", entrepreneur, publisher (born Canadian but gave up his citizenship)
- Roy Thomson, (1894-1976), "Lord Thomson of Fleet", entrepreneur, publisher
- Samuel Bronfman - founded the distillery empire that later took the name of Seagram
- Robert Campeau - bankrupted Bloomingdale's Department Store, NYC
- Jack Kent Cooke - owner of the Washington Redskins
- Samuel Cunard, (1787-1865), Cunard Steamship Lines
- Joseph Cunard 19th century lumber baron on the Miramichi River of New Brunswick: brother of Samuel Cunard
- Paul Desmarais - Chairman: Power Corporation of Canada
- William Davidson (1740-1790), lumberman, shipbuilder, merchant and founder of European settlements on the Miramichi Valley of New Brunswick
- Craig Dobbin - founder, chairman and CEO of CHC Helicopter Corporation. The world's largest helicopter company
- Sir James Dunn, financier, steel magnate
- Timothy Eaton, (1834-1907), founder of Eaton's (T. Eaton Company of Canada) department stores
- Bernie Ebbers - CEO (former) of WorldCom - largest bankruptcy in world history
- Alfred Fuller, (1885-1973), Fuller Brush Company
- Milton and Nelson Good - first Canadian Automobile
- K.C. Irving - Industrialist, Canada's first billionaire. Interests centered in New Brunswick incl. shipbuilding, oil refinery, pulp, trucking, shipping, frozen foods
- F. Ross Johnson (b. 1931), former CEO of RJR Nabisco
- Ron Joyce, original partner with Horton in Tim Hortons, and primary builder of the chain
- Izaak Walton Killam, (1885-1955), major financier
- Victor Li, Deputy chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, son of Li Ka Shing
- Pete Luckett - owner of Pete's Frootique and host of The Food Hunter
- William C. Macdonald (1831-1917), tobacco manufacturer, education philanthropist
- Louis B. Mayer, (1885-1957), co-founder: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios
- Harrison McCain - New Brunswick potato magnate
- Sam McLaughlin - Buick Automobile Manufacturer
- Simon McTavish (1750-1804), fur trader
- John Molson, (1763-1836), founder of Molson Breweries
- Peter Munk, (1927-), founder of Barrick Gold
- Jimmy Pattison -West Coast billionaire
- John Redpath, canal builder, sugar refinery founder
- Paul Reichmann - sunk by Canary Wharf
- John Roth - CEO (former) Nortel Networks - "the most successful businessman in modern Canadian history"....Time Europe 12/25/00
- Lino Saputo, (1937-), founder of Saputo
- Isadore Sharp, founder of the Four Seasons Hotel chain.
- John F. Stairs, (1848-1904), entrepreneur, statesman
- Frank Stronach - entrepreneur, founder of Magna.
- E. P. Taylor - entrepreneur, thoroughbred horse breeder
- Nat Taylor - movie theatre mogul, originator of the multi auditorium movie theatre or cineplex
- Greg & Mac Voisin, founders and co-owners of M&M Meat Shops Ltd.
- Sir William Cornelius Van Horne - Railway executive who directly oversaw construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Jack Warner, (1892-1978), founder of Warner Bros. Studios
- Greg & Mac Voisin, founders and co-owners of M&M Meat Shops
- Victor Li
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