List of Canadians

This is a list of well-known Canadians.

Military figures

• Gustave Biéler (1904-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Billy Bishop WW1 and WW2 Flying Ace
• Sir Isaac Brock, (1769-1812) War of 1812 general who successfully defended Canada in the early phase of the war
• Roy Brown, (1893-1944) - WWI fighter pilot officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron
• Arthur Currie The nation's greatest general responsible for the WW1 victory at Vimy Ridge
• Roméo Dallaire - UN peacekeeping General who attempted to interfere with the Rwandan Genocide, with little support from his superiors.
• Peter Dmytruk (1920-1943), WW II Flight Sergeant and member of the French Resistance
• William Hall, first Nova Scotian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Kenneth Macalister (1914-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• John McCrae (1872-1918), soldier, poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
• Andrew McNaughton, Minister of Defense during World War II
• Henry Norwest (1884-1918), one of the most famous snipers of World War I
• Francis Pegahmagabow (1891-1952), the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
• Frank Pickersgill (1915-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• George Lawrence Price (1898-1918), last soldier killed in World War I.
• Tommy Prince (1915-1977), one of Canada's most decorated soldiers, a member of the joint US/Canada special commando unit known as the Devil's Brigade
• James Ralston, Minister of Defense during World War II
• Roméo Sabourin (1923-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Sam Steele (1851-1919), A member of the North West Mounted Police most famous for his command of a detachment in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush
• William Stephenson (codename: Intrepid) (1896-1989), soldier, airman, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the western hemisphere in World War II.