Born in Winnipeg

• Randy Bachman, musician, (The Guess Who) & Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO)
• Brenda Barrie, novelist and poet
• Tyler Brûlé, journalist and publisher
• Burton Cummings, musician, (The Guess Who)
• Len Cariou, actor
• Deanna Durbin, actress
• Terry Fox, cancer activist and national hero
• Monty Hall, television host of Let's Make a Deal
• Cindy Klassen, athlete
• Guy Maddin, director
• Anna Paquin, actress
• Leonard Peikoff, philosopher
• Fred Penner, children's entertainer, musician
• Louis Riel, politician
• Gabrielle Roy, author
• John K. Samson, singer-songwriter, founding member and front man of The Weakerthans, former member of Winnipeg punk band Propagandhi
• Sir William Stephenson (aka Intrepid), spy, man on whom the character of James Bond is based
• Nia Vardalos, actress and writer
• Alexander Steen, professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs
• Aaron Funk, musician, (Venetian Snares)
• Belinda Montgomery, actress
• David Steinberg, comedian
• Oscar Brand, folk singer
• Juliette, singer and TV personality
• Doug Henning, magician and entertainer [born in Ft. Garry, then a suburb of Winnipeg]
• James Patrick, NHL hockey player
• Marshall Rothstein, judge, Supreme Court of Canada

Randoph Charles Bachman, OM (born September 27, 1943) was lead guitarist and songwriter of the 1970s rock band, The Guess Who, and later formed the famous hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive with his brothers Robbie Bachman, drums, Tim Bachman, rhythm guitar and friend Fred Turner on bass and lead... The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there as well as abroad in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Tyler Brûlé (born 1968 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian journalist and magazine publisher. ... Burton Cummings, OM, D.Mus (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. ... The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there as well as abroad in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Len Cariou (born September 30, 1939 in Saint Boniface, Manitoba) is a Canadian actor. ... Deanna Durbin (born Edna Mae Durbin on December 4, 1921, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to English immigrant parents) was a popular young singer and actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s. ... Terry Fox on his Marathon of Hope cross-country run. ... Monty Hall, born August 25, 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as Maurice Halprin, is a Canadian-born actor, singer and sportscaster, but is best known for being the MC of popular American television game shows. ... Lets Make a Deal is a television game show aired in the United States. ... Cindy Klassen (born August 12, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian skater and Canadas all-time most decorated Olympian. ... Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a writer and director of both features and short films. ... Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian-New Zealander actress. ... Leonard Peikoff circa 1970 Leonard Peikoff (born 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher and author. ... Frederick (Fred) Ralph Cornelius Penner (born 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian childrens entertainer who gives appearances throughout North America. ... Louis Riel. ... Gabrielle-Roy is a French first language elementary and high school located in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. ... John K Samson is the lead singer of Winnipeg/Toronto based band, The Weakerthans He has been writing and performing for the past fourteen years. ... John K. Samson performing in Montreal, 2004 The Weakerthans are a Canadian indie rock band, whose blend of punk-inflected folk rock with literate, witty, introspective lyrics have made them one of the most popular bands in the current Canadian music scene. ... Propagandhi is a political punk rock/thrash band formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1986 by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky. ... Sir William Samuel Stephenson, CC , MC , DFC (January 23, 1897 – January 31, 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. Stephenson is best-known by his wartime intelligence codename of Intrepid. ... 007 redirects here; for other uses, see 007 (disambiguation). ... Antonia Eugenia Vardalos, better known as Nia Vardalos (born September 24, 1962 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), is a Canadian actress, screenwriter and producer. ... Alexander Steen (born March 1, 1984, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League of Swedish and Canadian background. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. ... Aaron Funk Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. ... Belinda Montgomery (born on July 23, 1950 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian born actress who is perhaps best known as Mrs. ... David Steinberg (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, and writer who appeared on Johnny Carsons Tonight Show 140 times, and directed episodes of Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mad About You, and Friends. ... Oscar Brand (born February 7, 1920, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a folk singer and songwriter. ... Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi, C.M. (born 26 August 1927, St. ... Doug James Henning (born May 3, 1947 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, died February 7, 2000 of liver disease) was a Canadian magician, illusionist, and escape artist. ... James Patrick (born June 6, 1963 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a former professional ice hockey defenceman, and is now a coach with the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League. ... Marshall E. Rothstein, QC , LL.B , B.Comm (born December 25, 1940) is a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. ...

Raised but not born in Winnipeg

• Guy Gavriel Kay, novelist and poet
• Tommy Douglas, father of Medicare in Canada
• Marshall McLuhan, media guru
• Scott Fitzpatrick, musician and author
• A. E. van Vogt, science fiction writer
• Dr. Robert (Bob) Brent Thirsk, Canadian astronaut, STS-78 shuttle mission
• Neil Young, musician
• Lenny Breau, jazz guitarist
• Chris Jericho, Professional Wrestler, WWE Champion, WCW Champion, etc.
• Tyler Arnason, NHL player who plays for the Ottawa Senators
• Devon Hunt, Famous Erotic Winnipeg Dancer
• Tom Jackson , actor, Singer, Philanthropist

Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction. ... Thomas Clement Douglas, PC, CC, SOM, MA, LL.D (hc) (October 20, 1904 – February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. ... McLuhan redirects here. ... Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author who was one of the most prolific, yet complex, writers of the mid-twentieth century Golden Age of the genre. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Robert (Bob) Thirsk (born August 17, 1953) is a Canadian astronaut. ... STS-78 is a Space Shuttle program mission. ... Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist and film director who grew up during his teen years in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Lenny Breau (August 5, 1941–August 12, 1984) was a brilliantly innovative American-born Canadian jazz guitarist who brought together country, classical, flamenco and jazz guitar techniques, then merged and developed them into a unique and influential personal style. ... Christopher Keith Irvine (born on November 9, 1970), better known by the ring name Chris Jericho, is a Canadian actor, radio host, rock musician and inactive professional wrestler. ... Tyler Arnason (Born March 16, 1979, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is a professional ice hockey centre for the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League who has also played for the Chicago Blackhawks and Ottawa Senators. ... Tom Jackson is also a Canadian film and television actor and singer. ...

Achieved fame while living in Winnipeg

• Izzy Asper, media mogul and philanthropist
• David Bergen, novelist
• Carol Shields, Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist
• Miriam Toews, Best-selling novelist
• Evelyn Hart, ballerina

Israel Harold Izzy Asper, OC , OM , QC , LL.M , Ph. ... David Bergen is a Canadian novelist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Carol Shields, CC , OM , D.Litt. ... Miriam Toews (born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba) is a Canadian novelist and humorist of Mennonite descent. ... Evelyn Anne Hart C.C. (born April 4, 1956) is a Canadian ballerina and principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. ...

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, Children's record narrated by James Stewart, c. 1940.

• Winnipeg Bear, the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh, was not actually born in Winnipeg. Instead, Winnipeg Bear was purchased in White River, Ontario, by an officer (Lieutenant Harry Colebourn) of the Fort Garry Horse cavalry regiment en route to his embarkation point for the front lines of World War I. He named the bear after the regiment's home town of Winnipeg. In 1924, on an excursion to the London Zoo with neighbour children, Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A. A. Milne, was introduced to Winnie for the first time.

• An E.H. Shepard painting of "Winnie the Pooh" is the only known oil painting of Winnipeg’s famous bear cub. It was purchased at an auction for $285,000 in London, England late in 2000. The painting is displayed in the Pavilion Gallery in Assiniboine Park. The painting is a focal point a $6-million Poohseum in Assiniboine Park that will include a Hundred Acre Wood playground.