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100 Greatest Canadians

Name the 100 greatest Canadians of all time.
Based on this 2004 poll by CBC
Quiz by WanderingWolf
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Last updated: October 13, 2018
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Rank
Clue
Person
1.
NDP leader, "founder" of Canadian healthcare system
Tommy Douglas
2.
Cancer activist who died during an attempted cross-country marathon
Terry Fox
3.
Liberal Prime Minister of the 70's and 80's
Pierre Trudeau
4.
Inventor of Insulin
Dr. Frederick Banting
5.
CBC nature show host, environmentalist
David Suzuki
6.
Prime Minister, "founder" of modern peacekeeping
Lester Pearson
7.
CBC hockey commentator
Don Cherry
8.
Canada's first Prime Minister
Sir John A. MacDonald
9.
Purported inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
10.
Hockey player
Wayne Gretzky
11.
Executed Metis rebel leader and politician
Louis Riel
12.
Founder of international charity for mentally handicapped children
Jean Vanier
13.
Country singer
"Stompin' Tom" Connors
14.
Musician
Neil Young
15.
Radio talk show host
Peter Gzowski
16.
UN Commander of failed peacekeeping mission in Rwanda
Gen. Roméo Dallaire
17.
Former Ontario NDP leader, poverty activist
Stephen Lewis
18.
Singer
Shania Twain
19.
Hockey player
Bobby Orr
20.
Comedic actor
Mike Myers
21.
Symbolic dead World War I soldier
"The Unknown Soldier"
22.
Founder of Kin Canada, a secret men's society
Harold A. Rogers
23.
Hockey player
Maurice Richard
24.
WWI general, first to independently command Canadian troops
Gen. Arthur Currie
25.
Feminist politician, fought for women's suffrage
Nellie McClung
26.
Communist surgeon who served in Mao's Red Army
Dr. Norman Bethune
27.
Singer
Céline Dion
28.
British General in War of 1812
Sir Isaac Brock
29.
Comedic actor
Jim Carrey
30.
Parapalegic activist who did a global marathon in his wheelchair
Rick Hansen
31.
Author, historian, CBC host
Pierre Berton
32.
Comedic actor
Michael J. Fox
33.
Musician
Gordon Lightfoot
34.
DJ from Winnipeg radio station
Hal Anderson
35.
British heroine from War of 1812, chocolate company founder
Laura Secord
36.
Children's TV show host on CBC
"Mr. Dressup"
37.
Native American leader who led Indian forces during the War of 1812
Tecumseh
38.
Hockey player
Mario Lemieux
39.
WWF wrestler
Bret "The Hitman" Hart
40.
Singer
Avril Lavigne
41.
Comedic actor
John Candy
42.
Inventor of universial time zones
Sir Sandford Fleming
43.
First French-Canadian Prime Minister
Wilfrid Laurier
44.
Bahai' religious activist, wife of Bahai' leader*.
Mary Maxwell
45.
Recent Prime Minister
Jean Chrétien
46.
Singer
Leonard Cohen
47.
Conservative Prime Minister from the 50's
John Diefenbaker
48.
World War I fighter pilot
Billy Bishop
49.
War War II-era Prime Minister
Mackenzie King
50.
Comedian, actor, CBC TV host
Rick Mercer
Rank
Clue
Person
51.
Actress
Pamela Anderson
52.
Teenage human-rights activist
Craig Kielburger
53.
Hockey player
Gordie Howe
54.
British spy during World War II
William "Intrepid" Stephenson
55.
Pianist
Glenn Gould
56.
Actor
William Shatner
57.
Author of "Anne of Green Gables" series
Lucy Maud Montgomery
58.
Hocky player, scored winning goal against USSR in 1972
Paul Henderson
59.
Hockey player, founder of donut shop chain
Tim Horton
60.
Folk singer
Stan Rogers
61.
Early Canadian geologist
William Edmond Logan
62.
Professor of media studies
Marshall McLuhan
63.
First Canadian woman in space
Roberta Bondar
64.
Conservative Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
65.
Rock musician, lead singer of "The Guess Who"
Burton Cummings
66.
Current Auditor General of Canada. In 2002, she blew the whistle on high-profile money laundering scandal within current Liberal government.
Sheila Fraser
67.
Hockey player
Patrick Roy
68.
Hockey player
Jean Béliveau
69.
First separatist Premier of Quebec
René Lévesque
70.
Inventor of basketball
James Naismith
71.
Feminist author
Margaret Atwood
72.
First black woman appointed to the Senate of Canada
Anne C. Cools
72.
Map-maker, explorer
David Thompson
74.
Judge, argued women had the right to be appointed as senators
Emily Murphy
75.
Musician
Sarah McLachlan
76.
World War I military surgeon, wrote "In Flander's Fields"
John McCrae
77.
Scientist, partner of Frederick Banting
Dr. Charles Best
78.
Children's author
Robert Munsch
79.
Hockey player
Ed Belfour
80.
Native American actor
"Chief" Dan George
81.
Gold-medal winning curler
Sandra Schmirler
82.
Comedic actor
Dan Aykroyd
83.
Native politician who defeated the Meech Lake accord through filibustering
Elijah Harper
84.
Figure skater
Kurt Browning
85.
Painter
Emily Carr
86.
PGA golfer
Mike Weir
87.
Pro-abortion activist responsible for making the practice legal in Canada
Dr. Henry Morgantaler
88.
Author of stories about wolves
Farley Mowat
89.
Gold-medal winning sprinter, "The World's Fastest Man"
Donovan Bailey
90.
Singer
Bryan Adams
91.
Founder and leader of Reform Party
Preston Manning
92.
Founder of "Molson Canadian" beer company
John Molson
93.
Singer
Joni Mitchell
94.
Singer
Anne Murray
95.
British Governor General, creator of the Stanley Cup
Lord Stanley
96.
Rock musician from the Band "Rush"
Geddy Lee
97.
Supreme Court Judge, current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Louise Arbour
98.
Author
Mordecai Richler
99.
North West Mounted Police officer who quelled last Native uprisings
Sam Steele
100.
Founder and leader of the CCF / NDP party
J. S. Woodsworth
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