20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers

The list 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers includes Margaret Trudeau, Mike Myers, Malcolm Gladwell, Neil Peart and Peter Jennings. The list consists of 433 members and 7 sublists.

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1.

Mike Myers

Canadian-American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1963)

Overview: Michael John Myers, OC (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He is known for his run as a performer on Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995 and ...

Date of birth: 25 May 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: Kelly Tisdale (Married)

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Canadian Comedy Award winners 176T

Writers from Scarborough, Toronto 14T

Male actors of English descent 380T
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Margaret Trudeau

Ex-wife of the late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau

Overview: Margaret Joan Trudeau (née Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948) is a Canadian author, actress, photographer, former television talk show hostess, and social advocate for people with bipolar ...

Date of birth: 10 September 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: First Lady

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Spouses of prime ministers of Canada 22T

Parents of prime ministers of Canada 6T

Canadian socialites 66T
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Benny Hinn

American-Canadian evangelist

Overview: Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn (born 3 December 1952) is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades"—revival meeting or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums in major ...

Date of birth: 3 December 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

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Israeli Pentecostals 1T

Israeli people of Palestinian descent 9T

Former American Orthodox Christians 6T
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Neil Peart

Canadian and American drummer (1952–2020)

Overview: Neil Ellwood Peart, OC (September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian musician and writer best known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. Peart received numerous awards for ...

Date of birth: 12 September 1952

Date of death: 7 January 2020

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

Partner: Carrie Nuttall (Married)

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Musicians from St. Catharines 13T

Canadian male jazz musicians 117T

2020 deaths 11,737T
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Peter Jennings

News anchor

Overview: Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from ...

Date of birth: 29 July 1938

Date of death: 7 August 2005

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Tobacco-related deaths 46T

Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state) 256T

Journalists from Toronto 242T
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Malcolm Gladwell

Journalist and science writer

Overview: Malcolm Timothy Gladwell CM (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published six books: ...

Date of birth: 3 September 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Canadian men podcasters 30T

Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T
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Deborah Coyne

Canadian politician

Overview: Deborah Margaret Ryland Coyne (born February 24, 1955) is a Canadian constitutional lawyer, professor, and author. She is the cousin of journalist Andrew Coyne and actress Susan Coyne, and the niece of ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1955

Age: 70

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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Canadian scholars of constitutional law 10T

21st-century Canadian women politicians 1,077T

Women legal scholars 331T
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Nathaniel Branden

Canadian-American psychotherapist (1930–2014)

Overview: Nathaniel Branden (born Nathan Blumenthal; April 9, 1930 – December 3, 2014) was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and ...

Date of birth: 9 April 1930

Date of death: 3 December 2014

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Psychologist

Gender: Male

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20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

20th-century male writers 5,043T

Canadian psychotherapists 15T
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Deborah Ellis

Canadian fiction writer and activist

Overview: Deborah Ellis CM OOnt (born August 7, 1960) is a Canadian fiction-writer and activist. Her themes are often concerned with the sufferings of persecuted children in the Third World.

Date of birth: 7 August 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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Canadian lesbian writers 120T

21st-century LGBT people 3,422T

Canadian women non-fiction writers 804T
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Simcha Jacobovici

Canadian film director

Overview: Simcha Jacobovici (born April 4, 1953, in Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israeli-Canadian "investigative archaeologist", film director, producer, freelance journalist, and New York Times bestselling author ...

Date of birth: 4 April 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Pseudoarchaeologists 35T

21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 241T

21st-century Canadian male writers 821T
11.

France Castel

Canadian, Talk Show Host

Overview: France Castel, née Bégin (born August 31, 1944 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian singer, actress and broadcaster.

Date of birth: 31 August 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Talk Show Host

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Canadian women radio hosts 107T

20th-century Canadian women singers 295T

21st-century Canadian women singers 647T
12.

Barbara Branden

Canadian writer

Overview: Barbara Branden (née Weidman; May 14, 1929 – December 11, 2013) was a Canadian-American writer, editor, and lecturer, known for her relationship and subsequent break with novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand ...

Date of birth: 14 May 1929

Date of death: 12 December 2013

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T

20th-century Canadian women writers 898T

Women biographers 545T
13.

Naomi Klein

Canadian author and activist (born 1970)

Overview: Naomi A. Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism. On a three-year appo ...

Date of birth: 8 May 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Columnist

Gender: Female

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Canadian socialist feminists 27T

Jewish Canadian journalists 96T

Jewish Canadian filmmakers 67T
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Catherine Doherty

Religious order founder; Servant of God

Overview: Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty CM (August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985), was a Russian-Canadian Catholic social worker and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate. A pioneer of social ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1896

Date of death: 14 December 1985

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Catholic pacifists 14T

Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy 138T

Canadian Servants of God 12T
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Miodrag Kojadinović

Canadian poet and academic

Overview: Miodrag Kojadinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг Којадиновић, born 1961) is a Canadian-Serbian linguist, interpreter, translator, writer, anthropologist, and theoretician of gender and sexuality.

Date of birth: 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: Serbian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 241T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

21st-century Canadian male writers 821T
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Chrystia Freeland

Canadian, Politician

Overview: Christina Alexandra Freeland PC MP (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian journalist and politician who presently serves as the deputy prime minister of Canada and minister of finance – the first woman to ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1968

Age: 57

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Female

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Chrystia Freeland 5T

21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada 1,044T

Old Scona Academic High School alumni 12T
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Laura Sabia

Canadian politician

Overview: Laura Sabia, OC (September 18, 1916 – October 17, 1996) was a Canadian social activist and feminist.

Date of birth: 18 September 1916

Date of death: 17 October 1996

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Journalists from Montreal 133T

20th-century Canadian women politicians 230T

Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T
18.

Irshad Manji

Canadian educator (born 1968)

Overview: Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator. She is the author of The Trouble with Islam Today (2004) and Allah, Liberty and Love (2011), both of which have been banned in several Muslim ...

Date of birth: 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T

LGBT broadcasters from Canada 51T

Egyptian Quranist Muslims 6T
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David Frum

Canadian-American political commentator (born 1960)

Overview: David Jeffrey Frum (born June 30, 1960) is a Canadian-American political commentator.

Date of birth: 30 June 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research 58T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Charles Templeton

Canadian writer, editor, former Christian evangelist (1915–2001)

Overview: Charles Bradley Templeton (October 7, 1915 – June 7, 2001) was a Canadian media figure and Christian evangelist. Known in the 1940s and 1950s as a leading evangelist, he became an agnostic after struggling ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1915

Date of death: 7 June 2001

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Radio Personality

Gender: Male

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Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

Writers about religion and science 177T