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Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. It was established in 1965 and presently has more than 32,000 students and 900 faculty members. The university was named...
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Doug Brown
Douglas Gordon Brown (born on September 29, 1974 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is a former National Football League player for the Washington Redskins and current Canadian Football League defensive tackle for the Winnipeg Blue...
Lui Passaglia
Lui Passaglia (born June 7, 1954, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a former professional Canadian football player. Passaglia was the placekicker/punter for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League for a record-breaking 25 years (1976...
Jim Chu
Jim Chu, O.O.M. (Chinese: 朱小荪) is the Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD). On June 21, 2007, Jim Chu was named as the successor of Chief Constable Jamie Graham, who retired in August. Chu is the first non-white chief constable...
Sam Sullivan
Sam Sullivan, CM (born 1959) is a former mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Sam Sullivan was born in 1959 to East Vancouver residents Lloyd and Ida Sullivan. His father ran Sully's Autoparts on East Hastings Street. He has brothers, Terry...
Peter L. Hurd
Peter L. Hurd is an academic specialising in biology. He is currently an Associate Professor aligned to both the Department of Psychology's Biocognition Unit, and the University's Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. His research...
Francesco Aquilini
Francesco Aquilini is the Managing Director of Vancouver-based Aquilini Investment Group. He is the current owner of the Vancouver Canucks and GM Place.
Aquilini attended Templeton Secondary School, where he was an excellent athlete and mediocre...
Jay Triano
Jay Triano (born September 21, 1958) is a former Canadian professional basketball player and the current head coach of the NBA's Toronto Raptors. Triano gained recognition during his tenure as coach of the Canadian men's national team. He is also a...
Minh Le
Minh Le (Vietnamese: Lê Minh, born June 27, 1977), also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who co-created the popular Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Jess Cliffe in 1999. He was later employed...
Daniel Igali
Baraladei Daniel Igali (born February 3, 1974 in Eniwari, Bayelsa State, Nigeria) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler, and an Olympic gold medalist.
As captain of the Nigerian wrestling team he came to Canada to compete in the 1994 Commonwealth Games....
Margaret Trudeau
Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau Kemper (born September 10, 1948) is the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
Trudeau was born Margaret Joan Sinclair in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the daughter of Doris...
David Usher
David Usher (born on April 24, 1966) is a British-born Canadian rock singer-songwriter who currently lives in Montreal. Formerly the frontman for the Canadian band Moist (1992–2000), he embarked on a solo career in the late 1990s.
David Usher was...
Ujjal Dosanjh
Ujjal Dev Singh Dosanjh, PC, QC, MP (born September 9, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament representing Vancouver South. As a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, which has been the Official...
Gordon Campbell
Gordon Muir Campbell, MLA (born January 12, 1948) is a Canadian politician and former real estate developer and teacher. As the leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party, which holds a majority in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, he...
Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox, CC (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He became famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, which Fox ran...
Doug Roxburgh
Doug Roxburgh (born December 28, 1951) is a Canadian accountant, champion amateur golfer, and golf administrator. He has won the Canadian Amateur Championship four times, the B.C. Amateur Championship a record 13 times, and is a member of the...
Peter Guarasci
Peter Guarasci (born 25 February 1974 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a professional basketball power forward-centre from Canada. Having played in Serie A and the Basketball Bundesliga, he currently plays in the Lega2 in Italy and is a former...
Greg Frers
Gregory Frers (born August 4, 1971, in Mississauga, Ontario) is a former professional Canadian football player who played ten years in the Canadian Football League. Frers played defensive back for the Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and...
Doug Davies
Doug Davies (born December 22, 1964 in Coquitlam, British Columbia) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played twelve seasons in the Canadian Football League for three different teams. He played college football at Simon...
Don Warrington
Don Warrington was a running back who played ten seasons in the Canadian Football League for the Edmonton Eskimos. In his career, Warrington was a part of four Grey Cup championship teams.
He died in a car accident in December, 1980.
Lyall Woznesensky
Lyall Woznesensky (born April 4, 1954, in St. Boniface, Manitoba) is a former Canadian football defensive lineman who played eight seasons in the Canadian Football League for six different teams.
Woznesensky played college football for the Simon...
Dan Payne
Dan Payne (born June 7, 1966 in Coquitlam, British Columbia) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played fourteen seasons in the Canadian Football League for four different teams, mostly at right guard. He played college...
Dan Rashovich
Danilo "Dan" Rashovich (Danilo Rašović / Данило Рашовић) (born November 30, 1960 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former linebacker who played sixteen seasons in the Canadian Football League, mainly for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Nick Hebeler
Nick Hebeler is a former professional Canadian football defensive lineman who played eight years in the Canadian Football League, for the BC Lions from 1979 to 1985 and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1986.
In 2003, Nick was voted a member of the BC...
Nick Bastaja
Nick Bastaja (born February 4, 1953) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played fourteen seasons in the Canadian Football League. He was part of the Grey Cup championship-winning Winnipeg Blue Bombers teams of 1984 and...
Dan Ferrone
Dan Ferrone (born April 3, 1958, in Oakville, Ontario) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League from 1981 to 1992. He was part of the Grey Cup championship...
Orville Lee
Orville Lee (born April 4, 1964, in Ocho Rios, Jamaica) is a retired Canadian Football League running back.
He was drafted by the Ottawa Rough Riders with the first overall pick in the 1988 CFL Draft from Simon Fraser University. In his rookie year...
Allan Luke
Allan Luke is an educator, researcher, and theorist studying multiliteracies, linguistics, family literacy, and educational policy. Dr. Luke has written or edited over 14 books and more than 140 articles and book chapters. Luke, with Peter Freebody,...
Rick Klassen
Rick Klassen is a former defensive lineman who played 10 years in the Canadian Football League for the BC Lions from 1981-1987, 1989-1990 and Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1988.
In 2003, Rick was voted a member of the B.C. Lions All-Time Dream Team,...
Alison Lawton
Alison Lawton (born May 29, 1970 in Montréal, Québec, Canada ) is a business executive, philanthropist and producer of the documentary “Uganda Rising”.
Lawton has an undergraduate degree in Communication Studies from Concordia University and a...
Farhan Lalji
Farhan Lalji is a Canadian sports reporter for TSN based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He previously anchored SportsDesk between 1997 and 2000.
He graduated from Simon Fraser University in liberal arts with a minor in communications and history....
Angus Reid
Angus Reid (born September 23, 1976, in Richmond, British Columbia) is an offensive lineman for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He is number 64, weighs 305 lbs. and is 6'1 tall. Reid went to Simon Fraser University and played for the...
Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen Yi Ru (traditional Chinese: 辰亦儒; pinyin: Chén Yìrú) is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit. His stage name is a homophone of his birth name.
Calvin Chen (simplified Chinese: 陈奕儒; traditional...
Ian Bennett
Ian E. Bennett was appointed President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint on June 12, 2006. A distinguished federal public servant, Mr. Bennett has held several positions within the Department of Finance including Deputy Minister from November 2004...
Marc Belanger
Marc Bélanger (born 1950) is a labour union educator specializing in information technology and distance education via computer communications. He worked for the Workers' Activities Programme of the training centre of the International Labour...
Dave Cutler
Dave Cutler (born October 17, 1945) is a former all-star place kicker with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. Cutler is considered by many to be one of the best field goal kicker in CFL history.
A graduate of Simon Fraser...
William Porteous
William "Willie" Porteous is an Australian land developer.
Porteous was born, raised and educated in Canada. He attended Simon Fraser University in British Columbia where he attained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Resource Management and Town Planning...
Glen Jackson
Glen Jackson, born April 5, 1954 in Vancouver, British Columbia, was a star linebacker for the BC Lions.
After playing at Notre Dame Regional Secondary School, he went on to play university football at Simon Fraser University.
Jackson would play 12...
Elaine Bernard
Elaine Bernard is the executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
A high school drop-out who was able to go to university without finishing High School,...
Sean Millington
Sean Millington (born February 1, 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former Canadian Football League fullback and currently does colour commentary for cfl.ca and the CBC. He is also an actor in several movies and television shows.
In 1984,...
Rick House
Rick House (born May 18, 1957, in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a former professional Canadian football player who was a receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League from 1979 to 1984 and 1989 to 1991. He also played for...
Glen Suitor
Glen Suitor (born November 24, 1962) was a defensive back who played eleven seasons for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He ranks among the CFL all-time leaders in interceptions with 51. Suitor was a three-time CFL All...
Christine Lamont
Christine Lamont was born in 1959 in Langley, British Columbia and a student at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in the late 1980s. During her time at SFU she worked at CFRO-FM, a community radio station, where she met David Spencer. The two became...
David Spencer
David Spencer (born 1963 in Moncton, New Brunswick) was a university dropout who moved to Vancouver in the 1980s where he found work at an alternate radio station. There he met Christine Lamont, a student at Simon Fraser University. The two soon...
Luca Congi
Luca Congi (born June 15, 1983 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) is a punter/placekicker playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.
Congi was drafted out of college by Saskatchewan (12th overall) in 2006, and he won the...
Brent Charleton
Brent Charleton (born April 11, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian-New Zealand professional basketball player. He played for the New Zealand Breakers in the Australian National Basketball League.
Brent is now attending the British...
Gillian Findlay
Gillian Findlay is a Canadian television journalist who has worked for the CBC and ABC. She studied history and literature at Simon Fraser University and she holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the British Columbia Institute of Technology....
Barry Penner
Barry Penner is British Columbia's Minister of Environment. He has also served as the government's Deputy House Leader (2005-2009).
Born in Kitimat in 1966, Penner was first elected an MLA in 1996 (the riding of Chilliwack) and was re-elected in...
Sonija Kwok
Sonija Kwok (Chinese: 郭羨妮, born 22 July 1974) is a Hong Kong actress, currently working for TVB.
She was born in Hong Kong on 22 July, 1974, of mixed Cantonese and British parentage). Kwok immigrated to Vancouver, Canada from Hong Kong.
She attended...
Rick Goltz
Ricardo Eugene Goltz (born March 19, 1955 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a former NFL and CFL player.
He played his college football at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. In 1978 he was drafted by his hometown B.C....
Kathryn Cholette
Kathryn Cholette is a|Canadian environmentalist and politician, who served as leader of the Green Party of Canada from 1988 to 1990. Just prior to the end of her term as leader, Cholette publicly resigned her post in an article entitled "Why I Left...
Jonathan Shewchuk
Jonathan Richard Shewchuk is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He obtained his B.S. in Physics and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science...
Rena Heer
Rena Heer is a Canadian television personality on CP24 as of February 2009. From January 28, 2008 to June 6, 2008, she handled weather along with Jeff Hutcheson on CTV's Canada AM which was a revamped version of the national Canada AM show. On June...
Darrel Falk
Darrel R. Falk (born 1946) is professor of biology at Point Loma Nazarene University in Point Loma, California (United States). Falk has a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (1973).
Falk attended Simon Fraser University, originally planning on...
Mobina Jaffer
Mobina S. B. Jaffer, QC (born August 20, 1949 in Uganda) is a Canadian Senator representing British Columbia. She is the first South Asian and the first Muslim woman appointed to the Upper House.
Born to an East Indian family living in Africa,...
Kevin Falcon
Kevin Falcon is a Canadian politician in British Columbia. He is currently the head of the British Columbia Ministry of Health Services. Falcon was first elected in 2001 as a British Columbia Liberal to represent the riding of Surrey-Cloverdale, and...
Rob Nijjar
Rob Nijjar (born 1967) is a Canadian politician.
Nijjar was first elected to the BC Legislature in the 2001 provincial election as a Liberal. Nijjar was the chair of the Government Caucus Committee on the Economy. At one time he was also the deputy...
Sharyn Clough
Sharyn Clough (born 14 May 1965) is an associate professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University. Her specialties are philosophy of science, epistemology, contemporary pragmatism, and feminist theory.
Clough studied at the University of Calgary,...
Pietro Calendino
Pietro Calendino is a Canadian provincial and municipal politician currently serving as a School Trustee in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Calendino was born in Calabria, Italy but emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1959. He received...
Paddy Roberts
Paddy (or Patrick Tyrone) Roberts (born 8 November 1947 in Barrhead, Alberta to Mary Anne Roberts and William Roberts) is the Chairman of the Progressive Nationalist Party of British Columbia, which says it will contest both provincial and federal...
Jenny Kwan
For the California Dreams actress, please see Jennie Kwan.
Jenny Wai Ching Kwan （Chinese: 關慧貞; pinyin: Guān Hùizhēn）is a Chinese-born Canadian politician. She is a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party and currently serving as a Member...
