1. Geoff Stirling (1921)

Canadian Businessman

Canadian businessman and media mogul who is known for owning several media based organizations in Newfoundland including the CHOZ-FM radio station and the Newfoundland Herald. He is also known for...

2. Joey Saputo (1964)

Canadian Businessman

Businessman most famous as the President of the Canadian professional soccer team the Montreal Impact. The team's stadium, Saputo Stadium, is named after his family's highly-successful dairy products business.

3. Jim Pattison (1928)

Canadian Businessman

Known best as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the multi-industry and multi-billion dollar Jim Pattison Group, this Canadian entrepreneur donated a large percentage of his fortune to the...

4. Ron Southern (1930)

Canadian Businessman

Canadian entrepreneur who founded ATCO Ltd. and also opened an equestrian facility called Spruce Meadows. He held additional executive positions in several other large companies, including Canadian Airlines and the...

5. Jim Treliving (1941)

Canadian Businessman

Canadian businessman who became known to television audiences as one of the "dragons" on the reality series Dragons' Den. He built his personal fortune through his partnership with George Melville,...

6. Scott McGillivray (1978)

Canadian Businessman

Canadian carpenter and television host of the shows Income Property and All American Handyman on Home and Garden Television. He was also a judge on Canada's Handyman Challenge.

7. Guy Laliberté (1959)

Canadian Businessman

Co-founder of the aerobatic performance group Cirque du Soleil.

8. Christine Magee (1959)

Canadian Businessman

Canadian businesswoman known for being the president and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada. She has also served on the Board of Directors for McDonald's Canada.

9. Mike Lazaridis (1961)

Canadian Businessman

Founder and Vice Chairman of BlackBerry, the manufacturer of the wireless handheld device that transformed business communications.

10. Randy Blumer (Unknow)

Canadian Businessman

Randy Blumer born in Edmonton Alberta on October 21 1958 is widely acknowledged as having started the multibillion dollar online poker industry with the launch of Planet Poker the world's...

11. Jeff Dennis (1958)

Canadian Businessman

Jeff Dennis is a Canadian serial entrepreneur author public speaker public company director and the co-founder President and CEO of COU Solar Inc. a Toronto Ontario based full service photovoltaic...

12. Joe Koenig (1930)

Canadian Businessman

Joseph Koenig is a Canadian entrepreneur who was founder and president of Electronics Workbench. Koenig’s first company was Interactive Image Technologies in Toronto Ontario and specialized in producing educational movies...

13. Isadore Sharp (1931)

Canadian Businessman

Isadore Issy Sharp OC is a Canadian hotelier. He is founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

14. Charles Bronfman (1931)

Canadian Businessman

Charles Bronfman PC CC is a Canadian / American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2 billion...

15. Scott Tannas (1962)

Canadian Businessman

Scott Tannas was the President/CEO and founder of Western Financial Group an insurance brokerage life insurance and banking company headquartered in High River Alberta Canada. Western Financial Group has 1300+...

16. Richard A. N. Bonnycastle (1934)

Canadian Businessman

Richard Arthur Northwood Bonnycastle is a Canadian businessman who is the former owner and publisher of Harlequin Enterprises and an owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.

17. W. Garfield Weston (1898)

Canadian Businessman

Garfield Weston OC Canadian businessman and philanthropist led George Weston Limited and its various subsidiaries and associated companies including Associated British Foods for half a century and established one of...

18. Jeffrey Veillet (1881)

Canadian Businessman

Jeffrey Veillet was a businessman shows in forestry and general trade until his death in 1946.

19. Jessica Scorpio (1987)

Canadian Businessman

Jessica Scorpio is a founder and Director of Marketing at Getaround a peer-to-peer carsharing company. Scorpio previously founded IDEAL a not-for-profit network for entrepreneurs and young leaders.

20. Johnny Young (politician) (1931)

Canadian Businessman

Charles Frank Ross Johnny Young was a businessperson and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He represented 1st Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1978 to...

21. Maurice Strong (1929)

Canadian Businessman

Maurice F. Strong PC CC OM FRSC is a Canadian entrepreneur and a former under-secretary general of the United Nations. Strong's first name is pronounced Mor'ris with the accent on...

22. Lynton Wilson (1940)

Canadian Businessman

Lynton Ronald 'Red' Wilson OC is a Canadian business executive.

23. Philemon Wright (1760)

Canadian Businessman

Philemon Wright was a farmer and entrepreneur who founded Wrightstown the first permanent settlement in the National Capital Region of Canada. Wrightstown later became incorporated in 1875 and renamed Hull...

24. André Caillé (1943)

Canadian Businessman

André Caillé is a Canadian electricity company executive. André Caillé was the chairman of Hydro-Québec from September 2004 to November 2007 and the chairman of the World Energy Congress. From...

25. Richard D. McCormick (1940)

Canadian Businessman

Richard David McCormick is an American business executive.

26. Michael Sabia (1953)

Canadian Businessman

Michael John Sabia is a Canadian businessman. He is the current CEO of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. Sabia formerly served as CEO of Bell Canada from...

27. Ravi Sood (1976)

Canadian Businessman

Ravi Sood is a Canadian financier and venture capitalist. Sood was raised in Waterloo Ontario Canada and resides in Hong Kong. He was educated at the University of Waterloo where...

28. Lorne Trottier (1948)

Canadian Businessman

Lorne M. Trottier CM is an engineer businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Matrox a computer corporation that specializes in computer graphics.

29. Heather Reisman (1948)

Canadian Businessman

Heather Reisman is a Canadian businesswoman. Reisman is the founder and chief executive of the Canadian retail chain Indigo Books and Music. Previously she was president of Cott Corporation a...

30. George Roter (1976)

Canadian Businessman

George Roter is the co-founder and CEO of Engineers Without Borders. He and Parker Mitchell founded the Canadian organization in 2000. Roter received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from...

31. Charles Sirois (1954)

Canadian Businessman

Charles Sirois CM CQ is a Canadian businessman. He is the founder controlling shareholder Chairman and CEO of Telesystem Ltd. a Canadian private equity company. In 2011 he cofounded the...

32. Prem Watsa (Unknow)

Canadian Businessman

Prem Watsa is the founder chairman and chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings based in Toronto Canada.

33. William Culham Woodward (1885)

Canadian Businessman

Culham Woodward also known as Billy Woodward and Willy Woodward was a member of a successful merchandising family in Vancouver British Columbia Canada. Heir to the Woodward's department store chain...

34. Bill Comrie (Unknow)

Canadian Businessman

H. Comrie is a Canadian businessman. He is the founder of The Brick one of Canada's largest volume retailers of furniture mattresses appliances and home electronics. In 2009 Comrie's estimated...

35. Andrea Jung (Unknow)

Canadian Businessman

Andrea Jung is a Canadian-American executive non-profit leader and prominent women's-issues supporter. In April 2014 she became President and CEO of Grameen America a nonprofit microfinance organization founded by Nobel...

36. N. Murray Edwards (1959)

Canadian Businessman

N. Murray Edwards is a Canadian businessman and a co-owner of the Calgary Flames hockey team. With an estimated net worth of $US 2. 2 billion Edwards was ranked by...

37. Margot Franssen (1952)

Canadian Businessman

Margot Franssen OC is a philanthropist activist and former Canadian entrepreneur the founder partner and president of The Body Shop Canada. Born in the Netherlands she received a Bachelor of...

38. Kevin Foreman (1964)

Canadian Businessman

Kevin Foreman is the Vice President of Mobile Applications at INRIX and former CEO of Point Inside a company that is trying to 'map the indoor world'. Previously he founded...

39. Jeff Mallett (1964)

Canadian Businessman

Jeffrey Mallett is best known for building internet giant Yahoo!. Described as Yahoo's wizard behind the curtains pulling all the levers Mallett manages a portfolio of Internet sports entertainment and...

40. Thomas C. MacMillan (1850)

Canadian Businessman

Thomas Carey MacMillan was the longest serving President and CEO of CIBC Mellon and a Canadian businessman. He is currently the Chairman of Blair Franklin Asset Management

41. Frederic Erskine Bronson (1886)

Canadian Businessman

Erskine Bronson PC was a leading Ottawa businessman and chairman of the Federal District Commission forerunner of the National Capital Commission a government body empowered with planning Canada's National Capital...

42. James Jolley (Unknow)

Canadian Businessman

ugby league footballer of the 1900s for Great Britain England and Runcorn RLFC see Jim JolleyJames Jolley was born in 1813 in Argyllshire Scotland and died on 28 November 1892...

43. Jim Balsillie (1961)

Canadian Businessman

James Laurence Jim Balsillie is a Canadian businessman philanthropist and co-founder and former co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He is also the founder of the Centre for...

44. Hugh Richardson (shipowner) (1784)

Canadian Businessman

Hugh Richardson was a Canadian shipowner and captain. Richardson was born in England and went to sea at a young age. He and his wife came to Canada in 1821....

45. W. Brett Wilson (1957)

Canadian Businessman

. Brett Wilson CM SOM is a Canadian entrepreneur philanthropist and three-season panelist on CBC's Dragons' Den. Wilson was born in North Battleford Saskatchewan. He holds an Honorary Doctor of...

46. Ben Barry (1983)

Canadian Businessman

Ben Barry is a Canadian entrepreneur author and women's health advocate. He is the founder and CEO of the Ben Barry Agency a modelling agency and consultancy known for its...

47. Karla Stephens-Tolstoy (1969)

Canadian Businessman

Karla Stephens-Tolstoy is the co-founder and CEO of Tokii and the former CEO of Vodafone Czech Republic.

48. Andrew Rivkin (1969)

Canadian Businessman

Andrew Rivkin is a Canadian investor and entrepreneur. Rivkin is best known as the co-founder of CryptoLogic a pioneering online casino software company and FUN Technologies one of the world's...

49. Henry Archer Ekers (1855)

Canadian Businessman

Henry Archer Ekers was a Canadian industrialist and politician the Mayor of Montreal Quebec between 1906 and 1908. He ran unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative...

50. Jean-Baptiste Renaud (1816)

Canadian Businessman

Jean-Baptiste Renaud was a prominent businessman merchant and land owner in Quebec. He served as a member of the Quebec Board of Trade and represented Saint-Pierre Ward on the municipal...