Most Famous Canadian Scientists
Canada has produced 112 notable scientists throughout history, led by Frederick Banting. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.
Category All
Citizenship All
FB
Frederick Banting Canadian Physician 1891 – 1941
#
1,930
EG
Erving Goffman Canadian Sociologist 1922 – 1982
#
3,083
JK
John Kenneth Galbraith Canadian Economist 1908 – 2006
#
3,196
AB
Albert Bandura Canadian Psychologist Born 1925
#
4,567
WO
William Osler Canadian Physician 1849 – 1919
#
9,012
NB
Norman Bethune Canadian Physician 1890 – 1939
#
11,770
DO
Donald O. Hebb Canadian Psychologist 1904 – 1985
#
18,156
MA
Mary Ainsworth Canadian Psychologist 1913 – 1999
#
20,175
HI
Harold Innis Canadian Economist 1894 – 1952
#
20,731
FO
Frances Oldham Kelsey Canadian Physician 1914 – 2015
#
28,803
RE
Richard E. Taylor Canadian Physicist 1929 – 2018
#
31,947
KE
Kenneth E. Iverson Canadian Mathematician 1920 – 2004
#
33,786
JT
Joseph Tyrrell Canadian Geologist 1858 – 1957
#
45,858
EB
Ernest Burgess Canadian Sociologist 1886 – 1966
#
46,092
MK
Marie-Victorin Kirouac Canadian Botanist 1885 – 1944
#
59,725
MA
Maude Abbott Canadian Physician 1869 – 1940
#
60,540
AP
Abraham Pineo Gesner Canadian Geologist 1797 – 1864
#
67,143
JW
John William Dawson Canadian Botanist 1820 – 1899
#
71,145
JC
James Craig Watson Canadian Astronomer 1838 – 1880
#
75,616
BT
Bruce Trigger Canadian Anthropologist 1937 – 2006
#
78,289