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Mary Kornman

Mary Kornman (born Mary Agnes Evans, December 27, 1915 – June 1, 1973) was an American child actress who was the leading female star of the Our Gang series during the Pathé silent era.

Our Gang
She was born as Mary Agnes Evans, and was the daughter of Verna Comer, who appeared in several films, and David Lionel Evans. Her stepfather, Hal Roach′s still-photo cameraman Eugene Kornman, adopted Mary after he and Mary's mother were married in 1921. After Peggy Cartwright, who appeared in only four or five Our Gang episodes, Mary became the leading lady of the series, appearing in more than 40 episodes. Kornman was one of the series′ biggest stars during its early years between 1922 and 1926. After outgrowing the Our Gang series, she and fellow Our Gang alumnus Scooter Lowry spent a couple of years performing as a vaudeville duo. They were later joined by Johnny Downs, who played Kornman's love interest.

Mildred Kornman
Her younger sister, Mildred, was also a child actress. When asked in 1960 what she thought of being part of Our Gang, Mildred Kornman replied "It was fun being a gang member. It was play. I have no regrets...We didn't have to be talented, which is natural for kids ... I think we had a privileged childhood working in those films."

Later years and death
Mary continued working with Our Gang co-star Mickey Daniels into adulthood, as evidenced by some publicity shots from the era. She appeared with Mickey in the teen version of Our Gang, The Boy Friends. In 1934, she married Leo Tover, a cameraman, but divorced approximately five years later.

Throughout the 1930s, she continued to appear in many features such as the serial Queen of the Jungle (1935), and The Desert Trail (1935) starring John Wayne. She retired from the screen in 1940.

She later married Ralph B. McCutcheon, a horse trainer on some of her Western films. Mary spent the rest of her life devoted to him. They had no children. They both spent their remaining years on their ranch with the horses. She kept close with her Hollywood acquaintances and friends. When asked if Mary was as kind and genuine a person as she appeared to be onscreen, her sister Mildred replied, "She was all of that and more."

Mary became gravely ill in the early 1970s and was eventually diagnosed with cancer. She died on June 1, 1973, aged 57. Her widower died two years later. They are interred at Linn Grove Cemetery, Greeley, Colorado.

Our Gang Shorts

 * The Champeen (1923) - Mary
 * The Cobbler (1923) - Mary, 'Little Miss Riches'
 * The Big Show (1923) - Mary
 * A Pleasant Journey (1923) - Mary
 * Dogs of War (1923) - Mary
 * Lodge Night (1923) - Mary
 * July Days (1923) - Mary
 * No Noise (1923) - Mary
 * Stage Fright (1923) - Mary
 * Derby Day (1923) - Mary
 * Tire Trouble (1924) - Mary
 * Big Business (1924) - Mary
 * The Buccaneers (1924) - Mary
 * Seein′ Things (1924) - Mary
 * Commencement Day (1924) - Mary
 * Cradle Robbers (1924) - Mary
 * Jubilo, Jr. (1924) - Mary
 * It′s a Bear (1924) - Mary
 * High Society (1924) - Mary
 * The Sun Down Limited (1924) - Mary
 * Every Man for Himself (1924) - Mary
 * Fast Company (1924) - Mary
 * The Big Town (1925) - Mary
 * Circus Fever (1925) - Mary
 * Dog Days (1925) - Mary
 * The Love Bug (1925) - Mary
 * Shootin′ Injuns (1925) - Mary
 * Ask Grandma (1925) - Mary
 * Official Officers (1925) - Mary
 * Boys Will Be Joys (1925) - Mary
 * Mary, Queen of Tots (1925) - Mary
 * Your Own Back Yard (1925) - Mary
 * Better Movies (1925) - Mary
 * One Wild Ride (1925) - Mary
 * Good Cheer (1926) - Mary
 * Buried Treasure (1926) - Mary
 * Monkey Business (1926) - Mary
 * Baby Clothes (1926) - Mary
 * Uncle Tom′s Uncle (1926) - Mary
 * Thundering Fleas (1926) - Mary
 * Shivering Spooks (1926) - Mary
 * The Fourth Alarm (1926) - Mary
 * Fish Hooky (1933) - Mary (Guest Appearance)
 * Reunion in Rhythm (1937) - Mary (Guest Appearance)

The Boy Friends Shorts

 * Doctor′s Orders (1930) - Mary
 * Bigger and Better (1930) - Mary
 * Ladies Last (1930) - Mary
 * Blood and Thunder (1931) - Mary
 * High Gear (1931) - Mary
 * Love Fever (1931) - Mary
 * Air-Tight (1931) - Mary
 * Call a Cop! (1931) - Mary
 * Mama Loves Papa (1931) - Mary
 * The Kick-Off! (1931) - Mary
 * Love Pains (1932) - Mary
 * The Knock-Out (1932) - Mary
 * Too Many Women (1932) - Mary
 * Wild Babies (1932) - Mary

Other Shorts and Feature Length Films

 * Are These Our Children? (1931) - Agnes "Dumbbell"
 * Exposure (1932) - Eileen Foster - Socialite (uncredited)
 * Me and My Pal (1933, Short) - Bridesmaid (uncredited)
 * Bondage (1933) - Bit in Record Store (uncredited)
 * College Humor (1933) - Amber Davis
 * Neighbors' Wives (1933) - Mary McGrath
 * Please (1933, Short) - Beth Sawyer
 * Flying Down to Rio (1933) - Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
 * Just an Echo (1934, Short)
 * The Quitter (1934) - Annabelle Hibbs
 * Picture Brides (1934) - Mataeo Rogers
 * Strictly Dynamite (1934) - Party Girl (uncredited)
 * Madame Du Barry (1934) - Sweet Pea (uncredited)
 * Smokey Smith (1935) - Bess Bart
 * The Quitter (1934) - Annabelle Hibbs
 * Roaring Roads (1935) - Mary McDowell
 * The Desert Trail (1935) - Anne
 * Adventurous Knights (1935) - Annette
 * Queen of the Jungle (1935, Serial) - Joan Lawrence / Mary Lawrence
 * The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935) - Kitty Marley
 * Swing It, Professor (1937) - Joan Dennis
 * Youth on Parole (1937) - Mae Blair
 * King of the Newsboys (1938) - Peggy
 * That Certain Age (1938) - Friend (uncredited)
 * I Am a Criminal (1938) - Alice Martin
 * Zenobia (1939) - Townswoman (uncredited)
 * On the Spot (1940) - Ruth Hunter (final film role)
 * Shiny (1963) - Lady (final film role)

Errata
There is some discrepancy concerning which of the early Our Gang films Mary actually appeared in. According to The Lucky Corner website, Mary did not appear in any of the following four films.

 * One Terrible Day (1922), listed by the Internet Movie Data Base
 * Young Sherlocks (1922), listed by the Internet Movie Data Base and by Maltin and Bann
 * Saturday Morning (1922), listed by the Internet Movie Data Base
 * A Quiet Street (1922), listed by the Internet Movie Data Base

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Is it from España + Sahara? --Error 02:06, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * It's from El-Hamra (http://www.fotw.net/flags/eh.html)Ricardo monteiro 10:35, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for Western Sahara is ESH, so this does point more to Español + Sahara, as its former name is "Spanish Sahara". Of course, it's just a theory, I don't really have a source for that. But I must add that the ISO almost always choose a country's code from its name or native name, so the theory that it choose EH from the name of a province does not seem quite plausible. Chanheigeorge 21:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

 * It's very unlikely to be from El-Hamra since the el just means the, and ISO 3166 tries to avoid basing country codes on things like that. They would almost certainly have used  instead, except that they had no reason to base the code on El-Hamra in the first place (since it's only part of the name of part of Western Sahara). Also, if the codes were based on El-Hamra (or even Saguia el-Hamra) then the 3-letter code wouldn't be  . So the El-Hamra explanation is clearly wrong. Chanheigeorge's explanation is probably correct. --Zundark 13:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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Takapuna

Takapuna is a suburb located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. The suburb is an isthmus between Shoal Bay, arm of the Waitematā Harbour, and the Hauraki Gulf. Lake Pupuke, a volcanic maar and one of the oldest features of the Auckland volcanic field, is a freshwater lake located in the suburb.

Takapuna was settled by Tāmaki Māori in the 13th or 14th centuries, who utilised the resources of Lake Pupuke, and a pōhutukawa grove called Te Uru Tapu, which continues to exist today, was an important location for funeral ceremonies. In 1847, the first European farmers settled at Takapuna, and the Crown gifted land at Takapuna to Ngāpuhi chief Eruera Maihi Patuone in order to create a protective barrier for Auckland. Jean-Baptiste Pompallier established St Mary's College at Takapuna in 1849.

The area became a tourist destination popular with wealthy families of Auckland in the 1880s, when many large summer residences were constructed on the shores of Lake Pupuke. By the early 20th century, Takapuna Beach had grown in importance for tourists. The suburb developed in the 1910s due to a private tramway, and by the 1930s gradually became a commercial centre for the North Shore. Takapuna grew in importance after the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge in 1959, becoming the administrative centre for the North Shore.

Etymology

The name Takapuna refers to a spring at Maungauika / North Head, located north of Torpedo Bay Navy Museum in Devonport. The name was given by Hoturoa of the Tainui migratory waka. When the waka stopped at Torpedo Bay, Hoturoa and the crew of the Tainui met the residents of area and drank from the spring. Hoturoa named the spring in remembrance of a spring in his homeland of Hawaiki (Mangaia). While the word puna in Māori refers to natural springs, the meaning of taka in this context is unknown, and the name has variously been interpreted to mean "Knoll Spring", "Rock Spring", "Cliff Spring" or "Falling Spring".

Over time, Tāmaki Māori began to refer to the wider area around Maungauika / North Head and the North Shore as Takapuna. Jules Dumont d'Urville, an early explorer, was the first European to adopt the name to describe the area north of North Head in 1833. During the early colonial era of Auckland, the name was used for the Parish of Takapuna, and modern Lake Pupuke was referred to as Lake Takapuna from the 1860s until the 1840s.

The area was known as the Lake District from 1866 until 1882, when the name Takapuna was formally adopted. The name Takapuna was gradually adopted to mean the settlement focused on the southern shores of Lake Pupuke over the 19th century. The areas to the south were known as Devonport, meaning Takapuna had become geographically separated from its namesake.

Geology

The North Shore is primarily uplifted Waitemata Group sandstone, that was deposited on the sea floor during the Early Miocene, between 22 and 16 million years ago. The Takapuna area is home to Lake Pupuke, a volcanic maar which is one of the oldest known features of the Auckland volcanic field, erupting an estimated 193,200 years ago. A small scoria cone existed to the west of Lake Pupuke, which was quarried during European settlement.

During the eruption of Lake Pupuke, two lava flows travelled eastwards through the area, burning vegetation and encasing the lower 1–2 metres of the tree trunks in lava. The lava solidified into basalt rock, creating the Takapuna Fossil Forest, which was exposed an estimated 7,000 years ago due to coastal erosion.

Prior to human settlement, pōhutukawa trees dominated the coastal margins of the North Shore. The inland North Shore was a mixed podocarp-broadleaf forest dominated by kauri. To the west of Takapuna is Smiths Bush in the Onewa Domain, a remnant native forest, dominated by kahikatea and taraire trees. By the 1850s, Takapuna was primarily a mānuka scrubland, with significant coastal areas dominated by harakeke.

Geography
Takapuna is an isthmus between the Hauraki Gulf and Shoal Bay, a long narrow bay of the Waitematā Harbour. Takapuna is surrounded by the suburbs of Hauraki to the south-east, Northcote to the south-west, Hillcrest and Wairau Valley to the west, and Milford north of Lake Pupuke. The highest point in the suburb is 34 m above sea-level, located at the Killarney Street and the Terrace.

Two beaches are located in the eastern parts of the suburb. Takapuna Beach is found to the south, which faces toward Rangitoto Island across the Rangitoto Channel. Further north along the coast is Thorne Bay, which features a rock formation called Black Rock, at the northern point of the bay.

Barrys Point is a headland in Takapuna south of Esmonde Road that extends into Shoal Bay.

Māori history

Māori settlement of the Auckland Region began around the 13th or 14th centuries. The Devonport-Takapuna area was one of the earliest settled in the region, known to be settled by the Tāmaki Māori ancestor Peretū. Toi-te-huatahi and his followers settled and interwed with these early peoples.

Around the year 1350, the Tainui migratory canoe visited the Takapuna area, stopping at the freshwater spring southwest of Maungauika / North Head. Some members of the crew decided to settle permanently in the area, including Taikehu, and intermarried with the people of the North Shore. Kāinga were found throughout the wider Takapuna area, protected by pā at Castor Bay (Te Rahopara o Peretū) to the north, with Takarunga / Mount Victoria and Maungauika / North Head to the south. Over time, the descendants of these people began to identify as Ngā Oho and Ngāi Tai.

The warrior Maki migrated from the Kāwhia Harbour to his ancestral home in the Auckland Region, likely sometime in the 17th century. Maki conquered and unified many the Tāmaki Māori tribes as Te Kawerau ā Maki, including those of the North Shore. After Maki's death, his sons settled different areas of his lands, creating new hapū. His younger son Maraeariki settled the North Shore and Hibiscus Coast, who based himself at the head of the Ōrewa River. Maraeariki's daughter Kahu succeeded him, and she is the namesake of the North Shore, Te Whenua Roa o Kahu ("The Greater Lands of Kahu"). Many of the iwi of the North Shore, including Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Maraeariki, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Poataniwha, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and Ngāti Whātua, can trace their lineage to Kahu.

In the 17th century, Ngāti Pāoa attacked the settlements around the Waitematā Harbour, later intermarrying with the Te Kawerau ā Maki and Ngāi Tai people of the southern North Shore. During intertribal war with Ngāpuhi, the pā at Maungauika / North Head was sieged in 1793, leading Ngāti Pāoa to refocus their settlements on Waiheke Island until the 1830s. During the early 1820s, most Māori of the North Shore fled for the Waikato or Northland due to the threat of war parties during the Musket Wars.

Lake Pupuke and Te Riri a Mataaho
Lake Pupuke was an important location to Tāmaki Māori of the North Shore. It was used a source of fresh water, and its name Pupuke Moana ("Overflowing Sea") referred to how the fresh water would habitually flow out from the lake to the sea. Eels and mussels were harvested from the lake, and birds who were attracted to the lake were snared for food, and harakeke from the shores could be harvested for textiles. The northern shores of the lake was home to a grove of karaka trees, which were likely used for both food and medicinal purposes.

Takapuna is part of the setting of Te Riri a Mataaho ("The Wrath of Mataaho"), a Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki traditional story (pūrākau) that describes the creation of Lake Pupuke and Ngā Mahanga "The Twins", two rock formations on Takapuna Beach. Two tupua (children of the Fire God Mataaho), Matakamokamo and his wife Matakerepo, lived on Te Rua Maunga, a mountain located at Lake Pupuke. The couple argued over some flax clothing that Matakerepo had made for her husband, and the argument became so heated that the fire outside their dwelling died out. Matakamokamo cursed Mahuika, Goddess of the Fire, for allowing this to happen. Mahuika was furious at the couple, and asked Mataaho to punish them. Mataaho destroyed their mountain home, and in its place left Pupuke Moana (Lake Pupuke), while at the same time he formed the mountain Rangitoto. The couple fled to the newly formed island, where Mataaho formed three peaks on the mountain, so that the couple can view the ruins of their former home. Hinerei and Matamiha, the couples' twin children, were turned to stone, and remain as rock features on the southern Takapuna Beach.

Te Uru Tapu
To the north of Takapuna Beach is a wāhi tapu (sacred location) called Te Uru Tapu, a grove of pōhutukawa used for burial ceremonies by Tāmaki Māori. As a part of traditional burial practices, bodies would be wrapped in flax mats and placed in a sitting position in the trees, with the dead later being buried once their bodies had naturally decomposed.

In the early 2000s, the North Shore City Council built a boardwalk through the grove. Access was removed in June 2018 due to risks of falling branches, and access to the grove was not returned after the Auckland Council consulted with seven iwi. In 2021, vandals poisoned and cut down many of the trees in the grove, including karo, karaka, nīkau palms and tōtara, however did not target the pōhutukawa.

Early colonial period

The first land purchases at Takapuna were undertaken by Henry Taylor and Alexander Sparks in November 1839. These land sales were later disallowed, and Takapuna was purchased by the Crown on 13 April 1841 as a part of the Mahurangi Block. Farms were auctioned in 1844, and the first European farmers arrived in the Takapuna area in 1847. Early European settlers were predominantly from England, Scotland and Ireland, and they established farms around the lake. Crops such as wheat, maize, barley, potatoes and kūmara were grown at these farms, and homesteads planted single acre orchards dominated by plums, apples and peaches.

In 1849, the Catholic Church purchased land at Takapuna, where Jean-Baptiste Pompallier established St Mary's College, a school and later seminary that catered to both European and Māori.

In 1852, the Crown granted 110 acres of land south of Lake Pupuke to Barry's Point / Awataha to Ngāpuhi chief Eruera Maihi Patuone, in order to create a shield for the City of Auckland against potential invasion from Ngāpuhi and other northern tribes. Patuone's people lived in the area until the 1880s. Patuone named his settlement Waiwharariki, meaning "Waters of Wharariki", a mat made of harakeke flax. Patuone's lands at Waiwharariki included a peach tree orchard and a village of twenty huts. Many Ngāpuhi from the settlement worked on the farms at Lake Pupuke, establishing a network of fences for the properties.

In 1863, the first subdivisions were created in Takapuna, where villas were constructed on the eastern shores of Lake Pupuke. The streets were named after famous lakes of the world. A ferry service began to operate from Barry's Point at Shoal Bay, and the Takapuna Hotel was established in 1863 near the ferry launch. Despite the Long Depression of the 1880s, Takapuna grew as a community. By this period, sheep breeding had become important in northern Takapuna, and Takapuna dairy farms supplied milk for Auckland. A post office was established in Takapuna in 1880, followed by St Peter's Church in 1883.

During fears of Russian invasion in the 1880s, Fort Takapuna was established to the southeast of the suburb. Lake Pupuke became the major source of fresh water for the North Shore, with Devonport receiving fresh water in the 1890s, followed by Northcote in 1906. In 1913, a new pumphouse was constructed on the lake, in order to supply Birkenhead with fresh water.

Tourism destination and trams

By the late 1880s, Takapuna had developed into a destination for tourists, with Lake Pupuke being the main attraction. The increase in tourists encouraged farmers to subdivide their lands. The Lake Hotel was constructed, and large summer residences were constructed on the shores of the lake. The earliest subdivisions of farmland for suburban development were the Hurstmere estate in 1886, and the Pupuke Estate in 1889. The Takapuna and Milford Beach areas, as well as the land surrounding Lake Pupuke soon became popular spots for wealthy businessmen building summer homes to entertain in a rural surrounding, and eventually, many moved here permanently, commuting to work in Auckland via ferry.

By the late 1900s, Lake Pupuke diminished in importance for tourists, who were instead attracted to Takapuna Beach. In 1909, the Lake Hotel was destroyed in a fire. The hotel was not replaced, and instead the Mon Desir Hotel on the Takapuna beachfront was opened in 1909.

In 1910, a private tramway was established in Takapuna, which conveyed passengers to the ferry at Bayswater. A group of local businessmen proposed the tramway to Auckland Electric Tramways as a way to improve property prices in Takapuna. After the company declined their request due to the low population of the area, the businessmen established the Takapuna Tramways and Ferry Company Limited, operating both the tram and ferry. The plan was a success, leading to rapid suburban development in Takapuna. The tramway soon became unpopular, and closed 17 years later on 26 April 1927.

In 1914, a local cinema was opened in Takapuna, at the Forester's Hall in Anzac Street, and Chinese market gardeners established farms at Barrys Point in the 1920s.

By the 1930s, Takapuna transitioned from a tourist destination into a suburb of Auckland. Summer residences were gradually replaced by permanent housing, and Takapuna developed into a commercial centre on the North Shore. A number of Takapuna buildings date from this period, including Hall's Building, the Manona Building and the Strand Buildings.

During World War II, coastal defenses were built around the Takapuna area. A light industrial area developed at Barry Point in the 1950s, the Takapuna War Memorial Hall opened in 1953, and North Shore Hospital was opened as the first major public hospital on the North Shore on 19 July 1958.

Auckland Harbour Bridge and suburban development

The Auckland Harbour Bridge was opened in 1959, creating a road bridge between the North Shore and Auckland City, causing an explosion of suburban growth across the North Shore. After the opening of the bridge, Takapuna became the administrative centre for Takapuna City (established in 1961), and later for North Shore City (established in 1989). This drew major retailers to the commercial centre of Takapuna, and branches of Woolworths, Rendells Department Store, and Milne & Choyce opened in the suburb, and were followed by a modern shopping centre, Shore City Shopping Centre.

In 1962, Takapuna became the location where the COMPAC submarine communications cable connected Auckland to Suva, Fiji, and onwards to Vancouver, Canada. The system was in use until 7 December 1984.

In 1996, the Bruce Mason Centre was opened as an events venue for Takapuna. In the late 1990s, the former Smale family farm was redeveloped into Smales Farm, a commercial complex adjacent to the motorway. The Clear Communications Centre opened here in 1999.

Demographics
Takapuna covers 4.55 km2 and had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Takapuna had a population of 11,337 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 792 people (7.5%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 1,950 people (20.8%) since the 2006 census. There were 4,662 households, comprising 5,271 males and 6,066 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.87 males per female, with 1,602 people (14.1%) aged under 15 years, 2,085 (18.4%) aged 15 to 29, 5,001 (44.1%) aged 30 to 64, and 2,649 (23.4%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 68.0% European/Pākehā, 4.1% Māori, 1.9% Pasifika, 28.0% Asian, and 4.3% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 45.0, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 47.0% had no religion, 41.4% were Christian, 0.1% had Māori religious beliefs, 1.6% were Hindu, 1.3% were Muslim, 1.5% were Buddhist and 1.8% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 3,762 (38.6%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 846 (8.7%) people had no formal qualifications. 2,673 people (27.5%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 4,461 (45.8%) people were employed full-time, 1,317 (13.5%) were part-time, and 276 (2.8%) were unemployed.

Local government

The first local government in the area was the Lake Highway District, also known as the Takapuna Highway District, which began operating 1867. In June 1889 the road board was dissolved, in favour of Takapuna being under the direct control of the Waitemata County Council. The Borough of Takapuna was established on 1 July 1913, after 73% of electors in Takapuna voted for independence from the Waitemata County. The first mayor, Ewen Alison, had previously served as the Mayor of Devonport, and by 1914 the borough council began working on improving roads, footpaths and street lighting. In 1954, Takapuna Borough expanded its borders to include Castor Bay to the north.

After significant growth in population, Takapuna Borough became Takapuna City in 1961. On 1 August 1974, the Waitemata County was dissolved, leading to rural northern North Shore areas, such as Glenfield, Albany and Long Bay, to be incorporated into Takapuna City. In 1989, Takapuna City was merged into the North Shore City. North Shore City was amalgamated into Auckland Council in November 2010.

Within the Auckland Council, Takapuna is a part of the Devonport-Takapuna local government area governed by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. It is a part of the North Shore ward, which elects two councillors to the Auckland Council.

List of mayors
Between 1913 and 1989, Takapuna had 11 mayors. The following is a complete list:

Notable people

 * Claire Ahuriri-Dunning – playwright
 * Ewen Alison – politician and first mayor of Takapuna.
 * William Blomfield – cartoonist
 * Henry Brett – journalist and Mayor of Auckland City.
 * Lisa Chappell – actress and singer
 * David Goldie – timber merchant and Mayor of Auckland City.
 * William John Hurst – Mayor of Auckland City.
 * Lorde – singer-songwriter
 * Bruce Mason – playwright
 * Deborah Pullen – footballer
 * Winston Reid – footballer
 * Frank Sargeson – playwright
 * Keith Sinclair – historian
 * Harry Sinclair – film director
 * Stephen Sinclair – playwright and screenwriter
 * Pamela Stephenson – TV personality, psychologist, comedian

Literary scene and popular culture
Short story writer Frank Sargeson moved to his parents' holiday home in Takapuna in 1931, and regularly had figures within New Zealand's literary scene stay at his home (now known as the Frank Sargeson House). Among these guests was Janet Frame, who wrote her debut novel Owls Do Cry (1957) in the army hut at his residence.

Takapuna resident Bruce Mason's play The End of the Golden Weather (1960) is set in Takapuna, and depicts the 1930s holiday culture of the suburb. In 1991, an Ian Mune film adaptation was produced for the play, which was primarily shot in Takapuna.

The TVNZ comedy-drama Go Girls was set in Takapuna. The Block NZ's first season took place in Takapuna.

Shania Twain's 2003 music video for "When You Kiss Me" was shot in Takapuna.

Amenities

 * The Takapuna Beach area is a nightlife hub and boutique shopping centre of the North Shore, having many bars, restaurants, cafes and shops.
 * Shore City Shopping Centre opened in Takapuna in 1974. It covers 14,900 m2, and has 826 carparks and 63 shops, including Farmers, New World Metro and Les Mills.
 * Takapuna Library, which first began operating in 1874, with its current premises established in 1989. The library operates a local history archive, including an index of local newspapers, archives, photographs, oral histories, and historical material relating to Takapuna.

Sport
Takapuna is home to Takapuna AFC who compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1A. Since 1974 Takapuna Rugby Football Club has been located at Onewa Domain, which is in the neighbouring suburb of Northcote. Prior to that the club were located at Taharoto Park which is located on Taharoto Rd in Takapuna.

Education
Westlake Boys High School and Westlake Girls High School are single-sex secondary (years 9-13) state schools with rolls of and  respectively, as of    Westlake High School, which opened in 1958, became Westlake Girls High School in 1962 after Westlake Boys High School opened.

Rosmini College is a boys' secondary (years 7–13) school with a roll of, and St Joseph's School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1–6) school with a roll of. They are state integrated Catholic schools located adjacent to each other. Rosmini College was founded in 1962, and St Joseph's in 1894.

Takapuna Normal Intermediate is a coeducational intermediate (years 7–8) school with a roll of. It was established in 1970.

Takapuna School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1–6) school with a roll of. It celebrated its 125th jubilee in 2004.

Rolls are as of

Takapuna Grammar School is in Belmont, to the southeast of Takapuna. It is the main public secondary school in the area.

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Norman Chaney

Norman Myers Chaney (October 18, 1914 – May 29, 1936) was an American child actor, notable for appearing in 19 Our Gang comedies as "Chubby" from 1929 to 1931.

Early life and career
Chaney was born on October 18, 1914 (though Richard Bann and Leonard Maltin's book "The Little Rascals: Life & Times of Our Gang stated he was born in 1918) in Cambridge, Maryland, and became a member of Our Gang at the dawn of the sound era. He relied on an affable personality, a flair for funny dialogue, and a priceless frown of frustration that seemed to swallow up his whole moon face. In the fall of 1928, Our Gang producer Hal Roach and director Robert F. McGowan began to look for an overweight child actor to replace Joe Cobb in the popular film series. Cobb was twelve years old, and the series was about to transition to sound. Roach and McGowan held a nationwide contest to find a replacement for Cobb. Chaney won this contest in early 1929 and was offered a two-year contract. "He adapted gracefully, and we all liked him, he was a nice fellow," said McGowan of Chaney. His stay with the series was brief, but he made a memorable impression on generations of fans. He was taught the expression of the "slow burn" by the comedian Edgar Kennedy.

At the time, Chaney was only 3' 11" and weighed about 113 pounds (119 cm and 51 kg respectively). He was nicknamed "Chubby" for the series and made his debut in the second sound entry, Railroadin', appearing in 19 Our Gang films over a period of two years, including shorts such as Boxing Gloves and Teacher's Pet. Norman Chaney and Joe Cobb appeared in three shorts together. Chubby's meatiest moments are in Love Business, in which he competed with Jackie Cooper for the affections of their teacher, Miss Crabtree (bringing her flowers and candy, he coyly proposes, "Don't call me Norman; Call me 'Chubsy-Ubsy'").

By spring 1931, Chaney was getting taller and increasingly heavier. He finished out the 1930–31 season without being offered another contract. Both Chaney and his parents decided he would not pursue acting following his final Our Gang short, Fly My Kite. Chaney's departure occurred during a period of great cast turnover, as Allen Hoskins (a member of the original 1922 cast), Jackie Cooper and Mary Ann Jackson had outgrown the series as well.

Later years and death
After leaving the series, Chaney returned to his native Baltimore and attended public school, where he excelled in his studies. In spite of having a normal diet and regular exercise since childhood, he continued to gain weight and eventually topped 300 lbs, though he never grew beyond 4 ft. His weight continued to increase, and it was discovered that he had a glandular ailment. In 1935, Chaney underwent treatment for the ailment at Johns Hopkins Hospital; his weight then dropped from over 300 lbs to less than 140 lbs.

Chaney became seriously ill from the stress on his body that the rapid weight loss caused and he died from myocarditis on May 29, 1936, at age 21, according to his death certificate. At the time of his death, Chaney weighed 110 lbs. He was the first of the regular Our Gang alumni to die.

Chaney was buried in Baltimore Cemetery in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His grave remained unmarked for 76 years because his mother was not able to afford a marker for him or herself. Even though he was paid a weekly salary for his movie appearances, he never received any royalties or residuals for the films' subsequent uses. An online fundraising drive led by Detroit rock musician MIKAL raised $4,500 for headstones to be placed at the graves of both Chaney and his mother. The etched black granite markers, both of which are 16 inches (40.64 cm) tall and 28 inches (71.12 cm) wide, were unveiled on November 10, 2012.

Filmography

 * Railroadin' (1929)
 * Lazy Days (1929)
 * Boxing Gloves (1929)
 * Bouncing Babies (1929)
 * Moan and Groan, Inc. (1929)
 * Shivering Shakespeare (1930)
 * The First Seven Years (1930)
 * When the Wind Blows (1930)
 * Bear Shooters (1930)
 * A Tough Winter (1930)
 * Pups Is Pups (1930)
 * Teacher's Pet (1930)
 * School's Out (1930)
 * Helping Grandma (1931)
 * Love Business (1931)
 * Little Daddy (1931)
 * The Stolen Jools (1931)
 * Bargain Day (1931)
 * Fly My Kite (1931)

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Sad Wings of Destiny

Sad Wings of Destiny is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 26 March 1976 by Gull Records. It is considered the album on which Judas Priest consolidated their sound and image, and songs from it such as "Victim of Changes" and "The Ripper" have since become live standards. It was the band's only album to feature drummer Alan Moore.

Noted for its riff-driven sound and the wide range of Rob Halford's vocals, the album displays a wide variety of styles, moods and textures, inspired by an array of groups such as Queen, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. The centrepiece "Victim of Changes" is a nearly eight-minute track featuring heavy riffing trading off with high-pitched vocals, extended guitar leads, and a slow, moody breakdown toward the end. "Tyrant" and "The Ripper" are short, dense, high-powered rockers with many parts and changes. Riffs and solos dominate "Genocide", "Island of Domination", and "Deceiver", and the band finds more laid-back moments in the crooning piano-backed "Epitaph" and the moody "Dreamer Deceiver".

Sad Wings of Destiny had a positive reception but weak sales. The band recorded their first two albums with the independent Gull label under tight budgets; after living off a single meal per day while working side jobs to support themselves, the group grew frustrated with the financial situation and signed with CBS Records for their next album, Sin After Sin (1977). Breaking their contract resulted in the rights to Sad Wings of Destiny and its demo recordings falling into Gull's hands. In retrospect, the album has received acclaim as one of the most important albums in heavy metal history, with the album's image and style going on to influence many later metal bands, as well as later Judas Priest albums.

Background
Judas Priest formed in September 1969 in industrial West Bromwich, Birmingham by lead vocalist/founding Al Atkins and bass guitarist/co-founding Brian "Bruno" Steppenhill, who chose the band's name, wanting one similar to Black Sabbath's. The bands were contemporaries and were both from Birmingham, though Judas Priest failed to find a significant audience until Black Sabbath began to fade from the spotlight. The band's guitarists Glenn Tipton and K. K. Downing have said the heavy riffing and complexity of the song arrangements were inspired by the factories of Birmingham.

By the time Judas Priest's first album, Rocka Rolla, was released in 1974, there had been so many lineup changes that K.K Downing and Ian Hill were the only remaining original members. The first album displayed a mix of styles from a wide variety of influences, but the band found the performance and production disappointing. The band gigged occasionally through 1975, at times sharing the stage with bands such as Pink Fairies and UFO. Drummer John Hinch left the band for reasons that are disputed and was replaced with Alan Moore in October 1975, who had drummed in an early incarnation of the band.

The band performed the "Dreamer Deceiver"–"Deceiver" pair on BBC Two's The Old Grey Whistle Test the year before the songs appeared on Sad Wings of Destiny. They were frustrated with the BBC's volume restrictions, as high volume is a key component in producing a heavy-metal sound. The band had yet to develop the studs-and-leather image that was to become their trademark; instead, they wore contemporary mid-1970s fashions, including high-heeled boots and frilled shirts, and a long-haired Halford donned a pink satin top which he later said he borrowed from his sister. By 1976, the band's singer Rob Halford joked that fans should burn their copies of Rocka Rolla.

Finances were tight: the record label Gull provided a recording budget of £2,000 for each of the band's first two albums. During the recording of Sad Wings of Destiny, band members restricted themselves to one meal a day, and several took on part-time work: Tipton as a gardener, Downing in a factory, and Hill driving a delivery van. The group went into the studio with the intention of making an album that mixed straight-ahead rock with a progressive edge.

Production

Recording took place over two weeks in November and December 1975 at Rockfield Studios in Wales with producers Jeffrey Calvert and Gereint "Max West" Hughes, and Chris Tsangarides as co-engineer. Calvert and Hughes were the main members of the pop group Typically Tropical who topped the UK charts in 1975 with "Barbados", Gull's first hit. The band stayed sober during the recording sessions, which lasted from 3:00 pm until 3:00 am. Mixing took a week at Morgan Studios in London.

David Howells of Gull records commissioned Patrick Woodroffe to provide the cover art, a piece called Fallen Angel depicting a struggling, grounded angel surrounded by flames and wearing a devil's three-pronged cross, which was the band's symbol. Halford posed Christ-like on the reverse, and Gothic fonts adorned the front and back.

Songs

 * Victim of Changes

 * The nearly eight-minute "Victim of Changes" displays a wide dynamic range in rhythm, texture, and mood, with heavy riffing, a melodic ballad section, and extended guitar leads. An almost classical-sounding twin-guitar introduction leads to the violent main riff.  The lyrics tell of a woman whose hard-drinking results in losing her man to another woman.  Inspired by Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog", the heavy riff alternates with a cappella passages, Halford breaking into screaming falsettos during the slow break and dramatic conclusion of the song.

 * The track began as two songs: "Whiskey Woman" and "Red Light Lady". "Whiskey Woman" was an early Priest song by Downing and Atkins that the band chose not to include on their first album, though it had long been a crowd-pleasing opener at live shows and features on early demo recordings. To this the band wove in the slow "Red Light Lady", a song Halford brought with him from his previous band, Hiroshima.

 * The Ripper

 * A busy, chugging, riff-heavy rocker, "The Ripper" features arrangements inspired by Queen–particularly in the high-pitched layered opening vocals and classical-tinged twin guitars. The lyrics of the Tipton-penned track are from the point of view of Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper.

 * Dreamer Deceiver

 * A slow ballad with crooning vocals and screaming lead soloing, the song serves as introduction to the heavy "Deceiver" which follows it. Atkins originally received partial credit for both tracks, but disclaimed involvement in them; later releases removed it.

 * Deceiver

 * A heavy song with a chugging riff presaging the technical style of speed metal, "Deceiver" features energetic soloing and a heavy, Black Sabbath-like break with soaring, high-pitched vocals, climaxing in a repetitive acoustic closing.

 * Prelude

 * "Prelude" is a short baroque instrumental, alternating between the tonic and dominant, and is arranged for piano, synthesizer, guitars, and tom-tom drums. Despite the title, "Prelude" is musically unrelated to the following track, "Tyrant".

 * Tyrant

 * A heavy track full of many parts and tempo changes, Halford has said "Tyrant" expresses his "aversion towards any form of control".

 * Genocide

 * A forward-looking, riff-heavy rocker, bearing the influence of heavy rockers such as the Deep Purple tracks "Woman from Tokyo" and "Burn". Halford expressed hope that the song's "strong and graphic" lyrics would "be provocative and somewhat controversial and to stimulate people".  The phrase "sin after sin" from the lyrics to "Genocide" provided the title to the band's next album.

 * Epitaph

 * A quiet track with piano backing and Queen-like layered vocals, Halford said the lyrics to "Epitaph" express frustration at a lack of place for the young or old in modern cities.

 * Island of Domination

 * The side-closing "Island of Domination" is a heavy rocker with a complex riff in a style reminiscent of Black Sabbath. Downing described the lyrics as personal to Halford, joking of their having "probably a few innuendoes".

Release
Sad Wings of Destiny was released 26 March 1976, and seven days earlier "The Ripper" appeared as a single backed with "Island of Domination".

The album was initially published and distributed by Janus Records in the United States.

The album had the A-side and B-side reversed, so that "Prelude" opens the second side and "Victim of Changes" the first, while the sleeve has "Prelude" opening the first side.

The album had little commercial success at first and had difficulty getting noticed due to critical competition from the rise of punk rock. The band supported the album with a headlining tour of the UK from 6 April to 20 June 1976.

The album was awarded a gold record in 1989. Sad Wings of Destiny arrived at the same time as other influential metal albums from the late 70's – the same year saw the release of Rising from Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and Virgin Killer from Scorpions.

The band had grown dissatisfied with Gull; the tight finances led Moore to leave the band a second time—this time permanently.

The album caught the attention of CBS Records, and with the help of new manager David Hemmings, the band signed with CBS and received a £$60,000$ budget for their next record, Sin After Sin (1977). Downing described how the disappointed feelings the group had over Gull's management influenced the dark themes that appeared on Sad Wings of Destiny.

The signing required breaking their contract with Gull, resulting in the rights to the first two albums and all related recordings—including demos—becoming property of Gull.

Gull periodically repackaged and re-released the material from these albums, such as on the 1981 double album Hero, Hero.

For the most part, the band was to abandon the progressive rock elements of their first two albums for a more straight-ahead heavy rock sound; the band revisited these progressive elements in 2008 on the album Nostradamus.

Reception and legacy
Fans, critics, and the band have come to see Sad Wings of Destiny as the album on which Judas Priest consolidated their sound and image. In Rolling Stone Kris Nicholson gave the album a positive review, comparing it favourably to Deep Purple's Machine Head of 1972. Martin Popoff cites the album's "reinvention" of the heavy metal genre. The technical dexterity and operatic vocals pointed toward trends in heavy metal that new wave of British heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden were to follow, and the album's dark themes reappeared in the 1980s American thrash metal, such as in the music of Slayer and Metallica. An early sign of the band's influence was that Van Halen included "Victim of Changes" in their sets before achieving fame. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth relates that his brother-in-law, a religious man, punched him in the face for listening to Sad Wings of Destiny; Mustaine called this a turning point, where he chose heavy metal as a career as "revenge". Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth named Sad Wings of Destiny his second favourite metal album. PopMatters described the album as "not-at-all shabby" and listed "Epitaph" as one of its "25 Best Progressive Rock Songs of All Time" in 2011. Halford has called the album his favourite of the band's.

"Victim of Changes", "The Ripper", "Tyrant", and "Genocide"—with an extended introduction—appear on the band's first live album, Unleashed in the East (1979). The first three of those songs have survived until 2019 in the band's setlists, with "Victim of Changes" being one of the band's most played songs ever, while "Genocide" got retired in the early 1980s. With "Dreamer Deceiver", "Deceiver" and "Island of Domination" present on 1975–76 set lists, 7 of the album's 9 songs have been performed in concert.

During the Sad Wings sessions, Howells encouraged the band to work on a heavy metal cover of "Diamonds & Rust" by folk singer Joan Baez, but it did not appear on the album. The band had a hit in the UK with a re-recording of the cover version the following year, after they had moved to CBS Records. Gull released the version from the Sad Wings sessions in 1978 on the compilation album The Best of Judas Priest.

Judas Priest's 1990 album Painkiller features a winged figure Halford has described as a futuristic version of the Fallen Angel from the Sad Wings of Destiny cover. The band's 2005 album Angel of Retribution—with Halford again in the band—revives the Fallen Angel again: the cover concept has the angel rise and seek retribution, and the song "Judas Rising" has him cast off his gloom and rise in optimism.

After Halford left the group in the 1990s, Tim Owens was hired to replace him after auditioning "Victim of Changes" and "The Ripper". Downing and Tipton thereafter nicknamed Owens "The Ripper". Judas Priest's original singer Al Atkins recorded a version of "Victim of Changes" for his album Victim of Changes of 1998. Judas Priest frequently performed the song "Mother Sun" during the Sad Wings era, but never recorded it. The ballad, with its Queen-like vocals, has survived only in bootleg recordings. In 2014 Swedish metal band Portrait released a cover version as a B-side on a 2014 CD single.

Track listing
The Sad Wings of Destiny disc of the seventeen-disc Complete Albums Collection from 2012 puts the Side B tracks before those from "Side A", matching the track listing from the original album's back cover. "Prelude" did not appear on some pressings.

Personnel
Personnel adapted from Sad Wings of Destiny liner notes

Judas Priest
 * Rob Halford – vocals
 * K. K. Downing – guitars
 * Glenn Tipton – guitars, piano
 * Ian Hill – bass
 * Alan Moore – drums

Production
 * Produced by Jeffrey Calvert, Max West, and Judas Priest
 * Engineered by Jeffrey Calvert, Max West, and Chris Tsangarides
 * Cover concept by Neil French; painting by Patrick Woodroffe
 * Art direction by John Pasche
 * Band photographs by Lorentz Gullachsen and Alan Johnson

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User talk:SlimVirgin/archives 1

Pan Am Flight 103
After reading the edits you made on the Pan Am Flight 103 article I just thought I'd mention a couple of things. It's great that you've gone to the efforts of attempting to reach a compromise through different attempts at changing the article, through discussion on the talk page and through a post on the VP. It seems to be between just two of you and hopefully someone else will come along and lend their opinion.

I think the whole article needs a copyedit, to be honest, as the structure is not particularly great right now. One thing I must warn you to avoid is changing British English spelling to American English (or vice versa) - you'll just get yourself into arguments about that!

I hope the article can be sorted soon - it has great potential. violet/riga (t) 22:22, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Herschel
Herschelkrustofsky is, sadly, allowed to edit articles. He is a longtime member of the LaRouche cult and a shameless liar and slanderer, and nothing he says or writes here should be believed. Unfortunately the people who run Wikipedia are too gutless to defend their own project by banning him and people like him from participating, or to defend legitimate editors against their wrecking. That is why I have withdrawn from editing all articles except Australian ones, and even there I find Herschelkrustofsky spreading his poison. No doubt I will soon be banned altogether for reverting Herschelkrustofsky's edits. I wish you luck in dealing with him, but I fear Wikipedia's failure to deal with him and other like him will result in the whole project being fatally damaged, which is very sad. Adam 09:47, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Adam, is right when he says that people, like Herschelkrustofsky, who uncritically believe the information from a single source that is unreliable beyond reasonable doubt are a danger to Wikipedia. Another one is I know all about this myself. I was a follower of Sathya Sai Baba Andries 10:34, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * With regards to the death of a man after he attended a meeting of LaRouche, I just wanted to say that this is impossible to prove. And he may indeed have been schizophrenic See also http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/saiorg/AZ.htm about my former guru. Scroll down for suicides and murders. I can not tell here what I know to protect the privacy of people involved. Andries 10:34, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Jeremiah Duggan
Slim, an excellent article on Jeremiah Duggan. You can expect an immediate counter-attack from the LaRouchies. Adam 13:13, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I just saw your note on Adam's talk page. You might want to have a read of this prior decision by our Arbitration Committee regarding the LaRouchites. If you feel that they've breached any of these terms, then you may want to request that the case be re-opened at Requests for arbitration. Ambi 00:50, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The address is Arbitration Committee, but don't expect any help from them. The sad fact is that Wikipedia has no mechanism for defending itself against extremists and cultists, the people who run it seem to have no interest in developing one. Adam 01:02, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mediation
Hello SlimVirgin. I've removed your comment from Requests for mediation on the mediation between Adam and Herschelkrustofsky. Because of the nature of mediation, we ask that those not directly involved in the dispute do not edit the page. I appreciate that you were aiming to help Adam, and I realise that removing comments is an unusual step, but in this case it is best to leave it to the mediators. Many thanks -- sannse (talk) 20:49, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) (mediation committee)

 * The mediation committee will not make any decisions or judgements in the Adam/Herschelkrustofsky case, that's not our role. What we try to do is look at any conflict with an eye to helping the participants discuss issues and find common ground.  Of course, that sometimes isn't possible, but that will become evident if that's so.  I have found that it's best to start any mediation with the comments of the participants only.  Sometimes comments from other parties, however well intentioned, can disrupt this process.  Even if you believe that mediation is not possible, it's my job to start from a position that it is.  You may be interested to read What is mediation? which give more information about what we do.   As a mediation committee member, I'd ask you not to comment on that page at this time - if the mediation gets under way then there is no reason you can't contact the chosen mediator with your opinion then.  Or if this goes to the arbitration committee then evidence from anyone is accepted there.  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 21:37, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I've just seen your second message - yes posting to the talk page is fine. Many thanks -- sannse (talk) 21:38, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Slim, thanks for your comments at the Mediation page. You make some excellent points, but I'm afraid I am not very optimistic about the likely outcome of this matter. Adam 03:04, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The group forming at Forum for Encyclopedic Standards has potentional as a base for organising some action on this front. Adam 03:22, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Terrorism
No, I did not mean to say that. The word terrorism on Wikipedia is being regarded as POV, by the way. WhisperToMe 05:03, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, there's a debate at Talk:September_11,_2001_attacks - It looks like people are divided but I say that it's safe to try to not use the word that much - I guess I put it too simply last time... WhisperToMe 05:18, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Death of Jeremiah Duggan
Done. Jayjg 23:57, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

About intellectual accuracy
Hey Slim Virgin, the legend is not Indonesian but Javanese :-). Indonesia was founded only after WWII. Andries 12:01, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Reply from Herschel
No, I do not. Why do you ask? --Herschelkrustofsky 14:54, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Returning favor?
Hi. I have put in a word on your disagreement about the Jeremiah Duggan article. Maybe you’d like to help with one of mine.

Thanks. Maurreen 03:08, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Talk:Occupation of Iraq, 2003-2004 How much information about the invasion should be included?

ZioPOV offends me
The Abu Iyad quote is taken out of context from Palestinefacts.com, a pro-Israeli site. If the original can be sourced, I'd be interested to read it. What you think about Arafat and his honesty is your POV and has no bearing on reality. --Alberuni 07:35, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I was just going to say hi. To get to know who you are dealing with here, take a brief look at Requests_for_comment/Alberuni. Most people here are helpful and friendly, though. Regards.  ←Humus sapiens←Talk 08:14, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Jeremiah Duggan draft
Hi, Slim. It's easy to make a new page. You can use this.
 * User talk:SlimVirgin/Jeremiah Duggan draft
 * I put it here for now. I figure some semblance of privacy is better for drafts. When it's ready, you can let the others know. :) Maurreen 08:54, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Wow! I'm glad that worked out so well. Give a yell if you need me to come back.
 * Thanks for your comments concerning the Iraq occupation article. Sometimes all that is needed is an outside voice. When I went to the occupation article the first time, I was just checking on an old RfC that someone else had listed but which had apparently died out.
 * I've been a little discouraged on Wikipedia lately, and the occupation article is the lesser problem, but your success heartens me somewhat. :) Maurreen 05:22, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Racialism
I see you were involved in the discussion here. I am looking to restore the page to a stable state, and remove surrounding disputes. Would you mind speaking your mind on the subject? Awesome user page, BTW. [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 21:29, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Tavistock
Yes, the article on Tavistock Institute bears little relationship to the activities of the Tavistock Insitute and seem to be mainly derived from LaRouche conceptions. Any user may remove such material, see Requests_for_arbitration/Lyndon_LaRouche/Proposed_decision, "Original work which originates from Lyndon LaRouche and his movement may be removed from any Wikipedia article in which it appears other than the article Lyndon LaRouche and other closely related articles." Should it be re-inserted or an edit war develop, "Wikipedia users who engage in re-insertion of original research which originated with Lyndon LaRouche and his movement or engage in edit wars regarding insertion of such material shall be subject to ban upon demonstration to the Arbitration Committee of the offense", see Requests_for_arbitration/Lyndon_LaRouche/Proposed_decision. As of now, no one has removed LaRouche derived material from the article Tavistock Institute nor has anyone tried to re-insert it or engaged in an edit war. Fred Bauder 02:26, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

That sentence
I get paid to edit better work than that sentence you left me. :) By the way, I've recently done a little work at the Simple Wikipedia. It appears much less contentious, probably at least partly because it's smaller. Maurreen 08:39, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

From Herschel K
Please note my response at User_talk:Fred_Bauder.

--Herschelkrustofsky 22:53, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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List of people from Montreal

This is a list of notable people from Montreal.

A

 * Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
 * David Acer – magician and comedian, star of Mystery Hunters
 * Marie-Yasmine Alidou – soccer player for the Canada national team
 * Andrew Allan – Allan Shipping Line
 * Sir Hugh Allan – Allan Shipping Line
 * Martha Allan – founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre
 * Sir Montague Allan – businessman, donated the Allan Cup
 * Paul Almond – film director
 * Sidney Altman – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
 * Melissa Sue Anderson – American-Canadian actress, known for her role as Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie
 * René Angélil – singer, actor, Celine Dion's husband and manager
 * Richard Bladworth Angus – founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway
 * Joel Anthony – NBA basketball player
 * Alex Anthopoulos – general manager and president of baseball operations for the Atlanta Braves
 * Gilles Archambault – novelist
 * Francois Arnaud – actor
 * Jay Aspin – former MP
 * William H. Atherton – historian
 * Gabriel Aubry – model
 * Melissa Auf der Maur – rock musician (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins)
 * Nick Auf der Maur – journalist, municipal politician
 * Michel C. Auger – journalist
 * Adam Azimov – film director
 * David Azrieli – real estate developer

B

 * Ralph Backstrom – former NHL player
 * Rita Baga – drag queen, born in Boucherville; born Jean-François Guèvremont
 * René Balcer – television writer and producer, known for the US television show Law and Order
 * Jean-Paul Banos (born 1961) – fencer
 * Roger Barnes – professional wrestler
 * Joseph Barsalou – businessman and politician
 * Jay Baruchel – television and movie actor
 * Doug Beardsley – poet and educator
 * Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien – broadcasting, magazines
 * Bianca Beauchamp – fetish fashion model
 * Charles-Odilon Beauchemin – printer and bookseller
 * Mathieu Beaudoin – football player
 * Tanith Belbin – figure skater, Olympic silver medalist
 * Louise Belcourt – artist
 * Jean Béliveau – former NHL player
 * Saul Bellow – novelist
 * Meaghan Benfeito – diver
 * Chris Benoit – pro wrestler, born in Montreal, raised in Edmonton, Alberta
 * Eric Berne – psychiatrist; creator of Transactional Analysis; author of Games People Play
 * André Besette – CSC Holy Cross Brother, "miracle worker of Montreal"
 * Norman Bethune – physician, medical innovator, and political activist
 * Tim Biakabutuka – former NFL football player, Carolina Panthers
 * Charlie Biddle – Montreal Jazz pioneer, Juno Award winner
 * Khem Birch – Montreal NBA Player edit by LMR-11
 * Yannick Bisson – actor known for playing Det. Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries and Jack in Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye
 * Conrad Black – financier and newspaper magnate
 * Sheila Blair – art historian
 * Toe Blake – former NHL player and coach
 * Valérie Blass – artist
 * Paul Bley – jazz pianist
 * La Bolduc – real name Mary Travers, singer
 * Yassine Bounou – footballer
 * Chris Boucher – NBA player
 * Patrick Bordeleau – hockey player
 * Daniel Borsuk – plastic surgeon
 * Mike Bossy – Hockey Hall of Fame member
 * Eugenie Bouchard – tennis player
 * Jean-François Bouchard – photographer and visual designer
 * Louise Anne Bouchard – writer
 * Maurice "Mom" Boucher – ex-leader of Hell's Angels (as of 2014)
 * Henri Bourassa – political leader and publisher
 * Robert Bourassa – former Quebec premier
 * Pierre Bourque – mayor
 * Raymond Bourque – former NHL player, Hockey Hall of Fame member
 * Pierre Bouvier – frontman of Simple Plan; songwriter
 * Scotty Bowman – hockey coach
 * Justin Bradley – actor, based out of Montreal and Toronto, sometimes works in Los Angeles
 * Tim Brady – guitarist, composer
 * Glenda Braganza – Hollywood actress, 10.5: Apocalypse
 * Gilles Brassard – computer scientist
 * Adam Braz – former soccer defender
 * Patrice Brisebois – NHL player, Montreal Canadiens
 * Annie Brocoli – real name Annie Grenier, children's performer
 * Martin Brodeur – NHL player, goaltender, New Jersey Devils
 * Charles Bronfman – businessman and philanthropist
 * Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – businessman
 * Edward Bronfman – businessman, philanthropist, member of the Bronfman family
 * Peter Bronfman – businessman, member of the Bronfman family
 * Saidye Rosner Bronfman – philanthropist, wife of Samuel Bronfman
 * Samuel Bronfman – liquor magnate
 * Alma Faye Brooks – disco, soul and R&B singer
 * Edwin Orion Brownell – pianist, vocalist
 * Kim Brunhuber – journalist newscaster
 * Geneviève Bujold – actress
 * Hy Buller – former NHL All-Star player
 * Mario Bunge – philosopher, Frothingham Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University
 * Robin Burns – founder and owner, ITECH Hockey Equipment
 * Ernie Butler – comedy club owner
 * Gerard Butler – Scottish actor; lived here briefly as a baby
 * Win Butler – singer-songwriter

C

 * Jesse Camacho – actor
 * Mark Camacho – actor
 * Charles Sandwith Campbell – philanthropist, benefactor of Montreal
 * Paul Cargnello – singer-songwriter
 * Gerald Emmett Carter – former cardinal archbishop of Toronto
 * André Chagnon – cable TV, broadcasting, philanthropist
 * Alex Chiasson – NHL player for the Edmonton Oilers, 2018 Stanley Cup champion
 * Serge Chapleau – political cartoonist
 * Corinne Chaponnière – writer, journalist
 * Robert Charlebois – singer-songwriter
 * Gregory Charles – musician and radio host
 * Dov Charney – entrepreneur and CEO of American Apparel
 * Claude Charron – former politician, now TV host
 * Micheline Chevrier – theatre director
 * Patricia Chica – film and TV director
 * Emmanuelle Chriqui – actress
 * Denny Chronopoulos – Canadian football player
 * Terri Clark – country singer-songwriter
 * Françoise de Clossey – pianist and organist
 * Guy Cloutier – former artist manager
 * Kim Cloutier – fashion model
 * G. A. Cohen – political philosopher
 * Leonard Cohen – poet and singer
 * Mark Cohen – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD
 * Sidney M. Cohen – television director
 * Steven Cojocaru – fashion critic
 * John Colicos – actor
 * Charles Comeau – drummer of Simple Plan and songwriter
 * Phil Comeau – film and TV director
 * Antonio Cordasco – Italian-Canadian migrant labour recruiter
 * Ernest Cormier – engineer and architect
 * Marc Costanzo – singer
 * Corneille – singer
 * Irwin Cotler – law professor, politician
 * Jean Coutu – pharmacist
 * Corey Crawford – NHL starting goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks
 * Ron Crevier – former NBA basketball player
 * Katalin Cseh – Hungarian politician
 * Beto Cuevas – Chilean-Canadian lead singer of band La Ley
 * Peter Cullen – voice actor; voice of Optimus Prime in the film Transformers
 * Elisha Cuthbert – actress
 * Louis Cyr – strongman
 * May Cutler – publisher and journalist; founder of Tundra Books; first Canadian woman to publish children's books; first woman to serve as Mayor of Westmount, Quebec

D

 * Samuel Dalembert – NBA basketball player, Philadelphia 76ers
 * Peter Dalla Riva – football player, Montreal Alouettes
 * Roméo Dallaire – senator, Lieutenant-General
 * Vincent Damphousse – former NHL player
 * Shawn Daniels – Canadian football player
 * J. P. Darche – NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
 * Mathieu Darche – NHL player, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens
 * Françoise David – politician
 * John Caswell Davis – politician
 * Mitch Davis – film programmer, filmmaker, journalist
 * Norman Dawe – sports executive
 * Stéphane Demers – actor
 * Bernard Derome – anchorman
 * Pierre Desjardins – football player, Montreal Alouettes
 * Roxane Desjardins – writer
 * André Desmarais – businessman
 * Paul Desmarais, Sr. – businessman
 * Paul Desmarais, Jr. – businessman
 * David Desrosiers – bassist of Simple Plan and vocalist; born in Sept-Îles
 * Sean Devine – playwright, actor, and politician
 * Caroline Dhavernas – actress
 * Domenic Di Rosa – actor
 * Kadie Karen Diekmeyer – Internet personality and activist
 * Céline Dion – singer
 * Stéphane Dion – politician
 * Xavier Dolan – actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume director, producer
 * Jacob Dolson Cox – U.S. soldier and politician
 * Audrey Capel Doray – artist
 * Jean Doré – former mayor of Montreal
 * Ivan Doroschuk – singer
 * Fifi D'Orsay – actress
 * Lu Dort – NBA Player
 * William Dow – brewer
 * Jean Drapeau – mayor of Montreal during Expo '67 and the 1976 Olympic Games
 * Glen Drover – guitarist for Megadeth
 * Shawn Drover – drummer for Megadeth
 * Steve Dubinsky – former NHL player
 * Gilles Duceppe – politician
 * Jean Duceppe – actor
 * Louis Dudek – poet
 * Jack Dunham – animator, television commercial producer, designer of the St-Hubert rooster mascot
 * Barbara Dunkelman – voice actress for Rooster Teeth
 * Alexandre Dupuis – football player

E

 * Keith Eaman – Canadian football player
 * Iwan Edwards – conductor, Member of the Order of Canada
 * Vic Emery – Olympic bobsleigh gold medalist
 * Empire I – pop and dancehall singer, songwriter
 * Anke Engelke – German comedian, born in Montreal
 * Chad Erickson – Ringette coach
 * Angelo Esposito – hockey player
 * Sam Etcheverry – former CFL and NFL football quarterback, Montreal Alouettes, St. Louis Cardinals
 * Terry Evanshen – former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders
 * Ken Evoy – founder of Sitesell; creator of SiteBuildIt!

F

 * Lara Fabian – operatic singer
 * Mylène Farmer – singer
 * Leylah Fernandez – tennis player
 * David Fennario – playwright
 * Greg Fergus – Member of Parliament; 38th Speaker of the House of Commons
 * Maynard Ferguson – jazz trumpet player and bandleader
 * Denise Filiatrault – actress and director
 * Jennifer Finnigan – Hollywood actress
 * Marc-André Fleury – ice hockey goalkeeper; three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins
 * Louis-Joseph Forget – stockbroker, financier, statesman
 * Rodolphe Forget – businessman, politician, philanthropist
 * Samuel Fournier – former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
 * Kathleen Fox (born 1951) – flight instructor, air traffic controller, business executive
 * René-Arthur Fréchet – architect
 * Pauline Fréchette (1889–1943) – poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun
 * David Freiheit – lawyer and YouTuber
 * Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972) – German-Canadian Olympic soccer player

G

 * Alfonso Gagliano – politician
 * André Gagné – professor and scholar, Concordia University
 * Éric Gagné – pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers
 * André Gagnon – composer, pianist
 * Marc Gagnon – Olympic gold medal speed skater
 * Marc-Antoine Gagnon – moguls skier
 * Howard Galganov – anglophone rights activist, radio personality
 * Céline Galipeau – anchorwoman
 * Mavis Gallant – author
 * Patsy Gallant – pop singer
 * Mitch Garber – gaming, hotel executive, philanthropist, broadcaster
 * Kathleen Gati – actress
 * Arturo Gatti – professional boxer, world champion
 * Daniel Gauthier – co-founder of the Cirque du Soleil
 * James Gelfand – pianist, composer, arranger
 * Gettomasa – Finnish rapper; born Aleksi Lehikoinen
 * Yasmeen Ghauri – supermodel
 * Ralph Gilles – designer of the Chrysler 300c
 * Jessalyn Gilsig – actress
 * Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) – artist and inspiration for the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint
 * Jonathan Goldstein – author, humourist and radio producer
 * Anne-France Goldwater – lawyer and TV court show personality
 * John Gomery – jurist
 * Brian Goodwin – biologist
 * Adam Gopnik – writer, essayist
 * Henry Gordon (1919–2009) – magician, journalist, CSI Fellow
 * Huntley Gordon – actor
 * Shaul Gordon (born 1994) – Canadian-Israeli Olympic sabre fencer
 * Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan – newspaper publisher
 * Stewart Francis Granger – former NBA basketball player
 * W. R. Granger (William Rowen Granger) – president of the Montreal AAA, Canadian and Quebec Amateur Hockey Associations
 * Howard Grant – former Canadian Olympics and Commonwealth boxer; trainer, UFC welterweight champion, Georges St-Pierre
 * Otis Grant – Jamaican-born former WBO Middleweight boxing champion
 * Hulda Regina Graser – customs house broker
 * Harold Greenberg – movie producer, founder of Astral Media
 * Frank Greenleaf – president of the Canadian and Quebec Amateur Hockey Associations
 * Sylvain Grenier – WWE wrestler
 * Irving Grundman – businessman, hockey executive
 * Vladimir Guerrero Jr. – MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays
 * Quincy Guerrier – college basketball player for the Oregon Ducks
 * Philip Guston – painter and printmaker

H

 * Dayle Haddon – model and actress
 * Marc-André Hamelin – pianist and composer
 * Chris Haney – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
 * Dan Hanganu – architect
 * Louise Harel – politician
 * Corey Hart – singer
 * Doug Harvey – Hall of Fame ice hockey player
 * Jacques Hébert – statesman
 * Thomas Hellman – pop singer
 * Carl Henry – singer
 * Prudence Heward – Beaver Hall Group artist
 * Alonzo Highsmith – former NFL football player
 * Dave Hilton, Jr. – world champion boxer
 * Matthew Hilton – world champion boxer
 * David Julian Hirsh – actor
 * Ian Hodgkinson – professional wrestler, lived in Montreal while in WCW
 * Thomas William Holmes – winner of the Victoria Cross
 * Herbert Samuel Holt – financier
 * Steve Holt – jazz pianist, AC singer-songwriter
 * William Hope – actor
 * Anna Hopkins – actress
 * Camillien Houde – former mayor of Montreal
 * Alice Houghton – broker
 * Anthony Housefather (born 1971) – Member of Canadian Parliament

I

 * Norman Iceberg – singer-songwriter

J

 * Louis Jaque, modernist painter
 * Marlene Jennings – politician
 * René Jodoin – film animator and producer
 * Daniel Johnson, Jr. – former premier of Quebec
 * Oliver Jones – jazz pianist
 * Sass Jordan – singer
 * Kris Joseph – basketball player
 * Robert Joy – actor
 * Alexander Julien – musician, member of Vision Eternel
 * Claude Jutra – filmmaker

K

 * Emilie Kahn – musician also known as Emilie & Ogden
 * Garry Kallos (born 1956) – wrestler and sambo competitor
 * Tommy Kane – former NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
 * Daniel Kash – actor
 * Kenneth Kaushansky – Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, hematologist, Master of the American College of Physicians
 * Kaytranada – electronic musician, producer, DJ
 * Michael A. Kelen – former judge of the Federal Court of Canada
 * George Kennedy – owner of Montreal Canadiens hockey team
 * Amir Khadir – physician and politician
 * Kid Koala – DJ
 * Franklin Kiermyer – drummer, composer
 * Andy Kim – singer-songwriter
 * A. M. Klein – author
 * Naomi Klein – author and activist
 * Leo Kolber – senator, de facto family member of the Bronfman family and empire
 * Benjamin Kowalewicz – singer of Billy Talent
 * Vanessa Kraven – professional wrestler
 * David Kristian – electronic musician
 * Sid and Marty Krofft – producers/creators of H.R. Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost, The Lost Saucer
 * Joseph Kruger – founder of Kruger Inc.

L

 * Florence La Badie – actress
 * Michel Maray de La Chauvignerie – 18th century French military officer and interpreter
 * Zoe Laurier – wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
 * La Zarra – singer-songwriter
 * Charline Labonté – hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2006, 2010, 2014
 * Hubert Lacroix – CBC president and CEO
 * Oleg Ladik (born 1971) – Olympic wrestler
 * Dany Laferrière – author
 * Alexis Lafrenière – NHL player, New York Rangers
 * Guy Lafleur – NHL player, Montreal Canadiens
 * Corky Laing – musician
 * Jon Lajoie – comedian
 * Guy Laliberté – founder and CEO of Cirque de Soleil
 * Paul Lambert – left guard, Montreal Alouettes
 * Phyllis Lambert – architect and member of the Bronfman family
 * Mado Lamotte – drag queen and author
 * Jacques Lanctôt – FLQ member, convicted terrorist
 * Louise Lanctôt – FLQ member, convicted terrorist
 * Edmond Lapierre – former MPP
 * Jean Lapierre – politician
 * Éric Lapointe – CFL running back for the Montreal Alouettes
 * Pierre Laporte – politician
 * Georges Laraque – NHL player
 * Ryan Larkin – animator
 * Nicholas Latifi – racing driver currently driving for Williams Racing
 * Lisa Lavie – singer-songwriter
 * Irving Layton – poet, essayist, short story writer
 * Jack Layton – politician, leader of the federal New Democratic Party
 * Irina Lăzăreanu – fashion model
 * Louise Lecavalier – dancer
 * Vincent Lecavalier – NHL player
 * Jos LeDuc – professional wrestler
 * Ranee Lee – jazz singer
 * Sébastien Lefebvre – guitarist of Simple Plan and vocalist
 * Rachelle Lefevre – actress
 * Jean Leloup – musician
 * Mario Lemieux (born 1965) – NHL player
 * Vanessa Lengies – actress
 * Guy A. Lepage – television personality
 * Marc Lépine – mass murderer
 * René Lépine – real-estate developer
 * Chris Leroux – MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates)
 * Pierre Leroux – novelist, journalist and screenwriter
 * Jean Lesage – lawyer, politician
 * Kris Letang – QMJHL player, NHL player, three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins
 * André Éric Létourneau – intermedia artist, composer
 * Jean-Louis Lévesque – stockbroker, horse racing builder
 * Devon Levi – goaltender drafted by Florida Panthers in the 7th round, 212th overall in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, current Northeastern Huskies, Canada men's national junior ice hockey team
 * Shawn Levy – director and actor
 * Jaclyn Linetsky – actress
 * David Lipper – actor
 * Liu Fang – musician
 * Pascal Lochard – CFL player
 * William Edmond Logan – geologist
 * Jennifer Lonergan – educator, nonprofit executive, promoter of third-world women's craftmanship
 * Colin Low – filmmaker
 * Lunice – musician
 * Roberto Luongo – NHL goaltender
 * Yves A. Lussier – physician-scientist in translational bioinformatics

M

 * Tom Maayan (born 1993) – Canada-born Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League
 * L. Ian MacDonald (born 1947) – author, columnist, broadcaster, and diplomat
 * William C. Macdonald – tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
 * Danny Maciocia – CFL football coach
 * Don Macpherson – journalist
 * Nicolas Macrozonaris – sprinter, track and field
 * Arnaud Maggs – artist, photographer
 * Sean Patrick Maloney – Canadian-American politician and U.S. Representative for the state of New York since 2013
 * Jeanne Mance – founder of first hospital in North America, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, 1645
 * Frederic Marcotte – poet and musician
 * Rudolph A. Marcus – Nobel laureate of chemistry
 * Lou Marinoff – philosopher at City College of New York
 * Yann Martel – writer, Man Booker Prize 2002
 * Paul Martin – former prime minister of Canada
 * Russell Martin – baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays
 * Massari – singer
 * Charles Mayer – journalist, sportsperson and politician
 * John McCallum – politician
 * John Wilson McConnell – businessman, publisher, philanthropist
 * David Ross McCord – lawyer, philanthropist
 * Kevin McDonald – actor/comedian/voice actor, member of The Kids in the Hall
 * Thomas D'Arcy McGee – politician
 * Molly McGlynn – film and television director and screenwriter
 * Ken McGoogan – writer
 * Duncan McIntyre – businessman
 * Scott McKay – former city counsellor and leader of the Green Party of Quebec
 * Patricia McKenzie – actress
 * Norman McLaren – film animation pioneer
 * Simon McTavish – businessman
 * Juan Mendez – former NCAA basketball player, Niagara University
 * Charles Meredith – president of the Montreal Stock Exchange
 * Frederick Edmund Meredith – lawyer, chancellor of Bishop's University
 * Vincent Meredith – first and last Baronet of Montreal; president of the Bank of Montreal
 * William Collis Meredith – Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec
 * Luck Mervil – singer, actor
 * Jim Miller – Canadian football player
 * Marc Miller – politician
 * Brenda Milner – neuropsychologist
 * Andrew Molson – businessman, member of the Molson family, eldest son of Eric Molson
 * Eric Molson – brewer, businessman, member of the Molson family
 * Geoff Molson – businessman, member of the Molson family, son of Eric Molson
 * Hartland Molson – brewer, World War II fighter pilot, statesman, member of the Molson family
 * John Molson – brewer, railway and steamship line builder, member of the Molson family
 * Percival Molson – athlete, soldier, member of the Molson family
 * Robert Moncel – commander of the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade in the Second World War
 * Édouard Montpetit – lawyer, economist, academic
 * Henry Morgan – department store founder
 * Henry Morgentaler – physician, advocate for women's rights to abortion
 * Terry Mosher – editorial cartoonist
 * Ben Mulroney – television host; son of Brian Mulroney
 * Brian Mulroney – former prime minister of Canada
 * Mila Mulroney – wife of the 18th prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney

N

 * Ruba Nadda – producer
 * Pierre Nadeau – journalist, television presenter and producer
 * Narcy – hip hop artist
 * Émile Nelligan – poet
 * Hillel Neuer – human rights lawyer, executive director UN Watch
 * Kai Nielsen – naturalist philosopher at Concordia University
 * Craig Norman – head basketball coach of McGill University Redmen; former basketball player for Concordia University

O

 * Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan – politician, Parti patriote member
 * Alexander Walker Ogilvie – miller, statesman
 * Erin O'Toole – politician, Conservative Party of Canada member
 * Maryse Ouellet – glamour model and former WWE wrestler
 * Caroline Ouellette – hockey player, Canadian women's Olympic team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006

P

 * P. Reign – hip hop artist, born in Montreal, raised in Toronto
 * Frank L. Packard – novelist
 * Michel Pagliaro – musician
 * Vernon Pahl – Canadian football player
 * Jean Jacques Paradis – Commander of the Canadian Army
 * Jessica Paré – actress
 * Jacques Parizeau – politician, former premier of Quebec
 * Julie Payette – scientist, astronaut
 * Trevor W. Payne – founder and music director of the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
 * Cory Pecker (born 1981) – hockey player, right wing (EHC Visp)
 * Érik Péladeau – businessman (Québecor)
 * Pierre Péladeau – founder of Quebecor
 * Pierre Karl Péladeau – CEO of Quebecor Media
 * Wilfrid Pelletier – symphony conductor
 * Dr. Wilder Penfield – pioneering neurosurgeon, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute
 * David De La Peralle – football player
 * Missy Peregrym – actress
 * Oscar Peterson – jazz pianist
 * Autumn Phillips – former wife of Peter Phillips, eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II
 * Mary Pierce – tennis player
 * André Pijet – artist
 * Steven Pinker – linguist and evolutionary psychologist
 * Susan Pinker – journalist and psychologist
 * Christopher Plummer – actor
 * Judes Poirier – university professor
 * Camille Poliquin – musician
 * Antoni Porowski – chef, actor, and television personality
 * Dick Pound – lawyer, Olympic Games executive
 * Cheryl Pounder – hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006
 * André Pratte – journalist, economist

Q

 * Nathalie Quagliotto – visual artist
 * Sara Quin – musician

R

 * Zotique Racicot – auxiliary bishop of Montreal from 1905 to 1915
 * Jesse Rath (born 1989) – actor
 * Meaghan Rath – actress
 * Claude Raymond – former baseball player and coach
 * Jade Raymond – video game designer and producer
 * John Redpath – businessman, philanthropist
 * Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid – social reformer, church worker, clubwoman
 * Helen Richmond Young Reid – social worker
 * Ginette Reno – singer
 * Caroline Rhea – actress
 * Heather Reisman – businesswoman
 * Mike Ribeiro – NHL player
 * Henri Richard – former NHL player
 * Maurice Richard – former NHL player
 * Mordecai Richler – writer
 * Vito Rizzuto – mobster
 * Alphonso Theodore Roberts – political activist, cricketer
 * Sam Roberts – musician
 * Marc Robillard – musician, composer and songwriter
 * Braulio Rocha – photographer
 * Percy Rodrigues – actor
 * Sasha Roiz (born 1973) – Israeli-born Canadian actor
 * Cristina Rosato – actress
 * Paul Rose – political figure
 * Ari Rosenberg (born 1964) – Israeli basketball player
 * Ethel Rosenfield (1910–2000) – sculptor
 * Charlie J. Ross – vaudeville performer
 * J.K.L. Ross – racehorse owner, philanthropist
 * Allan Roth – baseball statistician for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers
 * Albert S. Ruddy – film and television producer, known for producing The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby, which won him two Academy Awards for Best Picture
 * Greg Rusedski (born 1973) – tennis player
 * Claude Ryan – publisher, statesman
 * Frank "Dunie" Ryan – mobster

S

 * Roméo Sabourin – SOE agent, WW II hero executed by the Nazis
 * Moshe Safdie – architect, urban designer
 * Peter Sagar – multi-instrumentalist, known for his band HOMESHAKE and former touring guitarist for Mac DeMarco
 * Martin St. Louis – NHL player
 * Georges St-Pierre – professional MMA fighter
 * Kim St-Pierre – hockey goaltender, Canadian Olympic women's team
 * Lino Saputo – businessman
 * Anne Savage – artist
 * Marco Scandella – NHL player
 * Paul Schoeffler – voice actor, actor
 * Joseph A. Schwarcz – doctor of chemistry and professor at McGill University, formerly at Vanier College
 * Cynthia Scott – Academy Award-winning director
 * Frank Scott – scholar, poet, professor, lawyer
 * Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger – winner of the Victoria Cross in World War I
 * Mark Shainblum – comics writer and co-creator of Northguard
 * Marla Shapiro – CTV medical reporter and physician
 * William Shatner – actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek
 * Douglas Shearer – Academy Award-winning motion picture sound engineer
 * Norma Shearer – Academy Award-winning actress
 * Eliezer Sherbatov (born 1991) – Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
 * Madeleine Sherwood – actress, played Mother Superior in The Flying Nun
 * Karen Simpson – actress and fashion designer
 * Jaspreet Singh – author
 * Charles Sirois – telecommunications
 * David Six – artist
 * Skiifall – rapper
 * Jeff Skoll – Internet entrepreneur
 * Donald Smith – railway executive
 * George M. Smith – Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
 * Larry Smith – former CFL football player; former president of the Montreal Alouettes
 * Nahum Sonenberg – biochemist, professor at McGill University
 * Wonny Song – classical concert pianist
 * Kwasi Songui – actor
 * Alex Soria – singer-guitarist (The Nils, Chino)
 * Benjamin St-Juste – American football player
 * Kevin Steen – professional wrestler
 * Sam Steinberg – supermarket founder
 * Ralph M. Steinman – 2011 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
 * George Stephen – banker, railway executive
 * Peter Stearns – historian, honorary knight
 * Jeff Stinco – lead guitarist of Simple Plan
 * P.J. Stock – NHL player
 * Lance Stroll (born 1998) – Belgian-Canadian racing driver
 * Lawrence Stroll (born 1959) – owner of Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Racing Point F1 Team, major shareholder/executive chairman in Aston Martin and father to Formula One driver Lance Stroll
 * Howard Stupp (born 1955) – Olympic wrestler
 * Bruny Surin – track and field athlete
 * Robert Augustus Sweeney – only African American double recipient of the American Medal of Honor
 * Sylvia Sweeney – former basketball player for the Canadian women's national team; TV journalist
 * Jack W. Szostak – Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

T

 * Maxime Talbot – NHL player
 * Ari Taub (born 1971) – Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
 * Charles Taylor – philosopher emeritus at McGill
 * José Théodore – NHL player
 * David Thompson – explorer
 * Ryan Thorne – head basketball coach for the McGill Martlets, former CIAU champion in basketball with Bishop's University
 * Tiga – electronic musician, singer, DJ
 * Josh Tordjman – NHL player
 * Ibrahim Tounkara – Canadian football player
 * Daniel Tracey – journalist, politician
 * Gérald Tremblay – former mayor of Montreal
 * Michel Tremblay – novelist, playwright
 * Tony Tremblay – poet, radio personality
 * Clem Trihey – professional ice hockey player
 * Alexandre Trudeau – journalist; son of Pierre Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada
 * Justin Trudeau – Member of Parliament; 23rd prime minister of Canada, son of Pierre Trudeau, a former prime minister of Canada
 * Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) – 15th prime minister of Canada
 * Sophie Grégoire Trudeau – spouse of the 23rd prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau
 * Alain Trudel – conductor
 * Jean-Claude Turcotte – Roman Catholic cardinal
 * Roxane Turcotte – author of children's and youth literature
 * George Tutunjian – performer of Armenian revolutionary songs
 * Rachel Tyndale – pharmacogeneticist

U

 * David Usher – singer-songwriter

V

 * Maurice Vachon – also known as Mad Dog Vachon; wrestling champion
 * Stevie Vallance – also known as Louise Vallance; singer, musician, actress, voice actress and director
 * Jean-Marc Vallée – filmmaker
 * Ernie Vandeweghe – former NBA basketball player, New York Knicks
 * Gino Vannelli – singer-songwriter
 * Chris Velan – singer-songwriter
 * Joe Veleno – NHL prospect for the Detroit Red Wings
 * Jacques Vieau – fur trader and early Wisconsin settler
 * Gilles Villeneuve – Formula One driver
 * Jacques Villeneuve – Formula One driver (1997 World Champion); 1995 IndyCar champion; son of Gilles Villeneuve
 * Claude Vivier – contemporary classical composer, ethnomusicologist and poet
 * Marc-Édouard Vlasic – NHL player, currently playing for the San Jose Sharks
 * Roch Voisine – singer

W

 * Martha Wainwright – singer-songwriter
 * Rufus Wainwright – singer-songwriter
 * Avi Wallerstein – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD
 * Amanda Walsh – actress
 * Dwight Walton – professional basketball player, Canadian Olympian
 * Patrick Watson – singer-songwriter
 * Ben Weider – co-founder of the IFBB (International Federation of BodyBuilders)
 * Joe Weider – creator of the Mr. Olympia and Ms. Olympia bodybuilding contests
 * William Weintraub – author, filmmaker
 * Danny Wells – actor; played bartender on The Jeffersons and Luigi in The Super Mario Brothers Super Show
 * Bill Wennington – former NBA basketball player, Chicago Bulls
 * Max Werner – founder of Montreal Pastry, world class pastry chef
 * Alissa White-Gluz – singer-songwriter; former vocalist of The Agonist; current vocalist of Arch Enemy
 * Trevor C. Williams – former member of the Canadian national basketball team; philanthropist
 * Cairine Wilson – first woman to serve in the Senate of Canada
 * Joseph Wiseman – actor, known for playing Dr. Julius No in the first James Bond film Dr. No
 * Karl Wolf – singer
 * Bernie Wolfe (born 1951) – NHL hockey player
 * William Workman – businessman and municipal politician
 * Peter Worrell – former NHL player
 * Aleksandra Wozniak – tennis player

X

 * Xue Yiwei – writer – Côte-des-Neiges

Y

 * Joel Yanofsky – writer
 * Nikki Yanofsky – jazz singer
 * Wayne Yearwood – former professional basketball player; Canadian Olympian

Z

 * Sami Zayn – professional wrestler currently signed to the WWE
 * Larry "Rock" Zeidel (1928–2014) – NHL player
 * Joel Zifkin – electric violinist, singer-songwriter
 * David Zilberman – Olympic heavyweight wrestler
 * Moses Znaimer – co-founder of Toronto's CityTV
 * Mortimer Zuckerman – magazine editor, publisher, real estate tycoon

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Tacticus

Tacticus may refer to:

People

 * Aeneas Tacticus, a 4th century BC Greek writer on the art of war
 * Aelianus Tacticus, a 2nd century AD Greek military writer
 * Asclepiodotus Tacticus, a 1st century BC Greek philosopher

Other uses

 * General Tacticus, a fictional Discworld character
 * Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus, a turn based tactical mobile game

title: Tacticus