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Top 100 Writers in Canada

The most publicly visible writers in Canada.

Most famous

The most famous writers in Canada right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

CanadaWriters537 peopleHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Robin Sharma	Canada	Writers	73.0	0.0
#2	—	Alice Munro	Canada	Writers	72.5	1.0
#3	—	Charlie Angus	Canada	Writers	70.3	15.0
#4	—	Margaret Atwood	Canada	Writers	69.6	1.0
#5	—	XJ Xiran Jay Zhao	Canada	Writers	68.3	0.0
#6	—	Mike Myers	Canada	Writers	68.3	15.0
#7	—	Rob Pike	Canada	Writers	66.0	0.0
#8	—	Vera Sola	Canada	Writers	64.6	2.7
#9	—	JM Justine Musk	Canada	Writers	64.5	10.0
#10	—	DG Dan Gibson	Canada	Writers	61.7	0.5
#11	—	K’naan	Canada	Writers	60.8	10.0
#12	—	Eugene Levy	Canada	Writers	60.0	0.0
#13	—	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Canada	Writers	59.8	2.7
#14	—	Elle Kennedy	Canada	Writers	59.5	2.5
#15	—	Yann Martel	Canada	Writers	59.4	10.0
#16	—	Phan Thị Kim Phúc	Canada	Writers	58.8	0.7
#17	—	Paul Haggis	Canada	Writers	57.8	3.3
#18	—	Mary Simon	Canada	Writers	57.2	0.0
#19	—	Stefan Molyneux	Canada	Writers	57.1	10.0
#20	—	Todd McFarlane	Canada	Writers	57.0	0.8
#21	—	Michael Ondaatje	Canada	Writers	57.0	3.4
#22	—	Evan Goldberg	Canada	Writers	57.0	0.0
#23	—	David Suzuki	Canada	Writers	56.7	0.0
#24	—	Nathan Fielder	Canada	Writers	56.4	2.0
#25	—	Saul Rubinek	Canada	Writers	55.7	0.7
#26	—	Mordecai Richler	Canada	Writers	55.6	3.4
#27	—	Manly P. Hall	Canada	Writers	55.5	0.6
#28	—	Elizabeth May	Canada	Writers	55.3	8.4
#29	—	CF Carley Fortune	Canada	Writers	55.2	25.0
#30	—	Shulamith Firestone	Canada	Writers	55.1	0.0
#31	—	John McCrae	Canada	Writers	54.9	0.7
#32	—	Lisa Jakub	Canada	Writers	54.8	0.0
#33	—	AB Alan Bradley	Canada	Writers	54.8	8.5
#34	—	Louise Penny	Canada	Writers	54.7	0.0
#35	—	Elisabeth Mann Borgese	Canada	Writers	54.7	10.0
#36	—	Charles Coughlin	Canada	Writers	54.7	0.0
#37	—	Anne Carson	Canada	Writers	54.6	0.0
#38	—	Tatannuaq	Canada	Writers	54.5	25.0
#39	—	John Ireland	Canada	Writers	54.5	0.0
#40	—	Rachel Reid	Canada	Writers	54.4	0.0
#41	—	Johanne Harrelle	Canada	Writers	54.4	10.0
#42	—	David Johnston	Canada	Writers	54.3	1.3
#43	—	Peter Watts	Canada	Writers	54.3	0.0
#44	—	A. E. van Vogt	Canada	Writers	54.3	0.0
#45	—	Emma Donoghue	Canada	Writers	54.1	0.2
#46	—	Douglas Coupland	Canada	Writers	54.0	0.1
#47	—	Northrop Frye	Canada	Writers	53.6	0.0
#48	—	Danny Antonucci	Canada	Writers	53.5	1.6
#49	—	Miriam Toews	Canada	Writers	53.3	28.3
#50	—	Robert W. Service	Canada	Writers	53.2	17.2
#51	—	Deborah Ellis	Canada	Writers	53.2	10.0
#52	—	Emily St. John Mandel	Canada	Writers	53.1	0.0
#53	—	Gordon R. Dickson	Canada	Writers	53.1	0.0
#54	—	Farley Mowat	Canada	Writers	53.0	0.0
#55	—	Gilles Vigneault	Canada	Writers	53.0	16.2
#56	—	Graham Yost	Canada	Writers	53.0	5.7
#57	—	Gabrielle Roy	Canada	Writers	52.9	0.0
#58	—	Carol Shields	Canada	Writers	52.7	1.9
#59	—	Stuart McLean	Canada	Writers	52.7	10.0
#60	—	Aki Shimazaki	Canada	Writers	52.6	8.8
#61	—	Robert J. Sawyer	Canada	Writers	52.6	0.0
#62	—	Jo Walton	Canada	Writers	52.6	0.0
#63	—	Bruce LaBruce	Canada	Writers	52.5	1.7
#64	—	GG Graeme Gibson	Canada	Writers	52.4	2.6
#65	—	Ed Greenwood	Canada	Writers	52.3	3.1
#66	—	Luc Plamondon	Canada	Writers	52.2	2.9
#67	—	Ennis Esmer	Canada	Writers	52.2	0.0
#68	—	RM Rohinton Mistry	Canada	Writers	52.1	0.0
#69	—	Jason Jones	Canada	Writers	52.1	7.6
#70	—	Robert Charles Wilson	Canada	Writers	52.1	0.9
#71	—	Irving Layton	Canada	Writers	51.9	13.4
#72	—	Antonine Maillet	Canada	Writers	51.9	0.0
#73	—	Sonja Lang	Canada	Writers	51.9	2.9
#74	—	Polly Shannon	Canada	Writers	51.8	16.0
#75	—	KD Karen Dianne Baldwin	Canada	Writers	51.8	3.1
#76	—	Mavis Gallant	Canada	Writers	51.8	10.0
#77	—	Nalo Hopkinson	Canada	Writers	51.7	15.0
#78	—	Margaret MacMillan	Canada	Writers	51.6	0.0
#79	—	Natalie Zemon Davis	Canada	Writers	51.6	0.0
#80	—	Prvoslav Vujcic	Canada	Writers	51.6	9.3
#81	—	Nellie McClung	Canada	Writers	51.5	1.4
#82	—	R. Scott Bakker	Canada	Writers	51.5	2.1
#83	—	Amal El-Mohtar	Canada	Writers	51.5	2.3
#84	—	John R. Saul	Canada	Writers	51.5	4.0
#85	—	Karim Rashid	Canada	Writers	51.4	3.1
#86	—	Marie-Claire Blais	Canada	Writers	51.3	0.0
#87	—	Drew Karpyshyn	Canada	Writers	51.3	1.2
#88	—	Robert Cohen	Canada	Writers	51.1	6.7
#89	—	Emilia McCarthy	Canada	Writers	51.0	3.2
#90	—	Nelly Arcan	Canada	Writers	51.0	0.0
#91	—	Vincent Massey	Canada	Writers	50.8	0.0
#92	—	Fonda Lee	Canada	Writers	50.8	2.6
#93	—	Sue Johanson	Canada	Writers	50.7	6.5
#94	—	Emily Murphy	Canada	Writers	50.6	1.3
#95	—	Moishe Postone	Canada	Writers	50.6	9.1
#96	—	W. P. Kinsella	Canada	Writers	50.6	4.0
#97	—	Don McKellar	Canada	Writers	50.5	0.0
#98	—	Jeff Lemire	Canada	Writers	50.5	1.8
#99	—	Robert C. Cooper	Canada	Writers	50.5	1.2
#100	—	Sheila Heti	Canada	Writers	50.4	4.4