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Top 100 Writers in Canada

The most publicly visible writers in Canada.

Most famous living

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

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Brian Tracy	Canada	Writers	76.7	2.4
#2	new	Robin Sharma	Canada	Writers	73.0	0.0
#3	new	Charlie Angus	Canada	Writers	70.3	15.0
#4	new	Margaret Atwood	Canada	Writers	69.6	1.0
#5	new	XJ Xiran Jay Zhao	Canada	Writers	68.3	0.0
#6	new	JM Justine Musk	Canada	Writers	64.5	10.0
#7	new	Severn Cullis-Suzuki	Canada	Writers	64.2	10.0
#8	new	MA Matt Austin	Canada	Writers	63.4	10.5
#9	new	DG Dan Gibson	Canada	Writers	61.7	0.5
#10	new	Ryan North	Canada	Writers	60.8	10.6
#11	new	Naomi Klein	Canada	Writers	60.7	6.5
#12	new	Elle Kennedy	Canada	Writers	59.5	2.5
#13	new	Yann Martel	Canada	Writers	59.4	10.0
#14	new	Phan Thị Kim Phúc	Canada	Writers	58.8	0.7
#15	new	Paul Haggis	Canada	Writers	57.8	3.3
#16	new	Michael Ondaatje	Canada	Writers	57.0	3.4
#17	new	Evan Goldberg	Canada	Writers	57.0	0.0
#18	new	Nathan Fielder	Canada	Writers	56.4	2.0
#19	new	Margaret Trudeau	Canada	Writers	56.0	7.7
#20	new	Roméo Dallaire	Canada	Writers	55.9	1.9
#21	new	CF Carley Fortune	Canada	Writers	55.2	25.0
#22	new	Rupi Kaur	Canada	Writers	55.0	0.0
#23	new	David Shore	Canada	Writers	54.9	0.0
#24	new	Steven Erikson	Canada	Writers	54.9	0.0
#25	new	Lisa Jakub	Canada	Writers	54.8	0.0
#26	new	Louise Penny	Canada	Writers	54.7	0.0
#27	new	Anne Carson	Canada	Writers	54.6	0.0
#28	new	Rachel Reid	Canada	Writers	54.4	0.0
#29	new	Emma Donoghue	Canada	Writers	54.1	0.2
#30	new	Douglas Coupland	Canada	Writers	54.0	0.1
#31	new	Pattie Mallette	Canada	Writers	53.9	1.1
#32	new	Guy Gavriel Kay	Canada	Writers	53.7	1.7
#33	new	Cliff Thorburn	Canada	Writers	53.5	2.5
#34	new	Tessa Virtue	Canada	Writers	53.4	0.0
#35	new	Miriam Toews	Canada	Writers	53.3	28.3
#36	new	Gilles Vigneault	Canada	Writers	53.3	16.2
#37	new	Graham Yost	Canada	Writers	53.2	5.7
#38	new	Deborah Ellis	Canada	Writers	53.2	10.0
#39	new	Emily St. John Mandel	Canada	Writers	53.1	0.0
#40	new	Aki Shimazaki	Canada	Writers	52.6	8.8
#41	new	Robert J. Sawyer	Canada	Writers	52.6	0.0
#42	new	Jo Walton	Canada	Writers	52.6	0.0
#43	new	Scott Moir	Canada	Writers	52.5	0.0
#44	new	Ed Greenwood	Canada	Writers	52.3	3.1
#45	new	RM Rohinton Mistry	Canada	Writers	52.1	0.0
#46	new	Robert Charles Wilson	Canada	Writers	52.1	0.9
#47	new	CD Charles de Lint	Canada	Writers	52.0	5.7
#48	new	Sonja Lang	Canada	Writers	51.9	2.9
#49	new	Polly Shannon	Canada	Writers	51.8	16.0
#50	new	KD Karen Dianne Baldwin	Canada	Writers	51.8	3.1
#51	new	Nalo Hopkinson	Canada	Writers	51.7	15.0
#52	new	Geneviève Pettersen	Canada	Writers	51.7	25.0
#53	new	Maggie Kang	Canada	Writers	51.7	0.0
#54	new	Margaret MacMillan	Canada	Writers	51.6	0.0
#55	new	Prvoslav Vujcic	Canada	Writers	51.6	9.3
#56	new	Andrea Werhun	Canada	Writers	51.5	10.0
#57	new	R. Scott Bakker	Canada	Writers	51.5	2.1
#58	new	Amal El-Mohtar	Canada	Writers	51.5	2.3
#59	new	John R. Saul	Canada	Writers	51.5	4.0
#60	new	Karim Rashid	Canada	Writers	51.4	3.1
#61	new	Drew Karpyshyn	Canada	Writers	51.3	1.2
#62	new	Robert Cohen	Canada	Writers	51.1	6.7
#63	new	Emilia McCarthy	Canada	Writers	51.0	3.2
#64	new	Mariko Tamaki	Canada	Writers	50.9	2.9
#65	new	Shari Lapena	Canada	Writers	50.9	1.7

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