Canadian accountants

Samuel Bickerton Harman (20 December 1819 – 26 March 1892) was a Canadian lawyer, accountant, politician, civil servant, and Mayor of Toronto from 1869-1870.

Walter Lockhart Gordon PC CC CBE (January 27, 1906 – March 21, 1987) was a Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer.

Richard (Dick) Francis Haskayne, OC AOE (born December 18, 1934) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.

Sheila Fraser (born September 16, 1950) served as Auditor General of Canada from 2001 to 2011.

Yasmin Ratansi (born January 4, 1951) is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Don Valley East in the Canadian House of Commons from 2004 to 2011, and again from 2015.

Michael Ferguson was appointed Auditor General of Canada, effective November 28, 2011.

Michael Harold Rayner (November 18, 1943 – March 30, 2004) was acting Auditor General of Canada from 1980 to 1981.

Michael Anthony "Mike" Del Grande (born c. 1954) is a Canadian politician.

Sergio Marchionne (Italian: [ˈsɛrdʒo marˈkjɔnne]; born June 17, 1952) is an Italian-Canadian executive who is currently the CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, the Chairman of CNH Industrial and the CEO of Ferrari.

Matthew Santoro (born July 16, 1985) is a Canadian YouTube personality and former accountant.

Brian Bigger is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Greater Sudbury, Ontario in the city's 2014 municipal election.

Emmanuel Dubourg (born December 26, 1958) is a Quebec politician, chartered accountant and teacher.

Jean-Maurice Simard (June 21, 1931 – June 16, 2001) was a Canadian Chartered Accountant and politician remembered as a strong promoter of French language rights and defender of Canadian bilingualism.

James Laurence "Jim" Balsillie (born February 3, 1961) is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and former co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM, 'BlackBerry').

Joseph-Armand Landry (14 December 1918 – 23 March 1985) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

(For the British newsreader, see Alastair Stewart.) Alistair McLeod Stewart (2 October 1905 - 3 April 1970) was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Brandt Channing Louie (born 5 July 1943) OBC (Chinese: 雷震瀛; pinyin: Léi Zhènyíng) is a Canadian accountant and businessman.

Bruce Crozier (June 26, 1938 – June 3, 2011) was a politician in Ontario, Canada.

John L. Noseworthy is a Canadian accountant and politician who served as Auditor General of Newfoundland and Labrador from April 25, 2002, till July 30, 2011.

John Edward Wiersema was the interim Auditor General of Canada.

Patrick J. C. Ryan (born September 28, 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler originally from Edmonton, Alberta.

Patrick Wong (Chinese: 黃耀華; born c. 1949) is a former politician in British Columbia, Canada.

Paul McGill Beeston, CM (born June 20, 1945) is a Canadian former professional baseball executive.

Carl Zehr (born c. 1945) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Merridee Bujaki is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Ottawa located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Jay Firestone (born 13 October 1956) is a Gemini award-winning film and television producer.

(For other people named John Gilbert, see John Gilbert (disambiguation).) John William Gilbert, Baron Gilbert PC (5 April 1927 – 2 June 2013) was a British Labour politician.

Bill Borger Jr. (born December 15, 1974) is a Calgary-based businessman, adventurer, and Canadian Chartered Accountant.

William Hillary (Bill) Clarke (born 5 July 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

L. Denis Desautels, OC (born May 14, 1943) is a Canadian accountant, corporate director, and former Auditor General of Canada.

Leonard Tretheway Stick (7 February 1892 - 7 December 1979) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Norman M. Betts (born April 1, 1954 in Doaktown, New Brunswick) is a Chartered Accountant, university professor, and former provincial politician.

Alexandre Duplessis (born 1970) is a Canadian politician.

Cheryl S. McWatters is professor and Father Edgar Thivierge Chair in Business History at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa.

Alfonso Gagliano, PC (born January 25, 1942) is a Canadian accountant and a former Liberal Party politician.

Richard William Duncan "Dick" Pound, CC OQ QC (born March 22, 1942) is a Canadian lawyer and author, and a former competitive swimmer.

Francis Badgley (26 March 1767 – 7 October 1841) was a Canadian merchant, politician, and newspaper editor.

Frederick John Mitchell (December 4, 1893 – December 25, 1979) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Peter G. Christie (born March 9, 1941) is a former accountant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Philip S. Orsino, OC (born June 21, 1954) is a Canadian businessman.

Zarin Mehta (born October 28, 1938 in Bombay) is the former president and executive director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (2000-2012).

Kenneth Pentin "Le Clou" Farmer, CM (July 26, 1912 – January 12, 2005) was a Canadian Chartered Accountant, a Winter Olympics silver medal winner in ice hockey, and a president of the Canadian Olympic Association (now known as the Canadian Olympic Committee).

Armand Cloutier (31 December 1901 – 14 February 1982) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Auguste Maltais (16 January 1916 – 7 May 1988) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Rick Thorpe is a Canadian politician.

Rodney J. Anderson BA (born 15 April 1935) is a Canadian poet, musician and Chartered Accountant.

Archibald Roy Megarry, OC (born February 10, 1937) is a Canadian businessman.

Howard Irwin Ross (December 10, 1907 – September 18, 1974) was a Canadian accountant, academic administrator, and Chancellor of McGill University.

Christian Dubé (born 3 October 1956) was a Canadian politician.

Fernand-E. Leblanc (1 July 1917 – 8 January 1996) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada and then the Senate of Canada.

Frank Zampino is a Montreal politician and a chartered accountant.

François Legault (pronounced: [fʁɑ̃swa ləɡo]; born May 26, 1957) is a politician in Quebec, Canada and leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec party since its foundation in 2011.

Hartland de Montarville Molson, OC OBE OQ (May 29, 1907 – September 28, 2002) was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, Canadian Senator and a member of the prominent Molson family of brewers.

Louis R. Desmarais (born 16 February 1923 in Sudbury, Ontario) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Léo-Paul Lauzon (born November 27, 1946) is an author, researcher, accountant, professor, and social activist in Quebec.

Massimo Pacetti (born August 22, 1962) is a Canadian politician from Quebec, Canada.

Merrill Edwin Barrington (February 25, 1920 – December 18, 1965) was a Canadian politician, accountant and insurance broker.

Navdeep Singh Bains (Punjabi: ਨਵਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬੈਂਸ), PC MP (born June 16, 1977) is an Indian Canadian politician who is the current Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.

Romuald Rodrigue (born 5 June 1929 at Saint-Georges, Quebec) was a Ralliement créditiste and Social Credit party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Colin Ferrie Strang (June 25, 1850 – December 10, 1900) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and an alderman on Edmonton Town Council.

Earl Herbert Orser, CM (July 5, 1928 – December 26, 2004) was a Canadian businessman.

Elizabeth (Beth) Marshall QC (born September 7, 1951) is a Canadian politician and member of the Senate.

Mario G. Racco (born c. 1955) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.

Tracy Fleury (born June 13, 1986 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian curler, who currently skips her own team out of the Idylwylde Golf and Country Club in Sudbury, Ontario.

Alan DeSousa (born 1959) is a city councillor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Alan Gray Martin (born 12 December 1930) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Arvinder Singh Bubber is the first chancellor of Kwantlen Polytechnic University located in the South Fraser region of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.

David Daniel Stupich (5 December 1921 – 8 February 2006) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for most years from the 1960s to the 1980s, and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993.

Harinder Jeet Singh Takhar (born c. 1951) is a politician in Ontario, Canada.

Ida Chong (Chinese: 張杏芳; pinyin: Zhāng Xìngfāng; born 1956 or 1957) was previously British Columbia's Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development and was Minister Responsible for the Asia-Pacific Initiative as well as Minister of Technology, Trade, and Economic Development; Minister of Community Services; and Minister Responsible for Women's and Senior's Services (June 2005 - June 2008); Minister of Advanced Education (December 2004 to June 2005); and Minister of State for Women's and Senior's Services (January - December 2004).

Augustus Irvine Barrow (February 15, 1913 – March 17, 2005) was a Canadian chartered accountant and Senator.

J. Spencer Lanthier, CM (born December 17, 1940) is a chartered accountant and corporate director.