List of English Canadians

The number of Canadians who are of English descent is largely unknowable given the propensity of many Canadians to use the term "English Canadians" or "English-Canadians" to mean anglophone Canadians .

Notable English immigrants to Canada

• Roger Abbott, comedian – born in Birkenhead
• Steve Armitage, sports announcer – born in Buckinghamshire
• Michael Bonacini, celebrity chef, restaurant owner, born in Wales
• Patrick Brown, broadcast journalist
• Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada
• Kim Cattrall, actress
• Garry Chalk, actor and voice actor
• Michael Cowpland, entrepreneur and businessman
• Alfred Gardyne de Chastelain, father of Canadian general John de Chastelain
• Richie Hawtin, Electronic musician and disc jockey
• David Hewlett, actor famous for his role as Dr. Rodney McKay in Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe and who was born in Redhill, Surrey, England but later raised in Canada at the age of four after emigrating there with his family.
• Dick Howard, soccer commentator – raised in Birkenhead
• Lennox Lewis, former professional boxer
• Peter Mansbridge, broadcast journalist and television news anchor
• Julian Richings, character actor
• Dave Ridgway, former CFL placekicker
• Ron Searle, 4th mayor of Mississauga
• Nina Tangri, politician
• Amanda Tapping, actress
• Claire Trevena, politician
• John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
• Chris Wiggins, actor
• Maurice Dean Wint, actor
• Robin Wood, film critic and educator
• Frank Yallop, former soccer player and current team manager – raised in Watford and Vancouver
• Alan Young, actor, comedian, radio host and television host

Notable Canadians of English descent

• Martin Short, stand-up comedian
• Bryan Adams, popular music star performer
• Margaret Atwood, fiction writer
• Oswald Avery, medical researcher – born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to English immigrant family.
• Earl W. Bascom, artist, sculptor, inventor, actor, Hall of Fame inductee, "Father of Modern Rodeo", grandson of English immigrant
• R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada – of New England Planter descent; Bennett family had migrated to Connecticut in the 17th century.
• Billy Bishop, flying ace
• Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada – of New England Planter descent; paternal ancestor Richard Borden settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1638.
• John Candy, actor
• John Carling, son of English migrant to Upper Canada and brewery founder Thomas Carling, politician and along with his brother ran brewery.
• Hayden Christensen, actor – portrayed the teen-aged and adult Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy
• Adam "Edge" Copeland, actor and retired professional wrestler
• Catherine Disher, actress and comedian
• Paul Dobson, voice actor
• David Edgar, soccer player – father is former pro Eddie Edgar
• Owen Hargreaves, soccer player – English mother and Welsh father
• Stephen Harper, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
• Joseph Howe, prominent Nova Scotia leader and father of Confederation – son of a United Empire Loyalist, the Howe family were descendant of Puritan migrants.
• Michael Ironside, Canadian actor of English, Scottish and Irish descent
• Carly Rae Jepsen, singer-songwriter and actress
• Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress, born there to English and Chinese parentage
• Jack Layton, New Democratic Party leader – Laytons immigrated to Canada
• Shawn Mendes, singer-songwriter – English mother
• Mike Myers, actor and comedian – parents immigrated to Canada from the Liverpool area
• Steve Nash, star basketball player – born to British expatriates in South Africa, raised along with soccer player brother Martin in Victoria, British Columbia.
• Christopher Plummer, Academy Award-winning actor
• Keanu Reeves, film actor
• Glenn Stetson, singer and member of vocal group The Diamonds – family origins are in Devon
• John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada
• Cobie Smulders Canadian actress with English descent