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Kay Livingstone

Kathleen (Kay) Livingstone (née Jenkins), organizer and activist, broadcaster, actor (born 13 October 1919 in London, ON; died 25 July 1975). Kay Livingstone founded the Canadian Negro Women’s Association in 1951 and organized the first National Congress of Black Women in 1973. An established radio broadcaster and actor, Livingstone also devoted a great deal of her life and energy to social activism and organizing. Her tireless work to encourage a national discussion around the position of racialized people in society, particularly Black women, led Livingstone to coin the term visible minority in 1975.
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Kaye Dimock Pottie

Kaye Dimock (Frances) Pottie (b King). Soprano, educator, b Avonport, near Kentville, NS, 3 Aug 1937; B MUS (Acadia) 1964, M MUS (Western Ontario) 1980.
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Kaytranada

Louis Kevin Celestin (a.k.a. Kaytranada), DJ, record producer (born 25 August 1992 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti). Kaytranada is a Haitian-born, Montreal-raised DJ and record producer. His electronic dance music draws on a wide variety of musical styles — including Afrobeat, hip-hop, funk, soul and R&B — and has been both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. Kaytranada has won three Juno Awards, two Grammy Awards and the 2016 Polaris Music Prize, among other honours. He also performs with his brother Louis-Philippe (a.k.a. Lou Phelps) as the hip-hop duo The Celestics.
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Kazuo Nakamura

Kazuo Nakamura, painter (born 13 October 1926 in Vancouver, BC; died 9 April 2002 in Toronto, ON).
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k.d. lang

k.d. (Kathryn Dawn) lang. Singer, songwriter, born Edmonton 2 Nov 1961; hon LLD (Alberta) 2008.
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k.d. lang (Profile)

This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 6, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
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Keanu Reeves

Keanu Charles Reeves, actor, producer, director, musician (born 2 September 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon). Keanu Reeves is one of the most recognizable film actors in the world. After early work in Toronto with the CBC and the NFB, he moved to Los Angeles and made a meteoric rise to stardom in such films as Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), Point Break (1991) and My Own Private Idaho (1991). He is perhaps best known for action-adventure movies such as Speed (1994), the John Wick franchise and the four Matrix movies. He has been honoured with a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canada’s Walk of Fame.
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Minna Keene

Minna Keene, née Bergman, photographer (born 5 April 1861 in Arolsen, Germany; died November 1943 in Oakville, ON). A self-taught photographer, Keene was a member of the London Salon, a society devoted to the promotion of pictorial photography. In 1908, she became the first woman to be admitted as a fellow to the Royal Photographic Society. She immigrated to Canada just before the First World War.
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Keith Bissell

Keith (Warren) Bissell. Composer, educator, conductor, b Meaford, near Owen Sound, Ont, 12 Feb 1912, d Newmarket, near Toronto, 9 May 1992; B MUS (Toronto) 1942. While teaching 1934-48 in Toronto schools he studied composition at the University of Toronto with Leo Smith.
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Keith James Laidler

Keith James Laidler, FRSC, chemist, professor (born 3 January 1916 in Liverpool, England; died 26 August 2003 in Ottawa, ON). After studying at Oxford and Princeton and holding appointments at the National Research Council and the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, he joined University of Ottawa in 1955 and remained there until his retirement in 1981. (See also Chemistry.)
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Keith Leon Moore

Keith Leon Moore, anatomist (born 5 October 1925 in Brantford, ON; died 25 November 2019). Over the course of his career, Moore published numerous anatomy textbooks. He was widely recognized for his writing and teaching.
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Keith MacMillan

Keith (Campbell) MacMillan. Administrator, producer, writer, editor, b Toronto 23 Sep 1920, d there 20 May 1991; BA (Toronto) 1949, MA (Toronto) 1951.
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Keith Spicer

Keith Spicer, journalist, broadcaster, public servant (born 6 March 1934 in Toronto, ON; died 24 August 2023 in Ottawa, ON). Keith Spicer was Canada’s first commissioner of official languages (1970–77). He also worked as a journalist for the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun and was editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen (1985–89). He then served as chair of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) from 1989 to 1996, except for 1990–91, when he chaired the Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978.
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Kelly-Marie Murphy

Kelly-Marie Murphy. Composer, b Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy 4 Sep 1964; B Mus (Calgary) 1987, M Mus (Calgary) 1989, PhD (Leeds) 1994. Kelly-Marie Murphy was born in Italy to Canadian parents but grew up on military bases in Canada.
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Kelly Russell

Kelly Russell. Folk instrumentalist and collector, record producer, b St John's, Nfld, 30 Jun 1956. He studied piano with his mother, Dora Russell, and at 18 taught himself to play the fiddle, subsequently taking up other folk instruments (bouzouki, concertina, tin whistle, dulcimer, Celtic harp.
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