Ted Lipman – diplomat, ambassador to North Korea, and South Korea Tom Nevakshonoff – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba Reynold Rapp – Member of the House of Commons of Canada John Tory – mayor of Toronto Peter Vasilevich Verigin – Doukhobor leader Pyotr Verzilov – activist Roman Baber – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Science Gregory Chamitoff – NASA astronaut and engineer Michel Chossudovsky – writer and professor of economics at the University of Ottawa Andrew Donskov – professor of modern languages at the University of Ottawa; world-renowned Leo Tolstoy expert Israel Halperin – mathematician Martin Kamen – physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb); discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 Harry Medovy – pediatrician and academic, Order of Canada Pierre Milman – mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Sergei Plekhanov – Professor of Political Science at York University; former deputy director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Russia Louis Slotin – physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb) George Volkoff, OC, MBE, FRSC – physicist who helped discover the existence of neutron stars Leonid Ivanovich Strakhovsky - professor, pioneered Slavic studies at the University of Toronto Sports Nik Antropov – hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) and the KHL Ivan Babikov – Olympic cross-country skier Artur Beterbiev – professional boxer Patricia Bezzoubenko – rhythmic gymnast Boris Blumin – chess grandmaster Mark Bluvshtein – chess grandmaster Debbie Brill – high-jumper Édouard Carpentier – professional wrestler Joshua Ho-Sang – hockey player with the OHL Ron Cherkas – football Mike Chernoff – ice hockey Rob Chernoff – swimmer Tim Cheveldae – ice hockey Kevin Cheveldayoff – ice hockey Yelena Davydova – gymnastics Shawn Horcoff – ice hockey Igor Ivanov – chess grandmaster Pete Knight – rodeo bronc rider Lioudmila Kortchaguina – marathon runner Jon-Lee Kootnekoff – basketball Crazy Leo – rally driver Andrei Markov – NHL hockey player Olga Ovtchinnikova – Olympic fencer Andrei Rogozine – world champion figure skater Mikhail "Misha" Goikhberg – racing driver Bobbie Rosenfeld – Olympic gold medalist Pete Savenkoff – "Iron Man of Fastball" Denis Shapovalov – tennis player Igor Tikhomirov – Olympic champion in fencing Marina Zoueva – ice dancing coach and choreographer See also European Canadians Polish Canadians Ukrainian Canadians References External links Simon Fraser University Digitized Newspapers website – digitized issues of Vestnik (Herald) newspaper, 1941–1993 Richard A.