Criminals
- Angélique, Marie-Joseph (1710–1734) – executed for setting the city of Montreal on fire
- Aziga, Johnson (born 1956) – first person to be charged with first-degree murder in Canada for spreading HIV
- Bernardo, Paul (born 1964) – murderer, rapist
- Blass, Richard (1945–1975) – multiple murderer
- Boyd, Edwin Alonzo (1914–2002) – bank robber
- Cossette-Trudel, Jacques (born 1947) – FLQ Terrorist
- Cossette-Trudel, Louise (born 1947) – FLQ Terrorist
- Dick, Evelyn (born 1920) – convicted of infanticide; convicted and acquitted of having murdered her husband
- Fisher, Larry (born 1949) – convicted of the murder for which David Milgaard (see "Wrongfully convicted", below) was originally convicted and subsequently exonerated
- Guité, Charles (born c. 1943) – fraud
- Homolka, Karla (born 1970) – murderer
- Bindy Johal (b.? – 1998), Vancouver gangster
- Lanctôt, Jacques (born 1945) – FLQ Terrorist
- Langlois, Yves (born 1947) FLQ Terrorist
- Latimer, Robert (born 1953) – convicted of second-degree murder
- Legere, Allan (born 1948) – serial killer
- Lépine, Marc (1964–1989) – mass murderer
- Lortie, Bernard (born 1951) – FLQ Terrorist
- Lortie, Denis (unknown) – murderer
- Marks, Grace (1828-unknown) — convicted of murder in 1843
- Mitchell, Patrick (Paddy) – bank robber, leader of The Stopwatch Gang
- Allan McLean (1855–1881), son of Fort Kamloops Chief Trader and leader and eldest of the group known as the Wild McLean Boys, who went on a killing spree with his brothers and accomplice Alex Hare in the British Columbia Interior in 1876
- Olson, Clifford (1940–2011) – serial child murderer
- Perri, Rocco (1887 – c. 1944) – gangster, bootlegger
- Pickton, Robert (born 1949) – serial murderer
- Reyat, Inderjit Singh (unknown) – terrorist
- Riel, Louis (1844–1885) – Executed for treason
- Rivard, Lucien (c. 1915–2002) – narcotics smuggler
- Rose, Paul (born 1943) – FLQ Terrorist
- Ryan, Frank (born 1942) – gangster
- Simard, Francis (born 1946) – FLQ Terrorist
- Slumach (b? – 1891), Katzie man convicted and hung for the murder of Louis Bee, a Kanaka (Hawaiian) half-breed
- Smith, Cathy (born 1948) – convicted of manslaughter in death of John Belushi
- Thatcher, Colin (born 1938) – murderer
- Twitchell, Mark (born 1979) – murderer
- Williams, Russell (born 1963) – former RCAF military pilot and wing commander; convicted murderer, rank and decorations revoked upon conviction.
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Famous quotes containing the word criminals:
“Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law’s “Loyal Opposition,” so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Why inspire in us a horror of our being?... To look upon the universe as a prison cell and all men as criminals about to be executed is the idea of a fanatic.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)