Notable Canadian Shi'a Muslims
- Reza Hosseini Nassab - Grand Ayatollah
- Amir Attaran - Canadian lawyer, immunologist, and law professor
- Leyla Milani - Canadian model, actress, TV host and fashion designer
- Samantha Tajik - Miss Universe Canada 2008
- Anisa Mehdi - an Emmy Award winning film director and journalist
- Hassan Khosrowshahi - founder of Canadian electronics retailer, Future Shop
- Amir Khadir - politician in the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA), Canada
- Maziar Bahari - Canadian journalist, film maker and human rights activist
- Farid Haerinejad - documentary maker and blogger
- Jian Ghomeshi - Canadian broadcaster, writer, musician and producer
- Mobina Jaffer - Canadian Senator representing British Columbia
- Rahim Jaffer - former Canadian politician and a former Member of Parliament
- Rizwan Manji - notable for his role as Rajiv in the now cancelled NBC Universal TV series Outsourced
- Farah Nasser - Canadian journalist with CablePulse24
- Naheed Nenshi - current mayor of Calgary, Alberta
- Taleeb Noormohamed - President & CEO of Serebra
- Yasmin Ratansi - Canadian politician and a Member of Parliament
- Omar Sachedina - Canadian television journalist, currently a news anchor and reporter for the CTV Television Network.
- Aliza Vellani - Canadian television actress, who played the role of Layla Siddiqui in Little Mosque on the Prairie
- Ali Velshi - Canadian-American television journalist best known for his work on CNN
- Alykhan Velshi - lawyer, policy analyst, and ministerial assistant
- Murad Velshi - former politician in Ontario, Canada.
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