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Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata (March 3, 1907 – May 9, 1952), known professionally as Canada Lee, was an American professional boxer and actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. After careers as a jockey , boxer and musician, he became an actor in the Federal Theatre Project , including the 1936 production of Macbeth adapted and ...
Lee, billed as Canada Lee Jr at age 25, played a student at Tuskegee Institute in an April 1952 episode of American Inventory. [2] His father starred in the episode as George Washington Carver. Lee made his first film appearance in Human Desire (1954). Lee played a heroin dealer, the central role in the Obie Award-winning play The Connection.
Susur Lee (Chinese: 李國緯; born December 1958) [1] is a Canadian celebrity chef based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is known for being the lead chef on Iron Chef Canada , for his four restaurants, and more recently, for his short-form cooking content on YouTube and TikTok .
Leonard G. Lee CM (July 17, 1938 – July 7, 2016) was a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools and Canica Design. Lee was born in 1938 in Wadena, Sask., and grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water.
Geddy Lee Weinrib (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ d i /; born Gary Lee Weinrib, July 29, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the rock group Rush. [4] Lee joined the band in September 1968 at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson , replacing original bassist and frontman Jeff Jones .
John Alan Lee (24 August 1933 – 5 December 2013) was a Canadian writer, academic and political activist, best known as an early advocate for LGBT rights in Canada, [1] for his academic research into sociological and psychological aspects of love and sexuality, and for his later-life advocacy of assisted suicide and the right to die.
Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), [2] known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Primarily performing rockabilly , pop, country and Christmas music , she achieved her first Billboard hit aged 12 in 1957 and was given the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite".
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