Ryan Gosling

Actor — The Notebook, La La Land, Barbie

Born

1980

Birthplace

LONDON, ONTARIO

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

5.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

LONDON, ONTARIO

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Ontario

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

Credits filed north of the 49th

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

He was a classmate of Justin Timberlake on The Mickey Mouse Club but he's the one who stayed Canadian.

The verdict

Born in London, Ontario, raised in Cornwall — Ryan Gosling is the most aggressively, unapologetically Canadian person to ever play a Ken doll. Studied at Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington, then went full Canadian-abroad while never losing the citizenship. All five points. Give'r.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable