Long before baseball's Ichiro moved to the northwest coast of the United States of America, another Suzuki had made a name for himself higher up, across the border in British Columbia, Canada. Dr. David Suzuki, environmentalist, scientist, TV producer and writer, was voted, in a nationwide poll in 2004, the No. 5 "Greatest Canadian" of all time.
Sponsored by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with over 1.2 million votes cast for 10 Canadians, Suzuki took first place among living Canadians.
Suzuki admits that, in his ancestral homeland of Japan, it is his daughter Severn who is far better known — as the little girl who spoke at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. She is now a recognized environmentalist in her own right.