Stu Hart

Stewart Edward Hart, known as Stu Hart, lived from 3 May 1915 to 16 October 2003 and was a Canadian amateur and professional wrestler, booker, promoter and coach. Born to an impoverished Saskatchewan family, he won many national amateur championships in the 1930s and early 1940s, began wrestling for show in 1943 while serving in the Royal Canadian Navy, and debuted professionally in the New York territory in 1946. He founded Stampede Wrestling, based in Calgary, Alberta, and taught many wrestlers at its school, The Dungeon, in the Hart House. He is the patriarch of the Hart wrestling family and the father of Bret and Owen Hart. He was a member of the inaugural Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame class in 1996, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2010, and was named a Member of the Order of Canada for his charity work.