Dwayne Provo is a Canadian athlete, school administrator, and politician. Provo was born in North Preston, Nova Scotia (one of Canada's largest Black communities) and attended university at St. Mary's University where he played Canadian football and was drafted in 1995 by the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He went on to play profressional football in the Canadian Football League for 8 years (as well as a brief stint in the National Football League). Since retiring from football he has taken further university studies and worked as a school administrator. In the 2006 Nova Scotia election he ran as the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia candidate for the riding of Preston, but finished lost to Liberal Keith Colwell. In 2009 he ran again but placed third behind Colwell and and New Democrat Janet Sutcliffe. He is a cousin to boxer Kirk Johnson and hockey player Evander Kane.