This is a list of notable people who are from Toronto, Ontario, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that city.
Abdominal – hip hop musician
Patrick J. Adams – actor (Suits)
Olunike Adeliyi – actress (Flashpoint)
Robbie Amell – actor
Stephen Amell – actor (Arrow)
Enza Anderson – writer, transgender rights activist
Gordon Stewart Anderson – author
John Andrews – architect
Mark Andrews – swimmer
Lou Angotti – former NHL player
Steve Anthony – television host
Anvil – heavy metal band
Syl Apps – former NHL player
Arnej – trance music producer and DJ
Will Arnett – actor
Margaret Atwood – Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist
Ayria – musician
Yank Azman – actor
Jay Bahadur – journalist and author, known for his reporting on piracy in Somalia
Frederick Banting – medical scientist and doctor, co-discoverer of insulin, 1923 Nobel Laureate
Thomas J. Bata – businessman
Robert Bateman – painter
Elise Bauman – actress
Isabel Bayrakdarian – opera singer
Samantha Bee – actress and comedian
Jeanne Beker – fashion television personality and reporter
John Wilson Bengough – cartoonist
Anthony Bennett – NBA player
Christine Bentley – CTV news anchor
Nikki Benz – pornographic film actress
Pierre Berton – author, historian, journalist and TV personality
Charles Best – medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin
Sim Bhullar – professional basketball player
Alfred J. Billes – co-founder of Canadian Tire
J. William Billes – co-founder of Canadian Tire
Billy Talent – rock band
The Birthday Massacre – rock band
Conrad Black – media mogul
Jully Black – R&B singer
Rachel Blanchard – actress
Lloyd Bochner – actor (Dynasty)
Hédi Bouraoui – poet, novelist and academic
John McEntee Bowman – founding president of Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corp.
Liona Boyd – classical guitarist, composer, songwriter and singer
Shary Boyle – artist
Diana Braithwaite – electric blues singer, songwriter and screenwriter
Cindy Breakspeare – Miss World 1976 and mother of Grammy-winning reggae musician Damian Marley
Christopher Britton – actor, stage actor, and voice actor
Broken Social Scene – band, indie rock
Daniel Brooks – theatre director, actor and playwright
Chester Brown – alternative cartoonist and Libertarian Party of Canada candidate
Clifton Brown – kickboxer
Billy Bryans – musician
Rob Burgess – tech CEO
Marty Burke – former NHL player
Theresa Burke – journalist
Martha Burns – actress
Jackie Burroughs – actress
Jim Butterfield – computer programmer
Barry Callaghan – historian
Morley Callaghan – journalist, writer
June Callwood – social activist, journalist
Bill Cameron – journalist
Christian Campbell – actor
Neve Campbell – actress (Party of Five, Scream series)
Nicholas Campbell – actor (Da Vinci's Inquest)
Cancer Bats – punk band
John Candy – comic actor
Jim Carrey – actor and comedian
Shelley Carroll – municipal politician
Anson Carter – professional hockey player
Gino Cavallini – former NHL player
Paul Cavallini – former NHL player
Christopher Chapman – film director/writer/cinematographer
Hayden Christensen – actor
Choclair – hip hop musician
Olivia Chow – New Democratic Party Member of Parliament, former Toronto city councillor
George Chuvalo – boxer
Jerry Ciccoritti – film/TV/theatre director
William Robinson Clark – theologian, Fellow and President of the Royal Society of Canada.
Austin Clarke – writer
Adrienne Clarkson – journalist, broadcaster and former Governor-General of Canada
David Clarkson – NHL player
Paul Clatney – Canadian football player
Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn – winner of the Victoria Cross
Matt Cohen – writer
Dusty Cohl – filmmaker, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival and Canada's Walk of Fame
Carlo Colaiacovo – NHL player
Enrico Colantoni – actor (Veronica Mars, Flashpoint)
John Colicos – actor
James Collip – scientist
Alex Colville – painter
Brian Conacher – former NHL player
Charlie Conacher – former NHL player
Pete Conacher – former NHL player
Roy Conacher – former NHL player
The Constantines – band
Jesse Cook – Juno Award winning guitarist
Stephen Cook – computer scientist
Jack Kent Cooke – industrialist
Adam Copeland – Retired WWE professional wrestler
Douglas Coupland – writer, artist
Cowboy Junkies – musicians
Christina Cox – actress, stuntwoman
Deborah Cox – singer
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter – the world's best known geometer
Laura Creavalle – Guyanese-born Canadian/American professional bodybuilder
Rob Crifo – Canadian football player
Jonathan Crombie – actor
Neil Crone – actor, comedian
David Cronenberg – film director
Jim Cuddy – musician, lead singer of Blue Rodeo
Henry Czerny – actor
D-Pryde – singer/rapper
Da Grassroots – hip hop group
Cynthia Dale – actress
Jennifer Dale – actress
Leslie Dan – businessman
Mychael Danna – Academy Award-winning film composer (Life of Pi)
Matthew de Lacey Davidson – pianist, composer, poet
Robertson Davies – writer
Fred Davis – radio/TV broadcaster (Front Page Challenge)
Janet Davis – municipal politician
William B. Davis – actor (The X Files)
Clifton Dawson – NFL player
deadmau5 – electronic music producer and DJ
Death from Above 1979 – band, indie rock
Michael DeForge – comics artist and illustrator
Simone Denny – singer
Sergio Di Zio – actor (Flashpoint)
Chris Diamantopoulos – actor and comedian
Jack Diamond – architect
Diamond Rings – music artist
Wayne Dillon – former NHL player
Cheri DiNovo – politician
DL Incognito – hip hop musician
Do Make Say Think – post-rock band
Nina Dobrev – actress
Fefe Dobson – singer
Cory Doctorow – blogger, journalist and science fiction author
Fateh Doe – rapper, singer, and lyricist
Andy Donato – editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Sun
The Dope Poet Society
Max Douglas a.k.a. Salgood Sam – comic artist, author, and weblog|blogger
John Drainie – actor
Drake – rapper
Kris Draper – NHL
Dream Warriors – hip hop group
Rob Ducey – MLB player
Rick Dudley – former NHL player
Alexander Roberts Dunn – winner of the Victoria Cross
Kyle Bobby Dunn – composer, arranger, performer
George Dunning – animator, director
Steve Durbano – former NHL player
Jayne Eastwood – actress
Timothy Eaton – retail proprietor
Tim Ecclestone – former NHL player
Tom Edur – former NHL player
Gary Edwards – former NHL player
Atom Egoyan – film director
David James Elliott – actor (JAG)
Nneka Elliott – TV news anchor/reporter for CP24
Emma-Lee – singer-songwriter and photographer
Bob Essensa – former NHL player
George Evans – jazz singer, producer, recording artist
Gil Evans – jazz musician
Dylan Everett – actor
Percy Faith – composer
George Faludy – poet
Amir Farmanesh – pollster
Leslie Feist – singer/songwriter
Shane Feldman – speaker, organization founder, "Top 20 Under 20"
Perdita Felicien – hurdler
Merella Fernandez – news reporter
Louis Ferreira – actor
Sharon Fichman – Canadian/Israeli tennis player
Timothy Findley – writer
Melanie Fiona – R&B musician
John Fitzpatrick – track and fielder, football player, engineer and inventor
Joe Flaherty – comic actor
Patrick Flatley – former NHL player
Dave Foley – comedian
Megan Follows – actress (Anne of Green Gables)
Evan Fong – YouTube Personality also called VanossGaming, known for his extensive amount of subscribers and Gaming Videos/Montages
Adam Foote – former NHL player
Doug Ford, Sr. – businessman and politician
Doug Ford, Jr. – politician and businessman
Michael Ford – politician
Rob Ford – 64th Mayor of Toronto
Dwight Foster – former NHL player
Sean Foudy – Canadian football player
Rick Fox – NBA basketball player and actor
Lou Franceschetti – former NHL player
Barbara Frum – journalist, news anchor
Northrop Frye – literary critic, academic
David Furnish – filmmaker and producer, civil partner of Elton John
Sarah Gadon – actress
Ed Gass-Donnelly – film director, screenwriter and producer
Frank Gehry – architect
Natalie Glebova – Miss Universe Canada 2005, Miss Universe 2005
Jack Gelineau – former NHL player
General Idea – art collective
Ghetto Concept – hip hop group
Jian Ghomeshi – radio and TV broadcaster, writer, musician
Graeme Gibson – writer
Sky Gilbert – LGBT writer, actor, drag performer
Paul Gillis – former NHL player
George Clay Ginty – Union Army Brigadier General
Mark Giordano – NHL player captain of Calgary Flames
Ken Girard – former NHL player
Malcolm Gladwell – writer (Tipping Point, Blink!)
Brian Glennie – former NHL player
Fred Glover – former NHL player and coach
Warren Godfrey – former NHL player
Brianna Goldberg – journalist (National Post)
Emma Goldman – political activist
Kat Goldman – singer-songwriter
Glenn Goldup – former NHL player
Larry Goodenough – former NHL player
Allan Gotlieb – ex-Canadian diplomat
Sondra Gotlieb – writer
Glenn Gould – pianist
Katherine Govier – writer
Lawrence Gowan – musician, lead vocalist of the band Styx (1999–present)
Barbara Gowdy – writer, fiction
Dakota Goyo – actor
Arthur Edward Grasett – commander of VIII Corps during the Second World War
Edward Greenspan – lawyer and politician
Manafest – Christian rapper/singer-songwriter
Kathryn Greenwood – actress
John Greyson – filmmaker (Proteus)
Lynne Griffin – actress
Shenae Grimes – actress
Paul Gross – actor, producer, director
Group of Seven – art collective
Peter Gzowski – radio broadcaster (CBC Radio's Morningside) and writer
Ian Hacking – philosopher
Corey Haim – actor
George Hainsworth – former NHL player
Michael Hainsworth – business reporter
Barbara Hamilton – actress
Moshe Hammer – violinist
Rick Hampton – former NHL player
Ned Hanlan – rower
Stephen Harper – 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
Billy Harris (b. 1935) – former NHL player
Billy Harris (b. 1952) – former NHL player
Lawren Harris – Group of Seven artist
Richard Harrison – poet
Don Harron – comedian, actor, director, radio/TV host, author and composer
Leon Hatziioannou – Canadian football player
Dale Hawerchuk – former NHL player
Brent Hawkes – clergyman, gay rights activist
Ronnie Hawkins – rocker
Jeff Healey – musician
Steven Heighton – novelist, poet
Alan Milliken Heisey Sr. – politician, author, publisher
Karl Brooks Heisey – mining engineer and executive
Lawrence Heisey – publisher
Murray Henderson – former NHL player
Sheila Heti – author
Foster Hewitt – sports broadcaster (Hockey Night in Canada)
Dan Hill – singer, songwriter
George Hislop – gay activist
Lionel Hitchman – former NHL player
Joseph Hobson – engineer
Clive Holden – poet, film director and visual artist
Laurie Holden – actress (The Walking Dead)
Mike Hoolboom – filmmaker
Kenny Hotz – actor (Kenny vs Spenny)
Stuart Hughes – actor
Walter Huston – Academy Award-winning actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
William Hutt – actor (Stratford Festival)
Marci Ien – journalist
Michael Ignatieff – federal Liberal leader, academic, journalist
George "Punch" Imlach – former NHL coach and general manager
Robin Ingle – CEO and chairman of the Ingle Group of Companies
Malcolm Ingram – independent film director and podcaster
Gary Inness – former NHL player
Harold Innis – economist and university professor
Irish Rovers – Irish folk group
Michael Ironside – actor
Kenneth E. Iverson – computer scientist
A.Y. Jackson – Group of Seven artist
Harvey "Busher" Jackson – former NHL player
Jane Jacobs – economist, urban theorist and activist
Lisa Jakub – former child actress
Gary Jarrett – former NHL player
Peter Jennings – ABC News anchor
Connor Jessup – actor, short film director
Norman Jewison – film director (Moonstruck)
Harold E. Johns – medical physicist
Ben Johnson – sprinter, stripped of 100m gold medal at 1988 Summer Olympics for doping
Molly Johnson – singer/songwriter
Jamie Johnston – actor
George Jonas – writer, journalist
Cory Joseph – National Basketball Association player, currently playing for the Toronto Raptors
Demetrius Joyette – actor
William Kahan – mathematician and computer scientist
Irving Kaplansky – mathematician
Kardinal Offishall – hip hop musician
Moez Kassam – hedge fund manager, founder of Anson Group
Hadley Kay – actor
Sherry Kean – singer
Trenna Keating – actress
Ben Kerr – busker
The Kids in the Hall – television comedy troupe
Gail Kim – female professional wrestler
William Lyon Mackenzie King – 10th Prime Minister of Canada
Mia Kirshner – actor
Naomi Klein – journalist, author (No Logo, The Shock Doctrine) and social activist
K'naan – hip hop musician
Mike Knuble – former NHL player
Chris Kontos – former NHL player
K-os – hip hop musician
Ted Kotcheff – director
George Kottaras – MLB player with the Boston Red Sox
H. David Kotz – attorney
Anton Kuerti – pianist
Maya Kulenovic – painter
Floyd Kuptana – Inuit artist
Faisal Kutty – lawyer, writer, Muslim activist
Bruce Kuwabara – architect
Nick Kypreos – former NHL player
George Lagogianes – news anchor, reporter and TV personality
Don Lake – actor and writer
Maurice LaMarche – voice actor (Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Tiny Toon Adventures)
Heath Lamberts – theatre actor
Michele Landsberg – journalist, author, public speaker, feminist and social activist
Tory Lanez – rapper
Mel Lastman – 62nd Mayor of Toronto; businessman
Henry Lau – member of Korean boy band Super Junior M, the third official sub-unit of popular Korean boy band Super Junior
Jack Layton – politician, leader of the federal New Democratic Party
Mike Layton – municipal politician, son of Jack Layton
Michael Lazarovitch – actor
Stephen Leacock – writer, humourist
Dennis Lee – children's author, poet
Geddy Lee – musician, lead singer of Rush
Sook-Yin Lee – media personality
Michael Lee-Chin – businessman, investor
Manny Legace – former NHL player
Kristin Lehman – actress
Peter C. Lemon – winner of the Medal of Honor
Len – pop band
E.J. Lennox – architect
Dan Lett – actor
Avi Lewis – documentary filmmaker and radio/TV broadcaster
Dana Lewis – journalist
Glenn Lewis – R&B singer
Ivor Lewis – sculptor
Sharon Lewis – journalist
Stephen Lewis – former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, former politician, humanitarian and academic
Daniel Levy – TV host and actor
Eugene Levy – actor, comedian and writer
Alex Lifeson – musician, guitarist of Rush
Lights – musician
Robert K. Logan – author and academic
Bob Lorimer – former NHL player
Steve Ludzik – former NHL player
James Lumbers – painter
George Seymour Lyon – Olympic Gold Medalist Golf at St. Louis Olympics 1904 and reigning champion for 112 years.
Ann-Marie MacDonald – playwright, novelist, actor and journalist
J.E.H. MacDonald – Group of Seven artist
Norm Macdonald – comic actor (Saturday Night Live)
Daniel MacIvor – playwright, actor and theatre/film director
Steve Mackall – voice actor
William Lyon Mackenzie – first Mayor of Toronto; first President of the Republic of Canada; a leader in the Upper Canada Rebellion
John James Richard Macleod
Maestro – hip-hop musician
Daniel Magder – actor
Christine Magee – spokesperson and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
Arnaud Maggs – artist
Magic! – reggae fusion band
Jamaal Magloire – former NBA player
Kevin Maguire – former NHL player
Victor Malarek – journalist
Giorgio Mammoliti – municipal politician
Howie Mandel – actor, comedian, writer, producer
Peter Mansbridge – CBC News chief correspondent
Jay Manuel – make-up artist/fashion photographer
Lisa Marcos – actress, former model
Simon Marcus – kickboxer
Amanda Marshall – singer-songwriter
Ruth Marshall – actress (Flashpoint)
Martha and the Muffins – musicians
Russell Martin – MLB player
Dennis Maruk – former NHL player
Ron Marzel – lawyer
James Mason – banker, Senator and soldier
Raymond Massey – actor
Vincent Massey – 18th Governor-General of Canada
Walter Massey – actor
Pat Mastroianni – actor (Degrassi Junior High)
Cameron Mathison – actor
Bruce Mau – designer (S,M,L,XL)
James Mavor – economist and social figure
Brad May – former NHL player
Rachel McAdams – actress
Wallace McCain – McCain foods and Maple leaf foods
Sheila McCarthy – actress
Eric McCormack – actor (Will and Grace)
Ernest McCulloch – cellular biologist
Dean McDermott – actor and reality show personality (Tori & Dean: Inn Love)
Bruce McDonald – film director
Kevin McDonald – comedian, actor, member of The Kids in the Hall
Michael McGowan – film director
Don McKellar – actor, screenwriter and film director
Marshall McLuhan – academic and writer (Understanding Media)
Gerry Meehan – former NHL player
Shawn Mendes – musician, singer
Heather Menzies – actress (The Sound of Music)
Metric – indie rock band
Lindsay G Merrithew – Actor, Producer, Fitness Entrepreneur
Lorne Michaels – producer and creator of Saturday Night Live
Michie Mee – hip hop musician
Rick Middleton – former NHL player
Ramona Milano – actress (Due South)
Greg Millen – former NHL player
David Mirvish – theatrical impresario
Ed Mirvish – theatrical impresario, founder of Honest Ed's
Rohinton Mistry – writer
Stacie Mistysyn – actress Degrassi Junior High
Joni Mitchell – musician
Kim Mitchell – musician
Shay Mitchell – actress
Colin Mochrie – actor and improvisational comedian (Whose Line Is It Anyway?)
Geraldine Moodie – photographer
Dora Mavor Moore – founder of Canada's professional theater
Mavor Moore – pioneer of Canadian television
Rick Moranis – actor, comedian, writer, producer
Jeffrey Morgan – writer
Raymond Moriyama – architect
Greg Morris – Canadian football player
Dylan Moscovitch – Olympic medalist pair skater
James Motluk – filmmaker
Farley Mowat – writer
Mr. Attic – hip hop musician
Craig Muni – former NHL player
Peter Munk – founder of Barrick Gold
Robert Munsch – children's author
Mike Murphy – former NHL player
Anne Murray – singer
Mathew Murray – writer, web series creator
Barton Myers – architect
Mike Myers – comic actor (Saturday Night Live, Austin Powers)
Alannah Myles – singer
Mark Napier – former NHL player
Nash the Slash – musician
Natasha Negovanlis – actress, singer and songwriter
Donald Gordon Medd Nelson – 23rd Canadian Surgeon General
David Nemirovsky – former NHL player
Lance Nethery – former NHL player
John Neville – English actor
Kevin Newman – journalist and news anchor
Andrew Nicholson – National Basketball Association, Orlando Magic
Jayde Nicole – model and former Playboy Playmate
Not By Choice – rock band
Amaal Nuux – singer and songwriter
Danny Nykoluk – former CFL player
Mike Nykoluk – former NHL player
The Nylons – pop band
John "Peanuts" O'Flaherty – former NHL player
Catherine O'Hara – comedic actress (SCTV, Beetlejuice, Best in Show)
Mary Margaret O'Hara – singer/songwriter
Sidney Olcott – director
Penny Oleksiak – swimmer
Kelly Olynyk – NBA player (Boston Celtics); born in Toronto, moved to Kamloops at age 13
Michael Ondaatje – Booker Prize-winning writer (The English Patient)
Kenneth Oppel – author (Silverwing saga, Airborn trilogy)
Alexandra Orlando – gymnast
Mark Osborne – former NHL player
Our Lady Peace – rock band
Peter Outerbridge – actor
Seiji Ozawa – conductor
Charles Pachter – artist
Owen Pallett – violinist and singer
Mike Palmateer – former NHL player
Jesse Palmer – NFL football player and reality show personality (The Bachelor)
Alice Panikian – model (Miss Universe Canada 2006; Miss Universe 2006 – 6th place)
Parachute Club – pop band
Brad Park – former NHL player
Gerard Parkes – Irish-born actor
Larry Patey – former NHL player
Sean Paul – reggae artist
Steve Payne – former NHL player
Peaches – musician
Lester B. Pearson – 14th Prime Minister of Canada; 1957 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Michael Peca – former NHL player
Mike Pelyk – former NHL player
Miklos Perlus – actor, screenwriter
Russell Peters – comedian
Nathan Phillips – 52nd Mayor of Toronto
Lauren Phoenix – former pornographic film actress
Mary Pickford – actress, co-founder of United Artists
Alex Pierzchalski – CFL player
Cara Pifko – actress
Allison Pill – actress
Alex Pirus – former NHL player
Platinum Blonde – rock band
Christopher Plummer – actor
Jeremy Podeswa – film director
John Charles Polanyi – 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brett Polegato – Grammy Award winning operatic baritone
Sarah Polley – actress, screenwriter and film director (Away From Her)
Carole Pope – rock singer
Anna Porter – publisher
Chris Potter – actor (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues), musician, pitchman
Victoria Pratt – actress
Robert Priest – poet, children's author and singer/songwriter
Jason Priestley – actor (Beverly Hills, 90210)
Uno Prii – architect
Protest The Hero – metal band
PUP – punk rock band
Bill Quackenbush – former NHL player
Joel Quarrington – musician (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra)
Paul Quarrington – author, screenwriter and musician
Rebecca Quinn – soccer player
Kyle Rae – consultant, former municipal politician
David Rakoff – author
James Randi – magician
Milos Raonic – tennis player
Dennis Raphael – professor
Leo Rautins – broadcaster and former NBA player
Lisa Ray – actress
Raheel Raza – author
Michael Redhill – writer
Keanu Reeves – actor (The Matrix)
Albert Reichmann – businessman
Paul Reichmann – businessman
Ivan Reitman – director
Liisa Repo-Martel – actress
Gloria Reuben – actress
Nino Ricci – writer
Spencer Rice – actor/entertainer (Kenny vs Spenny)
Daniel Richler – broadcaster and writer
Sandie Rinaldo – journalist, TV anchor for CTV News
Guillermo Rishchynski – current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
Anastasia Rizikov – pianist
John D. Roberts – news anchor for Fox News Channel
Robbie Robertson – musician
Coco Rocha – model
Edward Samuel Rogers – CEO of Rogers Communications
Rino Romano – actor, voice actor
Goody Rosen – former MLB player
Lukas Rossi – singer
Marty Roth – race car driver
Rough Trade – rock band
The Royal Canadian Air Farce – comedy troupe
Jan Rubes – opera singer and actor
Rush – rock band
Anna Russell – concert comedian
Ann Rutherford – actress
Moshe Safdie – architect
Morley Safer – journalist (60 Minutes)
F. A. Sampson – war hero (RCAF WWII)
Saukrates – hip hop musician
John Ralston Saul – writer
Booth Savage – actor
Tyrone Savage – actor (Wind at My Back)
Monika Schnarre – supermodel and actress
Kim Schraner – actress (Spynet)
Albert Schultz – actor, director and the founding artistic director of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company
Linda Schuyler – television producer (Degrassi franchise)
Caterina Scorsone – actress
Sara Seager – astronomer and planetary scientist
Michael Seater – actor
Lance Secretan – leadership theorist, writer and consultant
Sarika Sehgal – TV broadcast journalist
Derek Sharp – lead singer for The Guess Who
Isadore Sharp – businessman
Ken Shaw – CTV news anchor
Howard Shore – Academy Award-winning film composer (The Lord of the Rings)
Martin Short – actor
Frank Shuster – comedian (Wayne and Shuster)
Joe Shuster – creator of Superman
Steve Shutt – former NHL player
Jane Siberry – musician
John Graves Simcoe – first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada; founder of the town of York (now Toronto)
Al Sims – former NHL player
Gail Simmons – food author, cookbook writer and judge on TV series Top Chef
Gordon Sinclair – journalist, writer and commentator
Lilly Singh – Youtuber
Darryl Sittler – former NHL player
Rachel Skarsten – actress (Birds of Prey, Lost Girl)
Inga Skaya – Miss Universe Canada 2007
Josef Škvorecký – writer
Willis C. Silverthorn – Wisconsin politician
Colin Simpson – author
Glenn Smith – former NHL player
Gregory Smith – actor
Reginald "Hooley" Smith – former NHL player
Sid Smith – former NHL player
Steve Smith – comedian, actor and writer
Snow – musician
Michael Snow – artist
Wendy Son – member of South Korean girl group, Red Velvet
Jason Spezza – NHL player
The Spoons – 1980s band
Fred Stanfield – former NHL player
Jessica Steen – actress
Mark Steyn – journalist
Amanda Stepto – actress (Degrassi Junior High)
Stephen Stohn – television producer (Degrassi franchise)
Elvis Stojko – former Olympic figure skater
John Strachan – first Anglican Bishop of Toronto; founder of Trinity College at the University of Toronto
David Stratas – Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal
Diane Stratas – former Member of Parliament for Scarborough Centre (electoral district)
Teresa Stratas – opera singer
Trish Stratus (born Patrica Stratigias) – former WWE wrestler and fitness model
Tara Strong – voice/live-action actress (Rugrats, New Batman Adventures, Teen Titans, King of the Hill)
George Stroumboulopoulos – TV/radio personality and VJ
Malcolm Subban – AHL player
P.K. Subban – NHL player
Charlotte Sullivan – actress
Sum 41 – pop punk band
Moez Surani – poet
Rick Tabaracci – former NHL player
Jeremy Taggart – Musician (Drummer)
Samantha Tajik – Miss Universe Canada 2008
Tony Tanti – former NHL player
Don Tapscott – writer and consultant, technology and business
John Tavares – lacrosse player
Mark Taylor – actor (Student Bodies, Flashpoint)
R. Dean Taylor – singer/songwriter ("Indiana Wants Me")
Teenage Head – punk rock band
Ty Templeton – cartoonist and writer
Colin Thatcher – politician and convicted murderer
David Thomson – Canada's wealthiest person; media magnate; 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet
Kenneth Thomson – media magnate and art collector; 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
R. H. Thomson – actor (Road to Avonlea)
Roy Thomson – media magnate; 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Tom Thomson – Group of Seven artist
Judith Thompson – playwright
Tristan Thompson – power forward/center, Cleveland Cavaliers
Three Days Grace – rock band, originally from Norwood
James E. Till – biophysicist
Frederick Albert Tilston – winner of the Victoria Cross
Morris Titanic – former NHL player
Tokyo Police Club – rock band
Frederick George Topham – winner of the Victoria Cross
Toronto – rock band
Raffi Torres – NHL player
Talan Torriero – actor (Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County)
John Tory – 65th mayor of Toronto
Alex Trebek – game show host (Jeopardy!)
Triumph – rock band
Justin Trottier – commentator and atheist leader
Endel Tulving – cognitive psychologist, world authority on human memory function
Sheldon Turcott – journalist
Tory Lanez – rapper/singer
Richard Underhill – jazz musician
Jane Urquhart – author
Billy Van – comedian, actor and singer
Laura Vandervoort – actress Smallville
Pieter Vanden Bos – former CFL player
Nia Vardalos – actress and writer, stage and film (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Gabriel Varga – kickboxer
George Vari – developer and philanthropist
M. G. Vassanji – author
Mike Veisor – former NHL player
Steve Vickers – former NHL player
Nerene Virgin – actress, journalist and teacher
Vonny the Ken Doll – TV host, reality TV personality
Joey Votto – MLB player
Prvoslav Vujcic – author
George F. Walker – playwright
Pamela Wallin – Senator, former Canadian Consul-General to New York
Alberta Watson – actress
Tom Watt – former NHL coach
Al Waxman – actor
Tobaron Waxman – interdisciplinary artist
Johnny Wayne – comedian (of Wayne and Shuster)
Kevin Weekes – broadcaster and former NHL player
The Weeknd – R&B singer
Samantha Weinstein – actress
Stephen Weiss – NHL player
Danny Wells – actor (The Jeffersons) and voice actor
Ken Westerfield – disc sports (Frisbee) pioneer, competitor, showman, promoter
Galen Weston – Canada's second wealthiest man
Galen Weston, Jr. – businessman
Denis Whitaker – commanded 1st Battalion The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry in the Second World War
Ben Wicks – cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author
Joyce Wieland – filmmaker
Andrew Wiggins – top U.S. college basketball recruit for the class of 2013; currently plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves
Healey Willan – composer
Angel Williams – TNA Knockout
Fred Williams – journalist, historian
Harland Williams – actor
Bree Williamson – actress
Behn Wilson – former NHL player
Dunc Wilson – former NHL player
Michael Wilson – former federal Minister of Finance (1984–1991), former Canadian Ambassador to the United States (2006–2009)
Murray Wilson – former NHL player
Ron Wilson – former NHL player
Ross "Lefty" Wilson – former NHL player
Jeff Wincott – actor (Night Heat)
Michael Wincott – actor
Katheryn Winnick – actress
Daniel Winnik – NHL player
Maurice Dean Wint – actor
Ralph E. Winters – film editor (Ben-Hur)
Ellen Wong – actress
Kristyn Wong-Tam – municipal politician
Cam Woolley – safety and traffic news reporter for CP24
Hawksley Workman – singer/songwriter
Roy "Shrimp" Worters – former NHL player
Kathleen Wynne – 25th Premier of Ontario
Alissa York – writer
Howie Young – former NHL player
Neil Young – rock musician
Renee Young – host of multiple WWE programs
Scott Young – sportswriter, journalist and novelist; father of Neil Young
Warren Young – former NHL player
Andrew Younghusband – TV personality, writer and journalist
Zanta – performance artist
Ron Zanussi – former NHL player
Zappacosta – singer/songwriter
Brigitte Zarie – jazz singer/songwriter
Paul Zaza – film score musician and songwriter
Eberhard Zeidler – architect
Peter Zezel – former NHL player
Moses Znaimer – media mogul (CHUM, founder of Citytv)
Robert J. Zydenbos – scholar in Indology and philosophy
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