The following people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely connected to the city of
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses ...
.
Arts
Architecture and design
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James Balfour (1854–1917), architect; works include
Canada Life
The Canada Life Assurance Company ( French: ''La Compagnie d'Assurance du Canada sur la Vie''), commonly known as Canada Life (''Canada-Vie''), is a Canadian insurance and financial services company with its headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The ...
Assurance Company building at corner of
King
King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ...
& James (1883), City Hall on corner of
James &
York
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...
(1888)
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Bruce Kuwabara
Bruce Bunji Kuwabara, ( OC, B.Arch, OAA, FRAIC, AIA, RIBA) is a Canadian architect and a founding partner of the firm KPMB Architects (formed in 1987). He is an invested Officer of the Order of Canada and recipient of the RAIC Gold Medal. He i ...
(1949– ), architect; works include Kitchener City Hall and
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; ) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located on Dundas Street, Dundas Street West in the Grange Park (neighbourhood), Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, the museum complex takes up of phys ...
Phase III
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John M. Lyle (1872–1945), architect in the late 19th century; works include
New York Public Library Main Branch
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (commonly known as the Main Branch, the 42nd Street Library, or just the New York Public Library) is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown Manhattan, Midtown neighborhood ...
(1897–1911),
Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto (1907),
Union Station (Toronto)
Union Station is a major railway station and intermodal transit hub, transportation hub in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is located in downtown Toronto, on Front Street (Toronto), Front Street West, on the south side of the block boun ...
(1914–1921)
Craft
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Lois Betteridge (1928–2020), silversmith, goldsmith, designer and educator
Dance
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Frank Augustyn (1953– ), principal dancer with the
National Ballet of Canada
The National Ballet of Canada is a Canadian ballet company that was founded in 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, with Celia Franca, the first artistic director. A company of 70 dancers with its own orchestra, the National Ballet has been led since 2022 ...
from 1972 to 1989
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Karen Kain (1951– ), principal dancer and later artistic director (2005–2021) of the National Ballet of Canada
Film and television
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Jean Adair (1873–1953), actress; worked primarily on stage (sometimes billed as Jennet Adair); made several film appearances late in her career, most notably as one of the misguided murdering aunts of
Cary Grant
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English and American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he ...
in ''
Arsenic and Old Lace''
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Nicole Arbour, comedian
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Julia Arthur (1868–1950), stage and film actress
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Robert Beatty
Robert Rutherford Beatty (19 October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK.
Early years
Beatty was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of ...
(1909–1992), actor who worked in radio, film and television for most of his career and was especially known in the United Kingdom
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Alan Best (1959– ), animation director and producer; began his career as an assistant animator working for
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ; formerly known as H-B Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. and H-B Production Co.), simply and commonly known as Hanna-Barbera, was an American animation studio and production company, which was acti ...
studios; also worked on the animated features ''
Heavy Metal'' (1981) and ''
Pink Floyd The Wall'' (1982)
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Kylie Bunbury (born 1989), actress
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Rick Campanelli (1970– ),
MuchMusic
Much is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. through its Bell Media subsidiary that airs programming aimed at teenagers and young adults. It is headquartered at 299 Queen Street West in what was o ...
video jockey, currently works for
ET Canada
''Entertainment Tonight Canada'' (commonly shortened to ''ET Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series that aired on the Global Television Network from 2005 to 2023. Its branding and format were based on the American entertainm ...
*
Wendy Crewson
Wendy Jane Crewson (born May 9, 1956) is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in 1991 dramatic film ''The Doctor''.
Crewson has appeared in many Hollywood films, inc ...
(1956– ), actress
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Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Rupert Dumbrille (October 13, 1889 – April 2, 1974) was a Canadian actor who appeared regularly in films from the early 1930s.
Life and career
Douglass Dumbrille ( ) was born in Hamilton, Ontario. As a young man, he was employed ...
(1889–1974), actor and Canadian pioneer in early Hollywood
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Jesse Ewles (1981– ), indie film director, writer, creator of music videos for
of Montreal
of Montreal is an American indie pop band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontperson Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance between Barnes and a woman "of Montreal". The band is identified as part of the Elephant 6 collec ...
,
Kathryn Calder, and
Grizzly Bear
The grizzly bear (''Ursus arctos horribilis''), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America.
In addition to the mainland grizzly (''Ursus arctos horr ...
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Rob Faulds (1955– ), Canadian sports analyst on
Rogers Sportsnet
Sportsnet is a Canadian English-language discretionary sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture between CTV, Liberty Media, and Rogers Media. CTV parent Bell Globe ...
and host of ''
sportsnetnews''
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Angela Featherstone
Angela Featherstone (born 3 April 1965) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, and advocate for children in foster care. She was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario.
Career
Modeling
Within a year of emancipating herself from foster ca ...
(born 1965), actress, writer and teacher
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Jonathan Frid (1924–2012), theater, television and movie actor, known for the role of the vampire Barnabas Collins on the first incarnation of the Gothic TV serial ''
Dark Shadows
''Dark Shadows'' is an American Gothic fiction, Gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulatio ...
''
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Daniel Goldberg (1948/49–2023), film producer (''
Space Jam''); worked with Ivan Reitman on ''
Stripes'' and ''
Meatballs
A meatball is ground meat (mince) rolled into a ball, sometimes along with other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, minced onion, egg (food), eggs, butter, and seasoning. Meatballs are cooked by frying, baking, steaming, or braising in sauce. ...
''
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Harris Goldberg, film director, writer, and producer
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Currie Graham
Currie Graham (born February 26, 1967) is a Canadian stage, film and television actor. While primarily recognized as a TV actor, he has numerous film credits, including the action thrillers '' Rancid'' and '' Assault on Precinct 13''.
Early li ...
(1967– ), stage, film and television actor, known for playing Lt. Thomas Bale in the TV program ''
NYPD Blue
''NYPD Blue'' is an American police procedural television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble ca ...
''
*
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a re ...
(1952– ), TV and movie actor; born on
Six Nations reserve and lived in Hamilton as a young adult; appeared in ''The Green Mile'', on the ''Red Green Show'', ''L.A. Law'' and ''The New Beachcombers''
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Jonathan Hale
Jonathan Hale (born Jonathan Hatley; March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor.
Life and career
Hale was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before his acting career, Hale worked in the Diplomatic Co ...
(1892–1966), actor, known as
Mr. Dithers in the ''
Blondie'' movies; committed suicide in Hollywood at age 74
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Adam J. Harrington
Adam John Harrington (born November 26, 1972) is a Canadian actor and producer. He is known for his role as Roy Earle in the 2011 video game ''L.A. Noire''. He has also appeared on ''Supernatural (U.S. TV series), Supernatural'', ''The Secret Ci ...
(1972– ), actor and producer; known for his roles in ''
The Secret Circle'', ''
Queer As Folk'' and ''
Dexter
Dexter may refer to:
People
* Dexter (given name)
* Dexter (surname)
* Dexter (singer), Brazilian rapper Marcos Fernandes de Omena (born 1973)
* Famous Dex, also known as Dexter, American rapper Dexter Tiewon Gore Jr. (born 1993)
Places United ...
'', and as Roy Earle in the video game ''
L.A. Noire''
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Trevor Jimenez, animator (''
Weekends'')
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Jason Jones, senior correspondent for ''
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The ...
''
*
Stana Katic (1978– ), actress, known for her portrayal of Detective Kate Beckett in ABC's ''
Castle
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...
''
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Luke Kirby (1978– ), actor (''
Mambo Italiano'')
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Florence Lawrence
Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film act ...
(1890–1938), inventor and silent film actress, often referred to as "the first movie star"; also known as "the Biograph Girl" and "the Girl of a Thousand Faces"; appeared in more than 270 films for various motion picture companies

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Chris Lazar (1986– ), actor, known for his role as Young Zach on the series ''
Dark Angel''
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Ashley Leggat (1986– ), actress, known for her role as "Casey" in the
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American pay television television channel, channel that serves as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company ...
series ''
Life with Derek
''Life with Derek'' is a Canadian television teen sitcom that aired on Family Channel (English) and VRAK.TV (French) in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005, and ran for four s ...
''
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Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor and comedian. Known for portraying flustered and unconventional figures, Levy has won multiple accolades throughout his career including four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and ...
(1946– ), actor and writer, known for ''
SCTV'', ''
Schitt's Creek
''Schitt's Creek'' (stylized as ''Schitt$ Creek'') is a Canadian television sitcom created by Dan Levy (Canadian actor), Dan Levy and his father, Eugene Levy, that aired on CBC Television from 2015 to 2020. It consists of 80 episodes spread ove ...
'' and the ''
American Pie'' film series
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Brian Linehan
Brian Richard Linehan (September 3, 1944 – June 4, 2004) was a Canadian television host from Hamilton, Ontario, (1944–2004), television host; known for his celebrity interviews on ''
City Lights
''City Lights'' is a 1931 American synchronized sound film, sound romance film, romantic comedy drama, comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a ...
'', a program produced by Citytv in Toronto
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Del Lord
Delmer "Del" Lord (October 7, 1894March 23, 1970) was a Canadians, Canadian film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films.
Career
Delmer Lord was born in the small town of Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. Interested in the the ...
(1894–1970), film director and actor; known as a director of
Three Stooges
The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical, farce, and slapstick comedy. Six total ...
films (
Grimsby
Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town in Lincolnshire, England with a population of 86,138 (as of 2021). It is located near the mouth on the south bank of the Humber that flows to the North Sea. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes dir ...
)
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Patrick McKenna
Patrick McKenna (born May 8, 1960) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Harold Green on the television series '' The Red Green Show'' and Marty Stevens on the television series '' Traders''.
Early life
Patrick McKenna ...
(1960– ), comedic and dramatic actor; known for the television series ''
The Red Green Show
''The Red Green Show'' was a half-hour Canadian television television comedy, comedy series. It aired on various channels in Canada from April 4, 1991 until April 7, 2006. The show was created and entirely co-written by Canadian comedian Steve S ...
'' and ''
Traders'', and the Trudeau miniseries
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Blake Moynes, winner of the
seventeenth season of reality television series ''
The Bachelorette
A bachelorette is an unmarried woman.
Bachelorette may also refer to:
Film, television, and related
* ''The Bachelorette'', a reality television dating show part of ''The Bachelor'' franchise with numerous versions:
** ''The Bachelorette'' (Am ...
''
*
Kathleen Munroe
Kathleen Munroe (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actress.
Munroe was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and currently resides in Los Angeles. She attended high school at Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, and studied cinema at the University of T ...
(born 1982), actress
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Erin Pitt (born 1999), actress
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Paul Popowich (1973– ), actor; beside his theatre appearances, has performed in many television series (''Beverly Hills, 90210'') and features
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Frank Powell
Francis William Powell (May 8, 1877 – ?) was a Canadian-born American stage and silent film actor, director, Film producer, producer, and screenwriter who worked predominantly in the United States."Ontario Births, 1869-1912", digital copy of ...
, stage and silent film actor, screenwriter, and director in the United States
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Leon Pownall (1943–2006), actor and director
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Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman (; October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022) was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
...
(1946–2022), Slovakian-born, Canadian-raised film actor, producer, and director; most remembered for directing and producing a string of comedies, mostly in the 1980s and 1990s (''Meatballs'', ''Stripes'' and ''
Ghostbusters
''Ghostbusters'' is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric ...
''); a founder of the
McMaster Film Board at
McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood, Ontario, Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Ontario, Westd ...
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Rick Roberts, actor
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Kathleen Robertson (1973– ), actress, ''
Beverly Hills, 90210
''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (often referred to as ''90210'') is an American teen drama television series created by Darren Star and produced by Aaron Spelling via his production company Spelling Television. The series ran for 10 seasons on Fo ...
''
*
Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian and American comedian, actor, and writer. Short is known as an energetic comedian who gained prominence for his roles in sketch comedy. He has also acted in numerous films and television ...
(1950– ), actor, writer, and producer best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs ''
SCTV'' and ''
Saturday Night Live
''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL'') is an American Late night television in the United States, late-night live television, live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The ...
''
*
Floria Sigismondi
Floria Sigismondi (, born 1965) is an Italian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, music video director, artist, and photographer.
She is best known for writing and directing '' The Runaways'', for directing music videos for performers includ ...
(1965– ), director (born in
Pescara
Pescara (; ; ) is the capital city of the province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo Regions of Italy, region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 118,657 (January 1, 2023) residents (and approximately 350,000 including the surround ...
, Italy, raised in Hamilton)
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Steve Smith (1945– ), main actor and writer on television series ''The Red Green Show''
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David Soren, animator
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Sarah Taylor, MuchMusic VJ who now co-hosts many popular shows, including ''Combat Zone'', ''MuchOnDemand'' and ''Take Over''
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Dave Thomas (1949– ), comedian and actor, ''
SCTV'', ''
Grace Under Fire
''Grace Under Fire'' is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from September 29, 1993, to February 17, 1998. Created by Chuck Lorre, the series starred Brett Butler as Grace Kelly, a single mother and recovering alcoholic raising t ...
''
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Nerene Virgin, Canadian actress, journalist, and teacher
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Brian Williams
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American journalist and television news anchor. He was a correspondent for ''NBC Nightly News'' starting in 1993, before his promotion to anchorman, anchor and managing editor of the broadcast in ...
, sportscaster, known for his coverage of the Olympic Games (born in Winnipeg, raised in Hamilton)
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Dick Wilson
Dick Wilson (July 30, 1916 – November 18, 2007) was a British-American actor. He was best known as grocery store manager Mr. George Whipple in more than 500 Charmin bathroom tissue television commercials (1965–89, 1999–2000).
Biograp ...
(1916–2007), actor whose claim to fame was working for over 21 years on 504 Charmin toilet paper TV commercials; also made acting appearances on ''
Bewitched
''Bewitched'' is an American fantasy sitcom television series that originally aired for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972. It is about a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man and vows to lead the life of a typi ...
'', ''
Hogan's Heroes
''Hogan's Heroes'' is an American television sitcom created by Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy which is set in a Prisoner-of-war camp, prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Nazi Germany during World War II, and centers around a group of Allied prisoner ...
'' and ''
The Bob Newhart Show
''The Bob Newhart Show'' is an American television sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978, with a total of 142 half-hour episodes over six seasons. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychol ...
''
*
Gordon Michael Woolvett (1970– ), actor, played Seamus Harper on TV's ''
Andromeda''
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Dominic Zamprogna (1979– ), actor, played James "Jammer" Lyman on TV's ''
Battlestar Galactica
''Battlestar Galactica'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Glen A. Larson. It began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a short-run sequel series, '' Galactica 1980'', a line of book adaptat ...
''
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Gema Zamprogna (1976– ), actress, played Felicity King on ''
Road to Avonlea
''Road to Avonlea'' is a Canadian television series first broadcast in Canada between January 7, 1990, and March 31, 1996, as part of the '' CBC Family Hour'' anthology series, and in the United States starting on March 5, 1990. It was created ...
'' (1989–1996)
Fine arts
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Lida Baday (1957– ), fashion designer
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Blaine (1937–2012), political cartoonist
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William Blair Bruce (1859–1906), painter
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Gino Cavicchioli (1957– ), official sculptor for the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame
The Canadian Football Hall of Fame (CFHOF) is a not-for-profit corporation, located in Hamilton, Ontario, that celebrates achievements in Canadian football. It is maintained by the Canadian Football League (CFL). It includes displays about the CFL, ...
[Gino Cavicchioli Official Website: Biography](_blank)
Retrieved 15 January 2008
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Christian Cardell Corbet (1966– ), portrait sculptor
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Hortense Gordon (1886–1961), member of Toronto-based group
Painters Eleven; works were exhibited in galleries in Europe and North America
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Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook (1913–2009), portrait sculptor; founder of the Canadian Portrait Academy and Canadian Group of Artists; her career spanned over seventy-five years; principal works include eight stone sculpture panels on the former Federal Building
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Mark Lewis (1958– ), photographer and installation artist who represented Canada at the 2009
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), ...
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Graeme MacKay (1968– ), editorial
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera ...
*
Win Mortimer
James Winslow "Win" Mortimer (May 1, 1919 – January 11, 1998) Note: The Marvel Comics 1978 Calendar merchandise lists Mortimer's birth date as June 23 and ''Comics Buyer's Guide'' lists it as May 23 per was a Canadian comic book and comic stri ...
(1919–1998), comic book and comic strip artist, one of the major illustrators of the
DC Comics
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book seri ...
superheroes
Superman
Superman is a superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, which first appeared in the comic book ''Action Comics'' Action Comics 1, #1, published in the United States on April 18, 1938.The copyright date of ''Action Comics ...
,
Superboy
Superboy is an identity used by several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. These characters have been featured in several eponymous comic series, in addition to ''Adventure Comics'' and other series ...
, and
Batman
Batman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. Batman was created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in Detective Comics 27, the 27th issue of the comic book ''Detective Comics'' on M ...
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Frank Panabaker (1904–1992), painter
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Dave Sim
Dave Sim (born 17 May 1956) is a Canadian cartoonist and publisher, known for his comic book ''Cerebus the Aardvark, Cerebus'', his artistic experimentation, his advocacy of self-publishing and creators' rights, and his controversial political an ...
(1956– ), comic book writer and artist; creator of ''
Cerebus''
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Paul Szep (1941– ), editorial cartoonist; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Illusionists
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Greg Frewin (1967– ),
illusionist and "World Champion of Magic"
Journalism and writing
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Roy Adams, author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist and academic
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Barbara Amiel, British-Canadian journalist, writer, socialite; wife of
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, Publishing, newspaper publisher, Investor, financier, and Fraudster, convicted fraudster.
Black's father was businessma ...
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Gordon Stewart Anderson, author
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Dick Beddoes (1925–1991), former sports journalist for
CHCH-TV
CHCH-DT (channel 11) is an independent television station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Channel Zero (company), Channel Zero, the station maintains studios on Innovation Drive in the west end of Hamilton; prior to 2021, it was located ...
in Hamilton, the ''
Vancouver Sun
The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network, and is the larg ...
'', ''
The Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...
'' (Toronto), and CFRB radio (Toronto); author
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Stephen Brunt, lead sports columnist for ''
The Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...
'' since 1989
*
John H. Bryden
John H. Bryden (born July 15, 1943) is a Canadian politician, journalist, and historian.
Education
Bryden received an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History from McMaster University in 1966, and a Masters of Philosophy in Engli ...
(1943– ), politician, journalist, historian
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Richard Butler (1834–1925), editor, publisher, journalist; the Butler neighbourhood in Hamilton is named after him
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Jojo Chintoh
Jojo Chintoh (born 1944) is a Ghanaian-Canadian television journalist who worked as a feature and documentary reporter for Citytv in Toronto until 2009–10.
Biography
Born in Ghana as a member of the Fante people, Chintoh moved to Canada in 196 ...
(1944– ), retired television reporter (
Citytv
Citytv (sometimes shortened to City, which was the network's official branding from 2012 to 2018) is a Television in Canada, Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The network consis ...
)
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Jane Christmas (b 1954), writer
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Trevor Cole, newspaper and magazine columnist, novelist
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Hugh Cook (1942– ), novelist
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Damien Cox, sports columnist for the ''
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division.
...
''
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Sylvia Fraser (1935– ), novelist and travel writer
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Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill (born January 24, 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel '' The Book of Negroes'', inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the A ...
, author (''
The Book of Negroes'')
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Wentworth M. Johnson (1939–2014), author
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Robert Kirkland Kernighan (1854–1926), poet, journalist; the Kernighan neighbourhood on Hamilton Mountain is named after him
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Gary Lautens (1928–1992), humorist and newspaper columnist; wrote for the ''Toronto Star'' from 1962 until his death
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Mark Leslie (1969– ), writer, author of ''Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers''
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Billie Livingston (1965– ), novelist and poet
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David Macfarlane (1952– ), journalist, playwright and novelist
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Emily Maitlis
Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a Canadian-born British journalist and former newsreader for the BBC who was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme ''Newsnight'' until the end of 2021. She has since been a pre ...
(1970– ), British journalist; born in Hamilton whilst her father was teaching at McMaster University
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Ivan Miller (1898–1967), Canadian journalist and sportscaster who worked 45 years for ''The Hamilton Spectator''
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Steve Paikin
Steven Hillel Paikin (born June 9, 1960) is a Canadian journalist, author, and documentary producer. Paikin has primarily worked for TVOntario (TVO), Ontario's public broadcaster, and is anchor of TVO's flagship current affairs program ''The Ag ...
(1960– ), journalist, film producer and author, known for hosting
TV Ontario
TVO (stylized in all lowercase as tvo), formerly known as TVOntario, is a Canadian publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It operates flagship station ...
's newsmagazines ''Studio 2'' and ''Diplomatic Immunity''
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John Lawrence Reynolds (1939– ), novelist and non-fiction writer, twice winner of the
Arthur Ellis Award
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Melville Marks Robinson
Melville Marks Robinson (April 8, 1888 – June 6, 1974) was a Canadian journalist and sports executive, also known as M. M. Robinson and Bobby Robinson. He was the sports editor of '' The Hamilton Spectator'', and founded the British Empire Ga ...
(1888– ), founder of the
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...
*
Doug Saunders (1967– ), journalist, European Bureau Chief for ''
The Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...
''
*
James Travers, journalist
["Star columnist Jim Travers dies"]
''Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division.
...
'', 3 March 2011.
*
Clementina (Fessenden) Trenholme (1844–1918), author, social organizer, and mother of radio pioneer
Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of List of Reginald Fessenden patents, patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936 ...
; the
Trenholme and
Fessenden neighbourhoods on Hamilton Mountain were named after her
*
Anuja Varghese, writer
*
David Vienneau (1951–2004), journalist who moved to television in 1998 as Ottawa bureau chief at for Global Television, where he remained until his death from pancreatic cancer
*
Harriett Annie Wilkins (1829–1888), poet
Music

*
Nicole Appleton
Nicole Marie Appleton (born 7 December 1974) is a Canadian singer and television presenter. She is a member of the British girl group All Saints and the pop duo Appleton with her elder sister Natalie Appleton.
Early life
Appleton was born i ...
(1974– ), singer; born in Hamilton but raised in Toronto; one of two Canadian members of the British pop group
All Saints, which disbanded in 2001; she and her sister Natalie later formed a second British-based pop group named
Appleton
*
Ian Astbury
Ian Robert Astbury (born 14 May 1962) is an English singer, best known as the lead vocalist, frontman and a founding member of the rock band the Cult. During various hiatuses from the Cult, Astbury fronted the short-lived band Holy Barbarians ( ...
, singer (
The Cult
The Cult are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Bradford in 1983. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band had performed under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead vocalist Ian Astbury ...
), spent teen years in Hamilton
*
David Braid
David Braid (born 25 March 1975 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian composer and pianist.
Biography
Canadian composer and jazz pianist, David Braid, is "considered one of his country's true renaissance men when it comes to music." (The Ottawa Ci ...
(1975– ), composer and pianist
*
Boris Brott (1944–2022), once an assistant to
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was th ...
, he led the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra for 21 years, later creating the Brott Music Festival and National Academy Orchestra
*
David Byrne
David Byrne (; born May 14, 1952) is an American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American New wave music, new wave band Talking Heads.
Byrne has ...
(1952– ), singer-songwriter, guitarist (
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American Rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 1975.[Talking Heads](_blank) ); lived in Hamilton as a child
*
Rita Chiarelli, blues singer
*
Colin Cripps (1961– ), musician and record producer
*
Eria Fachin (1960–1996), pop singer
*
Jeremy Greenspan (1979– ), electronic pop musician best known for Junior Boys
*
Jordan Hastings (1982– ), drummer for the post-hardcore band
Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire (pronounced "Alexis on Fire") is a Canadian post-hardcore band formed in St. Catharines, OntarioRoss, Mike. "", Canadian Online Explorer, CANOE JAM!, April 30, 2004. Retrieved on July 17, 2007. in 2001. The band's members are Georg ...
, as well as
The Black Lungs and former band
Jersey
Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...
, born in Hamilton but raised in
Burlington
*
Darcy Hepner, saxophonist, composer arranger
*
Udo Kasemets
Udo Kasemets (November 16, 1919 – January 19, 2014) was a Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first composers to adopt the methods of John Cage, and was also a conductor, lecturer ...
(1919–2014), Estonian-born composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic works
*
Harrison Kennedy (1942– ), electric blues singer and guitarist, formerly part of
Chairmen of the Board
Chairmen of the Board is an American-Canadian, Detroit, Michigan-based soul music group, who saw their greatest commercial success in the 1970s.
Recording career
General Johnson (1941–2010) had a hit as the lead singer of The Showmen in t ...
*
King Biscuit Boy (1944–2003), blues musician, member of Crowbar; the first Canadian blues artist to chart on ''Billboard'' in the U.S.; ''
Rolling Stone
''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason.
The magazine was first known fo ...
'' magazine called him "legendary"; played with
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of moder ...
,
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances featuring expressive body movements. Most of his best-known singles, such as
"Feelin' Alright ...
, and
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful Rock music, rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and her "electric" ...
; his fans include
Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. His songwriting partnership wi ...
and
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and the piano, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John ...
*
Daniel Lanois
Daniel Roland Lanois ( , ; born September 19, 1951) is a Canadian record producer and musician.
He has produced albums by artists including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Robbie Robertson, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Harold Budd ...
(1951– ), solo artist, producer for
U2, lived in Hamilton and recorded at Grant Avenue Studios
*
Jessy Lanza, pop/electronic musician
*
Gord Lewis (1956/1957–2002), guitarist for
Teenage Head
*
Wade MacNeil (1984– ), guitarist and vocalist for the post-hardcore band
Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire (pronounced "Alexis on Fire") is a Canadian post-hardcore band formed in St. Catharines, OntarioRoss, Mike. "", Canadian Online Explorer, CANOE JAM!, April 30, 2004. Retrieved on July 17, 2007. in 2001. The band's members are Georg ...
and frontman of
The Black Lungs
*
Brian Melo, winner of ''
Canadian Idol
''Canadian Idol'' is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show '' Pop Idol''. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Do ...
'' (season five); previously a construction worker
*
Haydain Neale
Haydain Neale (September 3, 1970 – November 22, 2009) was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario. He was best known as the lead singer of Juno Award-winning band jacksoul. Neale also served on the faculty of the Humber College Su ...
(1970–2009), musician (
jacksoul)
*
Steve Negus,
Saga
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.
The most famous saga-genre is the (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between ...
drummer and record producer
*
Neil Peart
Neil Ellwood Peart ( ; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian and American musician, known as the drummer, percussionist, and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush (band), Rush. He was known to fans by the nickname "the Profe ...
(1952–2020), drummer and lyricist for the progressive rock band
Rush
*
Skip Prokop (1946–2017), drummer and bandleader for
Lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Ligh ...
and
The Paupers; worked with
Cass Elliot
Ellen Naomi Cohen (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), known professionally as Cass Elliot, was an American singer. She was also known as "Mama Cass", a name she reportedly disliked. Elliot was a member of the singing group the Mamas & the P ...
, Janis Joplin,
Al Kooper
Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt; February 5, 1944) is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician. Throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s he was a prolific studio musician, including playing organ on the Bob Dylan song " Like ...
and
Carlos Santana
Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (; born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the Rock music, rock band Santana (band), Santana. Born and raised in Mexico where he developed his musical background, he r ...
*
Stan Rogers
Stanley Allison Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired by Canadian history and the working people's daily lives, especially from the fishin ...
(1949–1983), folk singer
*
Brenda Russell
Brenda Russell (née Gordon; born April 8, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and keyboardist. Russell has a diverse musical range which encompasses Rhythm and blues, R&B, pop music, pop, soul music, soul, dance music, dance, and ...
(1949– ), American-born singer-songwriter and keyboardist who lived in Hamilton; known for her eclectic musical style; her genres include pop, soul, jazz and adult contemporary; has worked with
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (; Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th c ...
,
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin ( ; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Honored as the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Soul", she was twice named by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine as the Roll ...
and
Sting
*
Lorraine Segato, lead vocalist for 1980s
new wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop music, pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of Punk subculture, punk culture". It was originally used as a catch-all fo ...
group
Parachute Club, noted for the song "
Rise Up"
*
Ernest Seitz (1892–1978), composer, songwriter, pianist and music educator
*
Dan Snaith
Daniel Victor Snaith (born 29 March 1978) is a Canadian composer, musician, and recording artist. He has released 11 studio albums since 2000 and has recorded and performed under the stage names Caribou, Manitoba, and Daphni. His Caribou album ' ...
(1979– ), musician for the bands Caribou, Manitoba and Daphni, born in
Dundas
*
Tomi Swick, singer-songwriter
*
Christian Tanna, drummer and songwriter for
I Mother Earth
*
Jagori Tanna
Jagori Tanna (born ''Jagori Andrew Koshowski'', in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. Together with his brother, Christian Tanna, he formed I Mother Earth around 1990. He wrote all of I Mother Earth's music, and produced most of it as w ...
, guitar player for I Mother Earth
*
Ian Thomas (1950– ), singer-songwriter known for the 1973 hit "Painted Ladies"; brother of Dave Thomas
*
Alan Walker
Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. His songs "Faded (Alan Walker song), Faded", "Sing Me to Sleep", "Alone (Alan Walker song), Alone", "All Falls Down (Alan Walker song), All Falls Down" (with Noah Cy ...
(1930– ), English-Canadian radio producer,
musicologist
Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...
and academic best known as a biographer and scholar of composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...
*
Jackie Washington (1919–2009), blues singer
*
Robert Stanley Weir (1856–1926), lawyer, poet, author, best remembered as the author of the English lyrics to "
O Canada
"O Canada" () is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French- ...
"
*
Simon Wilcox
Simon Wilcox is a Canadian poet and songwriter, based in Los Angeles, California. Her songs have been recorded and released by Blink 182, Britney Spears, Carly Rae Jepsen, Enrique Iglesias, Miranda Lambert, The Used, Nick Jonas, Camila Cabello, ...
(1976– ), songwriter based in Los Angeles
*
Tom Wilson, rock musician
Pageantry
*
Leanne Baird,
Miss Canada International in 1998
*Venessa Fisher (1986– ),
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international major beauty pageant that is run by a Thailand and Mexican-based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Stree ...
Canada 2004; from Waterdown, Ontario, Waterdown
Radio
*Richard Alway, former radio broadcast commentator, current and first lay President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St. Michael's College
*Bob Bratina, radio personality, elected MP for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, former City Councillor for Downtown Ward 2 and Mayor of Hamilton
*Roy Green (radio), Roy Green, staple of the Hamilton radio scene
*Sue Prestedge, sports broadcaster, one of Canada's first and most influential female sports journalists; coordinator of the Advanced Journalism program at Mohawk College
Theatre
*Nick Cordero (1978–2020), Broadway actor
*Diane Dupuy, founder of the Famous People Players in 1974, a professional black light theatre company that combines music with characters that pay tribute to the music and artistry of famous people; the group was discovered by Liberace, who took them to Las Vegas to perform; they have been performing around the world ever since
*Sky Gilbert (1952– ), artistic director, actor, academic and drag performer; opened the Hammertheatre Company in January 2007 in Hamilton; the theatre is devoted to Gilbert's plays, which deal with issues of gender and sexuality
Business

*Aris Alexanian (1901–1961), founder of Alexanian Carpet and Flooring (born in what is now Turkey, moved to Hamilton in 1927)
*John Askin (1739–1815), fur trader, merchant and official in Upper Canada
*Hugh Cossart Baker, Sr. (1818–1859), banker, businessman, mathematician; established the first life insurance company in Canada (1847), the Canada Life Assurance Company
*Hugh Cossart Baker, Jr. (1846–1931), businessman, telephone pioneer
*Amanda Blain (born 1980), internet personality, business owner, web developer
*David Braley (1941–2020), CFL B.C. Lions owner since 1996–97, Hamilton businessman who owns Orlick Industries Limited
*Jack Kent Cooke (1912–1997), one of the most widely known executives in professional sports; at one time owned the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and the NFL's Washington Redskins
* James Crooks (1778–1860), Scottish-born businessman of Wentworth County, Ontario, Wentworth County and father of Adam Crooks (politician), Adam Crooks; Crooks Street in Central Hamilton is named after him
*Michael DeGroote (1932–2022), billionaire, best known as a major private donor to McMaster University
*John Dickenson (Canadian politician), John Dickenson (1847–1932), contractor and political figure; one of the "Five Johns" of the Dominion Power and Transmission Company
* James Durand (1775–1833), businessman and political figure in Upper Canada
*Stephen Elop (1963– ), President & CEO of Nokia, the first non-Finnish director of the company
*John Fortino (1934–2011), founder of Fortinos Supermarkets
*Ron Foxcroft (1947– ), owner of Fluke Transport; NCAA basketball referee; inventor of the pea-less Fox 40 whistle; motivational speaker; "Foxy" was named Hamilton Citizen of the Year in 1997
*Peter George (professor), Peter George (1941–2017), economist and university administrator, formerly president of McMaster University in Hamilton
*Peter Hess (Hamilton, Ontario), Peter Hess (1779–1855), farmer, landowner; Peter and Hess Street (Hamilton, Ontario), Hess Streets in the city are named after him, and Caroline Street is named after one of his daughters
*Joseph Hobson (1834–1917), land surveyor, civil engineer, and railway design engineer
*Nathaniel Hughson (1755–1837), farmer and hotel owner; Loyalist who moved to Canada following the American Revolution; one of the city founders of Hamilton; Hughson Street is named after him
*Peter Hunter Hamilton (1800–1857), landowner and businessman; half brother of city founder George Hamilton; Hunter Street (Hamilton, Ontario), Hunter Street is named after him
*Edward Jackson (manufacturer), Edward Jackson (1799–1872), tinware manufacturer; Jackson Street (Hamilton, Ontario), Jackson Street is named after him
*James Jolley (1813–1892), saddler, harnessmaker, politician; funded construction of the Jolley Cut, a Mountain access road in Hamilton
*Ron Joyce (1930–2019), founding partner of Tim Hortons
*Charles Juravinski (1929–2022), former owner of Flamboro Downs racetrack; donated $43 million to Hamilton city hospitals with his wife Margaret; Henderson Hospital on Concession Street (Hamilton, Ontario), Concession Street was renamed to the Juravinski Hospital and Juravinski Cancer Centre
*Syd Kessler (1949–2021), businessperson and jingle writer
*Michael Lee-Chin (1951– ), CEO of AIC Diversified Canada Split Corp. and the Bank of Jamaica, National Commercial Bank of Jamaica
*John Moodie Jr. (1859–1944), textile manufacturer; drove the first automobile in Canada in 1898, a one-cylinder Winton Motor Carriage Company, Winton he imported from Cleveland, Ohio
*Gordon Osbaldeston (1930–2019), former civil servant; in 1981 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1997
*Joseph Pigott, head of a family construction business that built Hamilton landmarks including City Hall, the Pigott Building, Copps Coliseum and Christ the King Cathedral (Hamilton), Christ the King Cathedral
*Andrew Ross (Barton Street Arena), Andrew Ross (1857–1941), businessman; lent his support to the building of the Tivoli theatre and to the Barton Street Arena; was involved in professional hockey (Hamilton Tigers) and softball
* William Rymal (1759–1852), farmer and one of the earliest settlers on the Hamilton Mountain; Rymal Road (Hamilton, Ontario), Rymal Road is named after him
*E. D. Smith (1853–1948), businessman and politician who founded a food company that bears his name
*Ken Soble, founder of CHCH-TV, leader of Hamilton's urban renewal movement, and owner of CHML radio
*William Southam (1843–1932), once an apprentice printer at the ''London Free Press''; at age 34 he purchased the troubled ''Hamilton Spectator'', turned it around and made it the flagship of a national newspaper chain
*Harry Stinson (real estate developer), Harry Stinson (1953– ), real estate developer and president of Stinson Properties; called Toronto's "condo king"; now resides in Hamilton
*Thomas Stinson (1798–1864), merchant, banker, landowner; an extensive landowner in not only in Hamilton but also Chicago, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, Superior City, Wisconsin, which he named
*George Elias Tuckett (1835–1900), Tuckett Tobacco Company owner and Hamilton's 27th mayor in 1896
*Bob Young (businessman), Bob Young, founder of Red Hat 1996, started a self-publishing website that claims to be the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books (www.lulu.com); currently owns the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the CFL (Ancaster, Ontario, Ancaster)
*Joyce Young, philanthropist
Education
* Adelaide Hoodless (1858–1910), educational reformer who inspired the founders of the international women's organization known as the Women's Institutes in 1897
* Janet Lee (1862–1940), education reformer who co-founded the international women's organization known as the Women's Institutes (WI) in 1897, and wrote the constitution and By-laws used by the organization.
Law
Crime
* Johnson Aziga (1956– ), first person charged with first-degree murder in Canada for spreading the HIV virus, after two women whom he had infected without their knowledge died
* Evelyn Dick (1920)– , committed infanticide and was convicted, then acquitted, of having murdered her husband
* Giacomo Luppino (1900–1987), mobster of the Hamilton-based Luppino crime family
* Angelo Musitano (1978–2017), mobster of the Hamilton-based Musitano crime family
* Pat Musitano (1968–2020), mobster of the Hamilton-based Musitano crime family
* Johnny Papalia (1924–1997), mobster of the Hamilton-based Papalia crime family
[Schneider, ''Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada'', pp. 291]
* Rocco Perri (1887–disappeared 1944), gangster
* Cathy Smith (1947– ), singer; convicted of manslaughter in death of John Belushi, co-authored the book ''Chasing the Dragon'' about her life experience with drugs (1984)
Judges and lawyers
*Charles William Bell (1876–1938), playwright, politician and Rocco Perri's lawyer
*Alan Borovoy (1932–2015), lawyer and human rights activist
*Harvey Brownstone (1956– ), judge of the Ontario Court of Justice
*Richard Hatt (1769–1819), businessman, judge and political figure in Upper Canada
*Helen Kinnear (1894–1970), lawyer, first federally appointed woman judge in Canada
*Helen Gregory MacGill (1864–1947), first woman in British Columbia to be appointed a judge of the juvenile court, a post she held for 23 years
*Jack Pelech (1934– ), litigation and business lawyer, Hamilton Citizen of the Year, 1987; Order of Canada, 2006
*John Sopinka (1933–1997), Supreme Court Justice described as the heart of the court; raised in north Hamilton and died unexpectedly; namesake of Hamilton's courthouse and the Sopinka Cup, a law student advocacy competition
*John Willson (1776–1860), judge and political figure in Upper Canada
Military
*Nathan Cirillo (1990–2014), Corporal of the The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's), Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada; slain while on ceremonial guard duty at the National War Memorial (Canada), National War Memorial during the 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa
*William W. Cooke (1846–1876), military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Black Hills War; adjutant for George Armstrong Custer and was killed during the Battle of the Little Bighorn; buried in Hamilton Cemetery
*Harry Crerar (1888–1965), commander of the First Canadian Army in the Second World War
*John Weir Foote (1904–1988), military chaplain and Ontario cabinet minister, Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross; The James Street Armoury where the RHLI is now based, along with 11th Field Hamilton-Wentworth Battery, was renamed the John W. Foote VC Armoury in his memory
*Billy Green (scout), Billy Green (1794–1877), otherwise known as "The Scout", key to the Anglo-Canadian victory at the Battle of Stoney Creek
*Robert Land (1739–1818), Robert Land (1736–1818), veteran of the American Revolution and one of Hamilton's founding citizens; Robert Land Academy, Canada's only military pre-university private school, was named in his honour
*Ben Lear (1879–1966), Olympic bronze medal winner, United States Army World War II-era general
*Sydney Chilton Mewburn (1863–1956), lawyer and politician; Minister of Militia and Defence from 1917 to 1920 under Sir Robert Borden's Union Government in 1917
*Harold A. Rogers (1899–1994), founder of Kin Canada (formerly the Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs of Canada), a non-profit service organization that promotes service, fellowship, positive values, and national pride
*John Vincent (general), John Vincent (1764–1848), British army officer in the Battle of Stoney Creek, War of 1812
Politics

*Dominic Agostino (1959–2004), Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario for Hamilton East (provincial electoral district), Hamilton East from 1995 until his death in 2004; the first Ontario Liberal Party, Liberal MPP in that riding since 1967
*Lincoln Alexander (1922–2012), the 24th Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991 and former Governor of the Canadian Unity Council; became Canada's first black Member of Parliament when he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1968 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada; an expressway on Hamilton Mountain was named the Lincoln Alexander Parkway in his honour
*Thomas Bain (1834–1915), speaker of the House of Commons
*Richard Beasley (politician), Richard Beasley (1761–1842), soldier, political figure, farmer and businessman in Upper Canada
*Marie Bountrogianni (1956– ), Ed.D., former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty
*Isaac Buchanan (1810–1883), businessman and political figure in Canada West
*Sarmite Bulte (1953– ), Latvian-Canadian lawyer, advocate and politician; member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party; represented the Toronto riding of Parkdale—High Park (federal electoral district), Parkdale-High Park in the House of Commons through three successive parliaments from 1997 to 2006
*Richard Butson (1922–2015), medical officer and politician (Ancaster, Ontario, Ancaster)
*Jack Cable (politician), Ivan John "Jack" Cable (1934– ), politician and the former Commissioner of the Yukon (2000–2005)
*Chris Charlton (1963– ), MA, Member of Parliament in the 2006 federal election for Hamilton Mountain
*David Christopherson (1954– ), represents the riding of Hamilton Centre in the House of Commons (2004– )
*Mark Coakley, Hamilton-based activist, lawyer, author and chair of Environment Hamilton
*Sheila Copps (1952– ), PC, HBA, LL.D (hc), journalist and former politician; a second-generation member of a political family that has dominated Hamilton-area politics on the municipal, provincial and federal levels
*Victor K. Copps (1919–1988), politician and Mayor of Hamilton; the city's landmark sports arena, Copps Coliseum (now FirstOntario Centre) was named in his honour
*Adam Crooks (politician), Adam Crooks (1827–1885), LLB, an Ontario Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Toronto West, 1871–1874; moved to the riding of Oxford South, 1875–1886; MLA for the Ontario Liberal Party
*Thomas Mayne Daly Sr. (1827–1885), businessman and political figure in Canada West (later Ontario); represented the riding of Perth North in the House of Commons and in the Ontario Provincial Parliament
*Ellen Fairclough (1905–2004), first female member of the Canadian Cabinet; the Ellen Fairclough Building in Hamilton is named after her
*Colin Campbell Ferrie (1808–1856), Hamilton's first mayor
*Sir John Morison Gibson (1842–1929), lawyer, politician, businessman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 1908–1914
*George Hamilton (died 1836), George Hamilton (1788–1836), settler and city founder
*Sir John Strathearn Hendrie (1857–1923), Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1914 to 1919
*Adam Inch (1857–1933), dairy farmer, politician; Inch Park neighbourhood on Hamilton Mountain is named after him
*Sarah Jama, Somalia, Somali Canadian Muslim politician
*Stan Keyes (Stanley Kazmierczak Keyes) (1953– ), diplomat and former politician
*Samuel Lawrence (Canadian politician), Sam Lawrence (1879–1959), mayor and Innovator, pioneer of Labour rights in Hamilton
* William Findlay Maclean (1854–1929), politician, Conservative Party of Canada (historical), Conservative MP for York East and York South (federal electoral district), York South, served for 34 years
* Allan MacNab (Sir Allan Napier MacNab) (1798–1862), soldier, lawyer, businessman, knight and former Prime Minister of Upper Canada; MacNab Street (Hamilton, Ontario), MacNab Street in Hamilton is named after him
*Quinto Martini (politician), Quinto Martini (1908–1975), first Italian Canadian elected to Parliament, where he represented Hamilton East from 1957 until he was defeated by Liberal John Munro in 1962
*Catherine McKenna (1971– ), Canadian Parliament, MP for Ottawa Centre (federal electoral district), Ottawa Centre, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
*James McMillan (politician), James McMillan (1838–1902), U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan
*Thomas McQuesten (1882–1948), sportsperson, athlete, militiaman, lawyer, politician and government appointee who lived in Hamilton; helped encourage McMaster University to relocate from downtown Toronto to west Hamilton in 1930
*Bob Morrow (1946–2018), longest-serving mayor in Hamilton's history (1983–2000); selected to serve as an interim councillor for Ward Three in 2014
*John Munro (Canadian politician), John Munro (1931–2003), PC, BA, LL.B, politician, elected to the House of Commons in the 1962 election; Hamilton's "John Munro International Airport" is named after him
*Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore; moved to the United States after his presidency, but later moved to Hamilton, where he died in 2005
*Father Sean O'Sullivan (priest), Sean O'Sullivan, politician and religious leader
* Saul Rae (1914–1999), diplomat
* Allan Rowe (1955–2015), member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly
* William Eli Sanford (1838–1899), businessman, philanthropist, and politician
*Charles Stewart (Alberta politician, born 1868), Charles Stewart (1868–1946), politician, Premier of Alberta from 1917 to 1921 (Wentworth County, Ontario, Wentworth County)
*Allan Studholme (1846–1919), stove maker and first Ontario Labour MLA
*James Lyle Telford (1889–1960), mayor of Vancouver, B.C. 1939–40 (Valens, Ontario, Valens)
*James Walker (Alberta politician), James Walker (1874– ), politician in Alberta; municipal councillor in Edmonton
Religion
*Michael Baldasaro (1949–2016), Church of the Universe leader
*Charles Coughlin (1891–1979), priest and radio personality
*John Dunjee (1833–1903), freed slave, pastor
*John Christie Holland (1882–1954), became an ordained minister in 1924 and served as pastor of Hamilton's Stewart Memorial Church; in 1953 he was honoured as Hamilton's Citizen of the Year, the first African Canadian given that recognition
*Peter Jones (missionary), Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) (1802–1856), Methodist missionary of Welsh-Ojibwe heritage
Science
* James Arthur (mathematician), James Arthur (born 1944), mathematician
* Douglas Barber (1938– ), businessman, founder and former president and CEO of ennum Corp
* Manjul Bhargava (1974– ), mathematician, born in Hamilton; a recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal
* Bertram Brockhouse (1918–2003), Nobel Prize-winning physicist
*Robert N. Clayton (1930–2017), geochemist
*John Charles Fields (1863–1932), mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics, considered by some to be the Nobel Prize in Mathematics
* Campbell Leckie (1848–1925), engineer; Leckie Park (Hamilton, Ontario), Leckie Park neighbourhood on Hamilton Mountain is named after him
* Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020), mathematician, born in Hamilton; known for work on partial differential equations, especially as applied to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness, Navier–Stokes problem
*William Parks (paleontologist), William Parks (1868–1939), geologist and paleontologist, following in the tradition of Lawrence Lambe
* John Rae (explorer), John Rae (1813–1893), physician and polar explorer
*Myron Scholes (1941– ), Nobel Prize-winning economist
Invention
*Troy Hurtubise (1963–2018), inventor of a prototype for a lightweight armour shell for military purposes that conjures up an image of a ''Star Wars'' Imperial stormtrooper
*George Klein (inventor), George Klein (1904–1992), often called the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century; inventor of electric wheelchair, microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor and the Canadarm
*Steve Mann (inventor), Steve Mann, inventor of wearable computers who teaches electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto
*Thomas Willson (1860–1915), inventor; designed and patented the first electric arc lamps
Medicine

*Elizabeth Bagshaw (1881–1982), physician and birth control activist
*John Cameron Bell, John C Bell (1953– ), cancer researcher at the OHRI, developer of oncolytic viral therapies
*David G. Benner, clinical psychologist and author
*John Callaghan (physician), John Callaghan (1923–2004), cardiologist who pioneered open-heart surgery
*Harold E. Johns (1915–1998), medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer
*Nathan Francis Mossell 1856–1946, physician, first African-American graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
*James Fraser Mustard (1927–2011), physician, scientist, and founding member of the McMaster University Faculty of Medicine
*Sir William Osler (1849–1919), 1st Baronet, the "father of modern medicine" (
Dundas)
*David Sackett (1934–2015), founded the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at
McMaster University
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*The Honourable William Winegard (1924–2019), educator, engineer, scientist and former Member of Parliament
Sports
Basketball
*Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (1998– ), NBA player for the Oklahoma City Thunder, selected by the Charlotte Hornets (1st round, 11th overall) in the 2018 NBA draft, before being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers the same day; traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in July 2019
* Kia Nurse (1996– ), Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA player for the Chicago Sky and the Canada women's national basketball team, Canadian national team
*Shona Thorburn (1982– ), Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA player for the Seattle Storm; attended Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton
Boxing
*Jackie Callura (1914–1993), featherweight boxing, boxer, World Featherweight Champion of 1943
*Jessica Rakoczy (1977– ), boxer, 2005 WBC Lightweight Champion
Darts
*Al Bouchie (1972– ), darts player
*Marco Gonthier (1974– ), darts player
Figure skating
*Toller Cranston (1949–2015), figure skater who won the Olympic bronze medal in 1976
*Bryce Davison (1986– ), figure skater, competed in the pairs event with Jessica Dubé; member of the Hamilton Skating Club;
Davison and Dube were Canadian champions three times;they were world bronze medallists in 2008; they finished 6th at the Olympics and World Championships in 2010, their last competitive season
* Wendy Griner (born 1944), figure skater
Football
*John Bonk (1950– ), four-time All-Star offensive lineman in the Canadian Football League, played from 1973 to 1985 for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
*Less Browne (1959– ), CFL defensive back for Hamilton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and B.C.; holds the CFL and all-pro records for most interceptions in a career with 87; resides in Hamilton
*Bob Cameron (Canadian football), Bob Cameron (1954– ), played 23 seasons (1980–2002) with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League
*Steve Christie (1967– ), ex-placekicker in the National Football League, NFL; holds a Super Bowl record for longest field goal kicked, at 54 yards
*Tommy Joe Coffey, Canadian Football League receiver who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats; currently resides in
Burlington
*Ben D'Aguilar (1989– ), former professional Canadian Football League defensive lineman for the Calgary Stampeders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats
*Peter Dalla Riva (1946– ), former professional Canadian football player with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League at the tight end and wide receiver positions; three-time CFL Allstar
*Bernie Faloney (1932–1999), star quarterback football player in the United States and Canada
*Rudy Florio (1950– ), Canadian football player
*Corey Grant (1976– ), former wide receiver for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (Stoney Creek, Ontario, Stoney Creek)
*Russ Jackson (1936– ), Canadian football quarterback, all-time pass leading Canadian quarterback, three Grey Cups with the Ottawa Rough Riders
*Larry Jusdanis (1970– ), Canadian football quarterback
*Joe Krol (1919–2008 ), Canadian football quarterback (1932–53), Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's top athlete in 1946
*Ron Lancaster (1938–2008), former football player, coach and general manager in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and sports announcer for CBC Television
*Jesse Lumsden (1982– ), former running back with Hamilton, Edmonton, and Calgary of the Canadian Football League and McMaster University alumnus
*Paul Masotti (1965– ), former wide receiver for Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League
*Spencer Moore (1990– ), fullback (gridiron football), fullback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League; won the 47th Vanier Cup with the McMaster Marauders and the 101st Grey Cup with the Saskatchewan Roughriders
*Mike Morreale (1971– ), award-winning receiver in the Canadian Football League
*Rocco Romano, CFL's DeMarco-Becket Memorial Trophy winner in 1994 and 1996 for the Calgary Stampeders, awarded originally to the player selected as the outstanding lineman in the West Division; inducted into the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame
The Canadian Football Hall of Fame (CFHOF) is a not-for-profit corporation, located in Hamilton, Ontario, that celebrates achievements in Canadian football. It is maintained by the Canadian Football League (CFL). It includes displays about the CFL, ...
in 2007
*Ralph Sazio, player, coach, GM and president of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats; won four Eastern finals and three Grey Cups as coach from 1963 to 1967
*Vince Scott (1925–1992), played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats; later a Hamilton city councillor
*Jim Young (1943– ), former pro American football and Canadian football player
Golf
*Bobbi Lancaster, trans woman who reached notoriety playing in the LPGA Qualifying Tournament in 2013
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Ice hockey
*Dave Andreychuk (1963– ), 2004 Stanley Cup champion; holds the NHL record for most career power-play goals (274)
*Syl Apps (1915–1998), Toronto Maple Leafs captain who led the Leafs to three Stanley Cups; 1936-37 Calder trophy winner (top NHL rookie); 1941-42 Lady Byng Trophy winner; McMaster University Alumni (Paris, Ontario)
*Paul Beraldo (1967– ), retired hockey centre (ice hockey), centre
*Allan Bester (1964– ), retired NHL hockey Goaltender, goalie, Toronto Maple Leafs
*Andy Brown (ice hockey), Andy Brown (1944– ), credited with being the last pro goaltender to play barefaced; last played NHL hockey for the Pittsburgh Penguins
*David Brown (hockey), David Brown (1985– ), Notre Dame Fighting Irish hockey goalie; named team MVP in 2006; named (Central Collegiate Hockey Association, CCHA); Central Collegiate Hockey Association's Player-of-the-week three times in 2007; favorite to win the 2007 Hobey Baker Award, which is awarded to the top collegiate player in the United States; a Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick in 2004
*Frank Caprice (1962–2025), NHL hockey goalie, six seasons with Vancouver Canucks (1982–88)
*Ben Chiarot (1991– ), defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL
*Joe Cirella (1963– ), retired NHL defenseman, 821 games played, No. 5 pick overall in 1981 NHL Entry Draft by the Colorado Rockies (NHL), Colorado Rockies
*Sebastian Cossa (2002– ), ice hockey Goaltender (ice hockey), goaltender for the Detroit Red Wings
*Dave Dryden (1941– ), retired NHL hockey goalie, 201 NHL games for Buffalo Sabres, Buffalo, Edmonton Oilers, Edmonton, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago and New York Rangers, NY Rangers; created (and was the first goaltender to employ) the modern-day goaltending mask consisting of a fiberglass mask with a cage
*Ken Dryden (1947– ), retired NHL hockey goalie, elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983
*Blake Dunlop (1953– ), retired NHL hockey player, winner of the 1980–81 Bill Masterton trophy
*Cecil "Babe" Dye (1898–1962), NHL hockey player, its top goal scorer of the 1920s; inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1970; nicknamed "Babe" because he was considered to be 'the Babe Ruth of hockey'
*Don Edwards (ice hockey), Don Edwards (1955– ), retired NHL hockey goalie, winner of the Vezina Trophy in 1979–80
*Ryan Ellis (1991– ), defenseman for the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL
*Nelson Emerson (1967– ), retired NHL hockey player
*Ray Emery (1982–2018), NHL hockey goalie
* Laura Fortino (born 1991), ice hockey player
*Johnathan Kovacevic (1997– ), NHL player for the New Jersey Devils
*Tyrone Garner (1978– ), played for Calgary Flames as goaltender (born in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Stoney Creek)
*Ben Harpur (born 1995), NHL player for the New York Rangers
*Todd Harvey (1975– ), NHL hockey player
*Red Horner (1909–2005), NHL hockey defenseman; helped Toronto Maple Leafs win their first Stanley Cup in 1932
*Tim Horton (1930–1974), NHL hockey defenseman; opened his first Tim Hortons Donut Shop in Hamilton in 1964
*Harry Howell (hockey player), Harry Howell (1932–2019), NHL hockey defenseman, winner of the 1966–67 Norris Trophy, James Norris Trophy
*Willie Huber (1958– ), retired NHL hockey defenseman; born in (Germany) and grew up in Hamilton
*Dick Irvin Sr. (1892–1957), NHL hockey player, former head coach of Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens
* Mark Jankowski (born 1994), ice hockey centre
*Al Jensen (1958– ), retired NHL hockey goalie, winner of the 1983–84 Jennings Trophy, William Jennings trophy
*Derek King (1967– ), retired NHL hockey player
*Jamie Macoun (1961– ), retired NHL hockey defenseman who played 1,128 NHL games
*Adam Mair (1979– ), NHL hockey player
*Brian McGrattan (1981– ), NHL hockey player for the Phoenix Coyotes; NHL enforcer
*Marty McSorley (1963– ), retired NHL hockey player infamous for his assault of Donald Brashear in a game on 21 February 2001
*Ron Murphy (1933– ), retired NHL player who played in 889 games
*Ric Nattress (1962– ), retired NHL hockey defenseman
*Darnell Nurse (1995– ), current NHL player with the Edmonton Oilers; first round draft pick for the Edmonton Oilers; gold medal winner at the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship
*Murray Oliver (1937– ), retired NHL hockey player, played in 1,127 NHL games
*George Owen (ice hockey), George Owen (1901–1986), retired NHL hockey defenceman for the Boston Bruins; served as the Bruins captain in the 1931–32 season; first player credited with wearing a helmet in his rookie season in 1928
*Keith Primeau (1971– ), retired NHL hockey player; born in Toronto and grew up in Hamilton
*Pat Quinn (ice hockey), Pat Quinn (1943–2014), retired NHL hockey player, former head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers
*Leo Reise Jr. (1922– ), retired NHL hockey defenseman; 494 games played in the 1940s and 1950s for Detroit Red Wings, Detroit, Chicago and NY Rangers
*Zac Rinaldo (1990– ), ice hockey player for the Nashville Predators
*Rick Smith (ice hockey), Rick Smith (1948– ), retired NHL hockey defenseman; 687 games played; No. 7 pick in 1966 NHL Entry draft by the Boston Bruins
*Steve Staios (1973– ), Retired NHL hockey defenseman, Current GM of the Hamilton Bulldogs
*Danny Syvret (1985– ), NHL hockey defenseman who spent his junior career with the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, OHL, eventually being named Captain (ice hockey), team captain; in his final year of junior hockey, he was captain of a powerhouse team that broke numerous junior hockey records and won the 2005 Memorial Cup (Millgrove, Ontario, Millgrove)
*John Tonelli (1957– ), retired NHL hockey player; 1984 Canada Cup MVP
*Arber Xhekaj (2001– ), NHL player for the Montreal Canadiens
Running
*David Griffin (athlete), David Griffin (1905–1944), represented Canada in athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres and the 1930 British Empire Games, was also a journalist for ''The Hamilton Spectator'' and a Royal Canadian Air Force officer
*Robert Kerr (athlete), Robert Kerr (1882–1963), Irish-Canadian Sprint (running), sprinter; won the gold medal in the 200 metres and the bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1908 Summer Olympics
*Ray Lewis (runner), Ray Lewis (1910–2003), track & field, first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist
*William Sherring (1878–1964), athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1906 Summer Olympics
Soccer
*Valerio Alesi (1966– ), first Canadian-born player in Serie A Soccer
*Bob Bearpark (1943–1996), soccer head coach
*Ian Bennett (soccer), Ian Bennett (1985– ), soccer player who currently plays for the Milwaukee Wave of the Major Indoor Soccer League (2008–), Major Indoor Soccer League
*Nick Bontis (1969– ), soccer player and coach elected President of Canada Soccer in November 2020
*Luka Gavran (2000– ), soccer player
*Stefan Mitrović (footballer, born 2002) (2002– ), soccer player
*Milan Borjan (1987– ), goalkeeper (Red Star Belgrade, Canada men's national soccer team, Canadian national soccer team), born in Yugoslavia and raised in Hamilton
*Alex Bunbury (1967– ), played four seasons with the Hamilton Steelers (CSL) 1987–90; voted Best Foreign Player in the Portuguese people, Portuguese first division club Maritimo in the 1994–95 season, where he scored 12-goals; a Canadian Soccer Hall-of-Fame inductee in 2006; his son is fellow Hamiltonian soccer star Teal Bunbury
*Teal Bunbury (1990– ), played for the Canadian Canada men's national youth soccer teams, U17 and Canada men's national under-20 soccer team, U20 teams, as well as the US's United States men's national under-23 soccer team, U23 team, and United States men's national soccer team, national squad; has played professionally for the Sporting Kansas City since 2010; his father is fellow Hamiltonian soccer star Alex Bunbury
*Jamie Dodds (1981– ), soccer player who played for the Toronto Lynx in the USL First Division, USL First Division
*Rhian Dodds (1979– ), midfielder for Kilmarnock F.C. (Scottish soccer)
*Milan Kojic (1976– ), former professional soccer player
*Robert McDonald (soccer), Robert McDonald (1902–1956), soccer player from the 1920s and 1930s who spent a decade playing for famous Scottish people, Scottish football club Rangers
*John McGrane, played nine North American Soccer League (1968–1984), North American Soccer League seasons and 17 times for the Canada men's national soccer team, Canadian national soccer team in 'A' internationals; played in the Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics, Montreal Olympics; in 2008 he was inducted into Canada's Soccer Hall of Fame
*Jimmy Nicholl (1956– ), Northern Irish football player, 73 International caps
* Ryan Raposo (1999– ), forward for Liaoning Tieren F.C.
*Greg Sutton (soccer), Greg Sutton (1981– ), Canadian International Soccer goalkeeper (Toronto FC)
*Melissa Tancredi (1977– ), Canadian soccer forward who currently plays for Dalsjöfors GoIF and Canada's National Women's team; won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics
Thoroughbred horse racing
Hamilton is the birthplace of three jockeys in Thoroughbred horse race, Thoroughbred horse racing whose success led to them being inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame:
* Jeffrey Fell
* Chris Rogers (jockey), Chris Rogers
* Don Seymour
Wrestling
*Michelle Fazzari (1987–2024), member of Canada's Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics#Wrestling, 2016 Olympic wrestling team.
*Ion Croitoru, Johnny K-9 (Ion William Croitoru) (1963–2017), four years in the World Wrestling Entertainment, WWF, including a match against Hulk Hogan
*Billy Red Lyons, ex-pro wrestler and TV announcer for Maple Leaf Wrestling
*Angelo Mosca (1938– ), Canadian Football League player between 1958 and 1969 with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, better known for his pro wrestling career
*Ethan Page (1989– ), born Julian Micevski, born and raised in Stoney Creek; currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT (WWE brand), NXT brand.
*Johnny Powers (wrestler), Johnny Powers (1943– ), ex-pro wrestler, two-time NWF World champion (1970, 1973)
*John Quinn (wrestler), "Big John" Quinn (1944– ), retired professional wrestler who competed in North American regional promotions including NWA All-Star Wrestling, Pacific Northwest Wrestling and Stampede Wrestling during the 1960s and early 1970s; cousin of former NHL coach and Hamiltonian Pat Quinn
*The Missing Link (wrestler), Dewey Robertson (1939–2007), "The Missing Link," ex-pro wrestler
*George Scott (wrestler), George Scott (1929–2014), professional wrestler, brother and tag partner of Sandy Scott
*Sandy Scott (1934–2010), former professional wrestler, brother and tag partner of George Scott
*Iron Mike Sharpe Jr. (1951–2016), ex-pro wrestler, self-proclaimed "Canada's Greatest Athlete"
*Tonya Verbeek (1977– ), first Canadian woman to medal at the Olympics in wrestling, the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's wrestling in the 55 kg category; at the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Canada's third medal overall, and the third Canadian medal ever in women's wrestling, a bronze in the Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 55 kg, 55kg class(Grimsby ON)
Other sports
*Doug Didero (1960– ), race car driver
*Eleanor Harvey (1995– ), Foil (fencing), foil fencer, won gold at the 2015 Pan American Games, represented Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics
*Melanie Hawtin (1988– ), wheelchair racer and wheelchair basketball player
*Ray Lazdins (1964– ), retired discus thrower, represented Canada twice at the Summer Olympics
*Irene MacDonald (1931–2002), Canada's champion diver from 1951 to 1961; won medals at the 1954 and 1958 Commonwealth Games and in 1956 she won Canada's first Olympic diving medal, a bronze
*Joanne Malar (1975– ), former freestyle and medley swimmer; competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics
*Luke McGrath (1993– ), rugby union scrum-half for Leinster Rugby and the Ireland national rugby union team
*Pat Messner (1954– ), water skier, winner of the 1972 Summer Olympics bronze
*Frank O'Rourke (baseball infielder), Frank O'Rourke (1894–1986), ex-pro baseball player and long time New York Yankees scout
*Chrissy Redden (1966– ), cross-country mountain biker
*Linda Thom (1943– ), women's shooting (25m pistol) gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Miscellaneous
*Alexander Aitchison, first full-time fire chief of Hamilton
*Étienne Brûlé (1592–1633), probably the first European to visit what is now Hamilton in 1616
*Marion Stinson Crerar (1859–1919), clubwoman and WWI worker
*Death of Regan Russell, Regan Russell (1955–2020), animal rights activist
*Tuhbenahneequay (Sarah Henry) (1780–1873), mother of missionary Peter Jones
*Eileen Vollick (1908–1968), aviator; first Canadian woman to earn a private pilot's certificate
References
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