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| x Dan Aykroyd |
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Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an...
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| x Margaret Atwood |
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian author, poet, critic, feminist and social campaigner. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award...
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| x Barbara Ann Scott |
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Barbara Ann Scott, OC, O.Ont (born May 9, 1928 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian retired figure skater. She is the 1948 Olympic Champion.
Barbara Ann Scott began skating at a very young age with the Minto Skating Club of Ottawa, Ontario,...
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| x Bruce Cockburn |
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Bruce Douglas Cockburn, OC (pronounced /ˈkoʊbərn/ KOE-bərn; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His 29th album was released in summer 2006, and he has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz...
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| x Paul Anka |
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Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1990.
Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and ...
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| x Princess Margriet of the Netherlands |
Princess Margriet Francisca of the Netherlands (born 19 January 1943), Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, is the third daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. As a daughter of the...
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| x Lorne Greene |
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Lorne Greene (February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987), was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green O.C., LL.D., a Canadian actor.
His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the long-running western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the original science...
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| x John Manley |
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John Paul Manley, PC, OC (born January 5, 1950, Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004, and a Cabinet Minister from 1993 to 2003.
John Manley...
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| x Elizabeth Smart |
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Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, By Heart:...
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| x Bob Chiarelli |
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Robert (Bob) Chiarelli (born September 24, 1941 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1997, and served as regional chair and then mayor of Ottawa, Ontario from 1997-2006....
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| x Bob Rae |
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Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and sits in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal opposition's foreign affairs critic.
Rae was a...
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| x Robert J. Sawyer |
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Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 18 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and numerous anthologies. Sawyer...
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| x Dalton McGuinty |
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP (born July 19, 1955 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, premier of the Canadian province of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and the second...
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| x Alexa McDonough |
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Alexa Ann McDonough, née Shaw (born August 11, 1944) is a Canadian politician who led the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia from 1980 to 1994, and was subsequently elected leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1995. She was succeeded...
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| x Allan Rock |
This article is about the Canadian statesman. For the similarly-named places in Massachusetts, see Allen Rock.
Allan Michael Rock, PC (born August 30, 1947) is a lawyer, former Canadian politician, diplomat and now the President of University of...
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| x Aurel Joliat |
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Aurèle Émile "Mighty Atom, Little Giant" Joliat (Ottawa, August 29, 1901 – June 2, 1986 in Ottawa) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens.
Joliat began his...
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| x Derek Armstrong |
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Derek Armstrong (born April 23, 1973 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre in the National Hockey League who has played for the New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings and currently, the St...
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| x E. P. Taylor |
Edward Plunket Taylor, (January 29, 1901 - May 14, 1989) was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. Known to his friends as "Eddie," he is universally recorded as "E. P. Taylor."
Born in Ottawa, Ontario into a...
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| x Adrian Aucoin |
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Adrian Aucoin (born July 3, 1973) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Aucoin was drafted 117th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in...
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| x Justin Trudeau |
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Justin Trudeau MP (born December 25, 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is the eldest son of the late former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair Trudeau Kemper. On October 14, 2008, he was elected Member of Parliament for the...
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| x Stephen Lewis |
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Stephen Henry Lewis, CC (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, broadcaster and diplomat. He is currently Social Science Scholar-in-Residence at McMaster University, having recently completed his term as United Nations special envoy for...
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| x Steven MacLean |
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Steven Glenwood MacLean (born December 14, 1954) is a Canadian astronaut. He is the current President of the Canadian Space Agency, appointed on September 2, 2008.
He was born in Ottawa, Ontario and is married to Nadine Wielgopolski of Hull, Quebec....
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| x Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley |
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Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley (May 21, 1870 – December 28, 1947) was a New Brunswick lawyer, politician and premier.
Tilley was born in Ottawa, the son of Samuel Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers of Confederation, and grew up there and in...
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| x E. L. M. Burns |
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Eedson Louis Millard "Tommy" Burns, CC, DSO, OBE, MC, CD (June 17, 1897 – September 13, 1985) was a Canadian Army Lieutenant General and diplomat.
E.L.M. Burns was born on June 17, 1897 in Montreal, Quebec. His father was a militia staff officer, a...
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| x Matthew Barnaby |
Matthew Barnaby (born May 4, 1973 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian retired NHL right winger. Barnaby played for the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers, Colorado Avalanche, Chicago Blackhawks and the Dallas...
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| x Denis Potvin |
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Denis Charles Potvin (born October 29, 1953) is a former defenceman and team captain for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League and cornerstone for the Islanders' four Stanley Cup championship teams in the early 1980s. His brother,...
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| x Rick Vaive |
Richard Claude "Rick" Vaive (born May 14, 1959) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League from 1979 to 1992, and is best remembered as the first 50 goal scorer in Toronto Maple Leafs franchise...
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| x Gérald Tremblay |
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Gérald Tremblay (born September 20, 1942 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian politician currently serving his second term as mayor of Montreal and as president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. Before becoming mayor he had a long career in...
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| x Jim Peterson |
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James Scott "Jim" Peterson, PC (born July 30, 1941) is a retired Canadian politician and former Minister of International Trade.
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he has a DCL from McGill University, a Master of Laws from Columbia University, and a Bachelor...
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| x Dominic LeBlanc |
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Dominic A. LeBlanc, PC, MP (born December 14, 1967 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian politician.
LeBlanc earned a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Toronto (Trinity College), a LL.B. degree from the University of New Brunswick,...
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| x Tom Cavanagh |
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Thomas Cavanagh (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian actor.
Cavanagh was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and moved with his parents to a small city, Winneba, in Ghana when he was seven years old. In his teens, the family moved to Lennoxville,...
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| x David McGuinty |
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David Joseph McGuinty (born February 25, 1960 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian politician and the brother of Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty. He is also the son of former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Dalton McGuinty Sr.. He is a Liberal...
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| x Dan Boyle |
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Daniel Boyle (born July 12, 1976) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and an alternate captain of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning, with...
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| x Sarah Chalke |
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Sarah Cassandra Chalke (born August 27, 1976) is a Canadian actress with dual American and Canadian citizenship, best known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC comedy Scrubs, Becky Conner Healy on Roseanne, and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom...
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| x Donald Stovel Macdonald |
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Donald Stovel Macdonald, PC, CC (born March 1, 1932) is a former Canadian Liberal politician and Cabinet minister.
Macdonald graduated from the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto in 1952. He was first elected to the Canadian...
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| x Rod Brind'Amour |
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Roderick Jean Brind'Amour (born August 9, 1970 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and team captain of the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2006.
Born in Ottawa but...
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| x Jim McKenny |
James Claude "Howie" McKenny (born December 1, 1946, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a retired NHL defenceman and a sports reporter for the Citytv television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He played 604 games between the Toronto Maple Leafs and...
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| x John Tuzo Wilson |
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John Tuzo Wilson, CC, OBE, FRS, FRSC, FRSE (October 24, 1908–April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.
Plate tectonics is the idea that the rigid...
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| x King Clancy |
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Francis Michael "King" Clancy (25 February 1903 – 10 November 1986) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs before becoming a coach,...
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| x Adam Reid |
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Adam Reid (born 1973) is a Canadian actor.
Reid is perhaps best known for his appearances on You Can't Do That on Television, for which he eventually became a writer. He also appeared in the Kids in the Hall movie Brain Candy, and in the Disney...
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| x Kelly Rowan |
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Kelly Rowan (born October 26, 1965) is a Canadian television and film actress and former fashion model. She is best known for portraying Kirsten Cohen on the Fox TV series The O.C.
Rowan was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and is a graduate of Toronto's...
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| x Donal Logue |
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Donal Francis Logue (born February 27, 1966) is a Canadian actor perhaps most famous for his role as Sean Finnerty in Grounded for Life.
Logue was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His father, Michael J. Logue, was once a Carmelite Catholic...
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| x Punch Broadbent |
Harry Lawton "Punch" Broadbent (July 13, 1892 - March 5, 1971) was an ice hockey player for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons and the New York Americans, and generally regarded as one of the first true power forwards in National Hockey League ...
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| x Meredith Henderson |
Meredith Henderson (born November 24, 1983 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian actress best known for her debut as the title character in The Adventures of Shirley Holmes. She also had a leading role as wheelchair-using Cleo Bellows in the 2001...
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| x Mark McKinney |
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Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for his work in the long-running sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Following the run of their television series (1989 to 1995) and feature film ...
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| x Brian Kilrea |
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Brian Blair "Killer" Kilrea (born October 21, 1934 in Ottawa, Ontario) is an ice hockey head coach, general manager and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Kilrea is a nephew of former NHL players Wally, Ken, and Hec Kilrea.
Kilrea played his first...
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| x Frank McGee |
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Francis "Frank" Clarence McGee, (November 4, 1882 – September 16, 1916) was a legendary ice hockey player during the early days of hockey for the Ottawa Hockey Club, nicknamed the Silver Seven. Although McGee was blind in one eye, he scored 14 goals...
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| x Andrew Scheer |
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Andrew Scheer (born May 20, 1979 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian Member of Parliament.
Scheer was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He graduated from Immaculata High School and studied history and politics at the University of Ottawa.
While attending...
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| x Brian Smith |
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Brian Desmond (Smitty) Smith (September 6, 1940 – August 2, 1995) was a Canadian athlete and sportscaster. Smith was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of former professional ice hockey player Des Smith and brother of former professional hockey...
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| x Andrew Scott |
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Andrew Walter Gibson Scott (born November 15, 1967) is a Canadian musician born in Ottawa, Ontario and currently living in Toronto, Ontario. His first bands include No Damn Fears, Oreo Reversed and Blackpool from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Currently, he...
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| x Brendan Bell |
Brendan Bell (born on March 31, 1983 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League (AHL).
Bell was drafted in the 3rd round, 65th overall, of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft...
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| x Dyson Heydon |
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John Dyson Heydon AC (born 1 March 1943 in Ottawa, Canada) is a Justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.
After matriculating from Shore School, Heydon received a BA from Sydney University and an MA...
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| x Mike Gartner |
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Michael Alfred Gartner (born October 29, 1959 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, New York Rangers,...
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| x Jean-Robert Gauthier |
Jean-Robert Gauthier, CM, O.Ont (born October 22, 1929) is a retired Canadian politician.
A chiropractor by training, he entered politics as trustee on a local school board. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons to represent the riding of...
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| x Barb Fisher |
Barbara Fisher (born in Ottawa, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999, and ran as a Conservative for the Canadian House of Commons in 2004....
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| x Dai Vernon |
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Dai Vernon (June 11, 1894 – August 21, 1992), aka The Professor, was a Canadian magician. His expert sleight-of-hand technique and extensive knowledge garnered him universal respect among fellow magicians. His influence was considerable in the...
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| x Gary Smith |
Gary "Suitcase" Smith, a former professional ice hockey goaltender, was born in Ottawa, Ontario on February 4, 1944. Gary is a son of Des Smith and brother of Brian Smith, both former National Hockey League (NHL) players. Gary played for numerous...
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| x Grant Mitchell |
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Grant Mitchell (born July 19, 1951) is a Canadian politician and businessman.
He received a B.A. degree from the University of Alberta and an M.A. degree from Queen's University. From 1976 to 1979 he worked as a public servant with the Government of...
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| x Archbishop Brendan O'Brien |
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Brendan Michael O'Brien (born September 28, 1943) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop of Kingston, having previously served as Archbishop of St. John's and Bishop of Pembroke.
Brendan Michael O'Brien...
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| x Jay Baruchel |
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Jonathan Adam Saunders "Jay" Baruchel (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor.
Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the son of Robyne, a freelance writer, and Serge Baruchel, an antiques dealer, but grew up and still lives in the NDG...
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