List of Famous people born in Ontario, Canada
Kristina Groves
Kristina Nicole Groves is a Canadian retired speed skater. She is Canada's most decorated skater in the World Single Distances Championships with 13 career medals in this event. She won four Olympic medals: she won two silver medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, in the 1,500 meters and team pursuit, and she won the silver medal in the 1500 m event and the bronze medal in the 3000 m event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Elizabeth Whitmere
Elizabeth Whitmere is a Canadian actress working in the United States and Canada. Born and raised in northern Canada, she draws on her experiences there in the development of her characters and her stand-up comedy.
Erica Luttrell
Erica Shukrani Luttrell is a Canadian actress.
Owen Pallett
Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist, who performs solo as Owen Pallett or, before 2010, under the name Final Fantasy. As Final Fantasy, he won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds.
Angela Schneider
Angela Schneider is a Canadian rower. She won a silver medal in the Coxed Fours event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Schneider is currently a professor at the University of Western Ontario. She teaches a kinesiology course about ethics in sport.
Norman Bethune
Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of socialized medicine and member of the Communist Party of Canada, who came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline trauma surgeon supporting the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War, and later for his work supporting the Communist Party of China's (CPC) Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Bethune helped bring modern medicine to rural China and often treated sick villagers as much as wounded soldiers. His service to the CPC earned him the respect of Mao Zedong, who wrote a eulogy dedicated to Bethune when he died in 1939, as well as continued gratitude and honoring in the People's Republic of China to this day.
Liisa Repo-Martell
Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist. Her parents Satu Repo and George Martell were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as "This".
Sonya Salomaa
Sonya Salomaa is a Canadian actress, known for her performances in The Collector and Durham County.
Mark Osborne
Mark Anatole Osborne is a Canadian former ice hockey player. Osborne played in the National Hockey League (NHL) primarily as a checking winger between 1981 and 1995. Osborne played in 919 games, tallying 212 goals and 531 points.
R. H. Thomson
Robert Holmes "R. H." Thomson, is a Canadian television, film and stage actor. with a career spanning five decades he remains a regular presence on Canadian movie screens and television. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the arts and war veterans.