List of Famous people born in Ontario, Canada
Robert Carsen
Robert Carsen O.C. is a Canadian opera director. He was born in Toronto and is the son of philanthropist Walter Carsen.
George Lyon
George Seymour Lyon was a Canadian golfer, an Olympic gold medalist in golf, an eight-time Canadian Amateur Championship winner, and a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He worked in the insurance industry.
Stephen Poloz
Stephen S. Poloz is a Canadian banker and was the ninth Governor of the Bank of Canada. He is also a member of the board of directors for the Bank for International Settlements.
Vincent Landay
Vincent Landay is a Canadian-American film producer. He has worked with Spike Jonze on his music videos and feature films since 1993. Some of the movies he has produced include Being John Malkovich and Where the Wild Things Are, as well as the 2010 Canadian short film Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life, created for the Blu-ray release of Where the Wild Things Are. He has made music videos for Kanye West, REM, Jay Z and many more artists.
Gerry Mendicino
Gennaro "Gerry" Mendicino is a Canadian actor.
Gilles Cazabon
Michael Starr
Michael Starr, was a Canadian politician and the first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent, his parents having emigrated from Halychyna (Galicia), then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now Western Ukraine.
Timothy Bond
Timothy Bond is a Canadian theatre and television director and screenwriter. He holds a BSc and a BA both earned in 1965 from Carleton University Ottawa. Apprenticed as assistant director, Stratford Shakespearean Festival (Canada) under Michael Langham and John Hirsch. He has directed dozens of stage productions, mostly in Canada, but also in the US and England. He has directed at least 100 television episodes and several dozen television movies.
James J. Hill
James Jerome Hill was a Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as "The Empire Builder".
Gregory Bittman
Gregory Bittman is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and bishop of Nelson, British Columbia.