List of Famous people born in Ontario, Canada

Polly Shannon

First Name Polly
Last Name Shannon
Born on September 1, 1973 (age 53)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Polly Shannon is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Margaret Trudeau in the 2002 miniseries Trudeau, a film about the late Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau.

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Elizabeth Hanna

First Name Elizabeth
Last Name Hanna
Born on April 2, 1953 (age 73)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Elizabeth Hanna is a Canadian film and television actress, most notable for her voice acting work in animated films. She later complemented her voice acting skills by becoming a speech-language pathologist. She is also the voice of Miss Biscuit on Corn & Peg.

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John Barret

First Name John
Last Name Barret
Born on August 11, 1962 (age 64)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 200 cm | 6'7

John Barrett is the head coach for the Toronto Varsity Blues' men's volleyball team and is a former Canadian volleyball player. He played CIAU men's volleyball for the Calgary Dinosaurs before transferring to play for the Manitoba Bisons with whom he won a national championship while being named the tournament's most valuable player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics where the Canadian team finished in fourth place.

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George McIlraith

First Name George
Last Name McIlraith
Born on July 29, 1908
Died on August 19, 1992 (aged 84)
Born in Canada, Ontario

George James McIlraith, was a lawyer and Canadian Parliamentarian.

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Daniel DeSanto

First Name Daniel
Last Name DeSanto
Born on October 3, 1980 (age 46)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Daniel DeSanto is a Canadian film, television and voice actor.

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Brock Dykxhoorn

First Name Brock
Last Name Dykxhoorn
Born on July 2, 1994 (age 32)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 203 cm | 6'8

Brock D. Dykxhoorn is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher for the Uni-President Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). He previously played in the KBO League for the SK Wyverns and Lotte Giants.

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Devon Nicholson

First Name Devon
Last Name Nicholson
Born on October 16, 1982 (age 44)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Devon Nicholson is a Canadian YouTube personality, professional wrestling promoter and interviewer who operates The HANNIBAL TV, who wrestled primarily under the name Hannibal. He was also known as Kid Nichols or Adam Lust earlier in his career.

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Adam Brooks

First Name Adam
Last Name Brooks
Born on September 3, 1956 (age 70)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Adam Brooks is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for writing and directing Definitely, Maybe (2008) and for writing screenplays for French Kiss (1995), Wimbledon (2004), and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). His first film as a writer-director Almost You won the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1985.

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David Kaye

First Name David
Last Name Kaye
Born on October 14, 1964 (age 62)
Born in Canada, Ontario

David V. Hope, better known as David Kaye, is a Canadian-American voice actor. He is best known for animation roles such as Megatron in five of the Transformers series, Optimus Prime in Transformers: Animated, Professor X and Apocalypse in X-Men: Evolution, Cronus in Class of the Titans, Khyber and Shocksquatch in Ben 10: Omniverse, several characters in Avengers Assemble, the newsreel announcer in the Pixar film Up, and Duckworth in the reboot of Ducktales. He is also known for anime roles including Sesshomaru in Inuyasha and Treize Khushrenada in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, and video game roles such as Clank in the Ratchet & Clank series and Nathan Hale in the Resistance series. He is also the announcer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO.

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David Orth

First Name David
Last Name Orth
Born on March 13, 1965 (age 61)
Born in Canada, Ontario

David Orth is a Canadian actor.

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