List of Famous people born in Ontario, Canada

Dominic Zamprogna

First Name Dominic
Last Name Zamprogna
Born on April 21, 1979 (age 47)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Dominic Zamprogna is a Canadian actor and voice artist. He is perhaps best known for his roles on the television series Edgemont, Battlestar Galactica and General Hospital.

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Doug Stinson

First Name Doug
Last Name Stinson
Born on January 1, 1956 (age 70)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Douglas Robert Stinson is a Canadian mathematician and cryptographer, currently a professor at the University of Waterloo and a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research.

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Melissa Hayden

First Name Melissa
Last Name Hayden
Born on April 25, 1923
Died on August 9, 2006 (aged 83)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Melissa Hayden was a Canadian ballerina at the New York City Ballet.

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Dwight Foster

First Name Dwight
Last Name Foster
Born on April 2, 1957 (age 69)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Dwight Alexander Foster is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted into the National Hockey League (NHL) in the first round, 16th overall in 1977 by the Boston Bruins. Besides Boston, he played for the Colorado Rockies, New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings, before retiring in 1987 because of knee injuries.

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Matt Dusk

First Name Matt
Last Name Dusk
Born on November 19, 1978 (age 47)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Matthew-Aaron Dusk is a Canadian jazz vocalist. He has four certified gold albums: Two Shots, Good News, Old School Yule! and JetSetJazz, and two certified platinum albums; My Funny Valentine: The Chet Baker Songbook and Just the Two of Us.

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Tim Hudak

First Name Tim
Last Name Hudak
Born on November 1, 1967 (age 59)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Timothy Patrick Hudak is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2016. He successively represented the ridings of Niagara South, Erie—Lincoln, and then Niagara West—Glanbrook. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. From 2009 to 2014, he was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Following the party's second loss under his leadership in the 2014 provincial election, he resigned as leader and was succeeded by interim leader Jim Wilson. After resigning his seat in the Ontario legislature in September 2016, Hudak became the Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA), which has its headquarters in Toronto.

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Edmund Murton Walker

First Name Edmund
Last Name Walker
Born on October 5, 1877
Died on February 14, 1969 (aged 91)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Edmund Murton Walker was a Canadian entomologist. He described the genus Grylloblatta in 1914 which he then considered as a member of the Orthoptera and later placed it in a separate order Grylloblattodea but which are now included in the order Notoptera.

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Chris Owens

First Name Chris
Last Name Owens
Born on September 7, 1961 (age 65)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Christopher Bradley "Chris" Owens is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his performances on the television series The X-Files.

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John Bird

First Name John
Last Name Bird
Born on January 1, 1926 (age 100)
Born in Canada, Ontario

John Bird is a Canadian former rally racer. Teamed up with Bruce Simpson, they entered a combined total of 140 rallies, winning 102 of them. John was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Lyman Duff

First Name Lyman
Last Name Duff
Born on January 7, 1865
Died on April 26, 1955 (aged 90)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Sir Lyman Poore Duff, was the eighth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was the longest serving justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

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