List of Famous people born in Ontario, Canada

Kayla Sanchez

First Name Kayla
Born on April 7, 2001 (age 25)
Born in Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Kayla Noelle Sanchez is a Canadian swimmer. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

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Jesse Ronson

First Name Jesse
Last Name Ronson
Born on December 24, 1985 (age 40)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Jesse Allen Ronson is a Canadian mixed martial artist who is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship's (UFC) Lightweight division. A professional fighter since 2009, he has previously competed in promotions such as UFC, Aggression FC and Score Fighting Series. He was previously signed with TKO MMA, the largest mixed martial arts promotion in Canada, where he was the former Lightweight and Welterweight Champion.

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Norman Jewison

Norman Frederick Jewison
First Name Norman
Last Name Jewison
Born on July 21, 1926 (age 99)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Norman Frederick Jewison is a retired Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. He has directed numerous feature films and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Moonstruck (1987). Other highlights of his directing career include The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Rollerball (1975), F.I.S.T. (1978), ...And Justice for All (1979), A Soldier's Story (1984), Agnes of God (1985), Other People's Money (1991), The Hurricane (1999), and The Statement (2003).

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Sarah Blackwood

First Name Sarah
Last Name Blackwood
Born on October 18, 1980 (age 45)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Sarah Nicole Blackwood, also known as Sarah Sin, is a Canadian singer-songwriter. In 2012, she joined the indie rock band Walk off the Earth.

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Charles Coughlin

First Name Charles
Last Name Coughlin
Born on October 25, 1891
Died on October 27, 1979 (aged 88)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest who was based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience: during the 1930s, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts.

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Arthur Sifton

First Name Arthur
Last Name Sifton
Born on October 26, 1858
Died on January 21, 1921 (aged 62)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton,, was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917. He became a minister in the federal cabinet of Canada thereafter. Born in Canada West, he grew up there and in Winnipeg, where he became a lawyer. He subsequently practised law with his brother Clifford Sifton in Brandon, where he was also active in municipal politics. He moved west to Prince Albert in 1885 and to Calgary in 1889. There, he was elected to the 4th and 5th North-West Legislative Assemblies; he served as a minister in the government of premier Frederick Haultain. In 1903, the federal government, at the instigation of his brother, made Sifton the Chief Justice of the Northwest Territories. After Alberta was created out of a portion of the Northwest Territories in 1905, Sifton became the first Chief Justice of Alberta in 1907 and served until 1910.

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Oki Sato

First Name Oki
Last Name Sato
Born on December 24, 1977 (age 48)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Oki Sato is a Japanese designer, architect, and the founder of Nendo.

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Carmen Silvera

First Name Carmen
Last Name Silvera
Born on June 2, 1922
Died on August 3, 2002 (aged 80)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Carmen Dorothy Blanche Silvera was a British comic actress. Born in Canada of Spanish descent, she moved to Coventry, England, with her family when she was a child. She appeared on television regularly in the 1960s, and achieved mainstream fame in the 1980s with her starring role in the British television programme, 'Allo 'Allo! as Edith Artois.

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Allie X

Alexandra Ashley Hughes
First Name Allie
Last Name X
Born on July 31, 1985 (age 40)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Alexandra Ashley Hughes, known by her stage name Allie X, is a Canadian singer, songwriter and visual artist. She began her career as an indie pop artist in Toronto in the mid-2000s, playing with local bands and writing and recording a handful of self-released albums.

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Gordie Tapp

First Name Gordie
Died on December 18, 2016 (aged 46)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Gordon Robert Tapp, was a Canadian entertainer, best known as a radio and television presenter, comedian and a CBS broadcaster. He was introduced to U.S. President Gerald Ford as the world's funniest storyteller.

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