List of people from Ottawa
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This is a list of notable people from Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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  • Paul Anka
    Paul Anka
    Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...

    , singer
  • Dawn Askin
    Dawn Askin
    Dawn Askin is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays lead for Jennifer Jones....

    , curler, now lives in Winnipeg
  • Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

    , writer
  • Eva Avila
    Eva Avila
    Eva Avila is a singer and songwriter. She won the fourth season of the CTV reality show Canadian Idol in 2006.-Early life:...

    , 4th season Canadian Idol champion
  • Dan Aykroyd
    Dan Aykroyd
    Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...

    , actor, comedian
  • James Baker
    James Baker
    James Addison Baker, III is an American attorney, politician and political advisor.Baker served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration and in the final year of the administration of President George H. W. Bush...

    , former NHLer
  • Brendan Bell
    Brendan Bell
    Brendan Bell is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman currently signed with the New York Rangers.-Junior:Prior to being drafted by the NHL, Bell attended High School at St. Pius X High School . He grew up a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Bell played in the CJHL for the Ottawa Jr. Senators where he was...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Billy Boucher
    Billy Boucher
    William Martin Boucher was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he played in the National Hockey League for the Hamilton Tigers, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins and New York Americans. He also played for the New Haven Eagles and Bronx Tigers of the...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Matt Bradley
    Matt Bradley
    Matthew William Bradley is a Canadian professional hockey right winger who plays for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Fred Brathwaite
    Fred Brathwaite
    Fredrick Brathwaite is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He previously played in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Columbus Blue Jackets and Atlanta Thrashers...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Rod Brind'Amour
    Rod Brind'Amour
    Roderic Jean Brind'Amour is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League for the St. Louis Blues, Philadelphia Flyers and Carolina Hurricanes. He captained the Hurricanes to the franchise's first Stanley Cup championship in...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Dave Brockie, known as Oderus Urungus
    Oderus Urungus
    Oderus Urungus, played by Dave Brockie, is the lead vocalist of the Metal band Gwar. He appears as an intergalactic humanoid barbarian with devil horns and a meaty looking face, and always carries around a long sword named "Unt Lick"...

    , frontman for metal band GWAR
    GWAR
    Gwar is a satirical heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, United States, in 1984. The band is best known for its elaborate science fiction/horror film inspired costumes, obscene lyrics and graphic stage performances, which feature humorous enactments of politically and morally taboo...

  • Tom Butler, actor
  • Claudette Cain
    Claudette Cain
    Claudette Cain was the mayor in the city of Gloucester, Ontario from 1991 until 2001 when Gloucester became part of the city of Ottawa.Before being elected to Gloucester council, Cain was an assistant to the council and a press secretary for the Carleton Separate School board.In the Ottawa...

    , former mayor of Gloucester
  • Noah Cantor
    Noah Cantor
    Noah Cantor was a football player in the Canadian Football League.-Biography:Cantor played five seasons with the University of Saint Mary's Huskies from 1990 through 1994, under the guidance of former Argonauts star, Larry Uteck. Cantor was a three-time CIAU All-Canadian, and two-time J.P....

    , Canadian Football League player
  • Bruce Cassidy
    Bruce Cassidy
    Bruce James Cassidy is a former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the NHL with the Chicago Blackhawks...

    , NHL Hockey Player
  • Tom Cavanagh
    Tom Cavanagh
    Thomas "Tom" Cavanagh is a Canadian actor.-Early life:Cavanagh was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He is of Irish descent and was raised in a large Roman Catholic family. Cavanagh moved with his family to Winneba, a small city in Ghana, when he was seven years old. In his teens, the family moved to...

    , actor
  • Sarah Chalke
    Sarah Chalke
    Sarah Chalke is a Canadian-American actress known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC/ABC comedy Scrubs, "Second Becky" Conner Healy on Roseanne, and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother...

    , actress
  • Keshia Chante
    Keshia Chanté
    Keshia Chanté is a Canadian Juno Award-winning critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, model, and actress...

    , singer
  • Bob Chiarelli
    Bob Chiarelli
    Robert "Bob" Chiarelli is a Canadian politician. He served in the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1997, and was subsequently re-elected to the legislature in 2010 after serving as regional chair and mayor of Ottawa from 1997 to 2006...

    , politician
  • King Clancy
    King Clancy
    Francis Michael "King" Clancy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, referee, coach and executive. Clancy played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was a member of three Stanley Cup championship teams and won All-Star honours...

    , hockey player, coach and referee
  • Catherine Clark
    Catherine Clark
    Catherine Jane Clark is a Canadian television broadcaster, and the daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark and Maureen McTeer.-Life and career:Clark was born in Ottawa, Ontario...

    , daughter of former PM Joe Clark
  • Bruce Cockburn
    Bruce Cockburn
    Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.-Biography:...

    , singer
  • Bryan Cochrane
    Bryan Cochrane
    Bryan Cochrane is a Canadian curler from the Ottawa area. Cochrane is most notable for skipping team Ontario at the 2003 Nokia Brier....

    , curler
  • Eldon Coombe
    Eldon Coombe
    Eldon Coombe is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Canada. Coombe is a native of Kingston, Ontario. He began curling at age 15.Coombe and his Ottawa Curling Club rink of third Keith Forgues, Second Jim Patrick and Lead Barry Provost "dominated the curling scene from the mid 60s to the mid 70s"...

    , curler
  • Alex Cullen
    Alex Cullen
    Alexander Shaun Cullen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a former member of Ottawa City Council, representing the Bay Ward in Ottawa's west end.-Early life and city politics:Cullen was born February 18,...

    , politician
  • Barry
    Barry Cullen
    Charles Francis "Barry" Cullen is a former professional ice hockey right winger who played five seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings from 1955 to 1960....

     and Brian Cullen
    Brian Cullen
    Brian Joseph Cullen is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward.Cullen began his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1954. He also played for the New York Rangers...

     brothers and former NHLers from Ottawa
  • Jack Darragh
    Jack Darragh
    John Proctor "Jack" Darragh was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League and its predecessor the National Hockey Association.-Playing career:Darragh played his entire professional career with the Ottawa Senators...

    , professional ice hockey forward
  • Bruce Delaney
    Bruce Delaney
    Bruce Delaney is a Canadian curler from Ottawa.Delaney is a 7 time Silver Tankard winner, representing various clubs in Eastern Ontario, but usually representing the Navy Curling Club in Ottawa. Outside of this, Delaney is known for his success as a senior curler.Delaney is a 3 time provincial...

    , curler
  • Paul Dewar
    Paul Dewar
    Paul W. Dewar is a Canadian politician currently serving as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa Centre.Dewar is a member of the New Democratic Party and was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2006 federal election...

    , Member of Parliament
  • Clive Doucet
    Clive Doucet
    Clive Doucet is a Canadian writer and politician.Doucet was born in 1946 in London, England to an Acadian serviceman and an English war bride. Doucet grew up in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. He also spent some of his youth in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Doucet was raised as a Catholic,...

    , author
  • Kathleen Edwards
    Kathleen Edwards
    Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Her 2003 debut album, Failer, contained the singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates".- Personal life :...

    , singer/songwriter
  • Ben Eager
    Ben Eager
    Benjamin Eager is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who currently plays for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...

    , NHL hockey player
  • John Fauquier
    John Emilius Fauquier
    John Emilius “Johnny” Fauquier DSO & Two Bars, DFC was a Canadian aviator and Second World War Bomber Command leader. He commanded No. 405 Squadron RCAF and later No. 617 Squadron RAF over the course of the war. A bush pilot, prior to the war, he joined the RCAF as a flight instructor in 1939. He...

    , RCAF bomber pilot
  • Jeremy Gara
    Jeremy Gara
    Jeremy Gara is a Canadian drummer originally from Ottawa, Ontario. He currently plays with successful indie rock band Arcade Fire. He has played in many other bands in the past, including "slow-core" band Kepler and math rock band Weights and Measures. He also had a part in the self-titled album...

    , drummer for The Arcade Fire
  • Chris Gardner
    Chris Gardner (curler)
    Chris Gardner is a Canadian curler.Gardner skipped his bantam mixed team to a provincial championship in 2002, and the following year he won the provincial junior mixed title....

    , curler
  • Igor Gouzenko
    Igor Gouzenko
    Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945, with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West...

    , Cold War Soviet defector
  • Tom Green
    Tom Green
    Michael Thomas "Tom" Green is a Canadian actor, rapper, writer, comedian, talk show host and media personality. Best known for his shock humour brand of comedy, Green found mainstream prominence via his MTV television show The Tom Green Show...

    , comedian
  • Lorne Greene
    Lorne Greene
    Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica...

    , actor
  • Jenn Hanna
    Jenn Hanna
    Jennifer Ann Hanna is a Canadian curler who curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts.-Personal life:...

    , curler
  • Elisabeth Harvor
    Elisabeth Harvor
    Erica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Danish immigrants who made pottery by hand, Harvour grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula. She married Stig Harvor in 1957. The couple had...

    , novelist
  • David Hoilett
    David Hoilett
    David Wayne "Junior" Hoilett is a Canadian footballer who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers.-Club career:Born in Brampton, Canada, Hoilett made his debut for Paderborn against Kickers Offenbach, after being a substitute for Sven Lintjens. Paderborn won the match 3–2. Hoilett's first match in...

    , association football player
  • Diane Holmes
    Diane Holmes
    Diane Holmes is an Ottawa City Councillor representing Somerset Ward which consists of Centretown, Centretown West and the downtown core. She was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and graduated from McGill University with a degree in Physical Education...

    , city councillor
  • Jessica Holmes
    Jessica Holmes
    Jessica Holmes is a Canadian comedian and actress. She is best known for her work with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, which she joined in 2003. She is married to actor Scott Yaphe....

    , actress, comedian
  • Rachel Homan
    Rachel Homan
    Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian curler from Orleans, Ontario. Homan is a former Canadian Junior Champion.-Career:...

    , curler
  • Peter Hume, city councillor
  • Kira Isabella
    Kira Isabella
    Kira Isabella is a Canadian country music artist. Isabella was signed to Sony Music Canada in 2009. Her first single, "Love Me Like That," was released in 2011 and charted on the Canadian Hot 100.-Singles:*ACurrent single....

    , country music singer-songwriter
  • Russ Jackson
    Russ Jackson
    Russell Stanley "Russ" Jackson, OC is a former professional Canadian football quarterback. Jackson spent his entire 12-year professional football career with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League...

    , profesional football player (CFL), teacher
  • Wilbert Keon
    Wilbert Keon
    Wilbert Joseph Keon, OC is a heart surgeon, researcher and was a Canadian Senator.Born in Sheenboro, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science from St. Patrick's College, Carleton University and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Ottawa.After a period of studying and teaching at Harvard...

    , cardiac surgeon
  • Brian Kilrea
    Brian Kilrea
    Brian Blair "Killer" Kilrea is an ice hockey head coach, general manager and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders' category, most notably with the Ottawa 67's of the Ontario Hockey League, with whom Kilrea has been associated for over 35 years...

    , hockey player, coach, general manager
  • Terry Kilrea
    Terry Kilrea
    Terry Kilrea is an aspiring politician from Ottawa.-2003 election:Kilrea ran for mayor of Ottawa in the 2003 municipal election on a platform that included opposition to light rail expansion, opposition to official bilingualism, abolition of the ban on smoking in public places, and an increase of...

    , politician
  • Bernie LaBarge
    Bernie LaBarge
    Bernie LaBarge is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter.-History:Bernie LaBarge began studying guitar at age 11, shortly after seeing The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964. Bernie has been playing professionally since 1967...

    , musician
  • Brent Laing
    Brent Laing
    Brent Laing is a Canadian curler from Stayner, Ontario. He currently plays second for Glenn Howard....

    , curler
  • Craig Lauzon
    Craig Lauzon
    Craig Lauzon is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. His main caricatures on the Farce include George Stroumboulopoulos, John Baird, and Stephen Harper...

    , actor, comedian
  • Rich Little
    Rich Little
    Richard Caruthers "Rich" Little is a Canadian-American impressionist and voice actor. He has long been known throughout the world as a top impersonator of famous people, resulting in his nickname, "The Man of a Thousand Voices"....

    , comedian
  • Steven MacLean
    Steven MacLean (astronaut)
    Steven Glenwood MacLean is a Canadian astronaut. He is the current President of the Canadian Space Agency, appointed on September 1, 2008....

    , astronaut
  • Monkey Majik
    Monkey Majik
    Monkey Majik is a Japanese pop-rock band formed in 2000, consisting of two Canadian brothers and two Japanese members .- Profile :...

    , J-pop
    J-pop
    , an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

     band
  • Elizabeth Manley
    Elizabeth Manley
    Elizabeth Ann Manley, CM is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1988 World silver medalist, and three-time Canadian champion.-Early life and training:...

    , Olympic silver medalist in figure skating.
  • Peter Mansbridge
    Peter Mansbridge
    Peter Mansbridge, OC , a Canadian broadcaster and news anchor, is the CBC News Chief Correspondent and anchor of The National, CBC Television's flagship nightly newscast. Mansbridge has received many awards and accolades for his journalistic work including an honorary doctorate from Mount Allison...

    , journalist
  • Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
    Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
    Princess Margriet Francisca of the Netherlands is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands...

     (sister of the queen)
  • Terry Matthews
    Terry Matthews
    Sir Terence Hedley Matthews OBE, FIEE, FREng is a Welsh business magnate, serial high tech entrepreneur, and Wales's first billionaire....

    , entrepreneur
  • Trevor Matthews
    Trevor Matthews
    Trevor Matthews is a Canadian film producer and actor. He is the youngest son of telecommunications billionaire Sir Terence Matthews and Ann Matthews.-Early life:...

    , film producer, actor
  • Derek McCulloch
    Derek McCulloch (comics)
    Derek McCulloch is an author of graphic novels, comics, and books for children who was born in Ottawa in 1964, raised in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and lives in Oakland, California.-Biography:...

    , comics writer
  • Frank McGee, hockey player
  • Dalton McGuinty
    Dalton McGuinty
    Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

    , Premier of Ontario
  • David McGuinty
    David McGuinty
    David Joseph McGuinty, MP is a Canadian lawyer politician from Ontario, Canada. He is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa South and sits in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Party of Canada's Critic for Natural Resources...

    , MP
  • Earl McRae
    Earl McRae
    Earl McRae was an award-winning journalist who formerly wrote a daily general interest column for the Ottawa Sun.-Biography:...

    , award-winning journalist
  • Jean-Michel Ménard
    Jean-Michel Ménard
    Jean-Michel Ménard is a curler from Quebec, Canada. Ménard is notable for being the first Francophone skip from Quebec to win the Brier - Canada's national curling championship- which he did in 2006.-Profile:...

    , curler
  • Anne Merklinger
    Anne Merklinger
    Anne Merklinger is a retired Canadian curler from Ottawa. Merklinger is a two-time runner-up at the Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's championship. She curled out of the Rideau Curling Club....

    , curler
  • Hugh Millikin
    Hugh Millikin
    Hugh Ronald Alexander Millikin is an Australian curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario.-Career:...

    , Australian curler, trained in Ottawa
  • Emma Miskew
    Emma Miskew
    Emma Kathryn Miskew is a Canadian curler. She currently plays third for Rachel Homan.She is the long time third for Homan, joining the rink in 2001 at the age of 12. Miskew has been curling since she was six...

    , curler
  • Rich Moffatt
    Rich Moffatt
    Rich Moffatt is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. In 1999, he became only the third curler to skip an Ottawa-area team at the Brier. He currently plays third for Bryan Cochrane....

    , curler
  • Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

    , singer/songwriter
  • Earle Morris
    Earle Morris
    Earle Morris is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. He is the only curler to play for three different provinces at the Brier. Currently he is the coach of the Jennifer Jones rink and the Australian national team...

    , curler
  • John Morris
    John Morris (curler)
    John Morris is a Canadian curler, and Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic gold medalist from Chestermere, Alberta. Morris plays third for the Kevin Martin team. Morris, author of the book Fit to Curl, is the son of Maureen and Earle Morris, inventor of the "Stabilizer" curling broom...

    , curler
  • Alex Munter
    Alex Munter
    Alexander Mathias Munter is a former politician and journalist in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario....

    , city councillor
  • Yasir Naqvi
    Yasir Naqvi
    Yasir Naqvi MPP is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Ottawa Centre. He is also the President of the Ontario Liberal Party....

    , MPP
  • Larry O'Brien
    Larry O'Brien (Canadian politician)
    Lawrence Robert O'Brien , was the 58th mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is also a current director of Calian Technologies Ltd. and its former CEO and chairman....

    , former mayor, Founder Calian Technologies Ltd
  • Sandra Oh
    Sandra Oh
    Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress. She is best known for the role of Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award. She also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the...

    , actress known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey's Anatomy
  • Jesse Palmer
    Jesse Palmer
    Jesse James Palmer is a Canadian-born sports commentator and former college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League for four seasons in the early 2000s...

    , NFL football player
  • Frank Patrick
    Frank Patrick (hockey)
    Francis Alexis Patrick was a Canadian NHL ice hockey player and head coach. While attending McGill University, he played hockey from 1904 to 1908, winning the Queen’s Cup championship in 1905 alongside his brother Lester Patrick.Frank and Lester helped found the Pacific Coast Hockey Association...

    , hockey player and builder
  • Matthew Perry
    Matthew Perry
    Matthew Perry is Canadian-American television and film actor.Matthew Perry or Matt Perry may also refer to:*Matthew C. Perry , American naval officer who forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West...

    , actor best known for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends
  • Simon Pulsifer
    Simon Pulsifer
    Simon Edward Pulsifer is a contributor to the English-language Wikipedia whose prolific participation made him a subject of many human interest stories in the media beginning in 2005.-Wikipedia:...

    , prolific contributor to Wikipedia
  • Bob Rae
    Bob Rae
    Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada....

    , former Premier of Ontario
  • Nancy Greene Raine, Olympic skier
  • Melanie Robillard
    Melanie Robillard
    Melanie Robillard is a curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.-Career:She curled for Jenn Hanna's team in 2000 as her lead. They would lose in the provincial junior finals that year. In 2002, Robillard skipped her own team to the provincial junior finals, but lost...

    , German curler trained in Ottawa
  • Shelagh Rogers
    Shelagh Rogers
    Shelagh Rogers, OC is a Canadian radio broadcaster. She is currently the host of CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter.Rogers grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. She was the "Head Girl" at her high school, Lisgar Collegiate Institute. She played in the Ottawa Youth Orchestra and was a spare on the Reach for...

    , journalist
  • Kelly Rowan
    Kelly Rowan
    Kelly Rowan is a Canadian television and film actress and former fashion model. She is best known for portraying Kirsten Cohen on The O.C.-Early life:...

    , actress.
  • Derek Roy
    Derek Roy
    Derek Roy is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre, an alternate captain for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League .-Junior career:...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Joëlle Sabourin
    Joëlle Sabourin
    Joëlle Sabourin is a Canadian curler from Gatineau. She currently plays third for Chantal Osborne.Sabourin is a four-time provincial champion for her native Quebec, earning her the right to play at four national championships...

    , curler
  • Marc Savard
    Marc Savard
    Marc Savard is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently under contract to the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League , but who has not played since late in the season because of post-concussion syndrome...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Craig Savill
    Craig Savill
    Craig Edward Savill is a Canadian curler from Ottawa. He currently plays lead for former World Champion Glenn Howard rink....

    , curler
  • Andrew Scott
    Andrew Scott (drummer)
    Andrew Walter Gibson Scott is a Canadian musician born in Ottawa, Ontario and currently living in Toronto, Ontario. His first bands include No Damn Fears, Oreo Reversed and Blackpool from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Currently, he is a drummer with the Toronto-based band Sloan. He also plays guitar with...

    , drummer for Sloan
  • Barbara Ann Scott, figure-skating Olympic gold-medalist of the 1940s.
  • Melinda Shankar
    Melinda Shankar
    Melinda Shankar is a Canadian actress who is best known for playing Alli Bhandari beginning in season 8 of Degrassi: The Next Generation...

    , actress
  • Trevor Smith
    Trevor Smith (ice hockey)
    Trevor Smith is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays with the Norfolk Admirals organization of the American Hockey League.-Playing career:...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Bruce Stuart
    Bruce Stuart
    Bruce Stuart was a Canadian amateur and professional ice hockey forward who played for the Quebec Bulldogs, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Wanderers from 1899 to 1911...

    , hockey player
  • Linda Thom
    Linda Thom
    Linda Mary Alice Thom, CM, née Malcolm, is a Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning shooter.Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from Carleton University....

    , Olympic gold medalist
  • Christian Tolusso
    Christian Tolusso
    Christian Tolusso is a Canadian curler, now playing out of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.Tolusso was one of the top junior curlers in southern Ontario, but was unable to win a provincial men's junior championship. In 2009, Tolusso made the move from his native Ottawa to Thunder Bay in an...

    , curler
  • Rick Vaive
    Rick Vaive
    Richard Claude Vaive is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League from 1979 to 1992, and is best remembered as the first 50 goal scorer in Toronto Maple Leafs franchise history.-Bio:...

    , NHL hockey player
  • Jeff Waters
    Jeff Waters
    Jeff Waters , is the guitarist and mastermind of the metal band Annihilator. He was born in and resides in Ottawa, Canada. As the main member and songwriter for Annihilator, Jeff is considered among the most influential guitarists in the world and as a top songwriter. He is also a well-known mix...

    , musician
  • Ken Watkin
    Ken Watkin
    Brigadier General Kenneth "Ken" Watkin, OMM, CD, QC was Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces from 2006 to 2010. He is an expert on military law....

    , Brigadier General and former Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
  • Jim Watson, politician, elected Mayor effective December 1, 2010
  • Jason Young
    Jason Young (curler)
    Jason "Jay" Young is a Canadian curler from Wyoming, Ontario. Young is a former World Junior Curling champion.In 1999, Young joined the World Junior champion John Morris rink from the Ottawa Curling Club. He replaced Andy Ormsby in the second position...

    , curler


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