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== People from [[Toronto]] ==
== People from [[Toronto]] ==
list is now on the [[Toronto]] page
Wikipedia has a larger [[w:List of people from Toronto|list of people from Toronto]].

===A-E===
* [[Will Arnett]] – actor
* [[Margaret Atwood]] – [[Booker Prize]]-winning novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist
* [[Ayria]] – musician
* [[Robert Bateman]] – painter
* [[Samantha Bee]] – actress and comedian
* [[Pierre Berton]] – author, historian, journalist and TV personality
* [[Neve Campbell]] – actress (''[[Party of Five]]'', ''[[Scream (1981 film)|Scream]]'' series)
* [[John Candy]] – comic actor
* [[Jim Carrey]] – actor and comedian
* [[Hayden Christensen]] – actor
* [[John Colicos]] – actor
* [[Alex Colville]] – painter
* [[Douglas Coupland]] – writer, artist
* [[David Cronenberg]] – film director
* [[Cynthia Dale]] – actress
* [[Robertson Davies]] – writer
* [[deadmau5]] – electronic music producer and DJ
* [[Cory Doctorow]] – blogger, journalist and science fiction author
* [[Drake]] – rapper
* [[Dream Warriors]] – hip hop group
* [[Atom Egoyan]] – film director

===F-J===
* [[Percy Faith]] – composer
* [[Leslie Feist]] – singer/songwriter
* [[Joe Flaherty]] – comic actor
* [[Megan Follows]] – actress (''[[Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)|Anne of Green Gables]]'')
* [[Glenn Gould]] – pianist
* [[Lawrence Gowan]] – musician, lead vocalist of the band [[Styx]] (1999–present)
* [[Barbara Gowdy]] – writer, fiction
* [[Paul Gross]] – actor, producer, director
* [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] – art collective
* [[Peter Gzowski]] – radio broadcaster ([[CBC Radio One|CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Morningside (radio program)|Morningside]]'') and writer
* [[Corey Haim]] – actor
* [[Jeff Healey]] – musician
* [[Foster Hewitt]] – sports broadcaster (''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'') <!-- taking Foster Hewitt off this list would be like taking Howard Cosell off the list for Winston-Salem, North Carolina -->
* [[Dan Hill]] – singer, songwriter
* [[Walter Huston]] – [[Academy Award]]-winning actor (''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]'')
* [[Michael Ironside]] – actor
* [[A.Y. Jackson]] – [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] artist
* [[Peter Jennings]] – ABC News anchor
* [[Norman Jewison]] – film director (''[[Moonstruck]]'')

===K-O===
* [[The Kids in the Hall]] – television comedy troupe
* [[Naomi Klein]] – journalist, author (''[[No Logo]]'', ''[[The Shock Doctrine]]'') and social activist
* [[K'naan]] – hip hop musician
* [[K-os]] – hip hop musician
* [[Maurice LaMarche]] – voice actor (''[[Animaniacs]]'', ''[[Pinky and the Brain]]'', ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'')
* [[Stephen Leacock]] – writer, humourist
* [[Geddy Lee]] – musician, lead singer of Rush
* [[Sook-Yin Lee]] – media personality
* [[Norm Macdonald]] – comic actor (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'')
* [[Howie Mandel]] – actor, comedian, writer, producer
* [[Rachel McAdams]] – actress
* [[Marshall McLuhan]] – academic and writer (''[[Understanding Media]]'')
* [[Heather Menzies]] – actress (''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'')
* [[Lorne Michaels]] – producer and creator of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''
* [[Joni Mitchell]] – musician
* [[Kim Mitchell]] – musician
* [[Colin Mochrie]] – actor and improvisational comedian (''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)|Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'')
* [[Rick Moranis]] – actor, comedian, writer, producer
* [[Farley Mowat]] – writer
* [[Robert Munsch]] – children's author
* [[Anne Murray]] – singer
* [[Mike Myers]] – comic actor (''[[Saturday Night Live]], [[Austin Powers (film series)|Austin Powers]]'')
* [[Alannah Myles]] – singer
* [[Catherine O'Hara]] – comedic actress (''[[Second City Television|SCTV]]'', ''[[Beetlejuice]]'', ''[[Best in Show (film)|Best in Show]]'')
* [[Mary Margaret O'Hara]] – singer/songwriter
* [[Michael Ondaatje]] – [[Booker Prize]]-winning writer (''[[The English Patient]]'')

===P-T===
* [[Russell Peters]] – comedian
* [[Mary Pickford]] – actress, co-founder of [[United Artists]]
* [[Christopher Plummer]] – actor
* [[Sarah Polley]] – actress, screenwriter and film director (''[[Away from Her]]'')
* [[Carole Pope]] – rock singer
* [[Jason Priestley]] – actor (''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'')
* [[James Randi]] – magician
* [[Keanu Reeves]] – actor (''[[The Matrix]]'')
* [[Ivan Reitman]] – director
* [[Robbie Robertson]] – musician
* The [[Royal Canadian Air Farce]] – comedy troupe
* [[Morley Safer]] – journalist (''[[60 Minutes]]'')
* [[Howard Shore]] – [[Academy Award]]-winning film composer (''[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings]]'')
* [[Martin Short]] – actor
* [[Frank Shuster]] – comedian (''[[Wayne and Shuster]]'')
* [[Joe Shuster]] – creator of [[Superman]]
* [[Jane Siberry]] – musician
* [[Trish Stratus]] (born Patrica Stratigias) – former [[WWE Diva|WWE wrestler]] and fitness model
* [[Tara Strong]] – voice/live-action actress (''[[Rugrats]]'', ''[[New Batman Adventures]]'', ''[[Teen Titans (TV series)|Teen Titans]]'', ''[[King of the Hill]]'')
* [[George Stroumboulopoulos]] – TV/radio personality and VJ
* [[Sonja Smits]] - Canadian actress
* [[Ty Templeton]] – cartoonist and writer
* [[Tom Thomson]] – [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] artist
* [[Alex Trebek]] – game show host (''[[Jeopardy!]]'')
* [[Richard Underhill]] – jazz musician

===U-Z===
* [[Johnny Wayne]] – comedian (of ''[[Wayne and Shuster]]'')
* [[The Weeknd]] – R&B singer
* [[Ben Wicks]] – cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author
* [[Hawksley Workman]] – singer/songwriter
* [[Neil Young]] – rock musician


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Revision as of 16:34, 6 October 2019

Let's get what I have onto the wiki in around the end-of-month 503s...

Starting with the lists linked at the start of each city's list, with the scientists, sports stars, and politicians removed.

Now what?

  • Leave the redlinks and count on Wiki Magic to fill in the gaps? C'mon, these are Canadians; almost nobody outside Canada has heard of most of them, and almost nobody in Canada cares.
  • Delete the redlinks? A lot of these people should have pages here, though.

Pulled many redlinks off the lists, left a few on. I think this is a good compromise. And the bluelinks stayed on the lists.

People from Ottawa

(Yeah, we'll need a page for Ottawa to put this on - see w:Category:Ottawa in fiction for a starter list of works. OSFS might be able to provide a list of F&SF works set in Ottawa. Ottawa Independent Writers might be able to help with more mainstream works set in Ottawa. GoodReads has a list. This list is ready to go.)

Wikipedia has a larger list of people from Ottawa.

Actors

Authors

Comedians

Musicians

Other Creators

People from Toronto

list is now on the Toronto page

At this point, I had to switch tasks, so... no content below this line, just some headers.

People from Montreal

Wikipedia has a larger list of people from Montreal.

People from Vancouver

Wikipedia has a larger list of people from Vancouver.


People from Halifax

(Do we want a page for Halifax? Works set there include Theodore Tugboat, a bunch of works set against the backdrop of the Halifax Explosion, and ... according to DuckDuckGo, nothing else.)

Wikipedia has a larger list of people from Halifax.

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