Entertainers | Artists | Musicians | Bands

Entertainers

• Sidney Olcott (1873-1949) - director
• Walter Huston (1884-1950) - actor (also father of John Huston, grandfather of Anjelica Huston)
• Mary Pickford (1893-1979) - actress, film studio founder. Known in the Jazz Age as "America's Sweetheart"
• Raymond Massey (1896-1983) - actor
• Lou Jacobi (b. 1913) - actor
• Frank Shuster (1916-2002) - comedian, comedy writer
• Johnny Wayne (1918-1990) - comedian, comedy writer
• William Hutt (1920-2007) - actor
• Ann Rutherford (b. 1920) - actress
• George Dunning (1920-1979) - animator, director
• Norman Jewison (b. 1926) director, producer, actor
• Christopher Plummer (b. 1929) - actor
• Timothy Findley (1930-2002) - novelist, playwright
• Morley Safer (b. 1931) - jounalist, reporter
• Al Waxman (1935-2001) - actor
• Peter Jennings (b. 1938-2005) - journalist, TV anchor
• David Cronenberg (b. 1943) - filmmaker, director, screenwriter
• Lorne Michaels (b. 1944) - producer, writer and comedian
• Michael Ironside (b. 1950) - actor
• John Candy (1950-1994) - actor and comedian
• Colin Brunton (b. 1955) - actor, producer, director, writer
• Evelyn Hart (b. 1956) - ballerina
• Catherine O'Hara (b. 1954) - actress, comedian, writer
• Rick Moranis (b. 1953) - actor, comedian, writer, producer
• Howie Mandel (b. 1955) - actor, comedian, writer, producer
• David James Elliott (b.1960) - actor
• Mike Myers (b. 1963) - actor, comedian, screenwriter
• Eric McCormack (b. 1963) - actor
• Don McKellar (b. 1963) - actor, writer, and filmmaker
• Gloria Reuben (b. 1964) - actress
• James Allodi (b. 1967) - actor, director, writer
• Kevin Brauch (b. 1968) - actor, writer, producer
• Megan Follows (b. 1968) - actress
• Will Arnett (b. 1970) - actor
• Monika Schnarre (b. 1971) - model, actress
• Sarah Polley (b. 1979) - actress
• Stephen Amell (b. 1981) - actor

Artists

• Joe Shuster (1914-1992) - creator of "Superman"
• Alex Colville (b. 1920) - painter, printmaker
• Frank Gehry (b. 1929) - architect "Guggenheim museum at Bilbao"
• Michael Snow (b. 1929) - painter, sculpter, filmmaker
• Robert Bateman (b. 1930) - painter
• James Lumbers (b. 1929) - painter

Musicians

• Louis Applebaum (1918-2000) - composer, writer
• Moe Koffman (1928-2001) - sax and flute player
• Glenn Gould (1932-1982) - pianist
• Teresa Stratas (b. 1938) - opera singer
• Bramwell Morrison (b. 1940) - singer, song writer, co-founder of Sharon, Lois & Bram
• Robbie Robertson (b. 1943) - musician, writer, singer, producer
• Sharon Trostin Hampson (b. 1943) - singer, song writer, co-founder of Sharon, Lois & Bram
• Neil Young (b. 1945) - singer, song writer
• Michael Cohl (b. 1948) - music producer, concert promoter
• Geddy Lee (b. 1953) - member of Rush
• Dan Hill (b. 1954) - singer, song writer
• Alannah Myles (b. 1968) - singer, songwriter
• Jeff Healey (1966-2008) - blind jazz and blues-rock guitarist and vocalist
• Tyler Stewart (b. 1967) - member of Barenaked Ladies
• SNOW (Darrin O'Brien) (b. 1969) - rapper, song writer
• Jim Creeggan (b. 1970) - member of Barenaked Ladies
• Steven Page (b. 1970) - member of Barenaked Ladies
• Ed Robertson (b. 1970) - member of Barenaked Ladies
• k-os (Kevin Brereton) (b. 1972) - MC, hip-hop
• Amanda Marshall (b. 1972) - singer, song writer
• Deborah Cox (b. 1974) - R&B singer, song writer
• Fefe Dobson (b. 1985) - singer, song writer

Bands formed in Toronto

• Irish Rovers - formed in 1963
• Rush - formed in 1968
• Rough Trade - formed in 1975
• The Nylons - formed in late 1970s
• Sharon, Lois & Bram - formed in late 1970s
• Platinum Blonde - formed in 1980
• Parachute Club - formed in 1983
• Cowboy Junkies - formed in 1985
• Jeff Healey Band - formed in 1986
• Barenaked Ladies - formed in 1988
• Broken Social Scene - formed in 1999