- Edward Johnson
Edward Patrick Johnson was a Canadian opera singer and director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. - John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 - January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist, soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". - Liz Sandals
Liz Sandals is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Guelph—Wellington for the Liberal Party. Sandals was raised in the Guelph area, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Guelph as well as a Master of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo. She has taught computer science at the University of Guelph, … - Jim Guthrie
Jim Guthrie is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He records both as a solo artist and recently as the guitar player for Islands. He used to be in the band Royal City until they disbanded in 2004. He was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, and currently lives in Toronto. Guthrie first made a name for himself by releasing a series of self-produced cassettes, and subsequently released albums on Three Gut Records. He was nominated for a Juno Award for his album "Now, … - Sue Richards
Sue Richards is a Canadian artist and social entrepreneur living in Guelph, Ontario. Sue moved to Guelph in 1981 to attend the University of Guelph. In 2002 she launched the "Breast of Canada" calendar in support of breast health and breast cancer prevention. Following graduation and prior to starting the calendar, Richards helped grow the Hillside Festival during its first decade. - Gloria Kovach
Gloria Kovach is a Canadian politician. She has been a Councillor for the City of Guelph, Ontario since 1991, and is a former President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Kovach is a registered nurse with a Bachelor of Health Science, a Bachelor of Education, a Masters degree in Nursing. During her tenure on council, Kovach has been a member of the Guelph Police Services Board, the River Run Centre Board, the Fire Allocation Committee, … - Neve Campbell
Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990s television series "Party of Five" (1994-2000), and subsequently appeared in leading roles in several Hollywood films, including "Scream" (1996-2000), "The Craft" (1996) and "Wild Things" (1998). She has since appeared in smaller roles. - Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith (born 4 September 1968 in Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian professional poker player. Smith learned how to play cards by playing cribbage and rummy with his father. He started playing poker at the age of 26, playing mixed games with co-workers. He became a poker dealer in 1996 and set up his own poker club in 1998. He has also worked as a taxi driver and on a golf course. - Kate Quarrie
Kate Quarrie is a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Guelph, Ontario from 2003 to 2006. A native of Guelph, Kate Quarrie was defeated by Karen Farbridge in the November 2006 municipal election. - Kirk Maltby
Kirk Maltby (born December 22, 1972 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian ice hockey winger. He currently plays for the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL. Having spent his junior years with the Owen Sound Platers of the OHL, Maltby was selected in the 3rd round, 65th overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1992 Draft. - Bill McCreary
William "Bill" McCreary (born November 17, 1955, in Guelph, Ontario) is a referee in the National Hockey League. McCreary first refereed an NHL game in 1984, and since has since refereed in over 1300 NHL games. McCreary wears sweater #7. For the 13th year in a row McCreary has been selected to officiate the Stanley Cup Finals. No other person in modern NHL history has refereed more Stanley Cup games. - Victor Davis
Victor Davis, CM (February 10, 1964-November 13, 1989) was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer, the greatest breaststroker Canada has ever produced. He also enjoyed success in the individual medley and the butterfly. - Jean Little
Jean Little is a Canadian author born in 1932. Her work has mainly consisted of children's literature, but she has also written two autobiographies: "Little by Little" and "Stars Come Out Within". - George Drew
George Alexander Drew, PC, CC, QC, LL.D (May 7, 1894 - January 4, 1973) was a Canadian conservative politician who founded a Progressive Conservative dynasty in Ontario that lasted 42 years. He served as the 14th Premier of Ontario from 1943 to 1948. - Cody Bass
Cody Bass (born on January 7, 1987 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada) is a young hockey player in the Ontario Hockey League. He is a Centreman for the Saginaw Spirit. Bass is 6'00" tall and weighs 185 lb. Known for his great work ethic, fierce competitiveness, and a responsible style of play Bass is a defensive minded forward and thus has been judged to be a great penalty killer. In 127 games with the Mississauga IceDogs, Bass has tallied 14 goals and made 24 assists, … - Gord Miller
Gord Miller is the current Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. He has served as the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario since 2000 and oversees the implementation of the Environmental Bill of Rights. As an independent officer appointed by the Legislative Assembly, commissioner Miller monitors and reports annually on government compliance with the provisions of the Environmental Bill of Rights. - Aaron Riches
Aaron Riches is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He used to be in the bands Left Hand Red, Fiddle Footed, Burn 51 and Minnow. Afterwards he released 2 solo-albums, and toured with the "Royal City All-Stars", which eventually became the band Royal City, which has also since disbanded. He is currently pursuing a PhD in theology from The University of Nottingham, UK. - Tim Kingsbury
Tim Kingsbury is a Canadian musician and member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire. He plays bass guitar, guitar, and occasionally keyboards. He spent his early years living in and around Guelph, Ontario. His peers would become indie names such as Gentleman Reg and Jim Guthrie. Eventually, Tim moved to Montreal, where the Arcade Fire formed. Kingsbury also toured and recorded with Wolf Parade for a while as a bassist. He has also been involved with the band Clark. - Ray Scapinello
Ray "Scampy" Scapinello (born November 5, 1946 in Guelph, Ontario) is a former National Hockey League linesman. Scapinello's career included the 1998 Winter Olympics, 20 Stanley Cup Finals, 2,500 regular season games, and 426 playoff games. He retired in June 2004 after 33 seasons. Over the course of his career, Scapinello never missed a single game due to injury or illness. - Bob Watson
Bob "Whipper" Watson (b. April 6, 1970 in Guelph, Ontario) is a goaltender for the Toronto Rock in the National Lacrosse League. Watson has won five NLL Championships with the Rock, and was named Championship Game MVP in 2003. Watson was named NLL Goaltender of the Year in 2001. - David Stirton
David Stirton (1816-August 16 1908) was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Wellington South from 1867 to 1876. He was born in Angus, Scotland in 1816. His family settled near the current site of Guelph, Ontario in Upper Canada around 1827. Stirton bought his own farm in 1841. He served as reeve for Puslinch Township and was captain in the local militia. - Mike Hudson
Michael "Mike" Hudson (Born February 6, 1967 in Guelph, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre. - Thomas F. Ryan
Thomas F. Ryan, (1872 - december 25 1961) was a Canadian sportsman and entrepreneur who created five-pin bowling. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Ryan moved to Toronto at age 18. He is said to have been a baseball pitcher good enough for a professional offer, although the details are sketchy. Ryan had been running a pool hall on Yonge Street and in November 1909 co-founded the Toronto Bowling Club above a store at Yonge and Temperance Street. - George McPhee
George McPhee (born July 2, 1958, in Wallaceburg, Ontario) is the general manager of the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals as well as the team's alternate governor and vice president. His nickname is "GMGM," short for "General Manager George McPhee." - Jack Purcell
John Edward "Jack" Purcell (December 24, 1903 - June 10, 1991) was a Canadian world champion badminton player. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Purcell won five consecutive Ontario championships from 1927 to 1931 and was national champion in 1929 and 1930. He turned professional in 1932 and was declared world champion in 1933 based on his record against leading Canadian, American and British badminton players. He retired as the undefeated champion in 1945. - Jeremy Ware
Jeremy Ware (born October 23rd, 1975 in Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian baseball left fielder. He was drafted by the Montreal Expos in 1994 in the 25th round, 700th overall. Ware formerly played for the Edmonton Trappers until the team was sold to a group of investors including basbeball legend Nolan Ryan, that moved the team to Round Rock, Texas, where they are known as the Round Rock Express. He now plays for the Edmonton Cracker-Cats of the Northern League. - John Kenneth MacAlister
John Kenneth Macalister (July 19, 1914, Guelph, Ontario, Canada - September 14, 1944, Buchenwald) was a Canadian hero of World War II. John Macalister graduated the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute (GCVI) and from the University of Toronto, then as a Rhodes Scholar studied at Oxford University. He was expanding his education further at the Institute of Corporate Law in Paris, France when World War II began in 1939. - Albert Fish
Albert Fish (1922 - April 5 2006) was a Canadian realtor and member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Preston, England, he served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. In 1949, he emigrated to Canada and lived in Guelph, Ontario. He started working in real estate in 1954 and opened his own firm, Albert Fish Real Estate Limited, in 1957. After serving as President of the Ontario Real Estate Association, … - Derek Fletcher
Derek Fletcher (born July 26, 1951 in Lichfield, England) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. Fletcher worked as a flexographic press operative for sixteen years at Macmillan Bathurst Industries in Guelph, Ontario. He served as president of the Guelph and District Labour Council from 1984 to 1988, … - Charley Fox
Charles W. Fox, DFC (born in 1920 in Guelph, Ontario) is a former flight lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. Fox, the son of an Irish immigrant, joined the RCAF in 1939 at the beginning of the war (his brother Ted joined the Royal Canadian Artillery). He graduated near the top of his class in 1941 and was offered a job as a flight instructor in Dunnville, Ontario. He remained in this position until 1943 when he began combat training in Bagotville, … - Harry Worton
Harry Worton was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1955 to 1985, as a member of the Liberal Party. Worton was born in Guelph, Ontario, and was educated at Guelph Collegiate. He worked as a baker in the city. Worton was an alderman for Guelph in 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 and 1951, and served as the city's mayor from 1952 to 1955. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1955 provincial election, … - Seth
Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant (born September 16, 1962), a Canadian comic book artist and writer. Born in Clinton, Ontario, Seth attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Seth's first published comics work was as an illustrator on the Vortex Comics series "Mister X", but he soon moved to his own series, "Palookaville" (published by Drawn and Quarterly), … - Rick Allain
Rick Allain(b. May 20, 1969) is a North American ice hockey coach. Allain's coaching career followed three seasons as a defenseman for the Maine Mariners/Providence Bruins franchise in the American Hockey League. Allain made the transition to coaching in 1997, when he spent a season as assistant coach for the Guelph Storm in the junior-level Ontario Hockey League (OHL). The following season he accepted the head coach position with the Peterborough Petes of the OHL, … - Brian Dickinson
Brian Dickinson (born 1961 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada) is a two-time Juno Award-winning pianist. Dickinson's CD "In Transition" was chosen as Best Jazz Recording in 1991, and he was named 1993 Composer of the Year by The Jazz Report. Dickinson has excelled as a composer and musician, working with internationally recognized jazz luminaries on radio shows and at jazz festivals across North America. Dickinson teaches at Humber College and the University of Toronto. - Frank Doyle
Frank Doyle (born September 8, 1980, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He was never selected in the NHL Entry Draft; he is currently a member of the New Jersey Devils organization, playing for their American Hockey League affiliate, the Lowell Devils. Doyle played two seasons with the University of Maine before turning professional in 2004-05 with the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL. He played in the ECHL All-Star Game that season, … - Bunk Congalton
William Millar "Bunk" Congalton was a Major League Baseball right fielder. A native of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, he stood 5'11" and weighed 190 lbs. Congalton was a minor league star who twice led the Western Association in batting average. He reached the major leagues at the age of 27 with the Chicago Orphans, then was back in the big leagues three years later with the Cleveland Naps. He was fourth in the American League in 1906 with a .320 batting average, … - Arthur W. Cutten
Arthur William Cutten was an Canadian-born businessman who gained great wealth and prominence as a commodity trader in the United States - Shaun Benson
Shaun Benson (born January 16, 1976 in Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. Shaun summered at YMCA Camp Kitchikewana on Beausoleil Island where he held the position of Music Coordinator (where he went by the alias MC Benson) and later held the esteemed position of Music Director (under the alias Shaun Benson, MD). Highlights of his Kitchi career include directing Les Miserables and a memorable street fight with Perry "Hound-Dog" Grassic. Benson played the role of Dr. - Percy A. Taverner
Percy Algernon Taverner (June 10 1875-May 9 1947) was a Canadian ornithologist. He was born Percy Algernon Fowler in Guelph, Ontario in 1875. When his parents separated and his mother remarried, he took on his new parent's surname. Taverner, a self-taught naturalist, was the first ornithologist at the National Museum of Canada, now the Canadian Museum of Nature, from 1912 to 1942. He helped establish Point Pelee National Park and a number of bird sanctuaries across Canada, … - Kimberly Barber
Kimberly Barber (born December 21, 1959, Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian mezzo-soprano and vocal pedagogue. She studied with Patricia Kern at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1983 and received a diploma in operatic performance in 1985. She began her career as a member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, also in 1985.
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