Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe was a Canadian builder in the National Hockey League. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens.

Edwin Harold Ballard (July 30, 1903 - April 11, 1990) was an owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens. A member of the Leafs organization from 1940, he became part-owner of the Leafs in 1961 and was majority owner from February 1972 until his death. He was also the owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League for 11 seasons, and won a Grey Cup championship as team owner in 1986.

Foster William Hewitt, OC (November 21, 1902 - April 21, 1985) was a Canadian radio pioneer. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Hewitt attended Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. He was a champion boxer in his student years, winning the intercollegiate title at 112 pounds. Hewitt developed an early interest in radio and as a teenager accompanied his father, W. A. Hewitt, on a trip to Detroit, …

George Louis Chuvalo, CM (born September 12, 1937) is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxer who was never knocked down in ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979. He was Canadian heavyweight champion as both an amateur and a professional, and twice fought for versions of the professional world's heavyweight title. Born in Toronto to Croatian parents, Stipan and Kate. Chuvalo grew up in The Junction district of west Toronto.

Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey (July 3, 1903 - April 7, 1992) was a star ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs in eight seasons from 1926-1933. Born in Bracebridge, Ontario, Bailey grew up in Toronto and played junior hockey for St. Mary's in the Ontario Hockey Association. He played senior hockey in Peterborough for two seasons from 1924-1926 and in November 1926 was signed by the Toronto St. Patricks of the National Hockey League, …

James Dickinson "Dick" Irvin (Sr. was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Irvin was one of the greatest players of his day, balancing a torrid slapshot and tough style with gentlemanly play. He played junior and senior amateur hockey in Winnipeg, Manitoba, winning the Allan Cup in 1915 with the Winnipeg Monarchs.

Conn Stafford Smythe was the son of Conn Smythe and president of Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd. and the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team from 1961-1969 and from 1970 until his death.

Whipper Billy Watson, born William Potts, was a Canadian professional wrestler and two-time world heavyweight wrestling champion.

Jagjit Singh Hans (born 1944 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India) is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth (and using it to taunt fans and attack wrestlers). Singh has become the most successful Indian pro wrestler in history and one of the top 100 draws of all time. Tiger Jeet Singh wrestled (mostly as a freelancer) in Japan for 22 years, …

Kaleb Toth (born August 8, 1977 in Calgary, Alberta) is a lacrosse player for the Calgary Roughnecks in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). Toth was the second overall draft pick in the 1999 NLL draft by the Toronto Rock and played with them for two seasons. A game winning goal by Toth in the last second of play won the Rock their first Champion's Cup with a win over the Rochester Knighthawks in 2000.

Paul Morris (b. 1938) is the former public address announcer for the Toronto Maple Leafs and sound engineer at Maple Leaf Gardens. Morris held the PA announcing job for 38 years, from October 14 1961 to 1999, working 1,585 consecutive Leaf games over that period. His dispassionate, monotone voice was instantly recognizable to two generations of Leaf fans. Morris's father, Doug Morris, was an electrician at Maple Leaf Gardens from its opening in 1931.

Neil Cohalan (born July 31 1906, died January 22 1968) is a former professional basketball coach. He was the first coach of the New York Knickerbockers, and has the distinction of being the winning coach of the very first game played in the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner to the modern NBA. The game, a November 1 1946 contest between the Knickerbockers and the Toronto Huskies played in famed Maple Leaf Gardens, was won 68-66 by the Knickerbockers.

George Edward Mara, C.M. (December 12 1921 - August 30 2006) was a Canadian businessman and Winter Olympics athlete. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was educated at Upper Canada College and played for the Toronto Marlboros junior hockey team. After declining an offer from the Detroit Red Wings during World War II, he instead served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Frederick Sasakamoose (born December 25, 1933) was the first Canadian aboriginal player in the National Hockey League, and the first First Nations player with treaty status. He grew up on the Cree Ahtahkakoop Indian reserve in Saskatchewan and learned to play hockey at an Indian residential school in Duck Lake. In 1953 he was selected as the most valuable player in the junior Western Canada Junior Hockey League.

George R. Cottrelle was an executive with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1930s and 1940s. He helped to finance the building of Maple Leaf Gardens in Downtown Toronto (on the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street) in 1931. He won the Stanley Cup with the Maple Leafs in 1942. He was a banker by profession and was appointed Oil Controller for Canada on June 29, …