The following people were born in, residents of, or are otherwise closely connected to the city of Hamilton, Ontario.
See also: List of McMaster University people and Category:Mayors of Hamilton, OntarioArts
Architecture and design
- Lida Baday (1957- ), fashion designer. Her namesake label is sold at Holt Renfrew across Canada, and at department stores as Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom's and Bergdorf Goodman in the US.
- James Balfour (1854-1917), architect, Canada Life Assurance Company building at corner of King & James (1883), City Hall on corner of James & York (1888).
- Daniel Gauthier (1964- ), is a designer of over 100 freeware TrueType fonts, and is based in Hamilton, Ontario.
- Bruce Kuwabara (1949- ), architect; (Kitchener City Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario Phase III).
- John M. Lyle (1872-1945), architect in the late 19th Century; New York Public Library (1897), Royal Alexandra Theatre, in Toronto (1907), Union Station (Toronto) (1914-1921).
Dance
- Frank Augustyn (1953- ), From 1972 to 1989 he was the principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.
- Karen Kain (1951- ), principal dancer for the National Ballet of Canada.
Film and television
- Jean Adair (1873-1953), actress. Although she worked primarily on stage (sometimes billed as Jennet Adair), she made several film appearances late in her career, most notably as one of the misguided murdering aunts of Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace .
- Nicole Arbour, is a stand-up comedian. She bills herself as "North America's Sexiest Comedian."
- Julia Arthur (1868-1950), was a Canadian-born stage and film actress.
- Robert Beatty (1909-1992), actor who worked in radio, film and television for most of his career and was especially known in the United Kingdom.
- Alan Best (1959- ), is an animation director and producer. Began his career as an assistant animator working for Hanna-Barbera studios. Also worked on the animated features, Heavy Metal (1981), Pink Floyd The Wall (1982).
- Rick Campanelli (1970- ), He was a MuchMusic Video Jockey, currently works for ET Canada.
- Wendy Crewson (1956- ), actress.
- Douglass Dumbrille (1889–1974), was an actor and one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
- Rob Faulds (1955- ), is a Canadian sports analyst on Rogers Sportsnet and host of sportsnetnews.
- Jonathan Frid (1924- ), is a noted theater, television and movie actor. He is most famously known for the role of Barnabas Collins - a vampire - on the first incarnation of the Gothic TV serial Dark Shadows .
- Daniel Goldberg, Movie Producer of Twins , Space Jam . Also worked with Ivan Reitman on Stripes and Meatballs.
- Currie Graham (1967- ), stage, film and television actor. Graham is best known for playing Lt. Thomas Bale in the TV program NYPD Blue .
- Graham Greene (1952- ), TV and movie actor who was born on Six Nations reserve and lived in Hamilton as a young adult, Greene has appeared in The Green Mile, on the Red Green Show, L.A. Law and the New Beachcombers.
- Torri Higginson (1969- ), actress. She is most well-known for her roles in the TekWar movies and series, The English Patient and Stargate Atlantis . (Burlington, Ontario)
- Florence Lawrence (1890-1938), was an inventor and silent film actress, who is often referred to as "The First Movie Star." She was also known as "The Biograph Girl" and "The Girl of a Thousand Faces". During her lifetime, Lawrence appeared in more than 270 films for various motion picture companies.
- Chris Lazar (1986- ), actor best known for his role as Young Zach on the series Dark Angel .
- Ashley Leggat (1986- ), actress who is known for her role as "Casey" in the Disney Channel series Life With Derek .
- Eugene Levy (1946- ), Jewish-Canadian actor, television director, producer and writer. Best known internationally for his role as the father in the American Pie movies.
- Brian Linehan (1944-2004), television host, best known for his celebrity interviews on City Lights , a program produced by Citytv in Toronto.
- Del Lord (1894-1970), was a film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films. (Grimsby Ontario)
- Patrick McKenna (1960- ), is a comedic and dramatic actor. He is best known for the television series The Red Green Show and Traders, and the Trudeau miniseries.
- Paul Popowich (1973- ), actor. Beside his theatre appearances, he has performed in many television series (such as Beverly Hills 90210 ) and features.
- Frank Powell, was a stage and silent film actor, screenwriter, and director in the United States.
- Leon Pownall (1943-2006), actor and director.
- Ivan Reitman (1946- ), Slovakian-born, Canadian-raised Jewish film actor, producer, and director. He is most remembered for directing and producing a string of comedies, mostly in the 1980s and 1990s ( Meatballs , Stripes and Ghostbusters ). A founder of the McMaster Film Board at McMaster University.
- Kathleen Robertson (1973- ), actress. She was cast in Beverly Hills 90210 , where she remained until 1997.
- Martin Short (1950- ), Actor, writer, and producer best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live.
- Steve Smith (1945- ), main actor and writer on The Red Green Show , a Canadian television series.
- Sarah Taylor, MuchMusic VJ, Sarah now co-hosts many of MuchMusic's popular shows, including Combat Zone , MuchOnDemand and Take Over .
- Dave Thomas (1949- ), Hamilton native, McMaster alumnus, and SCTV member, before leaving for movies and Grace Under Fire.
- Brian Williams, sportscaster who is best known for his coverage of the Olympic Games. (Born in Winnipeg, raised in Hamilton).
- Dick Wilson (1916-2007), actor, whose claim to fame was working for over 21 years on 504 Charmin toilet paper TV commercials. Also made acting appearances on Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes and The Bob Newhart Show.
- Gordon Michael Woolvett (1970- ), actor, plays Seamus Harper on TV's Andromeda.
- Dominic Zamprogna (1979- ), actor, plays James "Jammer" Lyman on TV's Battlestar Galactica.
- Gema Zamprogna (1976- ), actress, played the role of Felicity Clark on Road to Avonlea. (1989-1996)
Fine arts
- Blaine, political cartoonist.
- Gino Cavicchioli (1957- ), is a sculptor. Cavicchioli is currently the official sculptor for the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
- Sky Gilbert (1952- ), is an artistic director, actor, academic and drag performer. Opened up the Hammertheatre Company in January 2007 in Hamilton. The theatre is devoted to the plays of artistic director Sky Gilbert whose plays deal with issues of gender and sexuality.
- Hortense Crompton Gordon, a self-taught painter in 1952 she had earned her first solo exhibition in New York City. She was a member of a group of Toronto-based group Painters Eleven. Her works were exhibited in galleries in Europe and North America.
- Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook (1913- ), regarded as one of Canada's finest portrait sculptors, her career has spanned over seven decades.
- Mark Lewis (b. 1958), an artist who represented Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
- Graeme MacKay (1968- ), Editorial cartoonist.
- Win Mortimer (1919-1998), was comic book/ comic strip artist, one of the major illustrators of the DC Comics superhero Superman, Superboy & Batman.
- Frank Panabaker (1904-1992), painter.
- Dana Samuel (1970- ), new media artist, performance artist.
- Mark Schilling (1968- ), installation artist.
- Dave Sim (1956- ), comic book writer and artist.
- Paul Szep (1941- ), Editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe from 1967- 2001.
- Floria Sigismondi (1965- ), Artist (born in Pescara, Italy, but raised in Hamilton). Apart from her art exhibitions she is best known for directing music videos for Christina Aguilera, Muse, Interpol, The White Stripes, David Bowie, Sigur Rós, Sheryl Crow, The Cure, Björk, Amon Tobin, Marilyn Manson and Incubus.
Illusionists
- Greg Frewin (1967- ), Illusionist and "World Champion of Magic".
Journalism and writing
- Roy Adams, prominent Canadian author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist and academic.
- Gordon Stewart Anderson, author.
- Dick Beddoes (1925-1991), former sports journalist for CHCH TV in Hamilton, the Vancouver Sun, the Toronto Globe & Mail, CFRB radio (Toronto) and book author.
- Stephen Brunt, the lead sports columnist for The Globe and Mail since 1989.
- John H. Bryden (1943- ), politician, journalist, historian.
- Richard Butler (1834-1925), editor, publisher, journalist. Butler neighbourhood in Hamilton named after him.
- Trevor William Cole, newspaper and magazine columnist and more recently a novelist.
- Hugh Cook (1942- ), novelist.
- Damien Cox, sports columnist for the Toronto Star.
- Sylvia Fraser (1935- ), novelist and travel writer.
- Jason Jones, senior corresponde
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