List of people from Ottawa
This list enumerates people who were born in the Canadian city of Ottawa.
A
- Frank Ahearn (1886-1962), hockey manager
- Paul Anka ( b. 1941 ), singer
- Derek Armstrong (born 1973 ), ice hockey player
- Dawn Askin ( born 1980 ), curler
- Margaret Atwood ( b. 1939 ), writer
- Adrian Aucoin (1973 ), ice hockey player
- Dan Aykroyd ( b. 1952 ), film actor
B
- Matthew Barnaby (born 1973 ), ice hockey player
- Jay Baruchel (* 1982 ), actor
- Eric Beaudoin ( born 1980 ), ice hockey player
- Brendan Bell ( b. 1983 ), ice hockey player
- Clint Benedict (1894-1966), ice hockey player
- Timothy Bond ( b. 1942 ), film director and screenwriter
- Buck Boucher (1896-1960), ice hockey player
- Frank Boucher (1901-1977), ice hockey player
- Dan Boyle (born 1976 ), ice hockey player
- Fred Brathwaite (born 1972 ), ice hockey player
- Punch Broadbent (1892-1971), ice hockey player
- Rod Brind'Amour (born 1970 ), ice hockey player
- Jeff Brown (born 1966 ), ice hockey player
- Horst Bulau (* 1962), ski jumpers
- Mike Bullard ( born 1961 ), ice hockey player
- Theodore Arthur Burrows (1857-1929), politician and businessman
C
- Jeff Capello (born 1964 ), ice hockey player
- Thomas Cavanagh ( b. 1963 ), actor
- Sarah Chalke (born 1976 ), actress
- Patrick Chan ( * 1990), figure skater
- King Clancy (1903-1986), ice hockey player
- Betsy Clifford ( born 1953 ), alpine skier
- Suzanne Cloutier (1927-2003), actress
- Bruce Cockburn ( born 1945 ), folk musician
- Alex Connell (1902-1958), ice hockey player
- Dustin Cook ( 1989), skier
- David Cooper (born 1973 ), ice hockey player
D
- Andrew Dabeka (born 1978 ), badminton player
- François Dompierre ( born 1943 ), composer
E
- Ben Eager ( born 1984 ), ice hockey player
- Kathleen Edwards (born 1978 ), musician
- Melissa Ertürk (* 1993), football player
F
- Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), feminist
- Sue Foley ( born 1968 ), blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
- Gordon Fraser ( born 1968 ), cyclist
- Mark Fraser ( born 1986 ), ice hockey player
- Alfred Ernest Fripp (1866-1938), politician
G
- Robert Gay Marie (* 1927), Bishop
- Danuta Gleed (1946-1996), writer
- Tom Green (born 1971 ), comedian
- Tommy Gorman (1886-1961), ice hockey player
- Ebbie Goodfellow (1906-1985), ice hockey player
- Geoffrey B. Greatrex ( born 1968 ), historian
- Lorne Greene (1915-1987), actor
- Nancy Greene ( b. 1943 ), alpine skier
- Kristina Groves (born 1976 ), speed skater
B
- Jill Hensel Wood ( born 1962 ), show jumper
- Syd Howe (1911-1976), ice hockey player
I
- Frances Itani (* 1942), writer and poet
J
- D. D. Jackson (born 1967 ), jazz musician
- Aurel Joliat (1901-1986), ice hockey player
K
- Nisha Kataria ( born 1986 ), musician
- Pat Kavanagh ( b. 1979 ), ice hockey player
- Sandra Keith ( born 1980 ), biathlete
- Barbara Keyfitz (1944 ), mathematician
- Brian Kilrea ( born 1934 ), ice hockey player
- Jim Kyte (born 1964 ), ice hockey player
L
- Fred Lambart (1880-1946), mountaineer
- Jeanne Landry (1922-2011), pianist and composer
- Hector -Louis Langevin (1826-1906), politician
- Peter Leitch ( born 1944 ), jazz guitarist
- Lorenzo Rodolfo Guibord Lévesque (1923-2007), Bishop
- Chris Lipsett ( born 1974 ), ice hockey player
- Rich Little ( born 1938 ), comedian
M
- Steven Glenwood MacLean (born 1954 ), astronaut
- Philip Major (* 1988), race car driver
- John Manley ( born 1950 ), politician
- Dalton McGuinty ( born 1955 ), politician
- Lise Meloche ( born 1960 ), kayak athlete, cross-country skier and biathlete
- Marc Methot ( born 1985 ), ice hockey player
- John Michael Miller ( b. 1946 ), Archbishop
- Vanessa Morgan ( * 1992), actress
- Alanis Morissette ( born 1974 ), singer and musician
- Tyler Moss ( born 1975 ), ice hockey player
- Thomas Mulcair (born 1954 ), politician
O
- Larry O'Brien ( b. 1949 ), politician
- Sean O'Donnell (born 1971 ), ice hockey player
- John Ogrodnick ( born 1959 ), ice hockey player
- Margriet of Orange- Nassau ( b. 1943 ), Princess of the Netherlands
P
- Justin Papineau ( born 1980 ), ice hockey player
- Ron Pasco (born 1972 ), ice hockey player
- Frank Patrick (1885-1960), professional ice hockey player - coach and functionary
- Denis Potvin ( born 1953 ), ice hockey player
- Marc Potvin (1967-2006), ice hockey player
R
- Bob Rae ( b. 1948 ), politician
- Greg Reain ( b. 1977 ), cyclist
- Luke Richardson (born 1969 ), ice hockey player
- Shawn Rivers (born 1971 ), ice hockey player
- Bill Rooney (1896-1988), American football player
- Joe Rooney (1898-1979), American football player
- Kelly Rowan (born 1967 ), film actress
- Derek Roy (* 1983), ice hockey player
- Alexander Cameron Rutherford (1857-1941), politician
S
- Marc St. Jean (born 1978 ), ice hockey player
- Vik Sahay, actor
- Jacqueline Samuda, Actress
- John Ralston Saul ( b. 1947 ), novelist and essayist
- Andre Savage ( born 1975 ), ice hockey player
- Robert J. Sawyer ( b. 1960 ), author
- Marc Savard ( born 1977 ), ice hockey player
- Barbara Ann Scott (1928-2012), figure skater
- Duncan Campbell Scott (1892-1947), poet and storyteller
- Drew Seeley ( b. 1982 ), actor and singer
- Derek Shirley ( born 1975 ), jazz bassist
- Doug Smith ( born 1963 ), ice hockey player
- Gary Smith ( born 1944 ), ice hockey player
- Trevor Smith ( born 1985 ), ice hockey player
- Brad Smyth (born 1973 ), ice hockey player
- Sasha Sokolov ( born 1943 ), writer
- Roger Spottiswoode ( born 1945 ), film director
- Timothy Sullivan (born 1954 ), composer and music educator
T
- Andrew Taylor (1875-1945), mountaineer
- Wayne Thomas ( born 1947 ), ice hockey player
- Gordon Thomson ( born 1945 ), film actor
- Bettina Trabert (born 1969 ), chess grandmaster
- George Tremblay (1911-1982), composer
- Justin Trudeau ( b. 1971 ), politician and leader of the Liberal Party
V
- Rick Vaive ( born 1949 ), ice hockey player
- Amanda Valentine ( * 1990), figure skater
- Dai Vernon (1894-1992), Magicians
W
- Brian Walton (born 1965 ), cyclist
- Steve Washburn ( born 1975 ), ice hockey player
- Jeff Waters (born 1966 ), rock musician
- Douglas Wilson ( born 1957 ), ice hockey player
- John Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993), geophysicist
- Stephan Wojcikiewicz (* 1980), Badminton
Y
- Stéphane Yelle ( born 1974 ), ice hockey player
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