Writers from Ontario

The list Writers from Ontario includes Ryan Gosling, Avril Lavigne, Neil Young, Michael Cera and Victoria Pratt. The list consists of 540 members and 19 sublists.

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Ontario

Province of Canada

Academics from Ontario
22L, 15T
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- Zena Werb
Journalists from Ontario
2L, 289T
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Writers from Ottawa
1L, 284T
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Poets from Ontario
1L, 99T
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Screenwriters from Ontario
1L, 14T
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- Atom Egoyan
Writers from Toronto
5L, 1,182T
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Writers from Windsor, Ontario
54T
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Writers from Greater Sudbury
60T
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Writers from London, Ontario
83T
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Writers from Hamilton, Ontario
118T
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Writers from Kingston, Ontario
53T
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Writers from Timmins
17T
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Writers from Mississauga
23T
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Writers from Thunder Bay
28T
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Writers from Belleville, Ontario
16T
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Writers from Brantford
13T
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Writers from the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
2L, 13T
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Writers from Simcoe County
40T
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Writers from Sarnia
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1.

Ryan Gosling

Canadian actor and musician

Overview: Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in independent film, he has also worked in blockbuster films of varying genres, and has accrued a worldwide box office gross ...

Date of birth: 12 November 1980

Age: 43

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Eva Mendes (Long-Term)

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21st-century Canadian male musicians 560T

Film directors from Ontario 115T

Canadian documentary film producers 107T
2.

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and actress (born 1984)

Overview: Avril Ramona Lavigne ( AV-ril lə-VEEN; born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is considered a key musician in the development of pop-punk music, as she paved the way for fem ...

Date of birth: 27 September 1984

Age: 39

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

Partner: Nate Smith (Dating)

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21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters 590T

Canadian women fashion designers 35T

French women fashion designers 92T
3.

Michael Cera

Canadian actor

Overview: Michael Austin Cera (born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, singer, and songwriter. He started his career as a child actor, portraying a young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Da ...

Date of birth: 7 June 1988

Age: 36

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Male actors of Scottish descent 224T

Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Male actors of English descent 380T
4.

Neil Young

Canadian and American musician (born 1945)

Overview: Neil Percival Young OC OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian–American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and activist, considered by some as one of the most influential and prolific songwriters ...

Date of birth: 12 November 1945

Age: 78

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Canadian male pianists 129T

2019 deaths 6,613T

Canadian male guitarists 377T
5.

Justine Musk

Canadian author (born 1972)

Overview: Justine Musk (born Jennifer Justine Wilson; September 2, 1972) is a Canadian author.

Date of birth: 2 September 1972

Age: 52

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Musk family 11T

21st-century Canadian women writers 1,352T

Elon Musk 35T
6.

Victoria Pratt

Canadian, Fitness Guru

Overview: Victoria Ainslie Pratt (born December 18, 1970) is a Canadian actress, author, and fitness model.

Date of birth: 18 December 1970

Age: 53

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Fitness Guru

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Trace Adkins (Married)

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Fitness models 32T

Female models from Ontario 74T

Canadian female karateka 9T
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Pattie Mallette

Mother of Justin Bieber

Overview: Patricia Mallette (born April 2, 1975) is the mother of Canadian singer Justin Bieber. She also managed her son's early career. Her autobiography, Nowhere but Up, was published in 2012 by Christian book ...

Date of birth: 2 April 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 4' 8" (142 cm)

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Canadian women non-fiction writers 820T

21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 410T

21st-century Canadian women writers 1,396T
8.

Lights

Canadian musician

Overview: Lights Poxleitner-Bokan (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner; April 11, 1987), known mononymously as Lights (previously stylized as LIGHTS), is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. She is known for singles ...

Date of birth: 11 April 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Beau Bokan (Married)

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Doghouse Records artists 25T

21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

Lights (musician) 1T
9.

Tom Cochrane

Canadian singer-songwriter

Overview: Thomas William Cochrane OC OM ( KOK-rən; born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian musician best known as the frontman for the rock band Red Rider and for his work as a solo singer-songwriter. Cochrane has won ...

Date of birth: 14 May 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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20th-century male singers 5,297T

21st-century male singers 6,386T

Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year winners 39T
10.

Gordon Lightfoot

Canadian singer-songwriter (1938–2023)

Overview: Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is c ...

Date of birth: 17 November 1938

Date of death: 1 May 2023

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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2023 deaths 2,402T

Canadian Folk Music Award winners 125T

Canadian male guitarists 409T
11.

John Candy

Canadian actor and comedian (1950–1994)

Overview: John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian known mainly for his work in Hollywood films. Candy rose to fame in the 1970s as a member of the Toronto branch ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1950

Date of death: 4 March 1994

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Canadian Screen Award winning writers 161T

Canadian Comedy Award winners 180T

Canadian male television writers 235T
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James Cameron

Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)

Overview: James Francis Cameron CC (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, he is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly pushing ...

Date of birth: 16 August 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

Partner: Suzy Amis (Married)

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Canadian veganism activists 1T

Screenwriters from Ontario 2T

Canadian male television writers 139T
13.

Malcolm Gladwell

Journalist and science writer

Overview: Malcolm Timothy Gladwell CM (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published six books: ...

Date of birth: 3 September 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Canadian men podcasters 30T

Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T

20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 249T
14.

Eugene Levy

Canadian actor

Overview: Eugene Levy CM (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series SCTV. He is the ...

Date of birth: 17 December 1946

Age: 77

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Best Actor in a Comedy Series Canadian Screen Award winners 8T

21st-century Canadian comedians 121T

20th-century Canadian comedians 97T
15.

Daniel Caesar

Canadian singer-songwriter

Overview: Ashton Dumar Norwill Simmonds (born April 5, 1995), known professionally as Daniel Caesar, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After independently building a following through the release of two critically ...

Date of birth: 5 April 1995

Age: 29

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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21st-century male singers 6,386T

Canadian contemporary R&B singers 63T

Black Canadian singers 107T
16.

Sarah Harmer

Canadian musical artist (born 1970)

Overview: Sarah Harmer (born November 12, 1970) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and activist.

Date of birth: 12 November 1970

Age: 53

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

Canadian folk-pop singers 18T

Canadian women environmentalists 41T
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Michelle Nolden

Canadian actress (born 1973)

Overview: Michelle Nolden (born March 17, 1973) is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in numerous films and television shows including Murdoch Mysteries, ZOS: Zone of Separation, Numb3rs, Street Time, Earth: ...

Date of birth: 17 March 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Actresses from Ontario 169T

Canadian television actresses 1,310T

Canadian film actresses 1,260T
18.

Esthero

Canadian singer-songwriter

Overview: Esthero ( es-TER-oh; born Jenny-Bea Englishman on December 23, 1978 in Stratford, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer ...

Date of birth: 23 December 1978

Age: 45

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Canadian women singers 295T

21st-century Canadian women singers 647T

Canadian women in electronic music 44T
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Nathaniel Branden

Canadian-American psychotherapist (1930–2014)

Overview: Nathaniel Branden (born Nathan Blumenthal; April 9, 1930 – December 3, 2014) was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and ...

Date of birth: 9 April 1930

Date of death: 3 December 2014

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Psychologist

Gender: Male

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20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 249T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

20th-century male writers 5,043T
20.

Paul Haggis

Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director

Overview: Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar ...

Date of birth: 10 March 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 37T

Film directors from London, Ontario 13T

Writers from London, Ontario 68T