The following people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely connected to the city of Hamilton, Ontario.

Arts Architecture and design James Balfour (1854–1917), architect; works include Canada Life Assurance Company building at corner of King & James (1883), City Hall on corner of James & York (1888) Bruce Kuwabara (1949– ), architect; works include Kitchener City Hall and Art Gallery of Ontario Phase III John M. Lyle (1872–1945), architect in the late 19th century; works include New York Public Library Main Branch (1897–1911), Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto (1907), Union Station (Toronto) (1914–1921)

Craft Lois Betteridge (1928–2020), silversmith, goldsmith, designer and educatorButt, Harlan W. "Lois Etherington Betteridge: Lifetime Achievement Award". Metalsmith 30.5 (2010): 59. Print.

Dance Frank Augustyn (1953– ), principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada 1972–1989 Karen Kain (1951– ), principal dancer and later artistic director (2005–2021) of the National Ballet of Canada

Film and television

Jean Adair (1873–1953), actress; worked primarily on stage (sometimes billed as Jennet Adair); 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, comedian Julia Arthur (1868–1950), 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– ), 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) and Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) Kylie Bunbury (born 1989), actress Rick Campanelli (1970– ), MuchMusic video jockey, currently works for ET Canada Wendy Crewson (1956– ), actress Douglass Dumbrille (1889–1974), actor and Canadian pioneer in early Hollywood Jesse Ewles (1981– ), indie film director, writer, creator of music videos for of Montreal, Kathryn Calder, and Grizzly Bear Rob Faulds (1955– ), Canadian sports analyst on Rogers Sportsnet and host of sportsnetnews Angela Featherstone (born 1965), actress, writer and teacher Jonathan Frid (1924–2012), theater, television and movie actor, known for the role of the vampire Barnabas Collins on the first incarnation of the Gothic TV serial Dark Shadows Daniel Goldberg (1948/49–2023), film producer (Space Jam); worked with Ivan Reitman on Stripes and Meatballs Harris Goldberg, film director, writer, and producer Currie Graham (1967– ), stage, film and television actor, known for playing Lt. Thomas Bale on the TV program NYPD Blue Graham Greene (1952–2025), TV and movie actor; born on Six Nations reserve and lived in Hamilton as a young adult; appeared in The Green Mile, on the Red Green Show, L.A. Law and The New Beachcombers Jonathan Hale (1892–1966), actor, known as Mr. Dithers in the Blondie movies; committed suicide in Hollywood at age 74 Adam J. Harrington (1972– ), actor and producer; known for his roles in The Secret Circle, Queer As Folk and Dexter, and as Roy Earle in the video game L.A. Noire Trevor Jimenez, animator (Weekends) Jason Jones, senior correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Stana Katic (1978– ), actress, known for her portrayal of Detective Kate Beckett in ABC's Castle Luke Kirby (1978– ), actor (Mambo Italiano)

Florence Lawrence (1890–1938), inventor and silent film actress, often referred to as "the first movie star"; also known as "the Biograph Girl" and "the Girl of a Thousand Faces"; appeared in more than 270 films for various motion picture companies Chris Lazar (1986– ), actor, known for his role as Young Zach on the series Dark Angel Ashley Leggat (1986– ), actress, known for her role as "Casey" in the Disney Channel series Life with Derek Eugene Levy (1946– ), actor and writer, known for SCTV, Schitt's Creek and the American Pie film series Brian Linehan (1944–2004), television host; known for his celebrity interviews on City Lights produced by Citytv in Toronto Del Lord (1894–1970), film director and actor; known as a director of Three Stooges films (Grimsby) Patrick McKenna (1960– ), comedic and dramatic actor; known for the television series The Red Green Show and Traders, and the Trudeau miniseries Sean Menard, documentary filmmaker (The Carter Effect, 299 Queen Street West, Run Terry Run) Blake Moynes, winner of the seventeenth season of reality television series The Bachelorette Kathleen Munroe (born 1982), actress Erin Pitt (born 1999), actress Paul Popowich (1973– ), actor; beside his theatre appearances, has performed in many television series (Beverly Hills, 90210) and features Frank Powell, stage and silent film actor, screenwriter, and director in the United States Leon Pownall (1943–2006), actor and director Ivan Reitman (1946–2022), Slovak-born, Canadian-raised film actor, producer, and director; 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 Rick Roberts, actor Kathleen Robertson (1973– ), actress, Beverly Hills, 90210 Inanna Sarkis, actress Martin Short (1950– ), actor, writer, and producer best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live Floria Sigismondi (1965– ), director (born in Pescara, Italy, raised in Hamilton) Steve Smith (1945– ), main actor and writer on television series The Red Green Show David Soren, animator Sarah Taylor, MuchMusic VJ who now co-hosts many popular shows, including Combat Zone, MuchOnDemand and Take Over Dave Thomas (1949– ), comedian and actor, SCTV, Grace Under Fire Nerene Virgin, Canadian actress, journalist, and teacher Brian Williams, sportscaster, 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, played Seamus Harper on TV's Andromeda Dominic Zamprogna (1979– ), actor, played James "Jammer" Lyman on TV's Battlestar Galactica Gema Zamprogna (1976– ), actress, played Felicity King on Road to Avonlea (1989–1996)

Fine arts Lida Baday (1957– ), fashion designer Blaine (1937–2012), political cartoonist William Blair Bruce (1859–1906), painter Gino Cavicchioli (1957– ), official sculptor for the Canadian Football Hall of FameGino Cavicchioli Official Website: Biography. Retrieved 15 January 2008 Christian Cardell Corbet (1966– ), portrait sculptor Hortense Gordon (1886–1961), member of Toronto-based group Painters Eleven; works were exhibited in galleries in Europe and North America Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook (1913–2009), portrait sculptor; founder of the Canadian Portrait Academy and Canadian Group of Artists; her career spanned over seventy-five years; principal works include eight stone sculpture panels on the former Federal Building Mark Lewis (1958– ), photographer and installation artist who represented Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale Graeme MacKay (1968– ), editorial cartoonist Win Mortimer (1919–1998), comic book and comic strip artist, one of the major illustrators of the DC Comics superheroes Superman, Superboy, and Batman Frank Panabaker (1904–1992), painter Dave Sim (1956– ), comic book writer and artist; creator of Cerebus Paul Szep (1941– ), editorial cartoonist; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

Illusionists Greg Frewin (1967– ), illusionist and "World Champion of Magic"

Journalism and writing Roy Adams, author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist and academic Barbara Amiel, British-Canadian journalist, writer, socialite; wife of Conrad Black Gordon Stewart Anderson, author Dick Beddoes (1925–1991), former sports journalist for CHCH-TV in Hamilton, the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), and CFRB radio (Toronto); author Stephen Brunt, lead sports columnist for The Globe and Mail since 1989 John H. Bryden (1943– ), politician, journalist, historian Richard Butler (1834–1925), editor, publisher, journalist; the Butler neighbourhood in Hamilton is named after him Jojo Chintoh (1944– ), retired television reporter (Citytv) Jane Christmas (b 1954), writer Trevor Cole, newspaper and magazine columnist, novelist Hugh Cook (1942– ), novelist Damien Cox, sports columnist for the Toronto Star Sylvia Fraser (1935– ), novelist and travel writer Lawrence Hill, author (The Book of Negroes) Wentworth M. Johnson (1939–2014), author Robert Kirkland Kernighan (1854–1926), poet, journalist; the Kernighan neighbourhood on Hamilton Mountain is named after him Gary Lautens (1928–1992), humorist and newspaper columnist; wrote for the Toronto Star from 1962 until his death Mark Leslie (1969– ), writer, author of Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers Billie Livingston (1965– ), novelist and poet David Macfarlane (1952– ), journalist, playwright and novelist Emily Maitlis (1970– ), British journalist; born in Hamilton whilst her father was teaching at McMaster University Dan McLean (1947–2026), journalist and news anchor (CHCH-TV) Ivan Miller (1898–1967), Canadian journalist and sportscaster who worked 45 years for The Hamilton Spectator Steve Paikin (1960– ), journalist, film producer and author, known for hosting TV Ontario's newsmagazines Studio 2 and Diplomatic Immunity John Lawrence Reynolds (1939– ), novelist and non-fiction writer, twice winner of the Arthur Ellis Award Melville Marks Robinson (1888– ), founder of the Commonwealth Games Doug Saunders (1967– ), journalist, European Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail James Travers, journalist"Star columnist Jim Travers dies". Toronto Star, 3 March 2011. Clementina (Fessenden) Trenholme (1844–1918), author, social organizer, and mother of radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden; the Trenholme and Fessenden neighbourhoods on Hamilton Mountain were named after her Anuja Varghese, writerJustin Chandler, "On the scene: Hamilton authors talk queerness and resistance". TVO Today, 16 June 2023. David Vienneau (1951–2004), journalist who moved to television in 1998 as Ottawa bureau chief at for Global Television, where he remained until his death from pancreatic cancer Harriett Annie Wilkins (1829–1888), poet

Music

Nicole Appleton (1974– ), singer; born in Hamilton but raised in Toronto; one of two Canadian members of the British pop group All Saints, which disbanded in 2001; she and her sister Natalie later formed a second British-based pop group named Appleton Ian Astbury, singer (The Cult), spent teen years in Hamilton David Braid (1975– ), composer and pianist Boris Brott (1944–2022), once an assistant to Leonard Bernstein, he led the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra for 21 years, later creating the Brott Music Festival and National Academy Orchestra David Byrne (1952– ), singer-songwriter, guitarist (Talking Heads); lived in Hamilton as a child Rita Chiarelli, blues singer Colin Cripps (1961– ), musician and record producer em essex (born 1988), electronic music producer and creator of the record label Halley Labs Eria Fachin (1960–1996), pop singer Jeremy Greenspan (1979– ), electronic pop musician best known for Junior Boys Sonny Greenwich (1936– ), jazz guitarist Jordan Hastings (1982– ), drummer for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire, as well as The Black Lungs and former band Jersey, born in Hamilton but raised in Burlington Darcy Hepner, saxophonist, composer arranger Udo Kasemets (1919–2014), Estonian-born composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic works Harrison Kennedy (1942– ), electric blues singer and guitarist, formerly part of Chairmen of the Board