List of people from Caledon, Ontario
See also: List of people from Mississauga, List of people from Brampton, and List of Olympians and Paralympians from Peel
This list of people from Caledon includes people born, raised, or residing later in life in Caledon, Ontario, as well as people whose business in the area is of note. The page includes not only residents of the Town of Caledon, established in 1974, but northern Chinguacousy, Albion Township, Caledon Township, the village of Bolton, and the village of Caledon East.
A
- Reema Abdo, Olympic swimmer and police officer
- Wallace Lloyd Algie, Victoria Cross winner, Alton
B
- Harry James Barber, British Columbia MP, Alton
- John Knox Blair, Ontario MP, Caledon
C
- Spence Caldwell, broadcaster, Town of Caledon
- Samuel Calvert, soldier, Alberta MLA, Mayor of Chipman, Alberta
- Yann Candele, Olympic equestrian, lives in Caledon
- John Alexander Catherwood, British Columbia MLA
- Brent Clarke, hockey player, Bolton
- Nick Crawford, hockey player
D
- Lorne Duguid, hockey player, Bolton
E
- James East, alderman, Edmonton, Bolton
- Todd Elik, hockey player, Bolton
- Andrew Evans, pairs figure skater
F
- Ray Fletcher Farquharson, MBE, doctor and medical researcher, Claude
- Allison Flaxey, curling, Caledon East
- Caleb Flaxey, curling, Town of Caledon
- William Kingston Flesher, settler, MP, Bolton
G
- George R. Gardiner OC, businessperson and philanthropist
- Helen Gardiner, philanthropist
- Jordan Gavaris, actor, Orphan Black
- Aldo Guidolin (1932-2015), hockey player and coach, Forks of the Credit
H
- Steven Halko, hockey player, Bolton
- Mary Riter Hamilton, artist, war artist
- Chris Haughton, archer
- Linda Haynes, co-founder of ACE Bakery, television producer
- William Hodgson, MPP, Bolton
- Jake Holden, Olympic snowboarder
- Peter Holland, hockey player, Bolton
- John Houston, British Columbia newspaper publisher, Alton
- Kaitlin Howell, actress, Town of Caledon
- Duncan Selby Hutcheon, Saskatchewan MLA
I
- Elmer Iseler, OC, OOnt, choir director, Town of Caledon Walk of Fame inductee
J
- Norman Jewison, filmmaker, Town of Caledon Walk of Fame inductee
- F. Ross Johnson OC, businessperson, former CEO of RJR Nabisco
K
- Robert Kennedy, publisher
- Rosemary Kilbourn, printmaker, Albion Hills
L
- Ashley Lawrence, Olympic soccer, Caledon
M
- Zoe MacKinnon, field hockey, Caledon East[1][2][3]
- John Joseph Malone, flying ace, Inglewood
- Bert McCaffrey, ice hockey, born in the Township of Albion to a father from Caledon East, interred in Caledon East[4]
- Hiram E. McCallum, Mayor of Toronto
- Jim McGuigan, writer, Palgrave
- Robert and Signe McMichael, gallery founders, Town of Caledon Walk of Fame inductee
- Tom Michalopoulos, entrepreneur, Bolton
- David Milne, artist, Palgrave
- Farley Mowat (1921-2014), writer, Palgrave, Town of Caledon Walk of Fame inductee
O
- Organik, Travis Fleetwood, rap battle league owner, Bolton
P
- Andrew Pattulo, MPP
- Jane Pitfield, past Toronto city councillor, president of the Caledon Heritage Foundation
- Tyler Pizarro, horse jockey
- Chris Pratt, show jumping rider
Q
- Kyle Quincey, hockey player
R
- Allan Read, priest at Mono Mills, later the Anglican Bishop of Ontario
- Charles Robinson, MPP and physician, Claude
- Kelly Russell, Olympic rugby union player, Bolton
- Laura Russell, rugby union player, Bolton
S
- Dave Seglins, journalist, Town of Caledon
- Sever (b. 1988, Skye Sweetnam), singer, Cedar Mills
- Conn Smythe, sports businessperson, Town of Caledon Walk of Fame inductee
- Alexey Stakhov, mathematician, inventor, engineer, Bolton
- John Stevens, hockey player and coach, Town of Caledon
- Alfred Stork, British Columbia MP, Bolton
- William Stubbs, veterinarian and MP, Caledon Township
- Cameron Sylvester, rower, 2008 Summer Olympics
- Bill Symons, football player, Caledon farm owner
W
- William James Wanless, surgeon and humanitarian, founder of a medical mission in Miraj, India who led it for nearly forty years
- Brittany Webster, cross-country skiing, Caledon[5]
- Harry Albert Willis, Senator, Belfountain
- Erin Woodley, synchronized swimmer
Y
- Andrew Yorke, Olympic triathlon, Caledon (Caledon East)
Horses
- Key to the Moon, thoroughbred racehorse
- Mike Fox, thoroughbred racehorse
- Peaks and Valleys, thoroughbred racehorse
- Runaway Groom, thoroughbred racehorse
References
- ↑ "Team training for Olympics". The Toronto Star. Toronto ON. 7 February 1984. p. 19 West.
- ↑ Sokol, Al (28 March 1984). "Some have quit jobs in their quest for an Olympic gold". The Toronto Star. Toronto ON. p. B2.
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19830418&id=5kMwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OKUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3733,3220747
- ↑ Bull, William Perkins (1934). From rattlesnake hunt to hockey : the history of sports in Canada and the sportsmen of Peel, 1798 to 1934. Toronto: The Perkins Bull Foundation. pp. 46–47.
- ↑ "Brampton goes to the Games". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 11 February 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
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