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This is a list of people from Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

Note that this list largely does not include players from the Brampton Beast ECHL hockey team. Also not included are people who were post-secondary students who did not live locally before or after, such as Kent Monkman[1] and Patrick McKenna.[2]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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Shawn Ashmore
Shawn Ashmore
Aaron Ashmore
Aaron Ashmore

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Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett
Hayleigh Bell
Hayleigh Bell
Navdeep Bains
Navdeep Bains

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Tony Clement
Tony Clement
Lara Jean Chorostecki
Lara Jean Chorostecki
Michael Cera
Michael Cera

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Bill Davis
Bill Davis
Ruby Dhalla
Ruby Dhalla

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Melvin Ejim
Melvin Ejim
  • Chuck Ealey (b. 1950), former CFL player, once the winningest college football quarterback
  • Joseph Earngey (1870–1939), Mayor of Kenora (1915–1918), MPP for Kenora (1926–1929), newspaper publisher
  • Mike Edem (b. 1989), CFL player
  • Nathaniel Edwards (b. 2002), MLS Next Pro soccer player
  • Kenny Ejim (1994–2022), CEBL basketball player
  • Melvin Ejim (b. 1991), ABA basketball player
  • Faith Ekakitie (b. 1993), former CFL player
  • Todd Elik (b. 1966), NHL, international hockey player
  • Emay (b. 1991, Mubarik Gyenne-Bayere), rapper
  • Dylan Ennis (b. 1991), basketball player
  • Tyler Ennis (b. 1994), chosen 18th overall in the 2014 NBA Draft

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Gabe Gala
Gabe Gala
Sir William James Gage
Sir William James Gage

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Atiba Hutchinson
Atiba Hutchinson

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Sir James A. Lougheed
Sir James A. Lougheed
Tyler Labine
Tyler Labine
Cyle Larin
Cyle Larin

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Alex Milne
Alex Milne

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Rick Nash in 2006, playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets

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Tyler Seguin
Tyler Seguin
Rob Stewart
Rob Stewart

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Scott Thompson
Scott Thompson
Raffi Torres
Raffi Torres

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Canadian honours system recipients

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William G. Davis and Michael F. Clarke have both received the Order of Canada.[78] Davis is the only Bramptonian to receive an Order of Ontario.[79] There are 1253 Brampton residents to receive Exemplary Service Medals.[80] The Golden Jubilee Award was given to 168 in 2002.[81]

  • Caring Canadian Award: Adriana J. Pouw[citation needed]
  • Decorations for Bravery: Glenn Bannerman-Maxwell, Robert Reginald Fraser, Maribel Garcia, Susan Elizabeth McHale, Mandeep Singh Dhillon, Thomas Tierney, J. Robert Walsh, and David Ware[82]
  • Constable David Henry Bowles, M.B., Medal of Bravery recipient[83]
  • David Alan Holwell, Medal of Bravery recipient[84]
  • Sergeant (Ret'd) Joseph Gabriel Simon Marion, M.S.M., Meritorious Service Medal (civil division) recipient[85]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Kent Monkman". The Canadian Encyclopedia
  2. ^ "Patric McKenna" The Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. ^ "Lee Aaron"The Canadian Encyclopedia
  4. ^ "Stephen Adekolu". BC Lions. Canadian Football League. c. 2015. Archived from the original on 12 May 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Aikins, Sir James Albert Manning". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto & Université Laval. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
  6. ^ Juzenas, Frank (13 March 2015). "Akuffo retires from wrestling". The Brampton Guardian. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  7. ^ FitzGerald, Sean (8 December 2014). "Former Olympic boxer trades in fights in the ring for cleanups in the playpen". National Post. Retrieved 26 April 2015. Amos-Ross, a two-time Olympian, and his wife, Alison McLean, a high school English teacher, opened their daycare in the Toronto suburb of Brampton earlier this year.
  8. ^ "Olympic boxer turns crime fighter". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 21 April 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013. Brampton resident and two-time Olympic boxer Troy Amos-Ross thought he was stopping to break up a roadside fight, but Peel Regional Police say he actually prevented a murder.
  9. ^ Shea, Courtney (12 July 2011). "Russell Peters and Trey Anthony on jokes, race and jokes about race". Toronto Life. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015. Both grew up in Brampton, both cite their families as the ultimate source of hilarity, and both say Canadians need to get over their tall poppy hang-ups.
  10. ^ "Caroline Armington - Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Caroline Helena (Wilkinson) Armington". Askart.com. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
  11. ^ Graham Besant, photographer (20 July 1976). "She bows out -- gracefully". p. C1.
  12. ^ Grange, Michael (5 March 2005). "Teen journeys south in search of his destiny". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  13. ^ Buffery, Steve (3 July 2014). "Queen's Plate is a family affair for the Attard clan". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 26 April 2015. Sid worked at a mattress factory in Brampton during his first couple of years in Canada.
  14. ^ "Andy Bathgate back on ice in Guelph". Guelph Mercury Tribune. Metroland Media Group. October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  15. ^ Brady, Rachel (19 March 2014). "Towering Canadian brothers on track to make basketball history". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  16. ^ Clara Hargittay (1925-05-29). "Bloore, Ronald". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
  17. ^ "Robert William Bradford, C.M." Governor General of Canada. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  18. ^ Peter Small, T. S. (1993, Nov 28). Illegal tenants hope new law to give them protection rights: [SU2 edition]. Toronto Star
  19. ^ Adler, Mike (8 Aug 2017). "Toronto activist Bonnie Briggs remembered as advocate for housing, creator of Homeless Memorial". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  20. ^ "Buchanan to represent Canada". The Brampton Guardian. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  21. ^ "Canadian Women's Sledge Hockey Team 2014-2015 Roster". Women's Sledge Hockey of Canada. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  22. ^ "Player bios". Women's Sledge Hockey of Canada. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  23. ^ "Biography – CHISHOLM, KENNETH – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
  24. ^ "Brampton native stars in NBC's Hannibal". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  25. ^ a b Goodfellow, Ashley (26 May 2013). "And the arts acclaim awards go to..." The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  26. ^ "Tenyka Francique - 2010 - Women's Soccer". Gannon University Athletics. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  27. ^ Reynolds, Christopher (18 June 2016). "Armless Brampton climber who scaled Everest aims for new heights". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  28. ^ "Omar Gandhi". Dalhousie Alumni. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  29. ^ Connolly, John (23 February 2020). "Mikyla Grant-Mentis shines for Merrimack". Boston Herald. Boston MA. Retrieved 26 December 2020. Grant-Mentis, who hails from Brampton, Ontario...
  30. ^ "Ijah Halley makes switch from Toronto FC Academy to York9 FC". York9 FC. 27 April 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  31. ^ "David Hearn". Davidhearn.ca. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2012. Born in Brampton, Ontario, David Hearn grew up in Brantford, Ontario.
  32. ^ Ferguson, Doug (13 January 2012). "Hearn two shots out of Sony Open lead". The Gazette. Montreal QC. Associated Press. Retrieved 16 April 2012. David Hearn of Brampton, Ont., shot a 66 on Friday, two shots behind the leader...
  33. ^ Snyder, Lorraine. Hetherington-Hultquist, Gillian. [Toronto ON]: The Historica-Dominion Institute. Archived from the original on September 12, 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012. Gillian "Jill" Hetherington-Hultquist, tennis player (b at Brampton, Ont 27 Oct 1964).
  34. ^ "Brampton goes to the Games". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 11 February 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  35. ^ "Press release: Justin Hodgman Returns For Third Komet IHL Championship Ring". OurSportsCentral. Fort Wayne IN. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2012. The Brampton, Ontario native led the Komets to the Turner Cup crown with five goals and eight points appearing in all seven post-season games.
  36. ^ Feschuk, Dave (3 March 2011). "Feschuk: Young Canadian ascending English soccer ranks". Toronto Star. Toronto ON. Retrieved 16 April 2012. Junior Hoilett, Blackburn's Brampton-born forward, stopped by for a quick look, too. He'd just conducted an interview in which he told the story of the annual bet he makes with his younger brother Jaineil, who plays professionally in Germany.
  37. ^ Pearson, Patricia (1998). When She Was Bad: How And Why Women Get Away With Murder. Toronto ON: Random House of Canada Limited. p. 294. ISBN 030736383X. Retrieved 16 April 2012. On February 16, two officers from the metro Toronto sexual vice squad called Karla Homolka at her aunt and uncle's condo in Brampton, a Westchester-style bedroom community north of Toronto, where she'd gone to escape Paul. Not that he'd pursued her. But, her family had reasoned, abusive men stalk. Karla was safe in Brampton. She was even having fun there—rebounding swiftly from her trauma. Shopping, out to parties, having a fling with a fellow she met in a nightclub.
  38. ^ "How Black Lives Matter turned street protests into political influence". thestar.com. 2016-04-24. Archived from the original on 2020-06-03. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  39. ^ "Husbands second in jockey standings". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. Retrieved 16 April 2012. For the second consecutive year Brampton's Patrick Husbands has finished second in the jockey standings at Toronto's Woodbine.
  40. ^ "Canadian Urdu poet Ashfaq Hussain gets Pak Pride of Performance Award". Indo-Canadian Outlook. 5 (4). Toronto ON. November 2010. Ashfaq Hussain migrated to Canada in March 1980 and currently resides in Brampton in Greater Toronto Area.
  41. ^ Girard, Daniel (17 December 2010). "Brampton's Atiba Hutchinson voted Canada's top male soccer player". Toronto Star. Toronto ON. Retrieved 16 April 2012. Born in Brampton to Trinidadian parents, Hutchinson's soccer career has certainly taken him a long way.
  42. ^ "Lamont, John Henderson". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto & Université Laval. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
  43. ^ MacGregor, Roy (19 January 2014). "MacGregor: Nash proving he deserves spot on Team Canada". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 April 2015. A puck is in the air, spinning high over the blue line, over the red line and lands at the feet of Rick Nash, a 29-year-old from Brampton, Ont., who was once the No. 1 pick overall in the National Hockey League entry draft.
  44. ^ Latimer, Joanne (3 July 2014). "Book review: Laughing All the Way to the Mosque". Macleans.
  45. ^ Juzenas, Frank (8 July 2014). "Newbury signs with Capitals". The Brampton Guardian. Retrieved 26 April 2015. Brampton native Kris Newbury is returning to his roots. The former Brampton Capitals star has signed a two-way contract with the Capitals, that is the NHL's Washington Capitals.
  46. ^ Bumsted, J. M. (14 February 2008). "Tobias Crawford Norris". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  47. ^ "Nugent on list". The Brampton Guardian. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  48. ^ List of people from Brampton at the Canadian Soccer Association
  49. ^ Bennett, Jamie (30 July 2010). "Oram excited to croon for west coast fans". The Western Star. Corner Brook NL. Retrieved 5 October 2013. While she may be considered an overnight sensation by some, Oram's success was not without hard work and some hardship. The Brampton, Ont. resident paid her dues by singing in bars since the age of 10 and like many singers, even had to live in her car for a few nights when times were rough.
  50. ^ "The only Black medical student in a U of T class of 259, Chika Oriuwa graduates as valedictorian". thestar.com. 2020-05-29. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  51. ^ Knibbs, Kate (2019-12-02). ""Worked at Vice Then Went to Jail": How a Bunch of Canadian Hipsters Wound Up Smuggling Cocaine (and Getting Caught)". The Ringer. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  52. ^ Stephanie at February 22, 2006 1:20 PM (2006-02-22). "Yarn Harlot: Don't just stand there. Make coffee". Yarnharlot.ca. Retrieved 2011-02-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  53. ^ Juzenas, Frank (July 14, 2016). "Brampton's Kyle Pettey wins Canadian Para title in shot put". Brampton Guardian. Metroland Media Group. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  54. ^ Gershman, Michael (2004). The Baseball Encyclopedia. Barnes & Noble Books. p. 1124. ISBN 9780760753491.
  55. ^ "Alyssa Reid plays free show at Rose". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2013. Not only is it her first time performing in her hometown, but teen pop star Alyssa Reid will perform here this Friday (Oct. 7) at the Rose Theatre for free.
  56. ^ "Art icon Jack Reid laid to rest". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 1 September 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2013. He was a prominent figure in the arts community in Brampton, where he resided for many years before moving to Orillia in 2006. In 1989, Reid was named Arts Person of the Year in Brampton— the first distinction of its kind in the city, and an honour that has continued to recognize important supporters of and contributors to the local arts community.
  57. ^ Rockingham, Graham (10 November 2010). "Johnny Reid's family affair". The Spectator. Hamilton ON. Reid is a uniquely Canadian performer. Born in Scotland, high-schooled in Brampton, a soccer fan who got to university in Quebec on a football scholarship, he now lives in Nashville, a blue-eyed R&B singer who has dominated the Canadian country music charts for the past three years, sounding more like Rod Stewart than Paul Brandt.
  58. ^ "Parkette named for yodeller Donn Reynolds". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 14 August 1998. p. 19.
  59. ^ "friendly rich and the lollipop people's holloween spooktacular". Music Lives. Guelph ON. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013. Friendly Rich is a composer from Brampton, Canada... Friendly Rich is also the founder and director of the Brampton Indie Arts Festival, an annual event which promotes underground artists, held in February at the Rose Theatre in downtown Brampton.
  60. ^ Varty, Alexander (26 October 2011). "Short attention span led Friendly Rich to vaudeville". Straight.com. Vancouver BC. Retrieved 5 October 2013. I've always been interested in vaudeville and that whole era—and I did a lot of work, actually, in my hometown of Brampton in an old vaudeville theatre when I was developing what I do. So, I don't know, maybe something got in the water!
  61. ^ Mulvany, Charles Pelham; Graeme Mercer Adam; Christopher Blackett Robinson (1885). History of Toronto and county of York, Ontario. Vol. 2. C.B. Robinson. p. 141. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  62. ^ Kinross, Louise (5 December 1991). "Culture aficionados invited to Brampton Dance, music crafts compete with big city". The Toronto Star. Toronto ON. p. BR2. It includes abstractionist work by former Brampton residents William Ronald, John Meredith and Ronald Bloore, who has gained international renown.
  63. ^ "Rubisch claims NLL award". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  64. ^ Tutka, Paul (10 February 2010). "Kyle Rubisch named Brampton's amateur athlete of the year after sensational '09, Joe Walters home cookin', plus the links". Inside Lacrosse Indoor. Baltimore MD. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013. Now he can add the honour of being named the Brampton Guardian's Ken Giles Award winner, presented to the city's top amateur athlete.
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  66. ^ Zekas, Rita (19 January 1991). "Number 1 with Bullets". The Toronto Star. Toronto ON. p. Starweek 7.
  67. ^ a b "Tatham sisters remain with Team Canada". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 16 May 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
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  69. ^ "A first for Terry". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 12 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  70. ^ "Scoring back home". The Toronto Star. p. J8. his father, a physician at Peel Memorial Hospital in Brampton
  71. ^ Varteniuk, Sam. "Scott Thompson". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Toronto ON: Historica-Dominion Institute. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Scott Thompson grew up in Brampton, Ont, and attended Brampton Centennial Secondary School.
  72. ^ Watson, Duane (10 April 2012). "There's no place like home for Tristan Thompson". Sway. Toronto ON: Torstar. Retrieved 16 April 2012. In June, the Brampton, Ont. native became the highest picked Canadian selected in an NBA Draft...
  73. ^ Joseph, Cassian (October 14, 2016). "Ontario's Police Conduct Review being led by Bramptonian Justice Tulloch". Brampton Focus Community Media. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  74. ^ Campbell, Mogan (2008-01-03). "Local boy not quite local enough for the CFL". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
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