Chatham-Kent - Famous People From Chatham-Kent

Famous People From Chatham-Kent

• Chris Allen - Former NHL player with the Florida Panthers
• Douglas Anakin - won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics in the bobsled
• Bill Atkinson - former Major League Baseball relief pitcher
• Courtney Babcock - Olympic distance runner
• Shae-Lynn Bourne - championship figure skater
• Sinead Brady - Runner up in Canada's Next Top Model
• Ernest Burgess - 24th President of the American Sociological Association, author and urban sociologist who is known for his groundbreaking social ecology research
• June Callwood - prominent magazine writer in the 1950s who became an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1986
• Joseph Caron - Former Canadian High Commissioner to India and former Canadian Ambassador to China and Japan
• Chandra K. Clarke - entrepreneur, published author, and humour columnist.
• James Couzens - U.S. Senator, Mayor of Detroit, industrialist, philanthropist, and vice president and general manager of the Ford Motor Company
• Robertson Davies - novelist
• Kenne Duncan - western/action movie actor
• Andy Fantuz - former CIS Offensive MVP, former Slotback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL and current Receiver for the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Foot Ball League CFL
• Wally Floody - the "Tunnel King" from The Great Escape
• Dave Gagner - retired NHL hockey player and brother-in-law of Diane Gagner - former Chatham–Kent mayor
• Frank Gross, OMC - philanthropist posthumously awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship in 2006
• Tracey Hoyt - actress who plays Aurora Farqueson on the CBC Television series The Tournament
• Fergie Jenkins - Baseball Hall of Famer
• Ryan Jones - Former finalist of 2008 Hobey Baker Award and current member of the Edmonton Oilers
• Paul Lachine - Multiple Award-Winning cartoonist and illustrator.
• Judy LaMarsh - former Canadian Minister of Health
• Lori Lansens - author of Rush Home Road and The Girls
• Victor Lauriston - McAvee Award Winning Columnist, newspaper editor, novelist, author of Romantic Kent
• John B. Lee - Author, poet and current Poet Laureate of Brantford, Ontario
• Doug Melvin - General Manager of the Milwaukee Brewers
• Harry Garnet Bedford Miner - Victoria Cross winner during World War 1, born in Cedar Springs
• Leah Morise - award winning singer/songwriter
• Dave Nichol - award winning product marketing expert and former president of Loblaw's
• Geoffrey O'Hara - early 20th century composer, singer and music professor who was the writer of such popular songs as the 1918 hit K-K-K-Katy
• Ron Pardo - comedian and impressionist, from Pardoville
• Brooklyn Roebuck - The 2012 Next Star. Working on 2 singles under license with Sony Music Canada.
• Doug Shedden - professional ice hockey coach and former player
• Glen Skov - National Hockey League (NHL) hockey player
• Ron Sparks - award-winning comedian, actor and writer best known for Video on Trial
• Joseph Storey - Architect; designer of many local landmarks in the 1950s and 1960s
• Shaun Suisham - Pittsburgh Steelers kicker (formerly Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins)
• Sylvia Tyson - singer-songwriter, broadcaster, and guitarist who found early fame with her then-husband Ian Tyson in their folk duo Ian and Sylvia
• Todd Warriner - former NHL hockey player picked 4th overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft by the Quebec Nordiques
• Brian Wiseman - 1999 IHL MVP Houston Aeros
• Michelle Wright - award winning country music singer

Kenneth Lyle "Chub" Houston (born September 15, 1953) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player.

• TJ Brodie - NHL hockey player drafted to Calgary Flames in the 2008 draft picks.