Science
- Douglas Barber (1938- ), businessman. He is a founder and former President and CEO of Gennum Corp..
- Bertram Brockhouse (1918–2003), Nobel prize-winning physicist.
- John Charles Fields (1863–1932), was a mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics, considered by some to be the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
- Campbell Leckie (1848–1925), engineer. Leckie Park neighbourhood on Hamilton Mountain named after him.
- William Parks (1868–1939), was a geologist and paleontologist, following in the tradition of Lawrence Lambe.
- Dr. James Fraser Mustard (1927- ), is a physician and scientist.
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