Historical Individuals
- Thomas Ahearn - inventor and businessman
- Frank Amyot, Canada's only Gold medal winner from the 1936 Summer Olympics
- George Arnold - early settler
- Peter Aylen - timber producer (see also: Shiners' War)
- Louis-Théodore Besserer - businessman, notary and political figure
- Hugh Bell - early settler, councillor, assessor, and tax collector
- Braddish Billings - early settler for whom the community of Billings Bridge was named
- Elkanah Billings - sometimes referred to as Canada's first paleontologist
- Robert Blackburn - lumber merchant and member of the Canadian House of Commons
- John Rudolphus Booth - lumber and railway baron
- Erskine Henry Bronson - businessman and political figure
- Henry Franklin Bronson - lumber baron
- Thomas Birkett - mayor of Ottawa and a member of the Canadian House of Commons representing the City of Ottawa
- Élisabeth Bruyère - founder of the Sisters of Charity of Bytown, the first hospital there and the first bilingual school in Ontario
- Thomas Burrowes - served as an artist a surveyor and overseer during the construction of the Rideau Canal
- John By - Lieutenant-Colonel, overseer of the construction of the Canal and founder of the city
- John Carling - founder of the Ontario Agricultural College and the Central Experimental Farm
- Sévère D'Aoust - established a village in the region of Bear Brook in 1854
- John Egan - businessman and politician
- Chris Evans - outlaw in California, born in Ottawa in 1847
- William Hamilton - lumber baron
- George Hamilton - lumber baron
- David Hartin - tavern owner
- Robert Hervey - lawyer and third mayor of Bytown (see also: Stony Monday Riot)
- Edgar Lewis Horwood - s Chief Dominion Architect
- William H. Hurdman - entrepreneur and community leader
- James Johnston - businessman and political figure
- Andrew Leamy - pioneer industrialist and community leader in Wrightstown
- J.E. Stanley Lewis, a member of the Britannia Boating Club war canoe team in 1915, when it won the Dominion championship; later mayor of Ottawa, 1936–1948
- Thomas McKay - businessman and politician
- Edward McGillivray - involved in the fur trade, an alderman and second mayor of Ottawa
- Daniel McLachlin - businessman and politician
- Robert Malcomson - tavern owner
- Edward Malloch - merchant and political
- Robert Moodie - early settler of Bells Corners
- Evan Nepean - politician and colonial administrator
- William Ogilvie - Canadian Dominion land surveyor, explorer and Commissioner of the Yukon Territory
- David Pattee - a businessman, judge and political figure
- George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie - Governor General of British North America
- John Rochester - businessman and politician
- Alexander Robillard - politician
- Richard William Scott - lawyer
- John Scott - first mayor of Bytown
- James Sieveright - farmer and community leader
- Nicholas Sparks - businessman and politician
- James Skead - businessman and politician
- William Stewart - businessman and politician
- William Goodhue Perley - a businessman and member of the Canadian House of Commons
- George Halsey Perley - politician and diplomat
- J. B. Turgeon - mayor of Bytown
- Philemon Wright - lumber baron
- Ruggles Wright - lumber merchant
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