Residents of Note
- Kate Beirness, sports broadcaster
- Bill Lishman, artist, inventor
- Jayde Nicole, actress and Playboy model
- Daniel David Palmer, the founder of chiropractic, spent his childhood in Port Perry.
- John Ross Roach, NHL goalie of the 1930s
- Craig Russell, female impersonator, best known for his lead role in the movie, Outrageous!. He is buried in a local cemetery under his birth name, Russell Craig Edie.
- Emily VanCamp, actress
- Frederick Whitcroft, NHL Hall of Fame
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Famous quotes containing the words residents and/or note:
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading ... may be given without first getting the author’s permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)