Notable Residents
- Rich Beddoe is the current drummer for the Canadian Rock band Finger Eleven. He is from Cambridge, Ontario.
- Tim Brent is a hockey player from Cambridge, Ontario.
- Kitchener is the birthplace of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest serving prime minister. His boyhood home is now Woodside National Historic Site.
- Joseph E. Seagram was a partner in 1869, and sole owner in 1883, in the company later known as Seagram.
- Lois Maxwell, Golden Globe winning actress and the original Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond movies, was born in Kitchener.
- Actor Jeremy Ratchford from Cold Case grew up in Kitchener.
- Actor David Orth, formerly of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, grew up in Kitchener.
- Artist Homer Watson, internationally renowned landscape artist, was from Kitchener.
- Dave Sim, creator of the comic book Cerebus the Aardvark, has lived in Kitchener since he was two years old.
- Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research In Motion, came as a student to attend the University of Waterloo.
- Boxer Lennox Lewis lived in Kitchener from the age of 12 and began his boxing career there. He maintains a home in Kitchener.
- Former hockey all-star Scott Stevens of the New Jersey Devils was born in Kitchener and played for the Kitchener Rangers. He also maintains a home there.
- Author David Chilton, who wrote the best-selling Canadian book to date, financial planning guide The Wealthy Barber, was born in Kitchener and lives in the region.
- Hockey player Todd Bertuzzi of the Detroit Red Wings makes his offseason home in Kitchener.
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