Writers and Artists
- Will Beauchamp, filmmaker
- Ted Bishop, author of Riding with Rilke
- Gil Cardinal, filmmaker
- Patrick Cox, famous shoe designer
- Brion Gysin, artist and writer
- Peter Hide, British-born sculptor, living in Edmonton since 1977
- Arthur Hiller, Hollywood film director and former president of the Director's Guild of America
- Carl Honoré grew up in Edmonton, journalist and author of In Praise of Slowness
- Mel Hurtig, publisher, author, and politician.
- Zillur Rahman John, Bangladeshi Canadian, internationally renowned mime and pantomime artist, director, teacher, researcher and author of several mime and pantomime books
- W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe which became the film Field of Dreams and tournament Scrabble player
- Myrna Kostash, writer of eight books including "All of Baba's Children"
- Stewart Lemoine, playwright
- Marshall McLuhan, recipient of numerous awards and appointments, pioneer of media theory
- Richard Newman, writer, broadcaster, and reality TV star, best known for participating in the seventh series of the British version of Big Brother
- T. W. Peacocke, television and film director
- Robert Young Pelton, author
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“Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
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—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)