Residents of Note
- A. Charles Baillie, Chancellor of Queen's University
- James K. Bartleman, diplomat and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- William E. Bell, author
- The members of the rock band Bleeker Ridge
- Franklin Carmichael, one of the Group of Seven
- Leslie Frost, Premier of Ontario
- Jake Gaudaur, football player
- Jake Gaudaur Sr., champion oarsman
- Glenn Gould, pianist
- Stephen Leacock, humourist
- Doug Lewis, politician and lawyer
- Rick Ley, hockey player
- Gordon Lightfoot, singer/songwriter of Canadian classics like: If You Could Read My Mind and Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Robert W. Mackenzie, politician
- Bob McDonald, chief science correspondent for the CBC
- Ethan Moreau, Columbus Blue Jackets hockey player
- Brian Orser, figure skater
- Jack Reid, artist, watercolours
- Ted Roop, Morning Radio Show Host - 104.1 The DOCK
- Sir Samuel Steele, soldier and member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Elizabeth Wyn Wood, sculptor
- Marnie Woodrow, novelist
- Chief Yellowhead, aka Mesqua Ukie (where the name Muskoka derives from). He signed treaties and gave over lands in the Muskoka area to the Ontario government. They honoured him by building a home in Orillia, where he lived until his death at age 95.
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