Timmins - Notable People From Timmins

Notable People From Timmins

• Alfred Aho, Award-winning computer scientist, member of US National Academies. Professor at Columbia University.
• Charlie Angus, musician and songwriter for the band Grievous Angels, now serving as the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Timmins—James Bay
• Michael Barnes, author
• Paul Bellini, comedy writer and television actor
• Gilles Bisson, Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament for Timmins—James Bay
• Michael Boisvert, actor notable movies are: Deadly Skies, Celeste in the city, Driven, Exit Wounds
• Natalie Brown, actress currently appearing on Sophie
• Dave Carroll and Don Carroll, country/pop/folk band Sons of Maxwell
• Carlo Cattarello, Award Winning Sports, Order of Canada, Queen's Jubilee Medal recipient
• Derek Edwards, comedian
• Maurice LaMarche, comedian and voice-actor
• J. Conrad Lavigne, broadcasting pioneer
• Lights (born Valerie Poxleitner), vocalist, singer-songwriter
• Cecil Linder, actor
• Bruce McCaffrey, Progressive Conservative MPP
• Derek McGrath actor best known as the cherubic murderer "Andy-Andy" Schroeder on Cheers, and Dr. Benjamin Marion Jeffcoate on My Secret Identity
• Alan Pope, former Progressive Conservative MPP
• Jim Prentice, Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament from Calgary, Alberta
• Myron Scholes, Nobel Laureate economist. Prize awarded for discovering a new way to value derivatives.
• Gordon Thiessen, Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994 to 2001
• Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper magnate, started his empire in the 1930s with the Timmins Daily Press
• Lola Lemire Tostevin, novelist and poet
• Shania Twain, musician
• Bruce Watson, guitarist with Scottish rock band Big Country

See also: List of mayors of Timmins.