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This is a list of notable people from Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

Military

Film and television

Literature and Journalism

  • Roger Ashby-Morning show host for Toronto station CHUM-FM.
  • June Callwood, author and journalist. She wrote more than thirty books and hosted a number of television shows. As a social activist, she helped to start over 50 organizations including: Nellie's Hostel for Women and the Casey House Hospice for AIDS patients. She was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2000 and was inducted into Brantford's Walk of Fame in 2005.
  • Thomas B. Costain, author and journalist. He wrote 25 books (13 novels, 2 biographies, 5 histories, and 5 anthologies) including For My Great Folly, The Chord of Steel, about the invention of the telephone, and Son of a Hundred Kings, about a boy growing up in Brantford.
  • Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), aboriginal poet
  • Sara Jeannette Duncan, author
  • Deborah Ellis, author. Her novel Looking for X won the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature in 2000. She has also won the Vicky Metcalf Award for children's literature. Royalties from her trilogy: The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey, and Mud City are donated to the women and children of Afghanistan. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Laurier Brantford University in 2005.
  • John Spencer Hill, author
  • John B. Lee, poet. The only two-time winner of the Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award and has also been honoured with the Tilden Award, the first Eric Hill Award of Literary Excellence, and the Open Window Award. He has published thirty books of poetry so far. He was named Brantford's poet laureate in March 2005.
  • Marsha Skrypuch, author. Her book, Silver Threads, was chosen as a Best Bet for 1996 by the Ontario Library Association Canadian Materials Committee and was also nominated for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Medal. In 2008 she was chosen to receive the Order of Princess Olha, Class III, the highest honour that the country of Ukraine can give foreign citizens, for her works about the 1932–1933 Ukrainian famine.

Field of Science

The arts

Politics

Sportspeople

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