Editing Chatham-Kent (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[Sally Ainse]] – [[Oneida people|Oneida]] diplomat and [[fur trader]]
* [[Chris Allen (ice hockey)|Chris Allen]] – former NHL player with the [[Florida Panthers]]
* [[Doug Anakin]] – won a gold medal at the [[1964 Winter Olympics|1964 Olympics]] in the bobsled
* [[Bill Atkinson (baseball)|Bill Atkinson]] – former [[Major League Baseball]] [[relief pitcher]]
* [[Courtney Babcock-Key|Courtney Babcock]] – Olympic distance runner
* [[Shae-Lynn Bourne]] – championship [[Figure skating|figure skater]]
* [[T. J. Brodie]] – NHL hockey player with the [[Chicago Blackhawks]]
* [[Ernest Burgess]] – 24th President of the [[American Sociological Association]], author and [[Urban sociology|urban sociologist]] who is known for his groundbreaking [[Social ecology (theory)|social ecology]] research
* [[June Callwood]] – prominent magazine writer in the 1950s who became an Officer in the [[Order of Canada]] in 1986
* [[Joseph Caron]] – former [[High Commissioner]] to India and former Canadian ambassador to China and Japan
* [[Bridget Carleton]] – [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]] player for the [[Minnesota Lynx]]
* [[Chandra K. Clarke]] – entrepreneur, published author, and humour columnist
* [[James J. Couzens|James Couzens]] – [[U.S. Senator]], Mayor of Detroit, industrialist, philanthropist, and vice president and general manager of the [[Ford Motor Company]]
* [[Robertson Davies]] – novelist, playwright
* [[Kenne Duncan]] – western/action movie actor
* [[Andy Fantuz]] – former [[Canadian Interuniversity Sport|CIS]] offensive MVP, former slotback for the [[Saskatchewan Roughriders]] and [[Hamilton Tiger Cats]] of the [[Canadian Football League|CFL]]
* [[Wally Floody]] – the "Tunnel King" from ''[[Stalag Luft III escape|The Great Escape]]''
* [[Dave Gagner]] – retired NHL hockey player; brother-in-law of Diane Gagner; former Chatham–Kent mayor
* [[W. B. George]] (1899–1972), president of the [[Canadian Amateur Hockey Association]] and agriculturalist at [[Kemptville College|Kemptville Agricultural School]], was born in Highgate<ref>{{Citation|last=Watson|first=Henry|date=January 5, 1900|title=Schedule A, County of Kent Births, 1899, Division of Orford|place=Highgate, Ontario|publisher=[[Archives of Ontario]]|pages=13–14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Popular Valley Figure: W. B. George Retiring From KAS Post|date=September 24, 1960|newspaper=Ottawa Journal|location=Ottawa, Ontario|page=7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67906943/w-b-george-1960/}}{{free access}}</ref>
* [[Ashley Goure]] – [[Paralympic]] [[sledge hockey]] player
* [[Lee Giffin]] – professional ice hockey player
* [[Frank Gross]], philanthropist; awarded the [[Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship]] in 2006
* [[Ken Houston (ice hockey)|Ken Houston]] (born September 15, 1953) – former NHL player
* [[Tracey Hoyt]] – actress, Aurora Farqueson on the [[CBC Television]] series ''[[The Tournament (TV series)|The Tournament]]''
* [[Jeff Jackson (ice hockey, born 1965)|Jeff Jackson]] – NHL hockey player
* [[Ferguson Jenkins]] – [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]r
* [[Anna H. Jones]] – teacher, speaker at the [[First Pan-African Conference]] in 1900
* [[Ryan Jones (ice hockey)|Ryan Jones]] – former finalist of 2008 [[Hobey Baker Award]] and former member of the [[Edmonton Oilers]]; currently playing in the [[Deutsche Eishockey Liga|DEL]] for the Cologne Sharks
* [[Judy LaMarsh]] – former Canadian [[Minister of Health (Canada)|Minister of Health]]
* [[Archibald Lampman]] – one of Canada's finest 19th-century [[Romantic poets]], born Morpeth, Kent County, 1861
*[[Bobbi Lancaster]], a medical doctor and [[trans woman]] noted for playing in the [[LPGA Qualifying Tournament]] in 2013<ref name="Boivin, DEC 2013">Boivin, P. (2013). [https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2013/03/12/lpga-transgender-bobbi-lancaster/1983171/ Transgender golfer dreams of playing in LPGA]</ref>
* [[Lori Lansens]] – author of ''Rush Home Road'' and ''[[The Girls (2005 novel)|The Girls]]''
* [[Chad Laprise]] – UFC fighter
* [[John B. Lee]] – author, poet and current [[Poet Laureate]] of [[Brantford]], Ontario
* [[Doug Melvin]] – general manager of the [[Milwaukee Brewers]]
* [[Harry Miner|Harry Garnet Bedford Miner]] – [[Victoria Cross]] winner during [[World War I]], born in Cedar Springs
* [[Dave Nichol]] – award-winning product marketing expert and former president of [[Loblaw Companies|Loblaw's]]
* [[Geoffrey O'Hara]] – early 20th-century composer, singer and music professor who was the writer of such popular songs as the 1918 hit "K-K-K-Katy"
* [[Sam Panopoulos]] – inventor of the [[Hawaiian pizza]]
* [[Ron Pardo]] – comic-impressionist; actor for ''[[History Bites]]'' and voice actor on animated shows like ''[[PAW Patrol]] and ''[[World of Quest]]''; from Pardoville
* [[Ray Robertson]] – novelist
* [[The Next Star|Brooklyn Roebuck]] – 2012 ''The Next Star''; under licence with [[Sony Music Canada]]
* [[Doug Shedden]] – professional ice hockey coach and former player
* [[Glen Skov]] – [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) [[ice hockey|hockey]] player
* [[Ron Sparks (comedian)|Ron Sparks]] – award-winning comedian, actor, writer and producer (''[[Video on Trial]]'')
* [[Joseph Storey]] – architect, designer of many local landmarks in the 1950s and 1960s
* [[Shaun Suisham]] – [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] kicker (formerly with [[Dallas Cowboys]] and [[Washington Redskins]])
* [[Sylvia Tyson]] –  singer-songwriter, broadcaster, and guitarist who found early fame with her then-husband Ian Tyson in their folk duo [[Ian and Sylvia]]
* [[Todd Warriner]] – former NHL hockey player picked 4th overall in the [[1992 NHL Entry Draft]] by the [[Quebec Nordiques]]
* [[Derek Whitson]] – [[Paralympic]] [[sledge hockey]] player
* [[Brian Wiseman]] – 1999 [[International Hockey League (1945–2001)|IHL]] MVP [[Houston Aeros (1994–2013)|Houston Aeros]]
* [[Michelle Wright]] – country music singer