Lawson Crouse, ice hockey player Arthur Currie, commander of the Canadian Corps during the First World War. Chris Daw, Mutli attending Paralympic athlete and 2006 wheelchair curling Gold medalist Darryl Edestrand, NHL hockey player Francis Henry Keefer, Canadian lawyer and politician Rapley Holmes (1868 – 1928) - Stage and screen actor Penn Kemp (b.1944), poet Alexander Knox (1907–1995), actor and author William Bethune Lindsay, chief engineer of the Canadian Corps in the First World War. The Hon. Charles Herbert Mackintosh (1843–1931), town councillor, Strathroy, owner of the Strathroy Dispatch, later mayor of Ottawa, owner of the Ottawa Citizen, Member of Parliament, and lieutenant-governor (1893–1898) of the old Northwest Territories John Burton Martyn, politician Andy McDonald, retired NHL All-Star forward and 2007 Stanley Cup Champion Steve McKichan, former NHL player, and former goalie coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs Tara McLeod, guitarist for Ontario-based metal band Kittie George Orton, Canada's first Olympic champion, born in Strathroy in 1873. Won a gold medal for the Canada in the steeplechase event at the 1900 Olympics Cole Pearn, former NASCAR Cup Series crew chief, won championship in 2017 with Martin Truex Jr.. Warren Rychel, NHL hockey player Seth, cartoonist and author of It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken that is set in Strathroy and Southern Ontario. James T. Shotwell Pat Stapleton, retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association Mike Stapleton, retired ice hockey forward who played 697 games for 8 NHL teams, and won a silver medal at the 1986 World Junior Championships. Janaya Stephens, film actress Kimberly Tuck, curler Don Van Massenhoven, NHL official Anna May Waters (1903–1987), Canadian nurse See also List of townships in Ontario Notes References External links Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario