during the Second World War Alan Bradley, author Jeremiah Brown, Canadian Men's Eight Rowing Team, won silver at the 2012 London Olympic Games Mandy Bujold, Canadian boxer James Cockburn, lawyer and Father of Confederation cleopatrick, rock band Martin Dobkin, first mayor of the City of Mississauga, Ontario and served as Mayor from 1973 to 1976. Marie Dressler, silent film actress, Academy Award winner best actress 1931 Francis P. Duffy, Canadian-born military chaplain of the Fighting 69th New York Regiment during WWI Sandford Fleming who helped create and define the idea of time zones Rev. John Weir Foote, politician, chaplain, and Victoria Cross recipient Ed Greenwood, author of the Forgotten Realms setting for Dungeons & Dragons W. A. Hewitt, sports executive and journalist, Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Paul Kane, Irish-born Canadian painter Henry Bowyer Lane, English born Toronto architect John Murray, pioneering oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. Considered the father of modern oceanography. Ebenezer Perry (1788–1876), politician and Cobourg's first police commissioner Josh Richards, internet personality, musician and actor William Renwick Riddell, judge and historian Dave "Goldie Rogers" Sherwin, professional wrestler Virna Sheard, poet and novelist Steve Smith, NHL hockey player Justin Williams, NHL hockey player, 3-time Stanley Cup champion, winner of 2014 Conn Smythe Trophy Twin towns – sister cities Cobourg is twinned with: Coburg, Germany References External links Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario Populated places on Lake Ontario in Canada Towns in Ontario