The following is a selective list of notable alumni of the Northern Secondary School , in Toronto, Ontario.
The following is a selective list of notable alumni of the Northern Secondary School , in Toronto, Ontario.
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Patrick J. Adams | Actor, USA Network's series Suits [1] |
| Marco Brambilla | Director of Demolition Man [2] [3] |
| Susan Clark | Actress, TV series Webster [2] [4] |
| Michael Dobson | Voice actor [2] [5] |
| Jayne Eastwood | TV and film actress, King of Kensington , Dawn of the Dead (2004) [2] [6] |
| Sally Gifford | Host on CBC's national children's show The-X [7] |
| Chris Lightfoot | Actor, Nikita , Dan For Mayor , Warehouse 13 [8] |
| Ted Nasmith | Canadian illustrator, known for his renditions of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion [2] [9] |
| Ann Rohmer | Television personality on CP24 and CityTV Toronto [2] [10] |
| Kelly Rowan | Actress, The O.C. [2] [11] |
| Emma Seligman | Director and screenwriter, Shiva Baby and Bottoms [12] [13] |
| Ali Velshi | Journalist with Al Jazeera America and formerly CNN [2] [14] |
| Zack Ward | Actor, CSI , Cold Case , Transformers [2] [15] |
| Richard Williams | Won two Academy Awards as director of animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit [2] [16] |
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Matt Black | Played for the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League (CFL) [2] [17] |
| Tom Europe | Played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL) [2] [18] |
| Simon Farine | Plays basketball (2011–12) for the Maccabi Haifa B.C. team in the Israeli Premier League [19] |
| Bob Goldham | Won two Stanley Cup championships with the Toronto Maple Leafs and three with the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League (NHL); analyst on Hockey Night in Canada with the CBC [2] [20] |
| Dave Lougheed | Played for Canadian National Rugby team and participated in the 2003 Rugby World Cup [2] [21] |
| Neil Lumsden | As a player, he helped win three CFL Grey Cup titles with the Edmonton Eskimos; as General Manager he helped the Tiger-Cats win the Grey Cup in 1999 [2] |
| Nemanja Mitrović | Professional basketball player |
| Ashtone Morgan | Plays for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer; first TFC Academy graduate to play for Canadian National Team [2] |
| Leif Pettersen | Played for Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL [2] [22] |
| Jack Wedley | Toronto Argonauts football player, holds the record for most Grey Cup championships |
| Raymond Ma | Beijing Ducks basketball player, Chinese Rookie of the Year award 2018. |
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Claire Cameron | Canadian author and journalist. |
| Herbert H. Carnegie | Became a member of the Order of Canada in 2003; a top hockey player in the country, but at the time (1940s and 1950s), blacks were unofficially rarely able to enter the top professional level; author; created the Herbert H. Carnegie Future Aces, which awards scholarships. Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022 [2] [23] |
| Anne Fleming | Canadian fiction writer; finalist for the Governor General's Award [2] [24] |
| Andrew MacNaughtan | Multiple Juno Award-winning photographer, director and album art designer; long time photographer for the band Rush; founder of Art Gives Hope, a charity created to help families in Africa affected by HIV/AIDS [25] |
| Jeffrey Morgan | Authorized biographer of Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and The Stooges; Canadian Editor of CREEM: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine; columnist for Detroit's Metro Times ; President of Northern Secondary Student Council, 1973-1974 [2] [26] |
| Mookie Morris | Top 5 Canadian Idol finalist; Northern Music Department graduate [2] |
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Dave Beckett | Member of Gary and Dave [2] |
| Grandson (musician) | Political trap rock musician signed to Fueled by Ramen [2] |
| Garth Mosbaugh | Tenor singer for the Canadian band The Nylons [2] |
| Bruce Palmer | Bass guitarist for 60s American rock group Buffalo Springfield (with Neil Young); member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Dean and Dan Caten | Fashion designers, founders of Dsquared2, a high-end Milan fashion label [2] [27] |
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Wally Floody | Second World War RCAF Spitfire pilot, instrumental in organizing and implementing the "Great Escape" from the German Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp |
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Ariel Garten | Artist, scientist and co-founder of InteraXon [28] |
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Aileen Williams | Black Canadian activist and founding member of the Canadian Women's Negro Association (CANEWA) |
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