List of musicians from Ontario

The following is a list of musicians and musical groups from the Canadian province of Ontario.

List of Ontario musicians by genre:

Uncategorized

 * Anders - Mississauga
 * Eva Avila – Ottawa
 * Barenaked Ladies – Scarborough, Toronto
 * Bryan Adams – Kingston
 * The Beau-Marks - Montreal
 * Daniel Caesar - Oshawa
 * Magic! –  Toronto
 * Jacksoul - Toronto
 * Parichay (singer) - Scarborough, Toronto
 * Blue Rodeo – Toronto
 * Kevin Spencer - Hamilton
 * Keshia Chanté – Ottawa
 * Bruce Cockburn – Ottawa
 * Deborah Cox – Toronto
 * Hugh Dillon – Kingston
 * Saga (band) – Oakville
 * Wednesday – Oshawa
 * J. D. Fortune – Mississauga
 * Sarah Harmer – Burlington
 * Kardinal Offishall – Scarborough, Toronto
 * James LaBrie – Penetanguishene
 * Avril Lavigne – Napanee
 * Gordon Lightfoot – Orillia
 * Lights – Timmins
 * Five Man Electrical Band – Ottawa
 * Little X – Toronto
 * Guy Lombardo – London
 * Brian Melo – Hamilton
 * Metric – Toronto
 * Alanis Morissette – Ottawa
 * Joey Muha - Port Dover
 * Our Lady Peace – Toronto (Raine Maida attended University of Toronto)
 * Peaches – Toronto
 * Protest The Hero – Whitby
 * Hail The Villain – Oshawa
 * Anastasia Rizikov – Toronto
 * Rush – Toronto
 * Paul Shaffer – Thunder Bay
 * Silverstein – Burlington
 * Skye Sweetnam – Bolton
 * Snow – Toronto
 * The Arrogant Worms-Kingston
 * The Tragically Hip – Kingston
 * Vanity – Niagara Falls
 * Tamia Washington – Windsor
 * Neil Young – Toronto
 * Joel Zimmerman (deadmau5) – Niagara Falls, Ontario
 * Vikas Kohli – Mississauga
 * Henry Lau – Toronto
 * Jeon Somi - Woodstock
 * Platinum Blonde –  Toronto
 * Honeymoon Suite –  Niagara Falls
 * The Spoons –  Burlington
 * Tory Lanez -  Brampton, Ontario
 * List of best-selling singles in Canada
 * List of Billboard Hot 100 number-ones by Canadian artists
 * Lawrence Gowan - Toronto

Alt-country

 * Andrew Cash
 * Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
 * Charlie Angus and Grievous Angels
 * Fred Eaglesmith
 * Lost Dakotas
 * Ron Sexsmith
 * The Sadies

Barbershop

 * MegaCity Chorus

Classical

 * Edwin Orion Brownell
 * Glenn Gould

Contemporary Christian

 * Article One
 * FM Static
 * Hawk Nelson
 * Manafest
 * Newworldson
 * Thousand Foot Krutch

Country and country rock

 * Blue Rodeo
 * Cowboy Junkies
 * Leah Daniels
 * Handsome Ned
 * Tim Hicks
 * Kansas Stone
 * Lost Dakotas
 * Shae Dupuy
 * Prairie Oyster
 * Skydiggers
 * Shania Twain
 * Jason McCoy

Electronic

 * Dan Snaith (Caribou/Manitoba/Daphni)
 * Deadmau5
 * DVBBS
 * Esthero
 * Junior Boys
 * Kids on TV
 * Lesbians on Ecstasy
 * Loud Luxury
 * MSTRKRFT
 * Crystal Castles
 * Rezz

Ethnic / Multicultural

 * AfroNubians
 * Bedouin Soundclash
 * Beyond the Pale
 * Jaffa Road
 * Raghav
 * Souljazz Orchestra - Ottawa
 * Sultans of String
 * Vandana Vishwas

Folk

 * Ash & Bloom
 * Bruce Cockburn
 * City & Colour
 * Crash Vegas
 * Freeman Dre and the Kitchen Party
 * Kathleen Edwards
 * Justin Hines
 * Stephen Fearing
 * Great Lake Swimmers
 * Emm Gryner
 * Sarah Harmer
 * Gordon Lightfoot
 * Dayna Manning
 * Loreena McKennitt
 * Moxy Früvous
 * Sierra Noble – born in Ottawa, Ontario
 * Ian North
 * Red Dirt Skinners
 * Wade Hemsworth
 * Karen James

Goth

 * National Velvet
 * The Birthday Massacre

Hip hop

 * Choclair
 * Dead Celebrity Status
 * Drake
 * Dream Warriors
 * Eternia
 * Houdini
 * Jazz Cartier
 * K'naan
 * k-os
 * Kardinal Offishall
 * Kid Twist
 * Maestro
 * Michie Mee
 * Nav
 * Night Lovell
 * Pressa
 * Saukrates
 * Smoke Dawg

Indie

 * Born Ruffians
 * Broken Social Scene
 * By Divine Right
 * The Constantines
 * Dala
 * Dizzy
 * Fifth Column
 * Furnaceface
 * Hayden
 * The Hidden Cameras
 * Junior Boys
 * King Cobb Steelie
 * Lights
 * Little Junior
 * Magneta Lane
 * Marlon Chaplin
 * Metric
 * Old World Vulture
 * Republic of Safety
 * Rheostatics
 * Skydiggers
 * Sheep Look Up
 * Sweet Thing
 * Tokyo Police Club – Newmarket

Industrial

 * Ad·ver·sary
 * Ayria
 * Dandi Wind
 * Decoded Feedback
 * Digital Poodle
 * Epsilon Minus
 * Monster Voodoo Machine
 * Prospero
 * Vampire Rodents
 * Zombie Girl

Jazz

 * John Alcorn
 * Jane Bunnett
 * Holly Cole
 * Molly Johnson
 * Richard Underhill

Metal

 * Lee Aaron
 * Abandon All Ships
 * Adytum
 * Annihilator
 * Anvil
 * Arise and Ruin
 * Baptized In Blood
 * Brand of Sacrifice
 * Cancer Bats
 * Crimson Shadows
 * Dead and Divine
 * Eidolon
 * Exciter
 * Farewell to Freeway
 * Helix
 * Infernäl Mäjesty
 * Killer Dwarfs
 * Kittie
 * Liferuiner
 * Piledriver
 * Protest the Hero
 * Razor
 * Structures
 * The End
 * Thine Eyes Bleed
 * Threat Signal
 * Woods of Ypres

Popular music

 * Alanis Morissette
 * Alannah Myles
 * Alessia Cara
 * Alyssa Reid
 * Amanda Marshall
 * Annette Ducharme
 * Aviva Mongillo
 * Avril Lavigne
 * B4-4
 * Candy Coated Killahz
 * Dalbello
 * Down With Webster
 * Deborah Cox
 * Fefe Dobson
 * Jane Siberry
 * Justin Bieber
 * Love Inc.
 * Martha and the Muffins
 * Paul Anka
 * Prozzak
 * Scott Helman
 * Shawn Mendes
 * Virginia to Vegas

Punk

 * The 3tards
 * Alexisonfire
 * Armed and Hammered
 * Bad Waitress
 * Billy Talent
 * Bunchofuckingoofs
 * Cauterize
 * Counterparts
 * Dear Jane, I...
 * The Diodes
 * The Flatliners
 * The Forgotten Rebels
 * Fucked Up
 * Grade
 * illScarlett – Mississauga
 * Jolly Tambourine Man
 * Like Pacific
 * Moneen
 * Pkew pkew pkew
 * PUP
 * Seaway
 * Silverstein
 * Simply Saucer
 * Sum 41
 * Teenage Head
 * The Dirty Nil
 * The Fully Down
 * Treble Charger- Sault Ste. Marie
 * The Viletones

Rock and alternative

 * 13 Engines
 * Arkells
 * The Band
 * Barenaked Ladies
 * Barstool Prophets
 * Basement Revolver
 * Big House
 * Big Sugar
 * Billy Talent
 * Bleeker
 * CANO
 * Change of Heart
 * Cleopatrick - Cobourg
 * Coney Hatch
 * Danko Jones
 * Death From Above 1979
 * Jason Englishman
 * Finger Eleven
 * FM
 * Frozen Ghost
 * Goddo
 * Hail The Villain
 * Harem Scarem
 * Ronnie Hawkins
 * Hawksley Workman
 * Jeff Healey
 * High Holy Days
 * Hollerado
 * I Mother Earth
 * Joydrop
 * Junkhouse
 * The Killjoys - Hamilton
 * The Kings
 * Graeme Kirkland
 * Daniel Lanois
 * Leslie Spit Treeo
 * The Lowest of the Low
 * Max Webster
 * Metric
 * Kim Mitchell
 * Mary Margaret O'Hara
 * My Darkest Days – Toronto
 * National Velvet
 * Neil Young
 * Our Lady Peace
 * Parachute Club
 * Project Wyze
 * Red Rider
 * Redlight King
 * Rough Trade
 * Rush
 * Saga (band)
 * Lorraine Segato
 * Sarah Slean
 * Steppenwolf
 * Skye Sweetnam
 * Sumo Cyco
 * Teenage Head
 * The Argues
 * The Black Maria
 * The Glorious Sons - Kingston
 * The Headstones
 * The Noolands
 * The Pursuit of Happiness
 * The Tea Party
 * The Tragically Hip
 * Ian Thornley
 * Three Days Grace
 * Toronto
 * Triumph
 * Wednesday

R&B

 * Toya Alexis
 * Bass is Base
 * Jully Black
 * Divine Brown
 * Jarvis Church
 * Jacksoul
 * Glenn Lewis
 * Billy Newton-Davis
 * The Philosopher Kings
 * Ivana Santilli
 * The Weeknd
 * PARTYNEXTDOOR
 * Roy Woods