People from Almonte, Ontario

James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, sports coach, and innovator. The same year he left Canada for Springfield, Massachusetts, he invented the game of basketball. He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).

Noreen Isabel Young (born September 11, 1952), CM is a Canadian producer and puppeteer, and is still actively involved in puppeteering. From 2005 until 2016 she was Artistic Director of the Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival in her home of Almonte, Ontario. Young grew up in Ottawa South, Ontario. Young has two younger brothers John and Stephen Brathwaite. Young is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art.

Perianne Jones (born 18 February 1985 in Almonte, Canada) is a Canadian cross-country skier who between 2002 and 2015.

Kent Huskins (born May 4, 1979) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played seven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Anaheim Ducks, San Jose Sharks, St. Louis Blues, Detroit Red Wings, and Philadelphia Flyers.

Don Vaughan is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former player. Vaughan has been the head coach at Colgate since 1992–93 and is the programs leader in both wins and tenure. Don resides with his wife, Mariel. Maria Vaughan and Mark Vaughan are his 2 children.

Ruth Wildgen, née Besharah (1921 – September 11, 1999) was a Canadian politician and activist. She represented Britannia Ward on Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council from 1985 to 1988.

Allen Salter (11 October 1936 – 13 January 2011) was a Canadian weightlifter. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Lauren Horton (born July 21, 1995) is a Canadian curler from Pakenham, Ontario.

Oliver R. Avison (June 30, 1860 – August 29, 1959) was a Canadian doctor, physician, humanitarian, missionary and professor, who spent over four decades spreading Western medical knowledge in Korea during the Kaehwagi or Enlightenment Period. Avison was recognized for founding and opening the Severance Hospital and the Severance Medical College in Seoul in 1904, two interlinked institutions that sought to treat the sick and expose the Korean natives to the practical teachings of Western medicinal sciences. Through fundraising efforts across North America prior to the opening, Avison received a series of donations from American philanthropist Louis H. Severance, the namesake for the teaching hospital.

Ernest G. Shipman (born December 16, 1871, in Shipman's Mills (now Almonte), Ontario, Canada — died August 7, 1931, in New York City) was Canada's most successful producer during the silent period. Shipman, whose nickname was "Ten Percent Ernie," made seven features from 1919 to 1923.