# List of Northern Secondary School alumni

The following is a selective list of notable alumni of the Northern Secondary School, in Toronto, Ontario.

## List
### Television and film

| Name | Notability |
| Patrick J. Adams | Actor, USA Network's series Suits |
| Marco Brambilla | Director of Demolition Man |
| Susan Clark | Actress, TV series Webster |
| Michael Dobson | Voice actor |
| Jayne Eastwood | TV and film actress, King of Kensington, Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
| Sally Gifford | Host on CBC's national children's show The-X |
| Chris Lightfoot | Actor, Nikita, Dan For Mayor, Warehouse 13 |
| Ted Nasmith | Canadian illustrator, known for his renditions of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion |
| Ann Rohmer | Television personality on CP24 and CityTV Toronto |
| Kelly Rowan | Actress, The O.C. |
| Emma Seligman | Director and screenwriter, Shiva Baby and Bottoms |
| Ali Velshi | Journalist with Al Jazeera America and formerly CNN |
| Zack Ward | Actor, CSI, Cold Case, Transformers |
| Richard Williams | Won two Academy Awards as director of animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit |

### Professional sports

| Name | Notability |
| Matt Black | Played for the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League (CFL) |
| Tom Europe | Played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL) |
| Simon Farine | Plays basketball (2011–12) for the Maccabi Haifa B.C. team in the Israeli Premier League |
| 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 |
| Dave Lougheed | Played for Canadian National Rugby team and participated in the 2003 Rugby World Cup |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Leif Pettersen | Played for Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL |
| 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. |

### Arts and literature

| 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 |
| Anne Fleming | Canadian fiction writer; finalist for the Governor General's Award |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mookie Morris | Top 5 Canadian Idol finalist; Northern Music Department graduate |

### Music

| Name | Notability |
| Dave Beckett | Member of Gary and Dave |
| Grandson (musician) | Political trap rock musician signed to Fueled by Ramen |
| Garth Mosbaugh | Tenor singer for the Canadian band The Nylons |
| Bruce Palmer | Bass guitarist for 60s American rock group Buffalo Springfield (with Neil Young); member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |

### Fashion

| Name | Notability |
| Dean and Dan Caten | Fashion designers, founders of Dsquared$^2$, a high-end Milan fashion label |

### Military

| 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 |

### Business

| Name | Notability |
| Ariel Garten | Artist, scientist and co-founder of InteraXon |

### Humanitarianism, activism, social work and others

| Name | Notability |
| Aileen Williams | Black Canadian activist and founding member of the Canadian Women's Negro Association (CANEWA) |