Robert McLaughlin (industrialist)
 Robert McLaughlin (November 16 1836 – November 23 1921) was a Canadian industrialist and businessman. He founded the McLaughlin Carriage and McLaughlin Motor Car companies which later became part of General Motors.He was born in Cavan Township Upper Canada in 1836 the son of an Irish immigrant John McLaughlin. He moved to Darlington Township with his family in 1837. He married Mary Smith in 1864. In 1869 he set up a carriage works at Enniskillen Ontario (Hamlet).