page_title: Harbord Collegiate Institute
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Harbord Collegiate Institute / History / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Sergeant Johnny Wayne and Staff-Sergeant Frank Shuster (Wayne and Shuster) of the Canadian Army Show relaxing before a performance of their comedy show for personnel of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division.
context_page_description: Harbord Collegiate Institute is a public secondary school located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in the Palmerston-Little Italy-Annex neighbourhood, situated on the north side of Harbord Street, between Euclid Avenue and Manning Street. From the 1920s to the 1950s, about 90 per cent of the student body was Jewish, while today the student body largely consists of students of East Asian and Portuguese descent.
context_section_description: Zanana Akande - Ontario NDP MPP and first Black woman Cabinet minister in Canada
  Charles Best - co-discoverer of Insulin
  Kathleen Coburn - leading scholar on the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  David Cronenberg - filmmaker
  Jack Cole - Founder of Coles (bookstore)
  Charles Trick Currelly - founder and first curator of the Royal Ontario Museum
  Victor Feldbrill - Former Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
  Helen Freedhoff - theoretical physicist
  Murray Frum, real estate developer and philanthropist
  Frank Gehry - renowned Architect
  Adam Giambrone - former Toronto city councillor and TTC chair
  Philip Givens - former Toronto Mayor
  Eddie Goodman - former Lawyer and politician
  Paul James, award-winning Canadian blues and roots musician; stage name of Paul James Vigna.
  Irving Kaplansky - mathematician
  Max Kerman - Juno Award-winning Lead Singer of Arkells
  Katerina Lanfranco - Artist
  Stephen Lewis - former leader of the Ontario NDP, former UN Ambassador, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
  Howie Mandel - Actor
  Joe Pantalone - former Toronto city councillor
  Reva Potashin - psychology professor
  Louis Rasminsky - former Governor of the Bank of Canada
  Harry Rosen — clothier
  Morley Safer - CBS News Anchor
  Anna Sandor - screenwriter
  Sam Shopsowitz - founder of Shopsy's restaurant
  Sam Sniderman - founder of Sam the Record Man
  Steven Staryk - violinist
  Gordon Stulberg - President of 20th Century Fox
  Mr Bucktee - Former president of Norway
  Kiefer Sutherland - actor
  Ayub Buralle - Famous Rapper
  Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster (Wayne and Shuster) - comedians
  Philip White - former Mayor of York, Ontario
caption: Comedy duo Wayne and Shuster met as high school students at Harbord
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