Editing Alliston (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Margaret Atwood]] - lived on a farm near Alliston from 1973 to 1980<ref>{{cite web|title=Margaret Atwood Biography|url=http://margaretatwood.ca/biography/|access-date=February 27, 2019 |publisher=Margaret Atwood}}</ref>
* [[Frederick Banting|Sir Frederick Banting]] - co-inventor of insulin; co-recipient of 1923 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]. The town's only high school is named in his honour, [[Banting Memorial High School]].
* [[Tyson Foerster]] - ice hockey player under contract of the [[Philadelphia Flyers]] of the [[NHL]]
* [[John Gould (ice hockey)|John Gould]] - ice hockey player who played 504 NHL games for the [[Atlanta Flames]], [[Buffalo Sabres]] and the [[Vancouver Canucks]].
* [[Larry Gould (ice hockey)|Larry Gould]] - ice hockey player who played 2 games for the Vancouver Canucks
* [[Ricardo Hoyos]] - Star of ''Sadie's Last Days on Earth'' and ''Degrassi''
* [[William Erskine Knowles]] - member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan Commons
* [[Bryan Lewis]] - Politician; Director of Officiating for National Hockey League
* [[Theodore Loblaw]] - founder of Loblaws supermarkets
* [[George McCague]] - member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario
* [[George Wesley Norman]] - member of Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
* [[Deanne Rose]] - Olympic soccer player
* [[Harold Timmins]] - politician and jurist
* [[Joyce Trimmer]] - politician; retired to Alliston
* [[Jim Wilson (Ontario politician)|Jim Wilson]] - member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
* [[Susan Froud]] - a curler active on the World Curling Tour, she appeared in [[Scotties Tournament of Hearts]] in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013 and is a regular in the Ontario provincials.
* [[Stacey McGunnigle]] - comedienne and actress, appears on ''[[This Hour Has 22 Minutes]]''