Ronald Cleveland Mullin is a Waterloo Distinguished Professor Emeritus and the first person to receive a degree from the Waterloo; an MA in mathematics in 1960. Mullin completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, and after taking his doctorate in 1964 he joined the Faculty of Mathematics. During his tenure at Waterloo, Mullin acted as chair of Combinatorics and Optimization, and contributed to the establishment of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He was named a Distinguished Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1996. The following year, Mullin was the first recipient awarded the Stanton Medal by the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications.

Mary Anne Daley was born ca. 1817 on the Isle of Wight. She and her husband John Mulloy (ca. 1817-February 28, 1894) had three children, one of whom was Dr. Nelson Mulloy (1842-1913). Mary Ann and John Mulloy are both buried in the Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Ontario.

Nelson Mulloy, physician, was born February 15, 1842 to John Mulloy and Mary Ann Daley Mulloy. He married Elizabeth Hanley Chapman on August 2, 1869 in Doon, Ontario. He died on August 28, 1913.

Martha Magdalena Anthes was born to parents Jacob Anthes and Magdalena Stricker in North Perth, Ontario, October 18, 1869. She was educated as a teacher, and is listed in the 1901 census as lodging with Jared and Ellen Creary and teaching in Assiniboia East, Wapella, North West Territories. She married John A. Munn also of Wapella (date unknown) and the couple had a son, Robert Anthes born March 11, 1904 in Saskatchewan. A daughter Elizabeth Sutherland was born in Kitchener April 9, 1907. Another son, Arthur was born circa 1908. The 1916 census of Qu'appelle, Saskatchewan finds John and Martha living with their sons, Robert A., aged 12 and Arthur, aged 8. There is no mention of the child Elizabeth in this census record. Martha Munn died in 1944, John in 1960 and they are interred in Wolseley Cemetery, Saskatchewan.

Emily Ferguson Murphy was born in Cookstown, Ontario in 1868 and educated at Bishop Strachan School, Toronto. She married Rev. Arthur Murphy in 1887. In 1916 she was appointed by the Alberta Government as the first woman Magistrate in the British Empire. It was she who inaugurated and brought to a successful issue the movement that resulted in the Privy Council, in 1929, declaring that women were "persons" under the British North America Act, and therefore had a right to be appointed to the Senate of Canada. She was the first President of the Federated Women's Institute of Canada. Prime mover in the establishment of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Edmonton 1910, she was the first woman member of the hospital board in the City of Edmonton. In 1911 she organized the Women's Canadian Club in Edmonton and was elected as their first President. Under the pen name "Janey Canuck" she was well known as a writer. In 1913 she was elected National President of the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1915 she was decorated by His Majesty the King as Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Miss Oktoberfest 1991.

Kenneth G. Murray is a philanthropist living in the Waterloo-Wellington area of Ontario. He was born in 1924 in Chatham, Ont. and served in the Canadian Navy from 1943 to 1945., He was educated at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ont. and received a B.SC. (Agriculture) in 1950. From 1950 to 1987 he worked for J.M. Schneider in Kitchener, Ont., starting as a salesman and becoming president, a position he filled from 1969 to 1985. He has been a director on the boards of several corporations: Homewood Health Centre and Corporation in Guelph, Ont.; Canada Trust in London, Ont.; and B.F. Goodrich, Dominion Life Insurance Co. Ltd and J.M. Schneider Inc. in Kitchener, Ont. He has actively supported, in person and financially, many community organizations and initiatives as well as educational facilities and opportunities in Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph. These include the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Westmount Golf Club, Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation, K-W Oktoberfest, Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, Kitchener Young Men's Club, Kitchener Public School Board and the Kitchener-Waterloo Operatic Society. In 1993 he initiated the Homewood Foundation in Guelph, a fundraising and granting agency for mental health research, education and patient care. The Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have benefited from his involvement. At the University of Guelph he initiated the Science and Society Project and the Ken Murray Annual Lecture Series, was on the Board of Governors from 1971 to 1979 and has served on several committees and in fundraising campaigns. At the University of Waterloo Ken Murray initiated the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program (MAREP) in 1992.
Ken Murray has received many honours and awards in the course of his lifetime, including the Order of Canada in 2000, and The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee medal in 2002. He received honourary degrees from the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo in 1996 and 1995 respectively.

The Muskoka Lakes Association was organized in 1894 by a group of summer cottagers, and since then has worked on behalf of permanent or part-time residents of Lakes Muskoka, Rosseau and Joseph. "The Association was established to unite all those interested in the lakes and their vicinities in order to protect and promote the interests of property owners, cottagers and tourists, preserve the safe, healthful and sanitary condition and scenic beauty of the lakes; and to encourage skill and prudence in aquatic sports ... Association members were instrumental in forming the Muskoka Lakes Golf and Country Club, which is the scene of the annual regattas and other Association-sponsored activities. The Association has had a major influence on the history of the lakes since the beginning of the century."
Issues of interest to the Association since its beginnings have always included both political and environmental concerns: roads and other transportation facilities serving the area, sanitation standards, well-marked waters, fishing, fire and police services, taxation, water and air quality, acid rain, boating safety, and any other factors contributing to the health, security and pleasure of those living in and around the lakes.

International Association of Parents & Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth was founded in 1975 by David and Lee Stewart. They were inspired to found the organization after being unable to find help for their own home birth, and after over a decade of work in Missouri advocating for alternatives to hospital based births. At its peak the organization had 8,000 members and was focused on lobbying for alternatives to hospital births including midwifery, home births, and natural births.

The British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA), now called the White Ribbon Association (WRA), is a temperance organization that was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1876 with the goal of education the public about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. They became an affiliate member of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1885, and in 1893 a schism split the group into the Women's Total Abstinence Union and the National British Women's Temperance Association who campaigned also for suffrage. in 2004 the organization changed its name to the White Ribbon Association and today it offers free resources focusing on health education relating to alcohol, drugs and gambling.

The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship was the successor of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Eleanor Rathbone was the first president of the society and members included Irene Hancock, Elizabeth Macadam, Eva Marian Hubback, and Corbett Ashby. The society disbanded in 1928 after women received equal suffrage.

Ira George Needles was an industrial executive and university administrator who served as chancellor at the University of Waterloo from 1966 to 1975. Needles was born September 1, 1893 in Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa to Elson Reed Needles and Anna Edna Hunter. He and his wife Marian had three children, Lauranna Jones, William and Myron (Bud). After school, Needles began working at B. F. Goodrich (now known as Goodrich Corporation) in 1916 in Akron, Ohio. He moved to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1925 after Goodrich purchased the Ames-Holden Rubber Company, and worked at its office as an assistant sales manager, and was eventually promoted to several positions including general manager of the tire division (1930), vice-president of sales, and chairman of the board (1958). After 26 years, he eventually rose to the position of president of B.F. Goodrich Canada, in 1951. He resigned from B.F. Goodrich in 1960.

In the summer of 1956, Needles gave a speech at the Rotary Club of Kitchener-Waterloo entitled WANTED: 150,000 Engineers – The Waterloo Plan. In this presentation, Needles offered a different approach to education that would include both studies in the classroom and training in industry that would eventually become the basis of the cooperative education program at the University of Waterloo. Waterloo College (now Wilfrid Laurier University) planned to open a science faculty that would become known as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties in 1957. Needles—along with his B.F. Goodrich colleague, then-president of Waterloo College, and first president of the University of Waterloo, Gerald Hagey—founded the Waterloo College Associate Faculties, which later became the University of Waterloo, with Needles' vision of a cooperative education program that involved industry. After founding the university, Needles served as chairman of its board of governors from 1956 to 1966 and then became chancellor from 1966 to 1975.

Ira Needles died on January 6, 1986.

During World War II, Needles served as a technical advisor for the Government of Canada to help ration rubber, which was a strategic material during the war. After the war, he founded the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where his son, William, became an actor.

Mabel Edena Neiley was born in Greenwood, Nova Scotia on September 27, 1887 (although some census records indicate 1889 as her birth year). She lived in Greenwood, Kingston, and Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) before migrating to the United States of America on December 11, 1913.
Neiley trained as a nurse and was called into active service on July 1, 1918. Since then and until April 15, 1920, Neiley worked as a U.S. Army nurse living in New York, Washington D.C., Georgia, and Ohio being part of the nursing U.S. staff during part of the First World War and the 1918 Influenza pandemic. During that time, she served in at least three hospitals: Walter Reeds in Washington D.C., Camp Gordon in Georgia, and the Columbus Barracks in Ohio.
In March 1925, Neiley moved to Los Angeles County and lived in Palo Alto, Pasadena, and Ventura. While in California, Neiley worked at the Pasadena Preventorium (Pasadena, California) as a nurse and superintendent.
Mabel E. Neiley died in Ventura (California) on March 14, 1976, at 88 and is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles.

NBBS was established on February 25, 1940 and aired radio programmes until April 1945.

Frank Stanley Newman was born in Merrickville, Ontario on April 9, 1889 to John Jarvis Newman and Emma Chester. He studied forestry at the University of Toronto and from 1919 until 1954 was the superintendent of the St. Williams Forestry Station. He died in 1966.

Gabriel Niccoli is a professor emeritus with the Department of Italian & French Studies at the St. Jerome's University where he served as chair for seventeen years.

Barrie Phillip Nichol, who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces (bpNichol), was a Canadian poet born in Vancouver in 1944. He became widely known for his concrete poetry in the 1960s. Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. The words are arranged in such a way as to depict their subject.
Nichol received his elementary teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia in 1963, but he only worked a brief stint as a teacher.
His most famous published work is probably The Martyrology, a long poem encompassing nine books in six volumes. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being.

Nichol also worked in a wide variety of other genres, including musical theatre, children's books, collage/assemblage, pamphlets, spoken word, computer texts, fiction, and television. Sadly, B.P. Nichol died due to complications following routine back surgery in September of 1988. Despite having such a brief lifespan, Nichol was highly prolific and produced a substantial volume of work.

Howard B. Nicholson was a librarian with the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

Norman Nicholson was born November 10, 1874 to Donald Nicholson and Ellen Chisholm. He was in the book and paper trade in Kitchener and Hamilton, Ontario. He died in Hamilton on August 19, 1934.

Arthur Forbes Nicol was born on December 10, 1870 in Scotland to James Nicol and Margaret Agnes Wyllie. He prospered in business, a traveler and adventurer in London, England, India and the Yukon. In 1903 he married Florence Helen Kempt, daughter of Irvine Kempt and Margaret Davidson of Glasgow. In 1928 he purchased property near Oban, Argyll, that included the Kilninver Estate, where he lived until his death in 1958.

Florence Helen Kempt was born April 24, 1876 in Glasgow, Scotland to Irvine Kempt and Margaret Davidson. In 1903 she married Arthur Forbes Nicol. In 1930 she moved with him to Kilninver Estate near Oban, Argyll. Florence Helen Nicol died May 24, 1962.

Nicolas Wines was established in Paris in 1822 with a shop at 53 rue Sainte-Anne. They were the first French company to sell wine in bottles directly to the consumer and now have over 490 stores in France alone.

Miss Oktoberfest 1979.

Florence Nightingale was a social reformer who established modern nursing practice after her time working as a nurse during the Crimean War. In 1860 she founded the world's first secular nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, England. Her social reform work related to women's rights and included improvements to healthcare, the abolishment of prostitution laws, and fighting for greater opportunities for women in the workforce.

Miss Oktoberfest 1975.

Nisga’a, formerly spelled Nishga or Niska, are an Indigenous people in Canada based in British Columbia.

A senior chief of the Gitlan tribe of the Tsimshian.