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The father of John Kirby (1772-1846), John Kirby Senior, emigrated from Tadcaster, Yorkshire, to New York State, with his wife and two sons, William and John, and his daughter Ann, shortly before the outbreak of the American War of Independence. He obtained land near Crown Point and engaged in farming. His sympathies were royalist. In 1791, Ann Kirby married Robert Macaulay of Kingston. Macaulay, with Thomas Markland, was engaged in the forwarding business. They were joined in 1796 by John Kirby who took over the firm after the withdrawal of Markland and the death of Robert Macaulay. He also carried on a hardware business. Mr. Kirby was for many years a member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada and Colonel in the Frontenac Militia.

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William Kirby was a Canadian author, best known for his classic historical novel, "The Golden Dog." Born in Yorkshire, England, Kirby immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1832, and then to Canada in 1839. After visiting Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City, he settled in Niagara, Ontario, where his house still stands. Kirby practised as a tanner until his marriage with Eliza Madeline Whitmore, with whom he had three children (one of whom died in infancy.) For more than twenty years, Kirby was the editor of the Niagara Mail (1850–1871) which he purchased from the founder in 1850. From 1871 to 1895, he was a collector of customs at Niagara, and in 1883, he became a charter member of the Royal Society of Canada. He died at Niagara on 23 June 1906.

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Leslie King Kirk was an insurance company executive with the Standard Accident Insurance Company in Detroit, Michigan.

Watson Kirkconnell, OC FRSC (16 May 1895 – 26 February 1977) was a Canadian scholar, university administrator and translator. He is well known in Iceland, Eastern and Central Europe and among Canadians of different origins for his translations of national poetry, particularly from Hungarian, Ukrainian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. He collaborated with distinguished scholars and academics of his time in perfecting the translations, including literary critic Pavle Popović. One of his most remarkable translations is The Bards of Wales, a poem of Hungarian poet János Arany.

After World War II, Kirkconnell wrote a poem about Draža Mihailović, alleging that the Serb general's execution on July 17, 1946 at the hands of Josip Broz Tito's victorious Yugoslav Partisans had followed a show trial and that charges of terrorist war crimes against civilians and of Chetnik collaboration with occupying Italian and German Axis forces had been trumped up. The execution solidified Communist rule in Yugoslavia for the next four decades, before the federal state ultimately disintegrated into civil war after Tito's death, when latent internal tensions were no longer being suppressed.

From 1948 to 1964, he was the ninth President of Acadia University. He was also on numerous occasions shortlisted for the Nobel Prize.

In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his services at home and abroad as an educator, scholar and writer". In 1936, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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A.G. Kirkland was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.