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Brigadier General James Sutherland-Brown was born in 1881 at Simcoe, Ontario. He had a distinguished military career beginning as a member of the 39th Regiment Norfolk Rifles in 1896. He attended the Staff College at Camberley, England, in 1914 and served overseas in the First World War. He was awarded a D.S.O. in 1916 and a C.M.G. in 1918. He continued in the army after the war attending Imperial Staff College in 1928 and being commanding officer of Military District No. II, British Columbia.

Robert Sutherland was the first student of colour at Queen's University at Kingston, and one of its most important early benefactors. He was born in Jamaica to unknown parents, though there is some evidence that his father was Scottish. He entered Queen's in 1849, just eight years after the university was founded. He may have been the first student of colour in Canada, as well as at Queen's; the subject has not been fully researched, but none of the handful of other universities that existed then have uncovered records of an earlier entrant. Sutherland led an extraordinarily successful academic career at Queen's, winning 14 academic prizes, including one for general merit in Latin that was awarded after a vote by fellow students. He graduated in 1852 with honours in classics and mathematics and went on to study law at Toronto's Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1855 and moved to the growing town of Walkerton, south of Owen Sound, where he practised law for more than 20 years. He died unmarried in 1878 after contracting pneumonia. He had drawn up his will just three weeks before his death and left his entire $12,000 estate to Queen's. It is unclear why he did so, but friends recalled that he often said Queen's was one place where "he had always been treated as a gentleman." His donation was the largest that any one person had yet given to the university and came at a time when Queen's was still battling its way out of poverty. Principal George Grant ordered that a large granite tombstone be placed on his grave in Toronto's Mt Pleasant Cemetery – where it still stands – to mark his connection with Queen's. The City of Kingston dedicated a plaque in Grant Hall to his memory in 1973. In 1997, the Robert Sutherland Memorial Room was unveiled, located on the third floor of the John Deustch University Centre. In 2009, the Policy Studies building was renamed "Robert Sutherland Hall".

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John Sutherland (21 February 1919 – 1 September 1956) was a Canadian poet, literary critic, and magazine editor based in Montreal, Quebec. Although he published numerous poems of his own, he was perhaps better known as the founder and editor of two important Canadian literary magazines, First Statement and Northern Review.

Before his death from cancer, Sutherland also published the anthology Other Canadians: An Anthology of New Poetry in Canada, 1940–46, a collection of Canadian modernist poetry, and one of the first critical studies of the poetry of E.J. Pratt. Sutherland was also instrumental in exposing the poetry of Irving Layton to a wider audience, thanks to the Sutherland-owned First Statement Press, the small press that issued Layton's first book, Here and Now.

Captain James Sutherland was a steamboat owner and captain in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Donald Matheson Sutherland was born at Norwich, Ontario, in 1879. He graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces on the first day of WWI and went overseas with the First Division. Sutherland was wounded at the second battle of Ypres and was invalided home, but returned to France as a commanding officer of the 52nd Battalion. He rose to the rank of Colonel and was awarded a D.S.O.
After the War, Sutherland was elected to parliament for North Oxford at the general election of 1925, but was defeated in the following year. In the 1930 election, he was returned to Parliament, and on August 7th, he joined Bennett's government as Minister of National Defence. He served in that portfolio until 1934 when he moved to Pensions and National Health, continuing to head the latter department until the defeat of the government and of himself in the general election of 1935. He lived out his retirement in Embro, Ontario. He died on June 4th, 1970.

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