Andrew Simone

Andrew Alexander Simone, CM (born May 12, 1938) is a Canadian physician, dermatologist and founder of Canadian Food for Children, a charity which collects funds and food for starving children around the world.

Biography

Born and raised in Etobicoke, he is the son of a Sicilian immigrant father and a French-Canadian mother. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1963 from Queen's University and became a dermatologist in 1968 after specializing at Harvard Medical School. He is married to Joan Simone née Hoare, an English-Canadian, and has 13 children, one of whom is adopted.

In 1985, after meeting Mother Teresa, he founded Canadian Food for Children.[1]

In 2000, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[2]

References
  1. "Giving it all away" (PDF). National Post. April 15, 2005. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  2. Order of Canada citation


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