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{{Ethnic group| |group=Franco-Ontarians |image= |caption= Mauril
Bélanger • Paul Martin, Sr. • Newsy Lalonde • Dionne Quintuplets
|poptime=1,235,765 (French ethnic origin, 2001)
[http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/demo26g.htm 2001 Census: Ethnic
Origin]
567,935 (Francophones in Ontario, 2001)
|popplace=Eastern Ontario, Northeastern Ontario |langs=French, English
|rels=predominantly Christian (Roman Catholicism, other denominations) |related=Franco-
Manitoban, French Canadians, French-speaking Quebecer, Québécois, Acadians,
Cajuns, French Americans, Metis, French }} 'Franco-Ontarians' () are French
Canadian or francophone residents of the Canadian province of Ontario. They are
sometimes known as "Ontarois".

According to the 2001 Canadian census, there were 485,630 francophones in
Ontario (declaring a single mother tongue), comprising 4.3 per cent of the
province's total population. A further 82,305 Ontarians declared French to be
one of multiple mother tongues. Franco-Ontarians constitute the largest French-
speaking community in Canada outside of Quebec, and the largest minority
language group within Ontario. In addition to these francophones, there are a
good number of Ontarians, usually with roots in francophone countries, who,
despite being more at home in French than in English, are not regarded as
francophone for official purposes because they are native speakers of languages
other than French, such as Arabic, Haitian Creole, and various languages of West
Africa. In total, over 1.2 million Ontarians — including a significant number
who do not speak French on a regular basis — are of at least partial French
descent.

The francophone population is concentrated primarily in Eastern Ontario (41.3
per cent — 226,705 francophones), in Ottawa, Cornwall and many rural farming
communities, and in Northeastern Ontario (25.2 per cent — 138,585
francophones), in the cities of Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins and a number of
smaller towns. Other communities with notable francophone populations are
Toronto, Windsor, Penetanguishene and Welland. Most communities in Ontario have
at least a few Franco-Ontarian residents.

Ottawa, with 128,620 francophones, has the province's largest Franco-Ontarian
community by size. Greater Sudbury, 29 per cent francophone, has the largest
proportion of Franco-Ontarians to the general population among the province's
major cities, and Prescott and Russell United Counties has the highest
proportion of Franco-Ontarians to the general population among the province's
census divisions, with about two-thirds of the population being francophone.

Some smaller communities have a francophone majority. These include Hearst,
Kapuskasing, Embrun, St. Charles, West Nipissing, Rockland, Casselman,
Dubreuilville, Vankleek Hill and Hawkesbury.