Cy McLean

Cy McLean (1916–1986) was a Canadian pianist and band leader, whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1970s. He is particularly notable as having led Canada's only full-scale black orchestra in the 1940s. His success as a Canadian black musician is considered to have influenced the success of later Canadian black musicians.

In 1947, Cy McLean's band was the first to open Toronto's famed Colonial Tavern. This was considered to be a groundbreaking engagement, since black musicians had heretofore not been allowed to perform at any of the clubs on Toronto's Yonge Street, which was at the time the central focus of live music in Toronto.

In his later career, McLean was performing five nights a week at Toronto's Warwick Hotel, prior to dance bands being replaced by other entertainment.

McLean was the great-uncle of Canadian drummer Mark McLean.