List of Scottish Canadians

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The following is a list of notable Scottish Canadians.

• H. Montagu Allan (1860–1951), banker, ship owner, sportsman
• Hugh Allan (1810–1882), financier and shipping magnate
• Richard B. Angus (1831-1922), banker and philanthropist
• Drew Arnott, singer/songwriter and musician
• Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941), medical scientist, physician and painter, co-discoverer of insulin, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), eminent scientist, credited with inventing the first practical telephone
• John Bethune (1751-1815), founded the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal
• Norman Bethune (1890–1939), medical innovator and a hero of the Chinese Revolution
• Bill Blaikie, former Member of Parliament (MP), deputy leader of the New Democratic Party and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
• Daniel Blaikie, Member of Parliament (MP) of the New Democratic Party
• Rebecca Blaikie, former president of the New Democratic Party
• George Brown (1818–1880), founder of the Toronto Globe, Father of Confederation and first de facto leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
• James Cameron, film director and producer
• Douglas Campbell (1922-2009), stage actor
• Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia
• Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada
• Neve Campbell, actress (Scottish father)
• John Candy (1950–1994), actor and comedian, father was of Scottish descent
• Wilf Carter (1904-1996), Nova Scotia-born country musician
• Jim Carrey, actor and comedian (his mother is Scottish Canadian from the Gordon Clan)^[1][2])
• James Cockburn (1819-1883), first Speaker of the House in Canada (Conservative Party)
• William Davidson (1740-1790), pioneer settler in New Brunswick
• Stu Davis (1921–2007), singer/songwriter, radio and television performer aka Canada's Cowboy Troubadour (b. David Alexander Stewart)
• John William Dawson (1820–1899), scientist, educator
• Richard Dobie (1731–1805), fur trader, businessman
• Sir James Douglas (1803-1877), chief factor of the HBC's Columbia District (1843–1858) and Governor of the colonies of the Colony of Vancouver Island (1851–64) and the Colony of British Columbia (1858–62)
• Tommy Douglas (1904–1986), Premier of Saskatchewan and first leader of the New Democratic Party
• Shirley Douglas (1934-2000), actress (daughter of Tommy Douglas)
• William Dow (1800–1868), brewer and businessman
• George Alexander Drummond (1829–1910), businessman and senator
• Timothy Eaton (1834-1907), founded Eaton's (Scottish ancestry)
• David Ewart (1841-1921), Chief Dominion Architect
• Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), railway engineer and proponent of standard time zones
• Simon Fraser (1776–1862), Northwest Company trader and explorer
• John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Ontario, California and Massachusetts academic and economist, U.S. and Canadian diplomat
• Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817–1893), politician and a Father of Confederation (father was of Scottish ancestry)
• Donald Gordon (1904-1969), Chairman, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Chairman and President, Canadian National Railways, builder of Churchill Falls
• Ryan Gosling, actor and musician
• Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer
• Hugh Graham (1848–1938), newspaper publisher
• George Monro Grant (1835-1902), President of the Royal Society of Canada
• Iain Hume, Canadian international football (soccer) player
• Michael Ironside, actor and voice actor
• Ted Irvine, ice hockey player
• Chris Jericho, professional wrestler and singer
• Alexander Keith, (1795-1873) brewer (Alexander Keith's Brewery)
• William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada
• Kaylyn Kyle, Canadian soccer player of Scottish descent
• Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, mother of Scottish descent
• Grace Annie Lockhart (1855-1916), first woman in the British Empire to graduate from university (May 25, 1875)
• Angus MacAskill (1825-1863), tallest non-pathological person
• J. E. H. MacDonald (1873–1932), painter, member of the Group of Seven
• John MacDonald of Glenaladale (1742-1810), colonist
• John A. Macdonald (1815-1891), first Prime Minister of Canada
• John Sandfield Macdonald (1812-1872), first Premier of Ontario
• Norm Macdonald (1959-2021), stand-up comedian, writer and actor of Irish and Scottish descent
• Rodney MacDonald, former Premier of Nova Scotia
• William Christopher Macdonald (1831-1917), tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist
• Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence
• Robert Mackay (1840–1916), businessman and statesman
• Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764–1820) Northwest Company trader and explorer
• Alexander Mackenzie (1822-1892), second Prime Minister of Canada
• William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861), journalist and politician
• Colin Francis MacKinnon (1851-1877), founded St. Francis Xavier College, which grew into St. Francis Xavier University
• Alistair MacLeod (1936-2014), writer, recipient of the Order of Canada
• Kevin S. MacLeod, current Canadian Secretary to the Queen
• David MacNaughton, ambassador and businessman
• Peter MacNeill, actor
• Agnes Macphail (1890-1954), first woman seated into the House of Commons of Canada
• Abraham Martin (1589-1664), St. Lawrence River pilot
• Eric McCormack, award-winning Canadian actor, television producer and writer, best known for his role as Will Truman in the American sitcom Will & Grace
• John McDermott, vocal tenor with Irish roots
• William McDougall (1822-1905), one of the Fathers of Confederation
• Todd McFarlane, comic book writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur
• James McGill (1744–1813), fur trader and merchant
• Peter McGill (1789–1860), businessman and politician
• William McGillivray (1764–1825), fur trader
• Gavin McInnes (born 1970), writer, actor, comedian, commentator, co-founder of Vice Media and Vice Magazine
• Duncan McIntyre (1834–1894), businessman
• Sarah McLachlan, singer-songwriter and musician
• Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
• Norman McLaren (1914–1987), film animation pioneer
• Tara MacLean, singer-songwriter
• Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), communication and media theorist
• Bobby McMahon, football analyst for Fox Soccer Channel
• Craig McMorris, snowboarding
• Mark McMorris, snowboarding
• Anna Mcnulty, YouTuber
• Simon McTavish (1750–1804), fur trader, sawmill and flour mill operator
• Colin Mochrie, actor and comedian
• Henry Morgan (1819–1893), built the first department store in Canada
• Donald Morrow (1908-1995), Ontario politician, soldier and teacher
• Farley Mowat (1921-2014), author, Scottish ancestry
• Oliver Mowat (1820-1903), third Premier of Ontario
• Alice Munro, Nobel laureate author and short story writer
• George Murdoch (1850-1910), first mayor of Calgary
• James Murray (1721-1794), first civil governor of the Province of Quebec
• Anne Murray, singer and entertainer
• James Naismith (1861-1939), inventor of basketball
• Alexander Walker Ogilvie (1829–1902), miller and statesman
• Roddy Piper (1954–2015), WWE wrestler and actor
• Christopher Plummer (1929-2021), Academy Award-winning actor
• Francine Racette, actress
• John Redpath (1796–1869), contractor and industrialist
• Peter Redpath (1821–1894), businessman and philanthropist
• Callum Keith Rennie, actor
• John Robertson (1934-2014), sports journalist, covered Expos and Blue Jays, and coined the term "Rider Pride" (son of Scots immigrant)
• Bernie Shaw, lead singer of rock band Uriah Heep since 1986
• George Simpson (1787–1860), executive and fur trader
• Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914)
• Dayne St. Clair, professional soccer player, Scottish-Canadian mother
• George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen (1829-1921)
• Arran Stephens, founder of Nature's Path Foods
• David Stirling (1822–1887), architect; associate architect of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
• Daniel Sutherland (1756–1832), businessman and politician
• Donald Sutherland, actor
• Kiefer Sutherland, actor (grandson of NDP leader Tommy Douglas, who was born in Scotland)
• Rossif Sutherland, actor
• Tamara Taylor, actress
• Dave Thomas (born 1949), actor and comedian, Scottish-born mother
• Ian Thomas (born 1950), singer-songwriter and actor, Scottish-born mother
• William Fraser Tolmie (1812-1886), member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
• Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada (his mother, Margaret, is daughter of Scots immigrant Jimmy Sinclair)
• Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000), 15th Prime Minister of Canada (his mother, Grace Elliott, was of Scottish ancestry)
• Tessa Virtue, Olympian ice dancer
• Johnny Reid (born 1974), songwriter and recording artist

• Scottish diaspora
• Scottish placenames in Canada
• Scots-Quebecer
• Anglo-Métis
• English Canadians
• European Canadians
• Scottish people
• Scottish Americans
• Ulster-Scottish Canadians
• Celtic music in Canada
• Glengarry Highland Games

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