List of Scottish Canadians
The following is a list of notable Scottish Canadians.
List
- H. Montagu Allan, banker, ship owner, sportsman
- Hugh Allan, financier and shipping magnate
- Richard B. Angus, banker and philanthropist
- Drew Arnott, singer/songwriter and musician
- Frederick Grant Banting, medical scientist, physician and painter, co-discoverer of insulin, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Alexander Graham Bell, eminent scientist, credited with inventing the first practical telephone
- John Bethune, founded the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal
- Norman Bethune, medical innovator and supporter of the Chinese Communist 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 of the New Democratic Party
- Rebecca Blaikie, former president of the New Democratic Party
- George Brown, 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, stage actor
- Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia
- Kim Campbell, first female prime minister of Canada
- Neve Campbell, actress
- John Candy, actor and comedian, father was of Scottish descent
- Wilf Carter, Nova Scotia-born country musician
- Jim Carrey, actor and comedian )
- James Cockburn, first Speaker of the House in Canada
- William Davidson, pioneer settler in New Brunswick
- Stu Davis, singer/songwriter, radio and television performer aka Canada's Cowboy Troubadour
- John William Dawson, scientist, educator
- Richard Dobie, fur trader, businessman
- Sir James Douglas, chief factor of the HBC's Columbia District and Governor of the colonies of the Colony of Vancouver Island and the Colony of British Columbia
- Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan and first leader of the New Democratic Party
- Shirley Douglas, actress
- William Dow, brewer and businessman
- George Alexander Drummond, businessman and senator
- Timothy Eaton, founded Eaton's
- David Ewart, Chief Dominion Architect
- Sandford Fleming, railway engineer and proponent of standard time zones
- Simon Fraser, Northwest Company trader and explorer
- John Kenneth Galbraith, Ontario, California and Massachusetts academic and economist, U.S. and Canadian diplomat
- Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation
- Donald Gordon, 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, newspaper publisher
- George Monro Grant, President of the Royal Society of Canada
- Iain Hume, Canadian international football player
- Michael Ironside, actor and voice actor
- Ted Irvine, ice hockey player
- Chris Jericho, professional wrestler and singer
- Alexander Keith, brewer
- William Lyon Mackenzie King, 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, first woman in the British Empire to graduate from university
- Angus MacAskill, tallest non-pathological person
- J. E. H. MacDonald, painter, member of the Group of Seven
- John MacDonald of Glenaladale, colonist
- John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
- John Sandfield Macdonald, first Premier of Ontario
- Norm Macdonald, stand-up comedian, writer and actor of Irish and Scottish descent
- Rodney MacDonald, former premier of Nova Scotia
- William Christopher Macdonald, tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist
- Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence
- Robert Mackay, businessman and statesman
- Sir Alexander MacKenzie Northwest Company trader and explorer
- Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
- William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and politician
- Colin Francis MacKinnon, founded St. Francis Xavier College, which grew into St. Francis Xavier University
- Alistair MacLeod, 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, first woman seated into the House of Commons of Canada
- Abraham Martin, 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, one of the Fathers of Confederation
- Todd McFarlane, comic book writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur
- James McGill, fur trader and merchant
- Peter McGill, businessman and politician
- William McGillivray, fur trader
- Gavin McInnes, writer, actor, comedian, commentator, co-founder of Vice Media and Vice Magazine
- Duncan McIntyre, businessman
- Sarah McLachlan, singer-songwriter and musician
- Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
- Norman McLaren, film animation pioneer
- Tara MacLean, singer-songwriter
- Marshall McLuhan, communication and media theorist
- Bobby McMahon, football analyst for Fox Soccer Channel
- Craig McMorris, snowboarding
- Mark McMorris, snowboarding
- Anna Mcnulty, YouTuber
- Tate McRae, singer-songwriter and dancer.
- Simon McTavish, fur trader, sawmill and flour mill operator
- Colin Mochrie, actor and comedian
- Henry Morgan, built the first department store in Canada
- Donald Morrow, Ontario politician, soldier and teacher
- Farley Mowat, author, Scottish ancestry
- Oliver Mowat, third Premier of Ontario
- Alice Munro, Nobel laureate author and short story writer
- George Murdoch, first mayor of Calgary
- James Murray, first civil governor of the Province of Quebec
- Anne Murray, singer and entertainer
- James Naismith, inventor of basketball
- Alexander Walker Ogilvie, miller and statesman
- Roddy Piper, WWE wrestler and actor
- Christopher Plummer, Academy Award-winning actor
- Francine Racette, actress
- John Redpath, contractor and industrialist
- Peter Redpath, businessman and philanthropist
- Callum Keith Rennie, actor
- John Robertson, sports journalist, covered Expos and Blue Jays, and coined the term "Rider Pride"
- Bernie Shaw, lead singer of rock band Uriah Heep since 1986
- George Simpson, executive and fur trader
- Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
- Dayne St. Clair, professional soccer player, Scottish-Canadian mother
- George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen
- Arran Stephens, founder of Nature's Path Foods
- David Stirling, architect; associate architect of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
- Daniel Sutherland, businessman and politician
- Donald Sutherland, actor
- Kiefer Sutherland, actor
- Rossif Sutherland, actor
- Nick Suzuki, ice hockey player
- Ryan Suzuki, ice hockey player
- Tamara Taylor, actress
- Dave Thomas, actor and comedian, Scottish-born mother
- Ian Thomas, singer-songwriter and actor, Scottish-born mother
- William Fraser Tolmie, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada
- Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada
- Tessa Virtue, Olympian ice dancer
- Johnny Reid, songwriter and recording artist