# List of Scottish Canadians

The following is a list of notable Scottish Canadians.

## List

* 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))
* 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