List of Yukoners

List of Yukoners

A list of people from the Yukon territory of Canada:

* Pierre Berton — writer
* William Carpenter Bompas — bishop
* George Carmack — Klondike gold co-discoverer
* Kate Carmack — Klondike gold co-discoverer
* Dawson Charlie — Klondike gold co-discoverer
* Carol Geddes — filmmaker
* Ted Harrison — artist
* Victor Jory — actor
* Joseph Francis Ladue — founder of Dawson City
* Skookum Jim Mason — Klondike gold co-discoverer
* William Ogilvie — surveyor
* Tahmoh Penikett — actor
* Sahneuti — Gwichʼin First Nation leader
* Sam Steele — Mountie
* Robert W. Service — poet
* Owen Williams — calligrapher
* Shane Wilson — Sculptor

Politicians

* Larry Bagnell — Member of the House of Commons
* Doug Bell — former Commissioner of the Yukon
* George Black — former Commissioner of the Yukon and former Speaker of the House of Commons
* Martha Louise Black — former Member of the House of Commons
* Jack Cable — former Commissioner of the Yukon
* Ione Christensen — Senator and former Commissioner of the Yukon
* Pat Duncan — former Premier
* Dennis Fentie — Premier
* Judy Gingell— former Commissioner of the Yukon
* Louise Hardy — former Member of the House of Commons
* Todd Hardy — Yukon New Democratic Party leader and former Yukon Leader of the Opposition
* Piers McDonald — former Premier
* John Kenneth McKinnon — former Commissioner of the Yukon
* Audrey McLaughlin — former Member of the House of Commons and former leader of the New Democratic Party
* Arthur Mitchell — Yukon Leader of the Opposition
* Erik Nielsen — former Member of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
* John Ostashek — former Government Leader
* Chris Pearson — former Government Leader
* Tony Penikett — former Government Leader/Premier
* Willard Phelps — former Government Leader
* Geraldine Van Bibber — current Commissioner of the Yukon
* James Morrow Walsh — former Commissioner of the Yukon


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