List of Canadians - Politicians

Politicians

Further information: List of Prime Ministers of Canada, Members of the Canadian House of Commons, and List of Canadian senators

Axworthy, Lloyd (born 1939) – former Cabinet minister
Bain, Thomas (1834–1915)- former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
Baldwin, Robert (1804–1858)
Barlow, Maude (born 1947) – activist, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
Beatty, Perrin (born 1950) – former cabinet minister, president of CBC
Bégin, Monique (born 1936) – former cabinet minister
Berger, Thomas (born 1933) – Jurist
Blondin-Andrew, Ethel (born 1951) – former Cabinet minister
Bourassa, Henri (1868–1952) – Quebec politician
Bourgault, Pierre (1934–2003) – President of Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
Broadbent, Ed (born 1936) – former New Democratic Party leader
Brown, George (1818–1880)
Brown, Rosemary (1930–2003)
Buck, Tim (1891–1973) – leader of the Canadian Communist Party
Campbell, Kim (born 1947) the 19th Prime Minister of Canada
Sir Cartier, George-Étienne (1814–1873) – Cabinet minister
Chrisholm, Brock (1896–1971) – first Director-General of the World Health Organization
Copps, Sheila (born 1952)
Copps, Victor K. (1919–1988) – Mayor of Hamilton
Lambton, John George, Earl of Durham (1792–1840)
Fairclough, Ellen (1905–2004) – first female member of the Canadian Cabinet
Granholm, Jennifer (born 1959) – first female Governor of Michigan
Grewal, Gurmant (born 1957) - The 'Ironman of Canadian Parliament'.
Grewal, Nina (born 1958) - First South Asian and Sikh woman elected to Parliament. With her husband Gurmant, Grewals are the first married couple to concurrently serve in Canadian Parliament.
Howe, Clarence (1886–1960) – Cabinet minister
Howe, Joseph (1804–1873) – Father of Confederation
Keyes, Stan (born 1953)
Sir Lafontaine, Louis-Hippolyte (1807–1864) – co-premier of the United Province of Canada
Layton, Jack (1950–2011) – leader of the New Democratic Party
William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861) – Mayor of Toronto
Sir McNab, Allan (1798–1862) – Prime Minister of Upper Canada
McGee, Thomas D'Arcy (1825–1868)
Macphail, Agnes (1890–1954) – first female Member of Parliament
McLachlin, Beverly (born 1943) – Chief Justice of Canada
McMillan, James (1838–1902) – US Senator for Michigan
Munro, John (1931–2003)
Papineau, Louis-Joseph (1786–1871) – reformer and 1837 rebellion leader
Studholme, Allan (1846–1919)
Tanner, Nathan Eldon (1898–1982)
The Famous Five, 1920s women's rights activists
Franklin K. Lane, 1910s United States Secretary of the Interior(1913–1920)