Notable White Earth Citizens
- Vernon Bellecourt - early leader of the American Indian Movement
- Leo Brisbois — attorney, president of the Minnesota State Bar Association
- Duane "Dewey" Goodwin] — artist and Leech Lake Tribal College art faculty
- Dr. Clara Sue Kidwell — Director of the American Indian Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Winona LaDuke, founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project in 1989, to acquire more ownership of land within the reservation boundaries, work for reforestation, and market traditional tribal products, including wild rice
- Jean O'Brien
- Audrey Thayer — American Civil Liberties Union, Greater Minnesota Racial Justice Project Coordinator
- Gerald Vizenor — scholar and writer
- Wabanquot (White Cloud) - chief in the 19th century
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