Prominent People of Lax Kw'alaams Descent
- Frederick Alexcee, artist
- William Beynon, hereditary chief and ethnologist
- Alfred Dudoward, hereditary chief
- Bill Helin, artist
- Chief William Jeffrey, hereditary chief, carver and activist
- Paul Legaic, a series of men, who, in the late 19th century held the title of Ligeex
- Odille Morison, linguist and artifact collector
- Rev. William Henry Pierce, missionary and memoirist
- Terry Starr, artist
- Henry W. Tate, oral historian
- Arthur Wellington Clah, hereditary chief and diarist
- Calvin Helin, author and lawyer
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