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)

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