This is a partial list of Canadian Inuit. The Arctic and subarctic dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous Canadians inhabiting the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik (Quebec) and Nunatsiavut (Labrador) that are collectivity referred to as Inuit Nunangat.
The names of the communities are given as they were at the time of the birth or death. Those people who were born or died prior to 1 April 1999 in what is now Nunavut were actually born in the Northwest Territories.
Name | Birth date | Birthplace | Region | Death date | Death place | Region | Notes | |
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[1] [2] | 10 January 1955 | Arctic Bay | NU | politician, second Premier of Nunavut | ||||
[3] | 1697 | Labrador | NL | Labrador | NL | interpreter | ||
22 June 1934 | Fort Chimo | QC | politician who was a member of the Senate of Canada | |||||
[4] [5] | 1960 | Fort Chimo | QC | pilot, a businessman and a former mayor of the village of Kuujjuaq | ||||
[6] [7] | 27 January 1967 | Churchill | MB | musician | ||||
28 June 1967 | Inuvik | NT | politician, Minister of Health and Minister of Environment | |||||
[8] | 1965 | Cape Dorset | NU | politician | ||||
[9] | Igloolik | NU | filmmaker and costume designer, cofounder of Arnait Video Productions | |||||
1957 / 1958 | Gjoa Haven | NU | politician | |||||
[10] | 23 August 1955 | Arctic Bay | NU | sculptor | ||||
[11] | 11 April 1944 | Southampton Island | NU | politician | ||||
[12] | 25 December 1938 | Pelly Bay | NU | politician | ||||
[13] | Resolute | NU | musician and television journalist | |||||
[14] | 1953 | Pond Inlet | NU | politician and business man | ||||
[15] | 1 May 1933 | Fort Chimo | QC | 2 March 2011 | Resolute | NU | carver | |
26 September 1950 | Repulse Bay | NU | politician | |||||
[16] | Okkak Bay | NL | politician | |||||
[17] | 31 July 1951 | Makkovik | NL | politician | ||||
1966/1967 | Tuktoyaktuk | NT | politician | |||||
[18] | 1954 | 1998 | film producer and screenwriter | |||||
[19] | 1951 | Gjoa Haven | NU | politician | ||||
[20] | 1898 | Ellice River | NU | 1990 | Cambridge Bay | NU | fur trader and trading post operator | |
[21] | 1914 | Bathurst Inlet | NU | 1971 | Repulse Bay | NU | sculptor | |
[22] | 2 April 1946 | Sanikiluaq | NU | carver, politician | ||||
[23] | 26 June 1939 | Lake Harbour | NU | carver, politician | ||||
[24] | 28 November 1963 | Lake Harbour | NU | 30 April 2002 | Kimmirut | NU | politician | |
[25] | 1946 | Igloolik | NU | printmaker, painter, and drawer | ||||
[26] | Iqaluit | NU | producer and director | |||||
[27] | Baker Lake | NU | politician | |||||
6 October 1952 | Clyde River | NU | politician | |||||
April 1948 | Coral Harbour | NU | politician | |||||
[28] | 3 October 1927 | Ikirasaqa | NU | 8 January 2013 | Cape Dorset | NU | artist | |
[29] | 1961 | Cape Dorset | NU | artist | ||||
[30] | Nottingham Island | NU | 1983 | artist | ||||
[31] | Salluit | QC | first Inuk diocesan bishop, Bishop of the Arctic | |||||
[32] | 1870 | Igloolik | NU | after 1922 | angakkuq (shaman) | |||
Baker Lake | NU | politician | ||||||
NU | writer, filmmaker | |||||||
24 January 1964 | Igloolik | NU | politician | |||||
politician | ||||||||
[33] | 25 August 1994 | Montreal | QC | actor | ||||
[34] | 1947 | Dawson Inlet | NU | politician | ||||
[35] | fashion designer | |||||||
[36] | Labrador | NL | Labrador | NL | visited England, smallpox carrier | |||
[37] | 4 March 1940 | Aklavik | NT | politician, Premier of the Northwest Territories | ||||
[38] | c. 1943 | Richmond Gulf | QC | politician, disc jockey | ||||
1944 | Coral Harbour | NU | politician, prominent figure in the negotiations that led to the creation of Nunavut | |||||
[39] | Quaqtaq | QC | singer | |||||
[40] | Charlottetown | NL | politician | |||||
[41] | c. 1837 | Cumberland Sound | NU | c. 1881 | guide, husband of Tookoolito | |||
[42] | North West River | NL | politician | |||||
[43] | 1955 | Coppermine | NU | politician, Commissioner of Nunavut | ||||
1954 / 1955 | politician | |||||||
c. 1950s | Pond Inlet | NU | politician | |||||
[44] | Clyde River | NU | politician, author | |||||
[45] | Pond Inlet | NU | politician | |||||
[46] | 1915 | Itinik | NU | 1989 | artist | |||
[47] | 1929 | Qirnituartuq | QC | artist, illustrator, and printmaker | ||||
[48] | 1937 | 3 July 2002 | Igloolik | NU | business pioneer and politician | |||
[49] | 15 July 1953 | Coppermine | NU | politician | ||||
[50] | 29 June 1930 | Baillie Island | NT | 5 July 2013 | Souris | MB | ||
[51] | 21 June 1851 | Forteau | NL | 14 December 1896 | Parrsboro | NS | first Inuk priest | |
1981 | first female Inuk pilot to reach the rank of captain | |||||||
[52] | 10 August 1956 | Aklavik | NT | politician, Commissioners of the Northwest Territories | ||||
22 May 1946 | Qaktut | NU | politician, Commissioner of Nunavut | |||||
1950 | Napaktoktok | NU | politician | |||||
Igloolik | NU | musician | ||||||
[53] | 1968 / 1969 | Churchill | MB | politician | ||||
26 June 1946 | Ports Point | NU | politician | |||||
[54] | Pond Inlet | NU | 2 June 1968 | Resolute | NU | featured on the former Canadian two-dollar bill[55] | ||
[56] | 1978 | NU | singer/songwriter | |||||
[57] | 1922 | Neeouleeutalik | NU | 2005 | Cape Dorset | NU | sculptor | |
1951 | Nuvuqquq | NU | 8 September 2007 | Ottawa | ON | graphic artist, political and satirical cartoonist and writer, photographer, and Inuktitut translator | ||
[58] | 2 July 1954 | Clyde River | NU | politician | ||||
22 August 1947 | Lyon Inlet | NU | politician, Commissioner of Nunavut | |||||
[59] | 5 February 1955 | Hall Beach | NU | politician | ||||
[60] | 1977 | Salluit | QC | pop singer, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker and activist | ||||
Chesterfield Inlet | NU | actor, athlete | ||||||
19 January 1950 | Chesterfield Inlet | NU | politician. first Inuk to be elected as an MP | |||||
[61] | Igloolik | NU | filmmaker and actor, cofounder of Arnait Video Productions | |||||
[62] | c. 1997 | Igloolik | NU | actor, grandson of Madeline Ivalu | ||||
[63] | 1924 | 1995 | artist | |||||
[64] | 22 June 1983 | Frobisher Bay | NU | politician | ||||
15 March 1968 | Mary's Harbour | NL | politician, leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||
[65] | 1989 | fashion designer | ||||||
[66] | 1901 | Tahiryuak Lake | NT | 7 May 1984 | Holman | NT | graphic artist, angakkuq (shaman) | |
10 December 1957 | Eskimo Point | NU | politician | |||||
[67] | 2 June 1950 | Belcher Islands | NU | politician | ||||
[68] | Pangnirtung | NU | musician and RCMP | |||||
[69] | Broughton Island | NU | politician | |||||
[70] | 1926 | Putuqsuqniq | NU | 2005 | Baker Lake | NU | artist, daughter of Jessie Oonark | |
[71] | Ennadai Lake | NU | charged with, but acquitted of, murder, child neglect and causing the death of one of her children | |||||
[72] | 1932 | Pangnirtung | NU | 2000 | politician | |||
27 September 1960 | Pangnirtung | NU | politician | |||||
[73] | 23 January 1936 | Chesterfield Inlet | NU | lawyer, politician, and former sportsman | ||||
Pangnirtung | NU | politician | ||||||
[74] | 13 August 1958 | Spence Bay | NU | December 1972 | Hottah Lake | NT | saved the life of Marten Hartwell after an aircraft crash | |
[75] | 1928 | Repulse Bay | NU | 1984 | sculptor and jewelry artist | |||
[76] | 1951 | Eskimo Point | NU | 27 August 2011 | Arviat | NU | politician | |
c. 1954 | Eskimo Point | NU | politician | |||||
Igloolik | actress, filmmaker | |||||||
27 November 1957 | Kapuivik | NU | producer and director | |||||
[77] | 1964 | Cape Parry | NT | artist, stone carvings | ||||
[78] | 1954 | Sachs Harbour | NT | Inuit rights activist, politician | ||||
[79] | 1955 | Rankin Inlet | NU | politician, Commissioner of Nunavut | ||||
1959 / 1960 | Rankin Inlet | NU | politician | |||||
[80] | 27 April 1948 | Repulse Bay | NU | children's writer | ||||
2 May 1950 | Repulse Bay | NU | 19 January 2011 | Repulse Bay | NU | politician | ||
Iqaluit | NU | actress | ||||||
[81] | Nutak | NL | politician | |||||
[82] | NL | politician | ||||||
[83] | 1941 | Fort Ross | NU | politician, business man | ||||
[84] | film and television producer | |||||||
[85] | 15 April 1931 | Bernard Harbour | NU | 23 January 2009 | Cambridge Bay | NU | politician, Commissioner of Nunavut, Commissioner of the Northwest Territories | |
[86] | 17 March 1957 | Repulse Bay | NU | politician | ||||
[87] | 1945 | George River | QC | first Inuk bush pilot in eastern Canada | ||||
[88] | c. 1948 | 17 November 2009 | Toronto | ON | filmmaker, composer, carver | |||
c.1740 | Labrador | NL | 1 October 1795 | Nain | NL | visited England, interpreter | ||
[89] | 1954 / 1955 | Pangnirtung | NU | politician | ||||
Iqaluit | NU | musician | ||||||
[90] | politician | |||||||
Igloolik | NU | musician, actress | ||||||
[91] | 1918 | Eskimo Point | NU | 1983 | Eskimo Point | NU | artist | |
1968 / 1969 | Baker Lake | NU | politician | |||||
[92] | 1900 | QC | 1984 | QC | artist | |||
[93] | early 20th century | Pangnirtung | NU | founder of Iqaluit | ||||
[94] | 12 November 1925 | Baillie Island | NT | 5 May 2001 | Holman | NT | artist | |
Igloolik | NU | writer | ||||||
[95] | Coral Harbour | NU | politician | |||||
17 March 1957 | Pelly Bay | NU | politician | |||||
Coral Harbour | NU | politician | ||||||
[96] | 1944 | Back River | NU | politician, artist, son of Jessie Oonark | ||||
Broughton Island | NU | politician | ||||||
[97] | 10 May 1947 | Pond Inlet | NU | 22 April 2006 | Pond Inlet | NU | politician | |
[98] | Nain | NL | politician | |||||
[99] | 26 May 1964 | Pangnirtung | NU | politician, Premier of Nunavut | ||||
12 January 1928 | near Aklavik | NT | 10 July 1997 | Frobisher Bay | NU | politician, community leader, head of Project Surname | ||
[100] | 2 March 1906 | Chantrey Inlet | NU | 7 March 1985 | Churchill | MB | artist, mother of Janet Kigusiuq and William Noah | |
[101] | 6 January 1931 | Devon Island | NU | May 2021 | Inuit elder | |||
[102] | fl. 1921 | angakkuq (shaman), poet | ||||||
1955 / 1956 | Pangnirtung | NU | politician | |||||
[103] | 1920 | Eskimo Point | NU | 1980 | Eskimo Point | NU | sculptor | |
[104] | 7 March 1946 | Chesterfield Inlet | NU | singer-songwriter and guitarist | ||||
[105] | 1943 | Clyde River | NU | 20 April 2007 | 200 km south of Clyde River | NU | politician | |
[106] | 1893 | Cape Dorset | NU | 3 November 1969 | Cape Dorset | NU | artist | |
Igloolik | NU | writer | ||||||
1961 | Spence Bay | NU | politician | |||||
[107] | 1940 | Greenland | first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories | |||||
[108] | 1960 | Arkisserniaq | Greenland | lawyer and sealskin clothing designer | ||||
[109] | 14 November 1953 | Clyde River | NU | artist | ||||
[110] | 1950 | Paulatuk | NT | artist | ||||
2 September 1902 | Nottingham Island | NU | 30 September 1973 | Cape Dorset | NU | photographer, sculptor, artist and historian | ||
[111] | 19 December 1982 | Frobisher Bay | NU | actor | ||||
[112] | 28 May 1955 | Tuktoyaktuk | NT | politician | ||||
[113] | 11 May 1969 | Cape Dorset | NU | 19 September 2016 | Ottawa | ON | artist | |
[114] | 1 January 1935 | Ikerasak | NU | 23 November 2010 | Ottawa | ON | sculptor and printmaker | |
[115] | 26 June 1938 | Sarruq Island | NU | 18 December 2002 | Cape Dorset | NU | artist, daughter of Pitseolak Ashoona and mother of Annie Pootoogook | |
[116] | NL | politician | ||||||
[117] | 4 February 1916 | Kamadjuak | NU | 28 December 1992 | Cape Dorset | NU | artist | |
politician | ||||||||
[118] | politician | |||||||
[119] | 15 April 1946 | Chantrey Inlet | NU | politician, carver | ||||
[120] | 25 February 1964 | Nunatak Island | NU | graphic artist | ||||
Baker Lake | NU | politician | ||||||
[121] | 1915 | Salluit | QC | 1982 | graphic artist and printmaker | |||
c. 1950 | Pelly Bay | NU | politician | |||||
[122] | late 1950s | NU | writer | |||||
[123] | 12 January 1952 | Igloolik | NU | politician | ||||
[124] | 1948 | near Akulivik | QC | singer-songwriter, carver | ||||
c. 1954 | Igloolik | NU | politician | |||||
[125] | 1 January 1914 | near Inukjuak | QC | 13 July 1993 | helped preserve Inuit language and traditional culture, wrote an Inuktitut dictionary and an encyclopedia on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit | |||
[126] | 1967 | Frobisher Bay | NU | politician | ||||
[127] | 24 May 1975 | Happy Valley-Goose Bay | NL | politician | ||||
22 December 1966 | William's Harbour | NL | politician | |||||
[128] | 1942 | Cape Dorset | NU | artist | ||||
[129] | 1916 / 1917 | Kilaparutua | NU | 2009 | artist | |||
1946 / 1947 | politician | |||||||
politician | ||||||||
8 December 1960 | politician | |||||||
[130] | 19 June 1967 | Inuvik | NT | actor | ||||
[131] | Frobisher Bay | NU | politician | |||||
[132] | 1889 | Rigolet | NL | 20 November 1917 | Masnières | France | sniper in the First World War | |
[133] | 1939 | Arctic Bay | NU | politician | ||||
[134] | 21 May 1943 | Garry Lake | 19 December 2013 | Kugaaruk | NU | artist | ||
1991 / 1992 | actress and entertainer | |||||||
Baker Lake | NU | politician | ||||||
[135] | 1947 | Kangiqsualujjuaq | QC | politician, diplomat, Governor General-designate of Canada | ||||
[136] | 1941 | Aklavik | NT | 3 February 2007 | politician | |||
[137] | c. 1925 | Chesterfield Inlet | NU | religious figure | ||||
14 March 1950 | Eskimo Point | NU | politician | |||||
[138] | 5 May 1975 | Cambridge Bay | NU | throat singer, artist | ||||
[139] | c. 1893 | Qugaaluk River area or north of Puvirnituq | QC | 1976 | printmaker and sculptor | |||
30 January 1953 | northwest of Igloolik | NU | politician | |||||
1956 | Cambridge Bay | NU | politician, Premier of Nunavut | |||||
Chesterfield Inlet | NU | musician | ||||||
27 May 1963 | Cape Dorset | NU | writer and artist | |||||
1955 | Coral Harbour | NU | politician | |||||
[140] | 1948 | Aklavik | NT | musician | ||||
[141] | 1941 | Princess Mary Lake | NU | artist | ||||
[142] | 1916 | Kareak | NU | 1981 | Rankin Inlet | NU | sculptor | |
[143] | politician | |||||||
c. 1838 | Cape Searle | NU | 31 December 1876 | Groton | CT | guide, wife of Ebierbing | ||
9 December 1934 | Chantrey Inlet | NU | 7 November 2010 | Baker Lake | NU | artist | ||
[144] | 2 February 1983 | Churchill | MB | hockey player | ||||
18 August 1963 | Rankin Inlet | NU | politician | |||||
28 February 1975 | Igloolik | actress, filmmaker | ||||||
[145] | NU | religious figure, both a Christian and a traditional angakkuq (shaman) | ||||||
[146] | 1934 | Nunalla | MB | 2012 | Arviat | NU | artist | |
[147] | 1910 | Chantrey Inlet/Back River | NU | 2002 | artist | |||
Spence Bay | NU | politician | ||||||
[148] | 29 January 1845 | Hebron | NL | 13 January 1881 | Paris | France | human zoo exhibit | |
[149] | fl. 1920 | NU | angakkuq (shaman) | |||||
[150] | 1959 | Igloolik | NU | actor, filmmaker, and sculptor | ||||
[151] | Igloolik | NU | musician, circus performer | |||||
[152] | 19th century | Igloolik area | NU | angakkuq (shaman), oral poet | ||||
[153] | 1 December 1953 | Fort Chimo | QC | politician, activist | ||||
29 June 1944 | Fort Chimo | QC | politician | |||||
[154] | 3 March 1950 | politician | ||||||
[155] | 1933 | Apex, Iqaluit | NU | November 2008 | first elected Inuk legislator in Canada |