List of people from Manitoba

This list mainly includes those people from Manitoba who had political careers outside of Manitoba, but also includes especially-notable people who had political careers within Manitoba (as presumably most Manitoba politicians are from Manitoba).

Douglas R. Archer, former mayor of Regina
Niki Ashton
Grant MacEwan, former mayor of Calgary
Candice Bergen
Rana Bokhari
Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Premier of Manitoba, longest-serving Manitoba MLA
Maria Chaput
Thomas Crerar, Member of Parliament, Senator, leader of the Progressive Party, first politician appointed Companion of the Order of Canada
Marlene Cowling
Shari Decter Hirst
Bev Desjarlais
Dorothy Dobbie
Ruby Dhalla, Member of Parliament in Ontario
Tommy Douglas, father of Medicare in Canada
Ronald Duhamel, Veterans Affairs minister in the Jean Chrétien government
Elijah Harper, Native leader, Manitoba MLA
John Harvard, Member of Parliament, CBC broadcaster, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
S. I. Hayakawa, United States senator
Francis Lawrence Jobin, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Stanley Knowles, Member of Parliament, Order of Canada recipient
Peter Liba, journalist, businessman, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Sterling Lyon, Premier of Manitoba
Hugh John Macdonald, Premier of Manitoba and son of Canada's first prime minister (John A. Macdonald)
John Stewart McDiarmid, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Pearl McGonigal, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
William John McKeag, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Gerry McGeer, former mayor of Vancouver
Daniel Hunter McMillan, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Roland Fairbairn McWilliams, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada
Darrell Pasloski, Premier of Yukon
Jack Pickersgill, former MP representing Newfoundland
Louis Riel, Metis leader, Member of Parliament
Dufferin Roblin, Premier of Manitoba
Denise Savoie, British Columbia Member of Parliament, Assistant Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
Edward Schreyer, Premier of Manitoba, Governor General of Canada
John Christian Schultz, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Alfred Henry Scott, Louis Riel delegate
Mitchell Sharp, Liberal federal cabinet minister
William Johnston Tupper, Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Daniel Vandal
Larissa Waters, Australian senator
J. S. Woodsworth, Member of Parliament, first leader of CCF

Notable families[edit]

Asper family — Izzy Asper, founder of Global Television Network
Black family — George Montegu Black Sr., businessman
- Conrad Black, newspaper publisher
- George Montegu Black II, 1950s' president of Canadian Breweries
- David Culver, former CEO of Alcan (father's sister was the maternal grandmother of Conrad Black).^[4]
Richardson family — James Richardson, businessman and founder of James Richardson & Sons
- James Armstrong Richardson Sr., businessman, grandson of James Richardson
  - James Armstrong Richardson II, businessman and politician, for whom the Winnipeg airport was named
  - Agnes Benidickson (raised in Winnipeg), first female chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
  - William Moore Benidickson, Dauphin-born Member of Parliament for Kenora—Rainy River, husband of Agnes Benidickson
  - Kathleen M. Richardson, philanthropist

Other notable people[edit]

David Reimer, man raised as a girl who became a famous case in sexology

References[edit]

^ "Andrea Slobodian: Weather Anchor". GlobalWinnipeg.com. Shaw Media Inc. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
^ "Author: Bergen, David". Manitoba Author Publication Index. Archived from the original on November 4, 2005.
^ "Mary MacLane". IMDB.com.
^ Expect Miracles: Recollections of a Lucky Life

[globalwinnipeg1-1] "Andrea Slobodian: Weather Anchor". GlobalWinnipeg.com. Shaw Media Inc. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2011.

[2] "Author: Bergen, David". Manitoba Author Publication Index. Archived from the original on November 4, 2005.

[3] "Mary MacLane". IMDB.com.

[4] Expect Miracles: Recollections of a Lucky Life

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