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Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...

, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their life in that territory.

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Eva Aariak Eva Qamaniq Aariak ( iu, ᐄᕙ ᐋᕆᐊᒃ, ; born January 10, 1955) is a Canadian Inuk politician, who was elected in the 2008 territorial election to represent the electoral district of Iqaluit East in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut ...

, former Premier of Nunavut *

Susan Aglukark Susan Aglukark, (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓲᓴᓐ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ ''suusan agluukkaq''), (born 27 January 1967) is a Canadian singer whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop songwriting has made her a major recording s ...

, singer-songwriter *

Leona Aglukkaq Leona Aglukkaq (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓕᐅᓇ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ; born June 28, 1967) is a Canadian politician. She was a member of the non-partisan Legislative Assembly of Nunavut representing the riding of Nattilik from 2004 until stepping d ...

, MP, Minister of the Environment for Canada, territorial MLA and minister * Olayuk Akesuk, territorial politician *

Atuat Akkitirq Atuat Akkitirq is a Canadians, Canadian filmmaker, actress and costume designer. A partner in the filmmaking collective Arnait Video Productions, she was a shortlisted Genie Award nominee for Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best ...

, filmmaker, actress, and costume designer *

David Alagalak David Alagalak (born 11 April 1944 on Southampton Island, Nunavut) is a Canadian politician, who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Arviat in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 2004 to 2008. Pri ...

, territorial politician *

Ovide Alakannuark Ovide Alakannuark (December 25, 1938 – October 7, 2019) was a Canadian territorial level politician from Pelly Bay, Northwest Territories (now Kugaaruk, Nunavut). He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 until 200 ...

, territorial politician *

Madeleine Allakariallak Madeleine Allakariallak (born Resolute, Nunavut) is a Canadian Inuit musician and television journalist. Formerly a member of the Inuit throat singing duo Tudjaat, from 2005 to 2007 she was also the host of the weekly newsmagazine series '' APTN ...

, musician and television journalist * Siku Allooloo, writer, artist, and educator * Titus Allooloo, territorial politician * Elizabeth Kugmucheak Alooq, artist *

Simeonie Amagoalik Simeonie Amagoalik (May 1, 1933 – March 2, 2011) was an Inuit carver from Resolute, Nunavut, Resolute, Nunavut, Canada. Career Amagoalik was born May 1, 1933, in Inukjuak, Northern Quebec. He started carving at the age of 14 on soapstone an ...

, carver *

Jack Anawak Jack Iyerak Anawak (born September 26, 1950) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997. He sat in the house as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Foll ...

, former MP and territorial politician * Michael Angottitauruq, territorial politician * Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq, textile artist * Luke Anguhadluq, artist * Stephen Angulalik, fur trader and trading post operator *

Moses Appaqaq Moses Appaqaq Jr. (born April 2, 1946) is a soapstone carver, former retail clerk, and former territorial-level politician from Sanikiluaq, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). Appaqaq ran for a seat in the 1979 Northwest Territories general el ...

, territorial politician * Goo Arlooktoo, territorial politician * Joe Arlooktoo, territorial politician and artist *

Germaine Arnaktauyok Germaine Arnaktauyok (born in Maniitsoq, Greenland in 1946) is an Inuk printmaker, painter, and drawer originating from the Igloolik area of Nunavut, then the Northwest Territories. Arnaktauyok drew at an early age with any source of paper she c ...

, artist *

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (born May 9, 1978) is an Inuk filmmaker, known for her work on Inuit life and culture. She is the owner of Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, which produces Inuktitut films. She was awarded the Canadian ...

, filmmaker and activist * Silas Arngna'naaq, territorial politician * James Arreak, territorial politician *

James Arvaluk James Arvaluk (April 1948 – April 27, 2016) was a Canadian politician from Coral Harbour, Nunavut. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories from 1991 to 1995 and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut ...

, territorial politician * Karoo Ashevak, sculptor *

Kenojuak Ashevak Kenojuak Ashevak, (Inuktitut: ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ, Qinnuajuaq Aasivak), (October 3, 1927 – January 8, 2013) is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art. Early life and family Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo ...

, artist * Kiugak Ashoona, artist *

Pitseolak Ashoona Pitseolak Ashoona ( – May 28, 1983;) was an Inuk Canadian artist admired for her prolific body of work. She was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Biography Pitseolak was born to Timungiak and Oootochie on Nottingham Island ...

, artist *

Moses Aupaluktuq Moses Aupaluktuq is a territorial politician from Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 2008 to 2013. Political career Aupaluktuq ran for a seat to the Nunavut Legislature as a candidat ...

, territorial politician * Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut, artist *

Susan Avingaq Susan Avingaq is an Inuk Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress. A founding partner in Arnait Video Productions, a women's filmmaking collective based in Igloolik, Nunavut, she is most noted for her work on the film ''Before To ...

, film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress

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Levi Barnabas Levi Barnabas (born January 24, 1964) is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories in 1995 and served until Nunavut was created in 1999. Barnabas served as the first Speaker in the Legislative As ...

, territorial politician * Ernie Bernhardt, territorial politician *

Levinia Brown Levinia Nuqaalaq Brown (born in 1947 at Dawson Inlet, south of Whale Cove, Nunavut) is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Rankin Inlet South/Whale Cove in the Legislat ...

, territorial politician

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Charlie Crow Charlie Crow (born: Richmond Gulf, Quebec) is a former disc jockey and Member of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1991. Early life Crow became the first disc jockey for community radio station CKSN-FM when it opened i ...

, territorial politician and DJ *

Tagak Curley Tagak Curley (born 1944) is an Inuit leader, politician and businessman from Nunavut. As a prominent figure in the negotiations that led to the creation of Nunavut, Tagak is considered a living father of confederation in Canada. He was born i ...

, territorial politician

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Edna Elias Edna Agnes Ekhivalak Elias (born c. 1955) is a Canadian politician from Kugluktuk, Nunavut. On 12 May 2010 she was appointed as the fourth commissioner of Nunavut by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Her term ended on 11 May 2015. Elias, who was i ...

, Commissioner of Nunavut *

Ron Elliott (politician) Ron Elliott is a Canadian politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Quttiktuq in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut The Legislative Assembly of Nunavut is the legislative assembly ...

, territorial politician * Tommy Enuaraq, territorial politician * Elijah Erkloo, territorial politician * Lucassie Etungat, artist * Mark Evaloarjuk, territorial politician * Joe Allen Evyagotailak, territorial politician

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Kelly Fraser Kelly Fraser (August 8, 1993 – December 24, 2019) was a Canadian Inuk pop singer and songwriter, whose second album, ''Sedna'', received a Juno Award nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018. Life and car ...

, singer

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* Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, former Commissioner of Nunavut *

Kenn Harper Kenn Harper (aka ''Ilisaijikutaaq'', tall teacher) is a Canadian writer, historian and former businessman. He is the author of ''Give Me My Father's Body'', an account of Greenland Inuk Minik Wallace, had a regular column on Arctic history in ''Nun ...

, historian, teacher, development officer, linguist, and businessman * Donald Havioyak, territorial politician

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Lucie Idlout Lucie Idlout (born Tatanniq Lucie d'Argencourt, 1972/1973) is a Canadian singer/songwriter from Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is the daughter of Leah Idlout-Paulson and granddaughter of Joseph Idlout. After the release of several EPs, Idlout's first full ...

, rock singer * Osuitok Ipeelee, sculptor *

Alootook Ipellie Alootook Ipellie (Nuvuqquq, Northwest Territories, 1951 – Ottawa, September 8, 2007) was an Inuk graphic artist, political and satirical cartoonist, writer, photographer, and Inuktitut translator. Early life and education Ipellie was born ...

, illustrator and writer * David Iqaqrialu, territorial politician *

Peter Irniq Piita Taqtu Irniq, formerly Peter Irniq, (born February 1, 1947) is an Inuk politician in Canada, who served as the second commissioner of Nunavut from April 2000 to April 2005. Biography Born in Lyon Inlet near Repulse Bay, Northwest Territ ...

, former Commissioner and territorial politician * Enoki Irqittuq, territorial politician * Peter Ittinuar, former MP

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* Kingwatsiak Jaw, sculptor

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Nancy Karetak-Lindell Nancy Uqquujuq Karetak-Lindell (born December 10, 1957) is a former Canadian politician. Previously she was a financial comptroller and held councillor positions for the Municipal Hamlet and District Education Authority in Arviat, Nunavut. Kar ...

, former MP *

Peter Kattuk Peter Kattuk (2 June 1950 – 20 November 2019) was a Canadian politician from Nunavut. Early life He was born in the Belcher Islands, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) and lived in Sanikiluaq. Career He was the Member of the Legislative ...

, territorial politician * Davidee Kavik, artist *

Simeonie Keenainak Simeonie Keenainak is an Inuit accordionist and retired RCMP officer from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada. He is also a photographer, teacher and hunter.Kikkik Kikkik was an Inuit woman who in 1958 was charged with, but acquitted of, murder, child neglect and causing the death of one of her children. Her story was told by Farley Mowat. Relocation Kikkik was a member of the Ihalmiut (Ahiarmiut), a Cari ...

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

woman charged and acquitted of causing the death of one of her children in starvation times * Ipeelee Kilabuk, territorial politician * Peter Kilabuk, territorial politician * Iyola Kingwatsiak, artist * Kiviaq (David Ward), lawyer, politician, and former sportsman * Adamee Komoartok, territorial politician * Peter Kritaqliluk, Inuit activist *

Zacharias Kunuk Zacharias Kunuk ( iu, ᓴᖅᑲᓕᐊᓯ ᑯᓄᒃ, born November 27, 1957) is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film '' Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner'', the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced entirely in Inu ...

, producer and director *

Jose Kusugak Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya * Jose the Galilea ...

, territorial politician, husband of Nellie Kusugak *

Lorne Kusugak Lorne Kusugak is a Canadian politician, who is Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for the electoral district of Rankin Inlet South. Prior to becoming an MLA, Kusugak was the mayor of Rankin Inlet. Kusugak served as the Nunavut Minist ...

, territorial politician *

Michael Kusugak Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak ( Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᕚᕐᓗᒃ ᑯᓱᒐᖅ) is a storyteller and a Canadian Inuk children's writer, who tells stories about Arctic and Inuit culture. He was born April 27, 1948, just north of Chesterfield Inlet, at a poi ...

, children's writer and storyteller *

Nellie Kusugak Nellie Taptaqut Kusugak (born 1955) is a Canadian educator who served as the fifth commissioner of Nunavut from June 2015 to June 2020. Early life Kusugak is from Rankin Inlet. Kusugak received a BEd in 1996 through the Nunavut Teachers Educa ...

, Deputy Commissioner of Nunavut and former acting Commissioner; wife of Jose Kusugak

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Bill Lyall William Lyall (born 1941 in Fort Ross - 28 December 2021), known as Bill Lyall, of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, was a territorial politician. Lyall was elected to the 8th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly in the 1975 election. Lyal ...

, territorial politician and president of the Arctic Cooperative

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Helen Maksagak Helen Mamayaok Maksagak, (April 15, 1931 – January 23, 2009) was a Canadian politician. She served as the commissioner of the Northwest Territories from January 16, 1995 until March 26, 1999 and as the first commissioner of Nunavut from Apr ...

, former Commissioner of both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut * Enook Manomie, artist *

Kavavaow Mannomee Kavavaow Mannomee (also known as Qavavau Manumie) (born September 21, 1958) is an Inuit printmaker who lived and worked in Nunavut. Early life He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, when his mother was hospitalized there for tuberculosis. However, th ...

, artist *

Steve Mapsalak Steve Mapsalak (born March 17, 1957) is a Canadian politician, who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. He first won the Akulliq seat in the 2004 Nunavut election. According to preliminar ...

, territorial politician *

Glenn McLean Glenn McLean is a former territorial level politician in Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 until 2004. McLean ran for a seat in the 1999 Nunavut general election. He won the Baker Lake electoral d ...

, territorial politician *

Matty McNair Matty L McNair (born in Pennsylvania, United States) is an American explorer. She now lives in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada on Baffin Island, where she runs her company NorthWinds. Among her many accomplishmentsRebecca Mike, territorial politician * Kellypalik Mungitok, artist

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Nakasuk Nakasuk (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓇᑲᓱᒃ ) was an Inuit, Inuk who was born at a Seal hunting, sealing camp near Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) in the early 20th century and grew up around Kimmirut, Nunavut, Kimmirut (formerly ...

, founder of Iqaluit *

Patterk Netser Patterk Netser is a Canadian Inuit, Inuk politician, who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district (Canada), electoral district of Nanulik in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 2004 to 2008, and was reelected to ...

, territorial politician *

Kelvin Ng Kelvin Ng (born November 10, 1958) is a former territorial and municipal level politician in Canada who was elected in both the Nunavut Legislature and Northwest Territories Legislature. Ng began his political career on the municipal level. He ...

, territorial politician *

John Ningark John Ningark (17 March 1944 – 17 November 2016) was a territorial level politician in Nunavut Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. Political history Ningark, wh ...

, territorial politician *

Johnny Ningeongan Johnny Ningeongan is a Canadian politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Nanulik in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2008 territorial election. He was defeated in the 2013 e ...

, territorial politician *

William Noah William Noah (born 1944, Back River, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut)) is a former territorial level politician and artist. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1982. Noah was first elected to the ...

, territorial politician and artist * Jobie Nutarak, territorial politician

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* Kevin O'Brien, territorial politician *

Paul Okalik Paul Okalik ( iu, ᐹᓪ ᐅᑲᓕᖅ, ; born May 26, 1964) is a Canadian politician. He is the first Inuk to have been called to the Nunavut Bar. He was also the first premier of Nunavut. On November 4, 2010, he was elected Speaker of the Leg ...

, former premier *

Abe Okpik Abraham "Abe" Okpik, CM (12 January 1928 – 10 July 1997) was an Inuit community leader in Canada. He was instrumental in helping Inuit obtain surnames rather than disc numbers as a form of government identification. He was also the firs ...

, first Inuk to sit on the Northwest Territories Council *

Jessie Oonark Jessie Oonark, ( ᔨᐊᓯ ᐅᓈᖅ; 2 March 1906 – 7 March 1985) was a prolific and influential Inuit artist of the Utkuhiksalik, Utkuhihalingmiut ''Utkuhiksalingmiut'' whose wall hangings, prints and drawings are in major collections includ ...

, artist * Elisapee Ootoova, elder and knowledge-keeper * Stephen Osborne, writer and editor

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* Charlie Panigoniak, singer-songwriter and guitarist *

Pauloosie Paniloo Pauloosie Paniloo (1943 Clyde River, Nunavut - April 20, 2007 200 km south of Clyde River, Nunavut) was a territorial level politician. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1983 to 1987. He was also a member o ...

, territorial politician *

Dennis Patterson Dennis Glen Patterson (born December 30, 1948) is a Canadian politician and lawyer. He served as MLA for Frobisher Bay and Iqaluit from 1978 to 1995, as NWT Minister of Education, Justice and Municipal Affairs and was chosen as the fifth prem ...

, territorial politician *

Enuk Pauloosie Enuk Pauloosie is an Inuk Canadian, a former politician who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Nattilik in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2008 territorial election. His, now defunct, ...

, territorial politician *

Lena Pedersen Lena (Elizabeth Magdalena) Pedersen or Lena Pederson (born 1940, Greenland) is a politician and social worker from Nunavut, Canada. In 1959, she moved from Greenland to the Northwest Territories and lived in Coppermine (Kugluktuk), Pangnirtung an ...

, territorial politician *

Red Pedersen Asger Rye "Red" Pedersen (sometimes Asgar Rye Pederson, born 1935, Denmark) is a former territorial-level Canadian politician. In 1953, he got a job in the Canadian Arctic with the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut (then t ...

, territorial politician * Sheouak Petaulassie, artist *

Keith Peterson Alan Keith Peterson (born February 2, 1956) was born in Whitehorse, Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada and lives in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. He was the ember of the Nunavut MLAfor the Electoral district (Canada), electoral district of Cambridg ...

, territorial politician *

Ed Picco Edward "Ed" Walter Picco (born September 21, 1961) is a Canadian politician first elected in the 1995 Northwest Territories election. He was re-elected in the 1999 Nunavut election and in the 2004 Nunavut election. Picco is one of the few C ...

, territorial politician *

Looty Pijamini Looty Pijamini ( Inuktitut syllabics: ; born 1953) is an Inuit artist. He lives and works in Grise Fiord, Nunavut. Pijamini was born November 14, 1953, in Clyde River, Nunavut, and moved to Grise Fiord in 1961, when his father, who was a special ...

, Inuit artist *

Peter Pitseolak Peter Pitseolak (1902–1973) was an Inuk photographer, sculptor, artist and historian. Pitseolak was Baffin Island's first indigenous photographer. Life Pitseolak was born September 2, 1902 on Nottingham Island, Northwest Territories. He liv ...

, photographer, artist and historian *

Annabella Piugattuk Annabella Piugattuk (born December 19, 1982) is a Canadian Inuit actress, notable for her role in the 2003 film ''The Snow Walker''. Early life Annabella Piugattuk was born December 19, 1982, in Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories (what is now ...

, actress *

Annie Pootoogook Annie Pootoogook (May 11, 1969 – September 19, 2016) was a Canadian Inuk artist known for her pen and coloured pencil drawings. In her art, Pootoogook often portrayed the experiences of those in her community of Kinngait (then known in English a ...

, artist *

Sharni Pootoogook Sharni Pootoogook (also spelled Sharnie, Sharnee, or Sarni) (1922–2003) was an Inuit printmaker from Kinngait, Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Early life She was born in Cape Dorset (Kinngait) in 1922. Her brother was sculptor Pauta Saila. Career Sh ...

, printmaker *

Kenoayoak Pudlat Kenoayoak Pudlat is a former territorial level politician from Lake Harbour, Northwest Territories, now Kimmirut, Nunavut Pudlat was elected to the Baffin South electoral district in the 1991 Northwest Territories general election. He defeated ...

, territorial politician *

Pudlo Pudlat Pudlo Pudlat (Pudlo), (February 4, 1916 - December 28, 1992) was a Canadian Inuit artist whose preferred medium was a combination of acrylic wash and coloured pencils. His works are in the collections of most Canadian museums. At his death in 1992, ...

, artist *

Ludy Pudluk Ludy Pudluk (January 31, 1943 – July 1, 2019) was a Canadian territorial level politician and cabinet minister. A climate change activist, he resided in Resolute, Nunavut. Life Pudluk was born on January 31, 1943, Qaumarjuiton in Navy Board ...

, territorial politician *

Uriash Puqiqnak Uriash Puqiqnak, CM (born April 15, 1946) is an experienced soapstone carver and former territorial and municipal level politician in Canada. He served as Mayor of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut and was a member of the Nunavut Legislature from 1999 until ...

, territorial politician and carver

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* Andrew Qappik, graphic artist *

Mumilaaq Qaqqaq Mumilaaq Qaqqaq ( iu, ᒧᒥᓛᖅ ᖃᖅᑲᖅ, italic=no; born 4 November 1993; formerly known as Trina Qaqqaq) is a Canadian activist and former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nunavut in the House of Commons of C ...

, politician

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Allan Rumbolt Allan Rumbolt is a Canadian politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Hudson Bay in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2008 territorial election. He was re-elected in 2013 and 201 ...

, territorial politician

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* Kakulu Saggiaktok, artist * Eliyakota Samualie, artist * Fred Schell, territorial politician *

Elisapee Sheutiapik Elisapee Sheutiapik is a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Iqaluit, Nunavut, from 2003 to 2010, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2017 general election. Mayoralty She won the mayoral election in 2003, def ...

, mayor of Iqaluit *

Daniel Shewchuk Daniel Shewchuk (b. 1959 or 1960)
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David Simailak David Simailak (born c. 1952) is a Canadian politician. He was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Baker Lake having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election. Simailak was the Minister of Finance and the ...

, territorial politician *

Thomas Suluk Thomas Suluk (Inuktitut: ᑖᒪᔅ ᓱᓗᒃ, March 14, 1950 – October 13, 2018) is a Canadian former politician. He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the ...

, former MP

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Tanya Tagaq Tanya may refer to: * Tanya (Judaism),an early work of Hasidic philosophy by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. * Tanya (name), a given name and list of people with the name * Tanya or Lara Saint Paul (born 1946) * List of Mortal Kombat characters#Tany ...

, singer, songwriter and artist * Louis Tapardjuk, territorial politician *

Peter Taptuna Peter Taptuna (born ) is a Canadian politician who served as the third premier of Nunavut from 2013 to 2017. He was first elected in the general election held on October 27, 2008, to represent Nunavut’s most western riding of Kugluktuk, in the ...

, territorial politician * Nalenik Temela, sculptor * Manitok Thompson, territorial politician *

Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq (born 1941) is one of Canada's most renowned Inuit artists. Her work is rooted in her lived experience, often dealing with themes of being an orphan and Inuit stories her grandmother told her.Nasby 2002, p. 3. Avaal ...

, artist * John Todd, territorial politician *

Kane Tologanak Kane Tologanak (born: ?) is a Copper Inuit and former Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 to 1983. Tologanak was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election. He ...

, territorial politician * Simon Tookoome, artist *

Hunter Tootoo Hunter A. Tootoo ( Inuktitut: Hᐊᓐᑕ ᑐᑐ; born August 18, 1963) is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Nunavut from 2015 to 2019. Elected as a Liberal to the House of Commons, he was appointed Minister o ...

, territorial politician *

Jordin Tootoo Jordin John Kudluk Tootoo (; born February 2, 1983) is a Canadian former professional hockey player, who played for the Nashville Predators, Detroit Red Wings, New Jersey Devils and Chicago Blackhawks. Of Inuit, Ukrainian and English descent, h ...

, hockey player * Akesuk Tudlik, artist

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Natar Ungalaaq Natar Ungalaaq (born 1959) is a Canadian Inuit actor, filmmaker and sculptor whose work is in many major collections of Inuit art. Before playing the lead roles in '' Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner'' (2001) and '' The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il fau ...

, actor, filmmaker, and sculptor

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier Sheila Watt-Cloutier (born 2 December 1953) is a Canadian Inuk activist. She has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national and international levels, most recently as International Chair for the Inuit Circumpolar Counc ...

, activist and former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council *

Rebekah Williams Rebekah Uqi Williams (born March 3, 1950) is a Canadian politician who served as the acting commissioner of Nunavut from June 22, 2020, when Nellie Kusugak's term ended, until January 14, 2021, when Eva Aariak took office. She has been the Deput ...

, territorial politician * Gordon Wray, territorial politician {{Canada topic, List of people from *