List of Yukoners

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A list of people from the Yukon territory of Canada:

• Pierre Berton — writer
• William Carpenter Bompas — bishop
• George Carmack — Klondike gold co-discoverer
• Kate Carmack — Klondike gold co-discoverer
• Dawson Charlie — Klondike gold co-discoverer
• Carol Geddes — filmmaker
• Ted Harrison — artist
• Victor Jory — actor
• Joseph Francis Ladue — founder of Dawson City
• Skookum Jim Mason — Klondike gold co-discoverer
• William Ogilvie — surveyor
• Tahmoh Penikett — actor
• Sahneuti — Gwichʼin First Nation leader
• Sam Steele — Mountie
• Robert W. Service — poet

[edit] Politicians

• Larry Bagnell — Member of the House of Commons
• Doug Bell — former Commissioner of the Yukon
• George Black — former Commissioner of the Yukon and former Speaker of the House of Commons
• Martha Louise Black — former Member of the House of Commons
• Jack Cable — former Commissioner of the Yukon
• Ione Christensen — Senator and former Commissioner of the Yukon
• Pat Duncan — former Premier
• Dennis Fentie — Premier
• Judy Gingell— former Commissioner of the Yukon
• Louise Hardy — former Member of the House of Commons
• Todd Hardy — Yukon New Democratic Party leader and former Yukon Leader of the Opposition
• Piers McDonald — former Premier
• John Kenneth McKinnon — former Commissioner of the Yukon
• Audrey McLaughlin — former Member of the House of Commons and former leader of the New Democratic Party
• Arthur Mitchell — Yukon Leader of the Opposition
• Erik Nielsen — former Member of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
• John Ostashek — former Government Leader
• Chris Pearson — former Government Leader
• Tony Penikett — former Government Leader/Premier
• Willard Phelps — former Government Leader
• Geraldine Van Bibber — current Commissioner of the Yukon
• James Morrow Walsh — former Commissioner of the Yukon