List of Native Americans

• In Canada
  • Gary Farmer, actor and filmmaker
  • Graham Greene, actor
  • Tomson Highway, playwright, novelist, and children's author.
  • Louis Riel
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
  • Stephen Kakfwi, premier of the Northwest Territories
  • Paul Okalik, premier of Nunavut
  • Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha

• In Guatemala
  • Rigoberta Menchú Tum, activist

• In the Caribbean
  • Hatuey (Taíno)

• In Mexico
  • Benito Juárez, President
  • La Malinche, Translator
  • Moctezuma II (Aztec) ruler
  • Commandante Ramona, EZLN leader

• In the United States
  • Big Foot
  • Black Elk
  • Black Hawk
  • Billy Bowlegs (Seminole)
  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Cheyenne), senator
  • Captain Jack (Modoc)
  • Cochise
  • Crazy Horse (founder of the Ghost Dance)
  • Charles Curtis
  • Deganawida
  • Louise Erdrich, author
  • Geronimo
  • Ira Hayes (Pima), World War II hero
  • Hayowentha
  • William Least Heat-Moon, author
  • Ishi
  • Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)
  • Winona LaDuke, political activist
  • Chief Logan (Mingo)
  • Wilma Mankiller
  • Billy Mills, Olympic gold medalist at 10,000 meters in 1964
  • Osceola
  • Eli Parker
  • Quanah Parker
  • Leonard Peltier
  • King Philip (Metacom)
  • Pocahontas
  • Pontiac
  • The Prophet (Tenskwatawa) (Shawnee)
  • Rain in the Face
  • Red Cloud
  • Red Jacket
  • Robbie Robertson
  • Will Rogers
  • Sacagawea
  • Kelvin Sampson, head basketball coach at University of Oklahoma
  • Chief Seattle
  • Sequoyah (Cherokee)
  • Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Sitting Bull (Sioux)
  • Squanto
  • Maria Tallchief
  • Gladys Tantaquidgeon
  • Tecumseh (Shawnee) leader who died defending Canada against U.S. invasion during the War of 1812
  • Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox, native name Wa-Tho-Huk)
  • Gerald Vizenor, writer and academic
  • Stand Watie
  • James Welch
  • Wovoka
  • Ray Young Bear
  • Zitkala-Ša
  • Joseph Brant Later years in Canada

See also: Native American