- Frederick Alexcee, artist (also of Tsimshian ancestry)
- Henry Armstrong, boxer, #2 in Ring Magazine’s list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years
- George Armstrong, hockey player, most successful captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs with five Stanley Cup victories
- Joseph Brant or Thayendanegea, Mohawk leader
- Cornplanter or Kaintwakon, Seneca chief
- Deganawida or The Great Peacemaker, the traditional founder along with Hiawatha of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
- Graham Greene, Canadian Oneida
- Handsome Lake or Ganioda’yo, Seneca religious leader
- Ki Longfellow, novelist
- Oren Lyons, Onondaga, a traditional Faithkeeper of the Turtle clan
- Ely S. Parker, Seneca, Union Army officer during American Civil War, Commissioner of Indian Affairs during Ulysses S. Grant’s first term as President
- Red Jacket, Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan
- Robbie Robertson, Mohawk, songwriter, guitarist and singer best known for his membership in The Band
- Joanne Shenandoah, Oneida singer, songwriter, actress and educator
- Jay Silverheels, actor, of Canadian Mohawk origin
- Kateri Tekakwitha, first Catholic Native American saint, patron of ecology, of Mohawk and Algonquin ancestry
- Canassatego, Tadadaho of the Iroquois Confederacy
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