The following is a list of notable Scottish Canadians.
List
H. Montagu Allan (1860–1951), banker, ship owner, sportsman
Hugh Allan (1810–1882), financier and shipping magnate
Richard B. Angus (1831-1922), banker and philanthropist
Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941), medical scientist, physician and painter, co-discoverer of insulin, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), eminent scientist, credited with inventing the first practical telephone John Bethune (1751-1815), founded the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal Norman Bethune (1890–1939), medical innovator and a hero of the Chinese Revolution Bill Blaikie, former Member of Parliament (MP), deputy leader of the New Democratic Party and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada Daniel Blaikie, Member of Parliament (MP) of the New Democratic Party Rebecca Blaikie, former president of the New Democratic Party George Brown (1818–1880), founder of the Toronto Globe, Father of Confederation and first de facto leader of the Liberal Party of Canada James Cameron, film director and producer Douglas Campbell (1922-2009), stage actor Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada Neve Campbell, actress (Scottish father) John Candy (1950–1994), actor and comedian, father was of Scottish descent Wilf Carter (1904-1996), Nova Scotia-born country musician Jim Carrey, actor and comedian (his mother is Scottish Canadian from the Gordon Clan)) James Cockburn (1819-1883), first Speaker of the House in Canada (Conservative Party) William Davidson (1740-1790), pioneer settler in New Brunswick Stu Davis (1921–2007), singer/songwriter, radio and television performer aka Canada's Cowboy Troubadour (b. David Alexander Stewart) John William Dawson (1820–1899), scientist, educator Richard Dobie (1731–1805), fur trader, businessman Sir James Douglas (1803-1877), chief factor of the HBC's Columbia District (1843–1858) and Governor of the colonies of the Colony of Vancouver Island (1851–64) and the Colony of British Columbia (1858–62) Tommy Douglas (1904–1986), Premier of Saskatchewan and first leader of the New Democratic Party Shirley Douglas (1934-2000), actress (daughter of Tommy Douglas) William Dow (1800–1868), brewer and businessman George Alexander Drummond (1829–1910), businessman and senator Timothy Eaton (1834-1907), founded Eaton's (Scottish ancestry) David Ewart (1841-1921), Chief Dominion Architect Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), railway engineer and proponent of standard time zones Simon Fraser (1776–1862), Northwest Company trader and explorer John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Ontario, California and Massachusetts academic and economist, U.S. and Canadian diplomat Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817–1893), politician and a Father of Confederation (father was of Scottish ancestry) Donald Gordon (1904-1969), Chairman, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Chairman and President, Canadian National Railways, builder of Churchill Falls Ryan Gosling, actor and musician Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer Hugh Graham (1848–1938), newspaper publisher George Monro Grant (1835-1902), President of the Royal Society of Canada Iain Hume, Canadian international football (soccer) player Michael Ironside, actor and voice actor Ted Irvine, ice hockey player Chris Jericho, professional wrestler and singer Alexander Keith, (1795-1873) brewer (Alexander Keith's Brewery) William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada Kaylyn Kyle, Canadian soccer player of Scottish descent Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, mother of Scottish descent Grace Annie Lockhart (1855-1916), first woman in the British Empire to graduate from university (May 25, 1875) Angus MacAskill (1825-1863), tallest non-pathological person J. E. H. MacDonald (1873–1932), painter, member of the Group of Seven John MacDonald of Glenaladale (1742-1810), colonist John A. Macdonald (1815-1891), first Prime Minister of Canada John Sandfield Macdonald (1812-1872), first Premier of Ontario Norm Macdonald (1959-2021), stand-up comedian, writer and actor of Irish and Scottish descent Rodney MacDonald, former Premier of Nova Scotia William Christopher Macdonald (1831-1917), tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence Robert Mackay (1840–1916), businessman and statesman Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764–1820) Northwest Company trader and explorer Alexander Mackenzie (1822-1892), second Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861), journalist and politician Colin Francis MacKinnon (1851-1877), founded St. Francis Xavier College, which grew into St.