title: List of people from Yukon
text: # List of people from Yukon
  
  This is a list of notable people who are from Yukon, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that territory.
  
  ## A
  
  * Jerry Alfred — musician
  
  ## B
  
  * Larry Bagnell — Member of the House of Commons
  * Bryon Baltimore — ice hockey player
  * Kim Barlow — musician
  * Doug Bell — former Commissioner of the Yukon
  * Pierre Berton — writer
  * George Black — former Commissioner of the Yukon and former Speaker of the House of Commons
  * Martha Black — former Member of the House of Commons
  * Charlotte Selina Bompas — missionary
  * William Carpenter Bompas — bishop
  * Bev Buckway — curler and politician
  
  ## C
  
  * Jack Cable — former Commissioner of the Yukon
  * George Carmaccg bv k — Klondike gold co-discoverer
  * Kate Carmack — Klondike gold co-discoverer
  * Dawson Charlie — Klondike gold co-discoverer
  * Ione Christensen — former Senator and former Commissioner of the Yukon
  * Dylan Cozens (ice hockey) - professional ice hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL
  
  ## D
  
  * Pat Duncan — former Premier
  
  ## E
  
  * John Edzerza — politician
  
  ## F
  
  * Dennis Fentie — Premier
  
  ## G
  
  * Judy Gingell— former Commissioner of the Yukon
  
  ## H
  
  * Louise Hardy — former Member of the House of Commons
  * Todd Hardy — Yukon New Democratic Party leader and former Yukon Leader of the Opposition
  * Ted Harrison — artist
  
  ## J
  
  * Victor Jory — actor
  
  ## L
  
  * Joseph Ladue — founder of Dawson City
  * Daniel Lang — Senator
  
  ## M
  
  * Skookum Jim Mason — Klondike gold co-discoverer
  * 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
  
  ## N
  
  * Erik Nielsen — former Member of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
  
  ## O
  
  * William Ogilvie — surveyor
  * John Ostashek — former Premier
  
  ## P
  
  * Chris Pearson — former Government Leader
  * Edward Peghin — Emmy-nominated Producer/Director
  * Tahmoh Penikett — actor
  * Tony Penikett — former Government Leader/Premier
  * Willard Phelps — former Government Leader
  
  ## R
  
  * Jim Robb (painter) — watercolour artist, photographer and author
  
  ## S
  
  * Sahneuti — Gwichʼin First Nation leader
  * Robert W. Service — poet
  * Sam Steele — Mountie
  * Peter Sturgeon — ice hockey player
  
  ## V
  
  * Geraldine Van Bibber — former Commissioner of the Yukon
  
  ## W
  
  * James Morrow Walsh — former Commissioner of the Yukon
  * Shane Wilson — antler, horn, ivory and bronze sculptor
  * Greg Wiltjer — basketball player
  