Provincial flag of Manitoba Map and location of Manitoba in Canada This is a list of notable people who are from Manitoba , Canada , or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in the province .
Politicians
This list mainly includes those people from Manitoba who had political careers outside of Manitoba, but also includes especially-notable people who had political careers within Manitoba (as presumably most Manitoba politicians are from Manitoba).
Douglas R. Archer , former mayor of Regina
Niki Ashton
Candice Bergen
Rana Bokhari
Douglas Lloyd Campbell , Premier of Manitoba , longest-serving Manitoba MLA
Maria Chaput
Marlene Cowling
Thomas Crerar , Member of Parliament , Senator , leader of the Progressive Party, first politician appointed Companion of the Order of Canada
Shari Decter Hirst
Bev Desjarlais
Ruby Dhalla , Member of Parliament in Ontario
Dorothy Dobbie
Tommy Douglas , father of Medicare in Canada
Ronald Duhamel , Veterans Affairs minister in the Jean Chrétien government
Elijah Harper , Native leader, Manitoba MLA
John Harvard , Member of Parliament, CBC broadcaster, Manitoba lieutenant governor
S. I. Hayakawa , United States senator
Francis Lawrence Jobin , Manitoba lieutenant governor
Stanley Knowles , Member of Parliament, Order of Canada recipient
Peter Liba , journalist, businessman, Manitoba lieutenant governor
Sterling Lyon , Premier of Manitoba
Hugh John Macdonald , Premier of Manitoba and son of Canada's first prime minister (John A. Macdonald )
Grant MacEwan , former mayor of Calgary
John Stewart McDiarmid , Manitoba lieutenant governor
Gerry McGeer , former mayor of Vancouver
Pearl McGonigal , Manitoba lieutenant governor
William John McKeag , Manitoba lieutenant governor
Daniel Hunter McMillan , Manitoba lieutenant governor
Roland Fairbairn McWilliams , Manitoba lieutenant governor
Arthur Meighen , Prime Minister of Canada
Darrell Pasloski , Premier of Yukon
Jack Pickersgill , former MP representing Newfoundland
Louis Riel , Metis leader, Member of Parliament
Dufferin Roblin , Premier of Manitoba
Denise Savoie , British Columbia Member of Parliament, Assistant Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
Edward Schreyer , Premier of Manitoba, Governor General of Canada
John Christian Schultz , Manitoba lieutenant governor
Alfred Henry Scott , Louis Riel delegate
Mitchell Sharp , Liberal federal cabinet minister
William Johnston Tupper , Manitoba lieutenant governor
Daniel Vandal
Larissa Waters , Australian senator
J. S. Woodsworth , Member of Parliament, first leader of CCF