Notable Tsimshian People
- Don G. Wesley, Hereditary Chief, Gisputwada, Gitwilgyots.
- Jeff Morris Speaker Pro Tem and Representative Washington State House of Representatives
- Charles Dudoward, Hereditary Chief of Ginaxangiik, artist, painter, merchant
- Betty Sampson, Gitando, artist, weaver, painter
- Frederick Alexcee, artist
- William Beynon, Gitlaan and ethnographer
- Rev. William Soloman White, Gitlaan
- George William Jeffrey activist
- Heber Clifton, hereditary chief of the Gitga'ata and community leader
- Marcia Crosby, art historian
- Alfred Dudoward, hereditary chief of the Gitando, and leader of the Port Simpson Methodist Movement. co-founder of the Native Brotherhood
- Pauline Dudoward, Gitnadoix, Teacher, and language teacher, pioneered the resurgence of the language and culture in the 1970s. Wife of head chief of the Lax Kw'alaams.
- Verna Helin, Ginaxangiik, also Teacher, and language teacher, pioneered the resurgence of the language and culture in the 1970s. Wife of a chief of Lax Kw'alaams.
- Benjamin Haldane, pioneering photographer from Metlakatla village
- Bill Helin, artist
- Calvin Helin, Ginaxangiik, lawyer, businessman and author
- William Jeffrey, Gitwilgyoats, hereditary chief, activist, carver
- Paul Legaic, hereditary chief of the Gispaxlo'ots and trader. The first Police Chief of New Metlakatla.
- "Old" Legaic, hereditary chief of the Gispaxlo'ots, uncle of Paul Legaic. Old Legaic was the most influential of all the Legaics'
- Joshua Tsibasaa, Chief of Kitkatla, the last of the great Tsibasaa line, and father of Paul Legaic, and brother in law to Old Legaic.
- Rev. Edward Marsden, clergyman
- Charles Menzies (anthropologist)
- Odille Morison, translator and art collector
- Rev. William Henry Pierce, missionary and memoirist
- Peter Simpson, Native Americans rights activist
- Henry W. Tate, Gispakloats, oral historian, tribal head man
- Roy Henry Vickers, artist
- Willy White, Gitwilgyoats, artist, chilkat weaver, Gitwilgyoats
- Arthur Wellington Clah, from the house of Tamks of the Gispaxlo'ots. Worked as a translator in Fort Simpson, the first to teach Father Duncan the sm`algyax lannguage, also a detailed diarist
- Walter Wright, hereditary chief of the Gits'ilaasü (Kitselas) and oral historian
- Shannon Thunderbird, Singer, Songwriter, Speaker, Author/Arts Educator, Recording artist
- Edward E. Bryant, artist
- Eric G. Cook, hereditary chief Gispwudwada, descendant of Eli Gordon (*needing verification from a written source)
- Ira C. Booth, Metlakatla, Alaska, Tsimshian Historian, Chief Judge, Builder, Submitted to Lax Kw'Alaams Tsimshian Research
- Russell Gamble Sr., Kitkatla, Chief Hale (successor to Tsibasaa), long standing community leader in Kitkatla and Prince Rupert.
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