Notable Ojibwe People
- Ah-shah-way-gee-she-go-qua (Aazhawigiizhigokwe, Hanging Cloud), woman warrior
- David Wayne "Famous Dave" Anderson (Business Entrepreneur)
- Arron Asham (Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins)
- Dennis Banks (Political Activist)
- James Bartleman (Diplomat, Author)
- Adam Beach (Actor, Writer)
- Carl Beam (Artist)
- Jason Behr (Actor)
- Clyde Bellecourt (White Earth Ojibwe), social activist
- Vernon Bellecourt (White Earth Ojibwe), social activist
- Chief Bender (Baseball player)
- Odell Borg (Native American flutist and flute maker)
- Benjamin Chee Chee (Artist)
- Henry Boucha (American former professional ice hockey player, United States Hockey Hall of Fame)
- Al Hunter (Poet and Writer)
- George Copway (Missionary and Writer)
- Eddy Cobiness (Artist)
- Kelly Church (Grand Traverse Band) basket weaver, painter, and birch bark biter
- Jim Denomie (Artist)
- Patrick DesJarlait, painter and graphic artist
- Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), author
- Phil Fontaine (Politician)
- William Gardner, one of the Untouchables
- Kraig Grady (Composer, Puppeteer)
- Gordon Henry Jr. (Writer)
- Virgil Hill (Boxer)
- Basil Johnston (Historian and Cultural Essayist)
- Peter Jones (Missionary and Writer)
- Ke-che-waish-ke (Gichi-Weshkiinh, Buffalo) (Chief)
- Maude Kegg (Author, Cultural Embassidor)
- Winona LaDuke (Activist and Writer)
- Carole LaFavor (Writer)
- Chief Little Bear (Chief)
- Joe Lumsden (Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians), tribal chairman
- Loma Lyns (Singer, Songwriter)
- Cody McCormick (Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Colorado Avalanche)
- Medweganoonind, Chief
- Rod Michano (AIDS Activist/Educator)
- Norval Morrisseau, artist and founder of the Woodlands style of painting
- Ted Nolan (Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach, Jack Adams Award winner)
- Jordan Nolan (Canadian professional ice hockey player, son of Ted Nolan, 2012 Stanley Cup champion)
- Jim Northrup (Columnist)
- O-zaw-wen-dib (Ozaawindib, Yellow Head), woman warrior, guide
- Francis Pegahmagabow, warrior
- Leonard Peltier, political activist, prisoner, author, artist
- Mel Pervais (Entrepreneur)
- Tommy Prince (Soldier)
- Chief Rocky Boy (Chief)
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer, songwriter
- Keith Secola, rock and blues Singer
- Chris Simon (Canadian professional ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner w/ 1996 Colorado Avalanche)
- John Smith, Gaa-binagwiiyaas, chief, reported to have lived 137 years
- Albert Smoke, long-distance runner
- Drew Hayden Taylor (Playwright, Author and Journalist)
- Roy Thomas, artist
- David Treuer, author
- E. Donald Two-Rivers (Poet, Playwright)
- Alfred Michael "Chief" Venne (Athletic manager and coach)
- Gerald Vizenor, author and educator
- Wawatam, Chief
- Waabaanakwad (White Cloud), Chief
- William Whipple Warren, first historian of the Ojibwe people, territorial legislator
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