Editing Iqaluit (section)

== Notable people ==
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*[[Eva Aariak]], politician, former [[Member of the Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) and second [[Premier of Nunavut]]
*[[Paul-André Brasseur]], former child actor
*[[Alexander Fathoullin]], speed skater
*[[Ann Meekitjuk Hanson]], former [[Commissioner of Nunavut]]
*[[Kenn Harper]], grocer, amateur historian, and entrepreneur
*[[Lucie Idlout]], rock singer, songwriter
*[[Matty McNair]], US-born explorer
*[[Mosha Michael]], filmmaker<ref name=cbc>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/inuk-filmmaker-mourned-1.860081 "Inuk filmmaker mourned"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202001307/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/inuk-filmmaker-mourned-1.860081 |date=2 February 2017}}. [[CBC News]], 20 November 2009.</ref>
*[[Simonie Michael]], first Inuk to be elected to what is now the [[Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories]] in 1966<ref name="duffy">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=bKOxw3HB51YC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=Simonie+Michael The road to Nunavut: the progress of the eastern Arctic Inuit since the Second World War]'' by Ronald Quinn Duffy</ref>
*[[Nakasuk]], founder of Iqaluit
*[[Paul Okalik]], lawyer, politician, member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Nunavut]], first Premier of Nunavut and former [[Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut]]. Unsuccessful federal Liberal candidate for Nunavut
*[[Abe Okpik]], politician, worked on [[Disc number#Project Surname|Project Surname]] to obtain family names for Inuit rather than [[disc number]]s and first Inuk to sit (appointed) on what is now the NWT Legislative Assembly<ref name="duffy"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilization.ca/media/docs/fs60s03e.html |title=Fact Sheet |language=fr |publisher=Civilization.ca |access-date=2 March 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605132728/http://www.civilization.ca/media/docs/fs60s03e.html |archive-date=5 June 2009}}</ref>
*[[Dennis Patterson]], politician, former MLA and Premier of the NWT (prior to division), former Canadian Senator for Nunavut
*[[Bryan Pearson (politician)|Bryan Pearson]], politician, former MLA, first mayor of Iqaluit, businessman
*[[Ed Picco]], politician, former MLA in NWT and Nunavut
*[[Annabella Piugattuk]], actress
*[[Elisapee Sheutiapik]], ex-politician & mayor
*[[Enooyaq Sudlovenick]], marine biologist
*[[Hunter Tootoo]], territorial and federal politician, and former speaker of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-mlas-choose-tootoo-as-new-speaker-1.993734 |title=Nunavut MLAs choose Tootoo as new Speaker |publisher=cbc.ca/news |date=31 May 2011 |access-date=31 July 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505173640/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/05/31/nunavut-legislature-spring.html |archive-date=5 May 2012}}</ref>
*[[Sheila Watt-Cloutier]], politician, environmental activist, Nobel nominee
*[[Anna Lambe]], actress 
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