Profiles of notable Tsimshian people, anthropologists and other scholars who have worked with the Tsimshian, and missionaries who worked among the Tsimshian.
Notable Tsimshian people
- Frederick Alexcee, artist
- William Beynon, Gitlaan and ethnographer
- David A. Boxley, Laxsgiik, carver and culture bearer. First to host a potlatch and raise a totem pole in modern times in Metlakatla, Alaska
- 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
- Benjamin Haldane, pioneering photographer from Metlakatla village
- Audrey Hudson, elected as first Tribal Chairwoman of Metlakatla Indian Community, the Annette Islands Reserve, Alaska[12]
- William Jeffrey, Gitwilgyoats, hereditary chief, activist, carver
- Paul Legaic, hereditary chief of the Gispaxlo'ots and trader.
- Odille Morison, translator and art collector
- Rev. William Henry Pierce, missionary and memoirist
- Peter Simpson, Native American rights activist
- Henry W. Tate, Gispakloats, oral historian, tribal headman
- Roy Henry Vickers, artist
- Arthur Wellington Clah, from the house of Tamks of the Gispaxlo'ots. Translator at Fort Simpson, the first to teach Father Duncan the Sm`algyax language, diarist
- Walter Wright; hereditary chief of the Gits'ilaasü (Kitselas) and oral historian
Anthropologists and other scholars who have worked with the Tsimshian
- Marius Barbeau
- William Beynon
- Franz Boas
- Caroline F. Butler
- Philip Drucker
- Wilson Duff
- Viola Garfield
- René Girard
- Marjorie Halpin
- Charles Menzies
- George Frederick MacDonald
- Jay Miller
Missionaries who worked among the Tsimshian
- William Henry Collison
- Thomas Crosby, Methodist
- William Duncan Anglican/independent
- Edward Marsden, Presbyterian
- Bishop William Ridley Anglican
- Robert Tomlinson, Anglican
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