Famous Shawnee

Benjamin Harjo, Jr. – Seminole / Absentee-Shawnee Painter and printmaker.
Big Jim (Wapameepto, “Gives light as he walks”) – Chief of the Kispicotha band of Shawnee, commonly known as Big Jim’s band of Absentee Shawnee. Grandson of Tecumseh.
Heidi Bigknife -Jeweler/silversmith
Black Bob -19th-century leader and war chief in Ohio.
Black Hoof  aka  Catecahassa (1740–1831) – Shawnee chief who believed his people needed to adapt to European-American culture to survive.
Blue Jacket or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – c. 1810) was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country. Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pan-tribal confederacy fought several battles with the United States. He was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
Peter Chartier aka Wacanackshin (1690–1759) – French-Canadian-Shawnee who opposed the sale of alcohol in Shawnee communities and fought on the side of the French in the French and Indian War.
Chiksika (1760–1792) – Kispoko war chief and older brother of Tecumseh.
Yvonne Chouteau – Former prima ballerina.
Cornstalk (1720–1777) – Leader of the the Shawnee in Dunmore’s War of 1774.
George Drouillard (1773–1810) – Scout on Lewis and Clark expedition.
Ruthe Blalock Jones – Painter and arts educator.
Keith Longhorn – Actor, Model, Musician, Artist, Dancer from the Absentee Shawnee tribe.
Nas’Naga (1941–2012) – Novelist and poet in United States.
Nonhelema (1720–1786) – Sister of Cornstalk, helped compile the dictionary for the Shawnee language.
Brad Pitt – Actor.Though not Absentee Shawnee himself, Brad was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, headquarters for this tribe.
Sat-Okh (1920–2003) – Polish-Shawnee Canadian, fought in WWII, novelist.
Ernest Spybuck (Maythela)(1883–1949), Absentee-Shawnee artist and autoethnographer – Born in Indian Territory near Tecumseh in January 1883 on the Potawatomi-Shawnee Reservation.  
Tecumseh – Alarmed by the growing encroachment of whites squatting on Native American lands, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh calls on all Indians to unite and resist. Born around 1768 near Springfield, Ohio, Tecumseh early won notice as a brave warrior. He fought in battles between the Shawnee and the white Kentuckians, who were invading the Ohio River Valley territory. After the Americans won several important battles in the mid-1790s, Tecumseh reluctantly relocated westward but remained an implacable foe of the white men and their ways.
Tenskwatawa – Brother of Tecumseh. Tenskwatawa was born in 1775. a.k.a. Lalawethika (the Rattle), his mother abandoned him in 1779. By all accounts, Lalawethika lacked the physical abilities that his other siblings, including his elder brother Tecumseh, enjoyed. His older siblings refused to train him in hunting and fighting. He was so unskilled with a bow and arrow that he blinded himself in his right eye with a wayward arrow.
As an adult, he became reliant on the kindness of his fellow tribesmen to feed himself and his family. He also turned to alcohol to forget his problems, quickly becoming dependent upon liquor. Not having the physical abilities to become a warrior, Lalawethika attempted to learn the ways of his village’s medicine man. When the man died in 1804, Lalawethika quickly proved unable to meet his people’s needs.
In April 1805 while lighting his pipe, Lalawethika fell into a deep trance. His family believed that he had died and prepared his body for a funeral. Lalawethika regained consciousness and claimed that the Master of Life, a Shawnee deity, had visited him.
White Turkey – Another principal leader of an Absentee-Shawnee band. Unlike Big Jim, he was in favor of assimulation with the white man.
Shawnee Tribes:

Absentee Shawnee (F)
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma (F)
Shawnee Tribe (F)
Shawnee Nation United Remnant Band (U)