Notable Dakota people

Historical

• Inkpaduta (Scarlet Point/Red End), Wahpekute Dakota war chief
• Ištáȟba (Sleepy Eye), Sisseton Dakota chief
• Ohíyes’a (Charles Eastman), Dakota author, physician and reformer
• Tamaha (One Eye/Standing Moose), Mdewekanton Dakota chief
• Thaóyate Dúta (Little Crow/His Red Nation), Mdewakanton Dakota chief and warrior
• Wanata, War Eagle, Húŋkpathina
• Waŋbdí Tháŋka (Big Eagle), Mdewakanton Dakota chief
• Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, 1876–1938), Yankton author, educator, musician and political activist

Contemporary

• Ella Cara Deloria (1889 – 1971), author, ethnographer, linguist
• Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005), Standing Rock author, activist, historian and theologian
• Floyd Red Crow Westerman/Kanghi Duta (1936–2007), Sisseton Wahpeton actor
• John Trudell (1946–2015), Santee activist, American Indian Movement leader

Contemporary Sioux people are also listed under the tribes to which they belong:

By individual tribe

• Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation
• Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation
• Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
• Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation
• Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
• Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota
• Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota