Paul Henrik Thorbjorn Thorlakson, CC (October 5, 1895 – October 19, 1989) was a Canadian physician and Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. Paul Thorlaksonwas born in Park River, North Dakota and grew up in Selkirk, Manitoba. He was the third child of the Reverend Neils Steingrimur Thorlákson (1857-1943), who was an immigrant from Iceland and Erika Christopha Rynning (1860-1947), who was born in Norway. He father was a minister in the Lutheran Church who served the congregations in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Manitoba.