List of people from Montreal

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This is a list of notable people from Montreal.

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• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
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• Q
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A

Melissa Auf der Maur

Sir Hugh Allan of Ravenscrag

• Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott – prime minister of Canada
• Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
• Jennifer Abel – diver, Olympic medalist
• David Acer – magician and comedian, star of Mystery Hunters
• Marie-Yasmine Alidou – soccer player for the Canada national team
• Andrew Allan – Allan Shipping Line
• Sir Hugh Allan – Allan Shipping Line
• Martha Allan – founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre
• Sir Montague Allan – businessman, donated the Allan Cup
• Paul Almond – film director
• Sidney Altman – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Melissa Sue Anderson – American-Canadian actress, known for her role as Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie
• René Angélil – singer, Celine Dion's husband and manager
• Richard Bladworth Angus – founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway
• Joel Anthony – NBA basketball player
• Alex Anthopoulos – general manager and president of baseball operations for the Atlanta Braves
• Louise Arbour – lawyer, jurist, prosecutor
• Nelly Arcan – writer
• Denys Arcand – filmmaker
• Gilles Archambault – novelist
• Francois Arnaud – actor
• Jay Aspin – former MP
• William H. Atherton – historian
• Gabriel Aubry – model
• Melissa Auf der Maur – rock musician (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins)
• Nick Auf der Maur – journalist, municipal politician
• Michel C. Auger – journalist
• Félix Auger-Aliassime – tennis player
• Adam Azimov – film director
• David Azrieli – real estate developer

B

Tanith Belbin

Adam Braz

• Ralph Backstrom – former NHL player
• Rita Baga – drag queen, television personality and host
• Joby Baker – actor, painter
• René Balcer – television writer and producer, known for the US television show Law and Order
• Jean-Paul Banos – fencer
• Roger Barnes – professional wrestler
• Joseph Barsalou – businessman and politician
• Jay Baruchel – television and movie actor
• Doug Beardsley – poet and educator
• Bianca Beauchamp – fetish fashion model
• Charles-Odilon Beauchemin – printer and bookseller
• Mathieu Beaudoin – football player
• Tanith Belbin – figure skater, Olympic silver medalist
• Louise Belcourt – artist
• Jean Béliveau – former NHL player
• Saul Bellow – novelist
• Mercédes Benegbi – disabilities activist
• Sonia Benezra – broadcaster, television host
• Meaghan Benfeito – diver, Olympic medallist
• Chris Benoit – pro wrestler and double-murderer ^[1]
• Jehane Benoît – chef, author, tv personality
• Aldo Bensadoun – founder of Aldo Group
• Marc Bergevin – former NHL player, hockey executive
• Eric Berne – psychiatrist; creator of Transactional Analysis; author
• Janette Bertrand – journalist, broadcaster, actress
• André Besette – CSC Holy Cross Brother, "miracle worker of Montreal"
• Norman Bethune – physician, medical innovator, and political activist
• Tim Biakabutuka – former NFL football player, Carolina Panthers
• Charlie Biddle – Montreal Jazz pioneer, Juno Award winner
• Dan Bilefsky – journalist, author
• Alexandre Bilodeau – skier, Olympic gold medalist
• Khem Birch – NBA Player
• Yannick Bisson – actor known for playing Det. Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries and Jack in Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye
• Conrad Black – financier and newspaper magnate
• Herbert Black – businessman
• Sheila Blair – art historian
• Toe Blake – former NHL player and coach
• Valérie Blass – artist
• Paul Bley – jazz pianist
• Bob Blumer – tv personality
• La Bolduc – real name Mary Travers, singer
• Patrick Bordeleau – hockey player
• Daniel Borsuk – plastic surgeon
• Mike Bossy – Hockey Hall of Fame member
• Alain Bouchard – billionaire businessman
• Émile Bouchard – NHL Hall of Famer
• Eugenie Bouchard – tennis player
• Jean-François Bouchard – photographer and visual designer
• Louise Anne Bouchard – writer
• Chris Boucher – NBA player
• Maurice "Mom" Boucher – ex-leader of Hell's Angels (as of 2014)
• Yassine Bounou – footballer
• Henri Bourassa – political leader and publisher
• Robert Bourassa – former Quebec premier
• Pierre Bourque – mayor
• Raymond Bourque – former NHL player, Hockey Hall of Fame member
• Pierre Bouvier – frontman of Simple Plan; songwriter
• Scotty Bowman – hockey coach
• Stan Bowman – NHL general manager
• Justin Bradley – actor, based out of Montreal and Toronto, sometimes works in Los Angeles
• Tim Brady – guitarist, composer
• Glenda Braganza – Hollywood actress, 10.5: Apocalypse
• Gilles Brassard – computer scientist
• Nigel Braun – YouTuber and chemist ^[2]
• Adam Braz – former soccer defender
• Patrice Brisebois – NHL player, Montreal Canadiens
• Annie Brocoli – real name Annie Grenier, children's performer
• Martin Brodeur – NHL player, goaltender, New Jersey Devils
• Charles Bronfman – businessman and philanthropist
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – businessman
• Edward Bronfman – businessman, philanthropist, member of the Bronfman family
• Peter Bronfman – businessman, member of the Bronfman family
• Saidye Rosner Bronfman – philanthropist, wife of Samuel Bronfman
• Samuel Bronfman – liquor magnate
• Stephen Bronfman – philanthropist
• Alma Faye Brooks – disco, soul and R&B singer
• Harriet Brooks – nuclear physicist, researcher
• Nicole Brossard – author, poet
• Alexander Brott – conductor, composer
• Edwin Orion Brownell – pianist, vocalist
• John Brownstein – epidemiologist, professor
• Kim Brunhuber – journalist newscaster
• Geneviève Bujold – actress
• Hy Buller – former NHL All-Star player
• Mario Bunge – philosopher, Frothingham Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University
• Stéphan Bureau – journalist
• Pat Burns – NHL head coach
• Robin Burns – founder and owner, ITECH Hockey Equipment
• Pascale Bussières – actress
• Ernie Butler – comedy club owner
• Gerard Butler – Scottish actor; lived here briefly as a baby
• Win Butler – singer-songwriter

C

Françoise de Clossey

• Anne-Marie Cadieux – actress
• Ghitta Caiserman-Roth – painter, printmaker
• Jesse Camacho – actor
• Mark Camacho – actor
• Charles Sandwith Campbell – businessman, philanthropist
• Charlotte Cardin – singer, songwriter
• Paul Cargnello – singer-songwriter
• Jean Carignan – fiddler
• Alexandre Carrier – NHL player
• Gerald Emmett Carter – former cardinal archbishop of Toronto
• Thérèse Casgrain – politician, suffragist
• André Chagnon – telecommunications and broadcasting executive, philanthropist
• Serge Chapleau – political cartoonist
• Corinne Chaponnière – writer, journalist
• Jean Charest – former Québec premier and onetime leader of the federal Progressive Conservatives
• Robert Charlebois – singer-songwriter
• Gregory Charles – musician and radio host
• Dov Charney – entrepreneur and CEO of American Apparel
• Melvin Charney – artist, sculptor, architect
• Claude Charron – former politician, now TV host
• Régine Chassagne – musician, singer, member of Arcade Fire
• Micheline Chevrier – theatre director
• Alex Chiasson – NHL player for the Edmonton Oilers
• Patricia Chica – film and TV director
• Emmanuelle Chriqui – actress
• Denny Chronopoulos – CFL player
• Terri Clark – country singer-songwriter
• Patricia Claxton – literary translator
• Françoise de Clossey – pianist and organist
• Guy Cloutier – former artist manager
• Véronique Cloutier – radio and television personality
• Kim Cloutier – fashion model
• Cœur de pirate – singer, songwriter
• G. A. Cohen – political philosopher
• Leonard Cohen – poet and singer
• Mark Cohen – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD
• Sidney M. Cohen – television director
• Steven Cojocaru – fashion critic
• John Colicos – actor
• Charles Comeau – drummer of Simple Plan and songwriter
• Phil Comeau – film and TV director
• Antonio Cordasco – Italian-Canadian migrant labour recruiter
• Ernest Cormier – engineer and architect
• Marc Costanzo – singer
• Corneille – singer
• Irwin Cotler – law professor, politician
• Vincenzo Cotroni – mobster
• Jean Coutu – pharmacist
• Corey Crawford – NHL starting goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks
• Ron Crevier – former NBA basketball player
• Marie-Josée Croze – actress
• Katalin Cseh – Hungarian politician
• Beto Cuevas – Chilean-Canadian lead singer of band La Ley
• Peter Cullen – voice actor; voice of Optimus Prime in the film Transformers
• Maxwell Cummings – businessman, philanthropist
• Nathan Cummings – businessman
• Elisha Cuthbert – actress
• Louis Cyr – strongman
• May Cutler – publisher and journalist; founder of Tundra Books; first Canadian woman to publish children's books; first woman to serve as Mayor of Westmount, Quebec ^[3]

D

Celine Dion

• Samuel Dalembert – NBA basketball player, Philadelphia 76ers
• Peter Dalla Riva – football player, Montreal Alouettes
• Roméo Dallaire – senator, Lieutenant-General
• Vincent Damphousse – former NHL player
• Shawn Daniels – Canadian football player
• Catherine Daoust – Professional ice hockey defenceman for the Montreal Victoire in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). ^[4]
• J. P. Darche – NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
• Mathieu Darche – NHL player, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens
• Françoise David – politician
• John Caswell Davis – politician
• Mitch Davis – film programmer, filmmaker, journalist
• Mortimer Davis – businessman, philanthropist
• Norman Dawe – sports executive ^[5]
• Michel de Broin – sculptor
• Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien – broadcasting, magazines
• Stéphane Demers – actor
• Bernard Derome – anchorman
• Pierre Desjardins – football player, Montreal Alouettes
• Roxane Desjardins – writer
• André Desmarais – businessman
• Paul Desmarais, Sr. – businessman
• Paul Desmarais, Jr. – businessman
• Alexandre Despatie – diver, Olympic medalist, television personality
• David Desrosiers – bassist of Simple Plan and vocalist; born in Sept-Îles
• Sean Devine – playwright, actor, and politician
• Colleen Dewhurst – actress
• Caroline Dhavernas – actress
• Domenic Di Rosa – actor
• Kadie Karen Diekmeyer – Internet personality and activist
• Céline Dion – singer
• Stéphane Dion – politician
• Christopher DiRaddo – writer
• Xavier Dolan – actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume director, producer
• Jacob Dolson Cox – U.S. soldier and politician
• Audrey Capel Doray – artist
• Jean Doré – former mayor of Montreal
• Ivan Doroschuk – singer
• Fifi D'Orsay – actress
• Luguentz Dort – NBA Player
• Anne Dorval – actress
• William Dow – brewer
• Jean Drapeau – mayor of Montreal during Expo '67 and the 1976 Olympic Games
• Glen Drover – guitarist for Megadeth
• Shawn Drover – drummer for Megadeth
• Steve Dubinsky – former NHL player
• Gilles Duceppe – politician
• Jean Duceppe – actor
• Louis Dudek – poet
• Chloé Dufour-Lapointe – skier, Olympic medalist
• Justine Dufour-Lapointe – skier, Olympic gold medalist
• Jack Dunham – animator, television commercial producer, designer of the St-Hubert rooster mascot ^[6]
• Barbara Dunkelman – voice actress for Rooster Teeth
• Alexandre Dupuis – football player
• Laurent Duvernay-Tardif – NFL player, physician

E

• Keith Eaman – Canadian football player
• Henrietta Edwards – women’s rights activist, suffragist
• Iwan Edwards – conductor, Member of the Order of Canada
• Elisapie – singer, broadcaster, activist
• Vic Emery – Olympic bobsleigh gold medalist
• Empire I – pop and dancehall singer, songwriter
• Anke Engelke – German comedian, born in Montreal
• Chad Erickson – Ringette coach
• Angelo Esposito – hockey player
• Sam Etcheverry – former CFL and NFL football quarterback, Montreal Alouettes, St. Louis Cardinals
• Terry Evanshen – former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders
• Ken Evoy – founder of Sitesell; creator of SiteBuildIt!

F

• Lara Fabian – operatic singer
• Mylène Farmer – singer
• Leylah Fernandez – tennis player
• David Fennario – playwright
• Greg Fergus – Member of Parliament; 38th Speaker of the House of Commons
• Maynard Ferguson – jazz trumpet player and bandleader
• Marcelle Ferron – painter, stained glass artist
• Denise Filiatrault – actress and director
• Jennifer Finnigan – Hollywood actress
• Sheila Finestone – MP, senator
• Serge Fiori – musician, singer, writer
• Marc-André Fleury – NHL goaltender, three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins
• Louis-Joseph Forget – stockbroker, financier, statesman
• Rodolphe Forget – businessman, politician, philanthropist
• Samuel Fournier – former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
• Kathleen Fox – flight instructor, air traffic controller, business executive
• René-Arthur Fréchet – architect
• Pauline Fréchette – poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun
• Josh Freed – writer, humourist, filmmaker
• David Freiheit – lawyer and YouTuber
• Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972) – German-Canadian Olympic soccer player

G

Marc Garneau

• Alfonso Gagliano – politician
• André Gagné – professor and scholar, Concordia University
• Éric Gagné – pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers
• André Gagnon – composer, pianist
• Marc Gagnon – Olympic gold medal speed skater
• Marc-Antoine Gagnon – moguls skier
• Howard Galganov – anglophone rights activist, radio personality
• Céline Galipeau – anchorwoman
• Mavis Gallant – author
• Patsy Gallant – pop singer
• Mitch Garber – gaming, hotel executive, philanthropist, broadcaster
• Marc Garneau – astronaut, federal politician, cabinet minister
• Kathleen Gati – actress
• Arturo Gatti – professional boxer, world champion
• Daniel Gauthier – co-founder of the Cirque du Soleil
• James Gelfand – pianist, composer, arranger
• Bernie Geoffrion – hockey player for Montréal Canadiens
• Gettomasa – Finnish rapper; born Aleksi Lehikoinen
• Yasmeen Ghauri – supermodel
• Nicolas Gill – judoka, Olympic medalist
• Ralph Gilles – designer of the Chrysler 300c
• Margie Gillis – dancer, choreographer
• Jessalyn Gilsig – actress
• Jacques Godbout – writer, poet, filmmaker
• Phil Gold – researcher, physician
• Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) – artist and inspiration for the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint ^[7]
• Victor Goldbloom – politician, physician
• Jonathan Goldstein – author, humourist and radio producer
• Anne-France Goldwater – lawyer and TV court show personality
• John Gomery – jurist
• Brian Goodwin – biologist
• Adam Gopnik – writer, essayist
• Henry Gordon (1919–2009) – magician, journalist, CSI Fellow
• Huntley Gordon – actor
• Shaul Gordon (born 1994) – Canadian-Israeli Olympic sabre fencer
• Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan – newspaper publisher
• Stewart Francis Granger – former NBA basketball player
• W. R. Granger (William Rowen Granger) – president of the Montreal AAA, Canadian and Quebec Amateur Hockey Associations ^[8]
• Howard Grant – former Canadian Olympics and Commonwealth boxer; trainer, UFC welterweight champion, Georges St-Pierre
• Otis Grant – Jamaican-born former WBO Middleweight boxing champion
• Hulda Regina Graser – customs house broker
• Harold Greenberg – movie producer, founder of Astral Media
• Frank Greenleaf – president of the Canadian and Quebec Amateur Hockey Associations ^[9]
• Sylvain Grenier – WWE wrestler
• Irving Grundman – businessman, hockey executive
• Geneviève Guérard – ballerina
• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. – MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays
• Quincy Guerrier – college basketball player for the Oregon Ducks
• Philip Guston – painter and printmaker

H

Anthony Housefather

• Dayle Haddon – model and actress
• Marc-André Hamelin – pianist and composer
• Emily Hampshire – actress
• Chris Haney – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
• Dan Hanganu – architect
• Louise Harel – politician
• Corey Hart – singer
• Doug Harvey – Hall of Fame ice hockey player
• Jacques Hébert – statesman
• Thomas Hellman – pop singer
• Carl Henry – singer
• Prudence Heward – Beaver Hall Group artist
• Émilie Heymans – diver, Olympic medalist
• Alonzo Highsmith – former NFL football player
• Dave Hilton, Jr. – world champion boxer
• Matthew Hilton – world champion boxer
• William Hales Hingston – mayor of Montreal, senator, physician
• David Julian Hirsh – actor
• Ian Hodgkinson – professional wrestler, lived in Montreal while in WCW
• Thomas William Holmes – winner of the Victoria Cross
• Herbert Samuel Holt – financier
• Steve Holt – jazz pianist, AC singer-songwriter
• William Hope – actor
• Anna Hopkins – actress
• Camillien Houde – former mayor of Montreal
• Alice Houghton – broker
• Anthony Housefather – member of Canadian Parliament
• Kent Hughes – hockey executive

I

• Norman Iceberg – singer-songwriter

J

• A. Y. Jackson – artist, member of the Group of Seven
• Édouard Jasmin – ceramic artist
• Louis Jaque, modernist painter
• Marlene Jennings – politician
• René Jodoin – film animator and producer
• Daniel Johnson, Jr. – former Liberal premier of Quebec
• Pierre Marc Johnson – former PQ premier of Quebec
• Mélanie Joly – politician
• Oliver Jones – jazz pianist
• Sass Jordan – singer
• Kris Joseph – basketball player
• Robert Joy – actor
• Alexander Julien – musician, member of Vision Eternel
• Pierre Juneau – film and broadcasting executive
• Claude Jutra – filmmaker

K

• Emilie Kahn – musician also known as Emilie & Ogden
• Garry Kallos – wrestler and sambo competitor
• Tommy Kane – former NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
• Daniel Kash – actor
• Nicholas Kasirer – supreme court justice
• Victoria Kaspi – astrophysicist and McGill professor
• Naïm Kattan – author, essayist
• Kenneth Kaushansky – Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, hematologist, Master of the American College of Physicians
• Kaytranada – electronic musician, producer, DJ
• Michael A. Kelen – former judge of the Federal Court of Canada
• George Kennedy – owner of Montreal Canadiens hockey team
• Amir Khadir – physician and politician
• Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain – politician, judge
• Franklin Kiermyer – drummer, composer, bandleader
• Andy Kim – singer-songwriter
• A. M. Klein – poet, author
• Naomi Klein – author and activist
• Otto Klineberg – psychologist; scholar
• Kid Koala – DJ
• Leo Kolber – senator, businessman
• Benjamin Kowalewicz – singer of Billy Talent
• Vanessa Kraven – professional wrestler
• David Kristian – electronic musician
• Sid and Marty Krofft – producers/creators of H.R. Pufnstuf , The Bugaloos , Sigmund and the Sea Monsters , Land of the Lost , The Lost Saucer
• Joseph Kruger – founder of Kruger Inc.

L

Mario Lemieux

• Florence La Badie – actress
• Charline Labonté – hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2006, 2010, 2014
• Elmer Lach – NHL player, Hall of Famer
• Michel Maray de La Chauvignerie – 18th century French military officer and interpreter
• Daniel Langlois – businessman, producer
• Hubert Lacroix – CBC president and CEO
• Oleg Ladik – Olympic wrestler
• Dany Laferrière – author
• Guy Lafleur – NHL player, Montreal Canadiens
• Alexis Lafrenière – NHL player, New York Rangers
• François Legault – businessman, politician, premier of Québec
• Corky Laing – musician
• Jon Lajoie – comedian
• Guy Laliberté – founder and CEO of Cirque de Soleil
• Pierre Lalonde – singer, tv host
• Paul Lambert – left guard, Montreal Alouettes
• Phyllis Lambert – architect and member of the Bronfman family
• Mado Lamotte – drag queen and author
• Jacques Lanctôt – FLQ member, convicted terrorist
• Louise Lanctôt – FLQ member, convicted terrorist
• Edmond Lapierre – former MPP
• Jean Lapierre – politician, broadcaster
• Éric Lapointe – CFL running back for the Montreal Alouettes
• Pierre Laporte – politician
• Georges Laraque – NHL player
• Ryan Larkin – animator
• Pat Larochelle – professional ice hockey player
• Ricardo Larrivée – chef, tv host, cookbook author, businessman
• Nicholas Latifi – racing driver currently driving for Williams Racing
• Zoé Laurier – wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• Lisa Lavie – singer-songwriter
• Irving Layton – poet, essayist, short story writer
• Jack Layton – politician, leader of the federal New Democratic Party
• Irina Lăzăreanu – fashion model
• La Zarra – singer-songwriter
• Charlotte Le Bon – actress
• Louise Lecavalier – dancer
• Vincent Lecavalier – NHL player
• Fernand Leduc – painter
• Jos LeDuc – professional wrestler
• Ranee Lee – jazz singer
• Sébastien Lefebvre – guitarist of Simple Plan and vocalist
• Alain Lefèvre – pianist and composer
• Rachelle Lefevre – actress
• Jean Leloup – musician
• Jean-Paul Lemieux $ndash; painter
• Mario Lemieux (born 1965) – NHL player
• Vanessa Lengies – actress
• Guy A. Lepage – television personality
• Marc Lépine – mass murderer
• René Lépine – real-estate developer
• Chris Leroux – MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates)
• Pierre Leroux – novelist, journalist and screenwriter
• Jean Lesage – lawyer, politician
• Kris Letang – QMJHL player, NHL player, three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins
• André Éric Létourneau – intermedia artist, composer
• Jean-Louis Lévesque – stockbroker, horse racing builder
• Devon Levi – goaltender drafted by Florida Panthers in the 7th round, 212th overall in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, current Northeastern Huskies, Canada men's national junior ice hockey team
• Shawn Levy – director and actor
• Jaclyn Linetsky – actress
• David Lipper – actor
• Arthur Lismer – painter, member of the Group of Seven
• Liu Fang – musician
• Pascal Lochard – CFL player
• Édouard Lock – choreographer
• William Edmond Logan – geologist
• Jennifer Lonergan – educator, nonprofit executive, promoter of third-world women's craftmanship
• Loud (rapper) – rapper, songwriter
• Colin Low – filmmaker
• Luba (singer) – recording artist
• Lunice – musician
• Roberto Luongo – NHL goaltender
• Yves A. Lussier – physician-scientist in translational bioinformatics
• John Goodwin Lyman – modernist painter

M

Rudolph A. Marcus

• Tom Maayan (born 1993) – Canada-born Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League
• L. Ian MacDonald (born 1947) – author, columnist, broadcaster, and diplomat
• William C. Macdonald – tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
• Danny Maciocia – CFL football coach
• Don Macpherson – journalist
• Nicolas Macrozonaris – sprinter, track and field
• Arnaud Maggs – artist, photographer
• André Major – author
• Sean Patrick Maloney – Canadian-American politician and U.S. Representative for the state of New York since 2013
• Jeanne Mance – founder of first hospital in North America, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, 1645
• Frederic Marcotte – poet and musician
• Rudolph A. Marcus – Nobel laureate of chemistry
• Lou Marinoff – philosopher at City College of New York
• Yann Martel – writer, Man Booker Prize 2002
• Paul Martin – former prime minister of Canada
• Russell Martin – baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays
• Massari – singer
• Mike Matheson – NHL player for the Montreal Canadiens
• Bennedict Mathurin – NBA player
• Charles Mayer – journalist, sportsperson and politician ^[10]
• John McCallum – politician
• John Wilson McConnell – businessman, publisher, philanthropist
• David Ross McCord – lawyer, philanthropist
• Kevin McDonald – actor/comedian/voice actor, member of The Kids in the Hall
• Anna McGarrigle – singer, songwriter
• Kate McGarrigle – singer, songwriter
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee – politician
• Molly McGlynn – film and television director and screenwriter
• Ken McGoogan – writer
• Duncan McIntyre – businessman
• Scott McKay – former city counsellor and leader of the Green Party of Quebec
• Patricia McKenzie – actress
• Norman McLaren – film animation pioneer
• Stuart McLean – humourist, broadcaster
• Simon McTavish – businessman
• Ronald Melzack – psychologist, professor
• Juan Mendez – former NCAA basketball player, Niagara University
• Monique Mercure – actress
• Charles Meredith – president of the Montreal Stock Exchange
• Frederick Edmund Meredith – lawyer, chancellor of Bishop's University
• Vincent Meredith – first and last Baronet of Montreal; president of the Bank of Montreal
• William Collis Meredith – Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec
• Luck Mervil – singer, actor
• Jim Miller – Canadian football player
• Marc Miller – politician
• Robert Miller – businessman, founder of Future Electronics
• Brenda Milner – neuropsychologist
• Andrew Molson – businessman, member of the Molson family, eldest son of Eric Molson
• Eric Molson – brewer, businessman, member of the Molson family
• Geoff Molson – businessman, member of the Molson family, son of Eric Molson
• Hartland Molson – brewer, World War II fighter pilot, statesman, member of the Molson family
• John Molson – brewer, railway and steamship line builder, member of the Molson family
• Percival Molson – athlete, soldier, member of the Molson family
• Robert Moncel – commander of the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade in the Second World War
• Raymond de Montmorency – recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Édouard Montpetit – lawyer, economist, academic
• Dickie Moore (ice hockey) – NHL player, Hall of Famer
• Henry Morgan – department store founder
• Henry Morgentaler – physician, advocate for women's rights to abortion
• Marjolène Morin – singer
• James Wilson Morrice – landscape artist
• Terry Mosher – editorial cartoonist
• Ben Mulroney – television host; son of Brian Mulroney
• Brian Mulroney – former prime minister of Canada
• Caroline Mulroney – politician
• Mila Mulroney – wife of the 18th prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney

N

• Ruba Nadda – producer
• Pierre Nadeau – journalist, television presenter and producer ^[11]
• Narcy – hip hop artist
• Émile Nelligan – poet
• Sophie Nélisse – actress
• Hillel Neuer – human rights lawyer, executive director UN Watch
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin – conductor
• Kai Nielsen – naturalist philosopher at Concordia University
• Craig Norman – head basketball coach of McGill University Redmen; former basketball player for Concordia University
• Aldo Nova – singer, musician, producer

O

• Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan – politician, Parti patriote member
• Alexander Walker Ogilvie – miller, statesman
• Leo Ognall – crime novelist known by pen names Hartley Howard and Harry Carmichael
• Heather O'Neill – author
• Erin O'Toole – politician, Conservative Party of Canada member
• Maryse Ouellet – glamour model and former WWE wrestler
• Caroline Ouellette – hockey player, Canadian women's Olympic team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006

P

Cory Pecker

• P. Reign – hip hop artist, born in Montreal, raised in Toronto
• Frank L. Packard – novelist
• Michel Pagliaro – musician
• Vernon Pahl – Canadian football player
• Jean Jacques Paradis – Commander of the Canadian Army
• Jessica Paré – actress
• Jacques Parizeau – politician, former premier of Quebec
• Julie Payette – astronaut, governor general
• Trevor W. Payne – founder and music director of the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
• Cory Pecker (born 1981) – hockey player, right wing (EHC Visp)
• Érik Péladeau – businessman (Québecor)
• Pierre Péladeau – founder of Quebecor
• Pierre Karl Péladeau – CEO of Quebecor Media
• Alfred Pellan – painter
• Gérard Pelletier – journalist and politician
• Wilfrid Pelletier – symphony conductor
• Dr. Wilder Penfield – pioneering neurosurgeon, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute
• Louise Penny – broadcaster, author
• David De La Peralle – football player
• Missy Peregrym – actress
• Oscar Peterson – jazz pianist
• Autumn Phillips – former wife of Peter Phillips, eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II
• Mary Pierce – tennis player
• André Pijet – artist
• Daniel Pilon – actor
• Donald Pilon – actor
• Steven Pinker – linguist and evolutionary psychologist
• Susan Pinker – journalist and psychologist
• Valérie Plante – mayor of Montreal
• Christopher Plummer – actor
• Judes Poirier – university professor
• Camille Poliquin – musician
• Antoni Porowski – chef, actor, and television personality
• Dick Pound – lawyer, Olympic Games executive
• Cheryl Pounder – hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006
• André Pratte – journalist, economist
• Olivier-Maxence Prosper – NBA player

Q

• Nathalie Quagliotto – visual artist
• Sara Quin – musician

R

Greg Rusedski

• Zotique Racicot – auxiliary bishop of Montreal from 1905 to 1915
• David Rakoff – humourist, essayist, poet
• Jesse Rath (born 1989) – actor
• Meaghan Rath – actress
• Claude Raymond – baseball player and coach
• Jade Raymond – video game designer and producer
• John Redpath – businessman, philanthropist
• Hubert Reeves – astrophysicist
• Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid – social reformer, women’s rights activist
• Heather Reisman – businesswoman
• Jason Reitman – filmmaker
• Ginette Reno – singer
• Caroline Rhea – actress
• Mike Ribeiro – NHL player
• Henri Richard – NHL player
• Maurice Richard – NHL player
• Mordecai Richler – writer
• Nancy Richler – novelist
• Helen Richmond Young Reid – social worker
• Jean-Paul Riopelle – painter, sculptor
• Olivier Rioux – basketball player
• Vito Rizzuto – mobster, mafia boss
• Léa Roback – trade union organizer, activist
• Alphonso Theodore Roberts – political activist, cricketer
• Sam Roberts – musician, singer
• Marc Robillard – musician, composer and songwriter
• Braulio Rocha – photographer
• Percy Rodrigues – actor
• Sasha Roiz – actor
• Cristina Rosato – actress
• Fred Rose – trade union organiser, politician
• Paul Rose – terrorist, political figure
• Ari Rosenberg – basketball player
• Ethel Rosenfield – sculptor
• Charlie J. Ross – vaudeville performer
• J.K.L. Ross – racehorse owner, philanthropist
• Allan Roth – baseball statistician for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers
• Patrice Roy – news anchor
• Albert S. Ruddy – film and television producer, known for producing The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby , which won him two Academy Awards for Best Picture
• Greg Rusedski – tennis player
• Allison Russell – singer, songwriter
• Claude Ryan – publisher, politician
• Frank "Dunie" Ryan – mobster

S

Lance Stroll

• Roméo Sabourin – SOE agent, WW II hero executed by the Nazis
• Moshe Safdie – architect, urban designer
• Peter Sagar – musician
• Idola Saint-Jean – journalist, educator, feminist
• Benjamin St-Juste – American football player
• Martin St. Louis – NHL player
• Georges St-Pierre – professional MMA fighter
• Kim St-Pierre – hockey goaltender, Canadian Olympic women's team
• Sugar Sammy – stand-up comedian
• Lino Saputo – billionaire businessman
• Jeanne Sauvé – 23rd governor general of Canada
• Serge Savard – NHL player
• Anne Savage – artist
• Derek Seguin – comic
• Marco Scandella – NHL player
• Arnold Scaasi – fashion designer
• Aliocha Schneider – singer, actor
• Paul Schoeffler – voice actor, actor
• Seymour Schulich – businessman, philanthropist
• Joseph A. Schwarcz – professor of chemistry at McGill University
• Cynthia Scott – Academy Award-winning director
• Frank Scott – scholar, poet, professor, lawyer
• Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger – winner of the Victoria Cross in World War I
• Mark Shainblum – comic book writer and co-creator of Northguard
• Marla Shapiro – CTV medical reporter and physician
• Omar Sharif Jr. – actor, author, activist
• William Shatner – actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek
• Douglas Shearer – Academy Award-winning motion picture sound engineer
• Norma Shearer – Academy Award-winning actress
• Eliezer Sherbatov – Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
• Madeleine Sherwood – actress, played Mother Superior in The Flying Nun
• Sir George Simpson – explorer, governor of HBC
• Karen Simpson – actress and fashion designer
• Jaspreet Singh – author
• Charles Sirois – telecommunications
• David Six – artist
• Skiifall – rapper
• Jeff Skoll – Internet entrepreneur
• Donald Smith – railway executive
• George M. Smith – Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• Larry Smith – former CFL football player; former president of the Montreal Alouettes
• Nahum Sonenberg – biochemist, professor at McGill University
• Wonny Song – classical concert pianist
• Kwasi Songui – actor
• Alex Soria – singer-guitarist (The Nils, Chino)
• Peter Stearns – historian, honorary knight
• H. Arnold Steinberg – businessman, philanthropist, chancellor of McGill University
• Sam Steinberg – supermarket founder
• Tobie Steinhouse – artist
• Ralph M. Steinman – 2011 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
• George Stephen – banker, railway executive
• Jeff Stinco – lead guitarist of Simple Plan
• P.J. Stock – NHL player, broadcaster
• Lance Stroll – Formula One racing driver
• Lawrence Stroll – billionaire businessman, major shareholder/executive chairman in Aston Martin and father to Formula One driver Lance Stroll
• Howard Stupp – Olympic wrestler
• Bruny Surin – track and field athlete
• Daisy Sweeney – pianist, music teacher
• Robert Augustus Sweeney – only African American double recipient of the American Medal of Honor
• Sylvia Sweeney – former basketball player for the Canadian women's national team; TV journalist
• Jack W. Szostak – Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
• Stacey Ryan – singer and songwriter

T

Pierre Trudeau

• Mutsumi Takahashi – journalist
• Maxime Talbot – NHL player
• Ari Taub – Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
• Charles Taylor – philosopher emeritus at McGill
• Lucille Teasdale-Corti – physician, humanitarian
• Iro Tembeck – ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher
• José Théodore – NHL player
• David Thompson – explorer
• Ryan Thorne – head basketball coach for the McGill Martlets, former CIAU champion in basketball with Bishop's University
• Kim Thúy – author
• Jacob Tierney – actor, director, screenwriter, producer
• Kevin Tierney – movie producer
• Tiga – electronic musician, singer, DJ
• Josh Tordjman – NHL player
• Ibrahim Tounkara – Canadian football player
• Daniel Tracey – journalist, politician
• Gérald Tremblay – former mayor of Montreal
• Michel Tremblay – novelist, playwright
• Tony Tremblay – poet, radio personality
• Clem Trihey – professional ice hockey player
• Lorne Trottier – businessman, philanthropist
• Alexandre Trudeau – journalist; son of Pierre Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada
• Justin Trudeau – 23rd prime minister of Canada, son of Pierre Trudeau, a former prime minister of Canada
• Margaret Trudeau – former wife of Pierre Trudeau, mother of Justin Trudeau
• Pierre Trudeau – 15th prime minister of Canada
• Sophie Grégoire Trudeau – former spouse of the 23rd prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau
• Yves Trudeau (biker) – contract killer, gangster
• Alain Trudel – conductor
• Yanic Truesdale – actor
• Jean-Claude Turcotte – Roman Catholic cardinal
• Roxane Turcotte – author of children's and youth literature
• George Tutunjian – performer of Armenian revolutionary songs
• Rachel Tyndale – pharmacogeneticist

U

• David Usher – singer-songwriter

V

• Maurice Vachon – also known as Mad Dog Vachon; wrestling champion
• Armand Vaillancourt – sculptor
• Stevie Vallance – also known as Louise Vallance; singer, musician, actress, voice actress and director
• Jean-Marc Vallée – filmmaker
• Karine Vanasse – actress, tv host
• Todd van der Heyden – journalist, news anchor
• Ernie Vandeweghe – former NBA basketball player, New York Knicks
• Georges Vanier – governor general
• Gino Vannelli – singer-songwriter
• Chris Velan – singer-songwriter
• Joe Veleno – NHL prospect for the Detroit Red Wings
• Jacques Vieau – fur trader and early Wisconsin settler
• Denis Villeneuve – filmmaker
• Gilles Villeneuve – Formula One driver
• Jacques Villeneuve – Formula One driver (1997 World Champion); 1995 IndyCar champion; son of Gilles Villeneuve
• Claude Vivier – contemporary classical composer, ethnomusicologist and poet
• Marc-Édouard Vlasic – NHL player, currently playing for the San Jose Sharks
• Roch Voisine – singer

W

Rufus Wainwright

• Eleanor Wachtel – writer and broadcaster
• Richard Wagner – Chief Justice of Canada
• Mark Wainberg – AIDS researcher
• Martha Wainwright – singer-songwriter
• Rufus Wainwright – singer-songwriter
• Avi Wallerstein – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD
• Amanda Walsh – actress
• Dwight Walton – professional basketball player, Canadian Olympian
• Patrick Watson – singer-songwriter
• Ben Weider – co-founder of the IFBB (International Federation of BodyBuilders)
• Joe Weider – creator of the Mr. Olympia and Ms. Olympia bodybuilding contests
• William Weintraub – author, filmmaker
• Danny Wells – actor; played bartender on The Jeffersons and Luigi in The Super Mario Brothers Super Show
• Bill Wennington – former NBA basketball player, Chicago Bulls
• Max Werner – founder of Montreal Pastry, world class pastry chef
• Esther Wertheimer – sculptor and educator
• Alissa White-Gluz – singer-songwriter; former vocalist of The Agonist; current vocalist of Arch Enemy
• Trevor C. Williams – former member of the Canadian national basketball team; philanthropist
• Cairine Wilson – first woman to serve in the Senate of Canada
• Joseph Wiseman – actor, known for playing Dr. Julius No in the first James Bond film Dr. No
• Karl Wolf – singer
• Bernie Wolfe (born 1951) – NHL hockey player
• William Workman – businessman and municipal politician
• Peter Worrell – former NHL player
• Aleksandra Wozniak – tennis player

X

• Xue Yiwei – writer – Côte-des-Neiges ^[12]

Y

• Joel Yanofsky – writer
• Nikki Yanofsky – jazz singer
• Wayne Yearwood – former professional basketball player; Canadian Olympian

Z

• Sami Zayn – professional wrestler currently signed to the WWE
• Larry "Rock" Zeidel (1928–2014) – NHL player
• Joel Zifkin – electric violinist, singer-songwriter
• David Zilberman – Olympic heavyweight wrestler
• Moses Znaimer – co-founder of Toronto's CityTV
• Nathan Zsombor-Murray – diver, Olympic medalist
• Mortimer Zuckerman – magazine editor, publisher, real estate tycoon

See also

• List of people from British Columbia
• List of people from Calgary
• List of people from Edmonton
• List of people from Laval, Quebec
• List of people from Ontario
• List of people from Quebec
• List of people from Quebec City
• List of people from Toronto
• List of people from Vancouver

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