List of people from Quebec

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This is a list of notable people who are from Quebec, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

Anchors

• Kim Brunhuber, former CBC anchor / CNN newscaster journalist broadcaster
• Pierre Bruneau, TVA
• Nathalie Chung, RDI / SRC
• Bernard Derome, SRC / RDI
• Simon Durivage, RDI / SRC
• Céline Galipeau, SRC / RDI
• Bill Haugland, CTV
• Jean-Luc Mongrain, TQS, TVA
• Pascale Nadeau, SRC
• Mutsumi Takahashi, CTV
• Sophie Thibault, TVA
• Todd van der Heyden, CTV

Artists and entertainers

• Denys Arcand, screenwriter and director
• Paul Arcand, radio personality and cinematographer
• Gilles Archambault, novelist and commentator
• André Arthur, radio personality, independent federal MP
• Eva Avila, singer
• Rachid Badouri, comedian
• René Balcer, film and TV writer and producer
• Raoul Barré, inventor, cartoonist and animator of the silent film era
• Michel Barrette, stand-up comedian, actor
• Jay Baruchel, actor, director, writer
• Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, author
• Daniel Bélanger, singer
• Marie-Claire Blais, author
• Paul Bley, jazz pianist and composer
• Lothaire Bluteau, actor
• La Bolduc, singer
• Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter
• Isabelle Boulay, singer
• Gerry Boulet, singer-songwriter
• Claudia Bouvette, singer-songwriter and actress
• Pierre Bouvier, lead singer of Simple Plan
• Glenda Braganza, actress
• Michel Brault, cinematographer, pioneer of the esthetic of handheld camera, director, producer
• Geneviève Bujold, actress
• Pascale Bussières, actress
• Win Butler, singer-songwriter
• Jean Carignan, fiddler
• Roch Carrier, author
• Charles Carson, painter
• Robert Charlebois, singer-songwriter
• Régine Chassagne, singer-songwriter, and instrumentalist from Arcade Fire
• Coeur de Pirate born Béatrice Martin, pianist, singer-songwriter
• Leonard Cohen, poet, author and songwriter
• Steven Crowder, comedian, political commentator, child voice actor (born in Michigan, raised in Quebec; mother is French Canadian)
• Marie-Josée Croze, actress
• Peter Cullen, voice actor
• Chuck Comeau, drummer and singer
• Elisha Cuthbert, actress (born in Alberta, raised in Quebec)
• Sylvia Daoust, sculptor
• Charles Daudelin, sculptor
• Esther Delisle, historian and author
• Yvon Deschamps, author and comedian
• Céline Dion, singer
• Xavier Dolan, actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume designer, and voice actor
• Georges Dor, chansonnier, songwriter, author, playwright
• Hélène Dorion, poet
• Fifi D'Orsay, actress
• Jean Duceppe, comedian
• Quilla, singer-songwriter
• Louis Dudek, poet and literary critic
• Diane Dufresne, singer and painter
• Roy Dupuis, actor
• Marcelle Ferron, glazier
• Jennifer Finnigan, actress
• Serge Fiori, singer-songwriter
• Glenn Ford, actor
• Garou, singer
• Mitsou Gélinas, pop star, radio and TV host, actress
• Jean-Claude Germain, playwright, author
• Huntley Gordon, actor
• Pierre Granche, sculptor
• Bruce Greenwood, actor, producer
• Sylvain Grenier, professional wrestler
• Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
• Prudence Heward, painter
• Airat Ichmouratov, composer and orchestra conductor
• Pierre Jalbert, actor, champion skier and film editor
• Will James, artist and writer of the American West
• René Jodoin, animator, director and producer
• Oliver Jones, jazz pianist
• Claude Jutra, director, actor
• Florence La Badie, actress
• Éric Lapointe, singer
• Pierre Lapointe, singer
• Stéphanie Lapointe, singer
• Carole Laure, singer, actress
• Lucie Laurier, actress
• Daniel Lavoie, singer-songwriter and actor (born in Manitoba, active in Quebec)
• Louise Lecavalier, dancer
• Félix Leclerc, poet and songwriter
• Jean Leloup, singer
• Félix Lengyel, Twitch streamer and former professional player in the Overwatch League
• Robert Lepage, playwright, actor and film director
• Édouard Lock, choreographer
• Norm Macdonald, actor, comedian
• Marie-Mai Bouchard, singer
• Marilou Bourdon, singer
• André Mathieu, pianist and composer
• Norman McLaren, director, animator
• Guido Molinari, abstract painter
• Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poet
• Jean-Paul Mousseau, muralist
• Ben Mulroney, television personality; son of Brian
• Émile Nelligan, poet
• Maryse Ouellet, wrestler
• P. Reign, hip hop artist (born in Quebec, raised in Ontario)
• Kevin Parent, singer-songwriter
• Bruno Pelletier, singer
• Pierre Perrault, documentarist, poet
• Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist
• Luc Plamondon, songwriter
• Mordecai Richler, author
• Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter
• Michel Rivard, singer-songwriter
• Michael Sarrazin, actor
• Anne Savage, painter
• Mack Sennett, director
• William Shatner, actor
• Douglas Shearer, sound director, designer
• Norma Shearer, actress
• René Simard, singer, TV show host
• Devon Soltendieck, television personality
• Eva Tanguay, singer, vaudeville star
• Miyuki Tanobe, painter
• Diane Tell, singer-songwriter
• Marie-Élaine Thibert, singer
• Michel Tremblay, playwright, author
• Roland Michel Tremblay, author, poet, scriptwriter
• Armand Vaillancourt, sculptor, performance artist, social activist
• Pierre Vallières, author, political activist
• Gino Vannelli, singer and composer
• Gilles Vigneault, poet and songwriter
• Annie Villeneuve, singer
• Arthur Villeneuve, painter
• Denis Villeneuve, director
• Andrée Watters, singer
• Hal Willis born Leonald Francis Gauthier, singer

Business

• H. Montagu Allan, businessman
• Hugh Allan, shipping company operator
• Laurent Beaudoin, CEO of Bombardier
• Conrad Black, media mogul
• Charles Bronfman, investor, developer
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr., investor, distiller
• Samuel Bronfman, distiller
• Donald J. Carty, airline executive
• André Chagnon, entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Thomas Cleeve, food producer
• Jean Coutu, retail pharmacy chain
• Alphonse Desjardins, father of credit unions in America
• Marie-Josée Drouin, economist
• Alexander Galt, businessman, statesman
• Mitch Garber, gaming, hotel executive, philanthropist
• Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
• Bernard Lemaire, businessman and engineer
• Jean-Louis Lévesque, financier
• William Christoper Macdonald, tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
• John Wilson McConnell, publisher, philanthropist
• James McGill, fur trader, real estate investor
• Hartland Molson, brewer, sportsman, statesman
• John Molson, brewer, transportation pioneer
• Pierre Péladeau, media mogul
• John Redpath, developer, opened first sugar refinery in Canada
• Denis Stairs, Chairman, Montreal Engineering Co.
• Sam Steinberg, grocery store magnate
• Donald Tarlton, record producer, promoter
• Colin Webster, industrialist, philanthropist

Politicians

• John Abbott
• Adrien Arcand
• André Boisclair
• Lucien Bouchard
• Andrée Boucher
• Henri Bourassa
• Robert Bourassa
• Pierre Bourgault
• George-Étienne Cartier, a father of the Canadian Confederation
• Thérèse Casgrain
• Jean Charest
• Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
• Irwin Cotler
• Jean Drapeau
• Pierre Ducasse
• Gilles Duceppe
• Maurice Duplessis
• Ludger Duvernay
• Francis Fox
• Steven Guilbeault
• Lomer Gouin
• Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada
• Daniel Johnson, Sr.
• Régis Labeaume
• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
• Bernard Landry
• Hector-Louis Langevin, a father of the Canadian Confederation
• Pierre Laporte
• Wilfrid Laurier
• Jean Lesage
• René Lévesque
• Yolette Lévy
• John Lynch-Staunton
• Sean Patrick Maloney, Canadian/American politician and U.S. Representative for the state of New York since 2013; naturalized U.S. citizen
• Pauline Marois
• Manon Massé
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a father of the Canadian Confederation
• Honoré Mercier
• Yves Michaud
• Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada and father of etalk host Ben Mulroney
• Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
• John Neilson
• Robert Nelson
• Wolfred Nelson
• Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
• Louis-Joseph Papineau
• Jacques Parizeau
• Claude Ryan
• Louis Stephen St-Laurent
• Étienne-Paschal Taché, a father of the Canadian Confederation
• Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Daniel Tracey
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada; father of 23rd Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
• François Legault

Sciences

• Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize winner
• Daniel Borsuk, plastic surgeon, first Canadian to perform face transplant
• Pierre Dansereau, father of ecology
• Paul David, cardiologist
• George Mercer Dawson, scientist
• Reginald Fessenden, inventor
• Armand Frappier, researcher in microbiology and immunology
• Marc Garneau, astronaut, first Quebecer and Canadian in space, Minister of Transportation, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• David H. Levy, astronomer
• William Edmond Logan, geologist
• Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Henry Morgentaler, physician, abortion-rights activist, president of Humanist Association of Canada
• Julie Payette, astronaut, first Quebec woman in space, Governor General of Canada
• Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon, medical scientist
• Simon Plouffe, mathematician and discoverer of the BBP formula
• Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist
• Hans Selye, inventor of the concept of physiological stress
• Henri Wittmann, linguist
• David Saint-Jacques, astronaut

Sports

• Jennifer Abel, diver
• Dave Abelson (born 1975), tennis player
• Jasey-Jay Anderson, snowboarder
• Sebastien Toutant, snowboarder
• Joel Anthony, basketball player
• Alex Anthopoulos, baseball manager
• Myriam Bédard, biathlete, Olympic gold medalist
• Josée Bélanger, soccer player, Olympic bronze medalist
• Tanith Belbin, figureskater
• Jean Béliveau, ice hockey player
• Chris Benoît, professional wrestler
• Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
• Eugenie Bouchard (born 1994), professional tennis player
• Gaétan Boucher, speed skater
• Ray Bourque, ice hockey player
• Patrice Bergeron-Cleary, ice hockey player
• Adam Braz (born 1981), soccer player and Technical Director of the Montreal Impact of Major League Soccer
• Martin Brodeur, ice hockey goalie
• Marc-Olivier Brouillette, professional football player
• Hy Buller (1926–1968), All Star NHL ice hockey player
• Dayana Cadeau, Haitian-born Canadian American professional bodybuilder
• Gabrielle Carle soccer player
• Patrick Carpentier, IRL race car driver
• Maude Charron, weightlifter
• Samuel Dalembert, basketball player
• Jason Demers (born 1988), ice hockey player
• Éric Desjardins, ice hockey player
• Étienne Desmarteau, Olympic athlete
• Alexandre Despatie, diver
• Marcel Dionne, ice hockey player
• Steve Dubinsky (born 1970), ice hockey player
• Terry Farnsworth (born 1942), Olympic judoka
• Leylah Fernandez, tennis player
• Marc-André Fleury, ice hockey player
• Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), German-Canadian Olympic soccer player
• Éric Gagné, baseball player
• Marc Gagnon, short-track speed skater
• Arturo Gatti, boxer
• Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, ice hockey player
• Doug Harvey, ice hockey player
• Émilie Heymans, diver
• Alex Hilton, boxer
• Dave Hilton Jr., boxer
• Matthew Hilton, boxer
• Garry Kallos (born 1956), wrestler and sambo competitor
• Guy Lafleur (1951–2022), ice hockey player
• Sébastien Lareau, professional tennis player
• René Lecavalier, broadcaster
• Vincent Lecavalier, ice hockey player
• Cathy LeFrançois, IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
• Kris Letang, ice hockey player
• Roberto Luongo, ice hockey player
• Joe Malone, ice hockey player
• Rick Martel, professional wrestler
• Rick Martin, ice hockey player
• Russell Martin, baseball player
• Marie-Eve Nault, soccer player, olympic bronze medalist
• Maryse Ouellet, professional wrestler, Former WWE Divas Champion
• Kevin Owens, professional wrestler, Former WWE Universal Champion
• Cory Pecker (born 1981), ice hockey player
• Gilbert Perreault, ice hockey player
• Chantal Petitclerc, wheelchair racer
• Rocco Placentino, soccer player
• Jacques Plante, ice hockey goalie
• Manon Rhéaume, ice hockey goalie
• Henri Richard, ice hockey player
• Maurice Richard, ice hockey player
• René Robert, ice hockey player
• Yvon Robert, professional wrestler
• Jacques Rougeau, professional wrestler
• Patrick Roy, ice hockey goalie
• Eliezer Sherbatov (born 1991), Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
• Martin St. Louis, ice hockey player
• Lance Stroll (born 1998), Formula 1 Driver
• Georges St-Pierre, former UFC Welterweight Champion of the world
• Ronnie Stern (born 1967), ice hockey player
• Howard Stupp (born 1955), Olympic wrestler
• Ari Taub (born 1971), Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
• Donald Theetge, racecar driver
• José Théodore, ice hockey goaltender
• Charles Thiffault (born 1939), NHL ice hockey coach
• Maurice Vachon, professional wrestler
• Gilles Villeneuve, F1 race car driver
• Jacques Villeneuve, F1 race car driver; son of Gilles Villeneuve
• Edson Warner, Olympian, marksman
• Brian Wilks (born 1966), NHL hockey player
• Rhian Wilkinson, soccer player, two times Olympic bronze medalist
• Bernie Wolfe (born 1951), NHL hockey player
• Gump Worsley, ice hockey player
• Aleksandra Wozniak, tennis player
• Larry "Rock" Zeidel (1928–2014), ice hockey player
• Samuel Montembeault, ice hockey goaltender
• Georges St-Pierre, MMA/UFC Fighting Champion

Other

• Louise Arbour, Supreme Court Justice (The Hague and Canada)
• André Bessette, thaumaturge and founder of the St-Joseph's Oratory
• Jean Blouf, colonist
• Henri Raymond Casgrain, priest, author, historian
• Michel Chartrand, union leader and left-wing activist
• Lauren Chen, conservative political commentator and former YouTuber
• George Comer, polar explorer
• Ernest Cormier, architect
• Aurélie Crépeau, nun, founded the Grey Nuns of Nicolet, established the Hôtel-Dieu De Nicolet ^[1]
• Louis Cyr, strongman
• Micheline Dumont (historian), historian, professor emeritus
• Northrop Frye, academic and literary critic
• Lionel Groulx, priest, historian
• René Marc Jalbert, soldier and hero of 1984 shooting at the National Assembly of Quebec
• Louis Joliet, explorer
• Madeleine Juneau, museologist, teacher, nun
• Jean-Baptiste Kelly, vicar-general
• Antoine Labelle, priest and builder
• Régine Laurent, trade unionist
• Zoé Laurier, wife of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier
• Paul-Émile Léger, Roman Catholic cardinal
• Lyse Lemieux, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec
• René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of Rimouski
• Bernard Lonergan, SJ, Jesuit priest, philosopher, theologian
• Simon Mailloux, first Canadian soldier with an amputation to deploy on a combat mission
• Jos Montferrand, French-Canadian hero
• Édouard Montpetit, lawyer, economist, scholar
• Bruno Pauletto, physiologist, shot putter, businessman, coach, author
• Mélanie Paquin, beauty pageant winner
• Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon, journalist and writer
• Pacifique Plante, crime-fighting lawyer
• Joseph-Octave Plessis, archbishop
• Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Charles de Salaberry, soldier
• Charles Taylor, philosopher

See also

• Lists of people from Quebec by region
• List of people from Quebec City
• List of people from Montreal
• List of people from Laval, Quebec
• List of Quebec writers
• List of Quebec musicians
• List of Quebec film directors
• List of Quebec actors
• List of Quebec comedians
• List of English-speaking Quebecers
• List of Irish Quebecers
• National Order of Quebec
• Scots-Quebecer
• List of Acadians
• List of people from British Columbia
• List of people from Calgary
• List of people from Edmonton
• List of people from Ontario
• List of people from Toronto
• List of people from Vancouver
• List of people from Winnipeg

External links

• 100 québécois qui ont fait le XXe siècle

References

1. René, Marie-Carmen (1994). "Aurélie Crépeau". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography . Vol. XIII (1901–1910) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.