List of Quebecers
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List of famous Quebecers: citizens of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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[edit] Artists and entertainers
- Denys Arcand, cinematographer and director
- Paul Arcand, radio personality and cinematographer
- Gilles Archambault, novelist and commentator
- André Arthur, radio personality, independent fereral deputee
- Eva Avila, singer
- Michel Barrette, stand-up comedian, actor
- Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, author
- Marie Claire Blais, author
- Lothaire Bluteau, actor
- La Bolduc, singer
- Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter (Les Automatistes)
- Geneviève Bujold, actress
- Pascale Bussières, actress
- Roch Carrier, author
- Jean Cartier, muralist
- Leonard Cohen, poet, author and songwriter
- Marie-Josée Croze, actress
- Sylvia Daoust, sculptor
- Charles Daudelin, sculptor
- Esther Delisle, historian and author
- Céline Dion, singer
- Georges Dor, chansonnier, songwriter, author, playwright
- Fifi D'Orsay, actress
- Diane Dufresne, singer and painter
- Roy Dupuis, actor
- Marcelle Ferron, glazier
- Jennifer Finnigan, Hollywood actress
- Mitsou Gélinas, pop star, radio and tv host, actress
- Jean-Claude Germain, playwright, author
- Huntley Gordon, actor
- Pierre Granche, sculptor
- Sylvain Grenier, professional wrestler
- Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
- Prudence Heward, painter
- Florence La Badie, actress
- Éric Lapointe, singer
- Carole Laure, singer, actress
- Louise LeCavalier, dancer
- Félix Leclerc, poet and songwriter
- Robert Lepage, playwright, actor and film director
- Edouard Lock, choreographer
- Norm MacDonald, actor, comedian
- Guido Molinari, abstract painter
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poet
- Jean-Paul Mousseau, muralist
- Émile Nelligan, poet
- Mordecai Richler, author
- Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter
- Anne Savage, painter
- Mack Sennett, director
- Douglas Shearer, sound director/designer
- Norma Shearer, actress
- William Shatner, actor
- René Simard, singer, TV show host
- Miyuki Tanobe, painter
- Eva Tanguay, singer, vaudeville star
- Diane Tremblay, painter
- Michel Tremblay, playwright, author
- Roland Michel Tremblay, author, poet, scriptwriter
- Pierre Vallières, author, political activist
- Gilles Vigneault, poet and songwriter
- Hal Willis, singer (Leonald Francis Gauthier)
[edit] Business
- Hugh Allan, shipping company operator
- H. Montagu Allan, businessman
- 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
- Jean Coutu, retail pharmacy chain
- Alphonse Desjardins father of Credit Unions in America
- Marie-Josée Drouin, economist
- Alexander Galt, businessman, statesman
- Hugh Hallward, investor, philanthropist
- Irving Kott, stock promoter
- J. Louis Levesque, financier
- William Christoper Macdonald, tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
- John Wilson McConnell, publisher, philanthropist
- James McGill, fur trader, real estate investor
- John Molson, brewer, transportation pioneer
- Hartland Molson, brewer, sportsman, statesman
- Pierre Péladeau, media mogul
- John Redpath, developer, opened first sugar refinery in Canada
- M.J. "Joe" Schaffer, ladies apparel
- Martin Schwartz, consumer products
- Denis Stairs, Chairman, Montreal Engineering Co.
- Sam Steinberg, grocery store magnate
- Donald Tarlton, record producer, promoter
- Colin Webster, industrialist, philanthropist
- Lorne Webster, financier, philanthropist
[edit] Inventors
[edit] Criminals
- Marie-Joseph Angélique - African slave
- Francois "Mario" Bachand - terrorist, murder victim
- Richard Blass - mass murderer
- Maurice "Mom" Boucher - "Hells Angels" leader
- Marc Carbonneau - FLQ Terrorist
- Jacques Cossette-Trudel - FLQ Terrorist
- Louise Cossette-Trudel - FLQ Terrorist
- Dubois Gang
- Valery Fabrikant - Spree killer
- Jacques Lanctôt - FLQ Terrorist
- Yves Langlois - FLQ Terrorist
- Marc Lépine - École Polytechnique Massacre
- Bernard Lortie - FLQ Terrorist
- Denis Lortie - National Assembly gunman
- Rhéal Mathieu - terrorist, convicted murderer
- McSween Gang
- Joseph Prushinowski - the “Robin Hood Rabbi” who stole $200-million and donated it to Hasidic communities
- Allan Ross - "West end gang" leader, convicted murderer
- Paul Rose - FLQ Terrorist
- Jacques Rose - FLQ Terrorist
- Frank Ryan - "West end gang" leader, suspected murderer
- Francis Simard - FLQ Terrorist
- Yves "Apache" Trudeau - Mob hitman, convicted murderer
- Raymond Villeneuve, terrorist, convicted murderer
- Kimveer Gill - Dawson shooter
[edit] Politicians
- Sir John Abbott
- Adrien Arcand
- André Boisclair
- Lucien Bouchard
- Henri Bourassa
- Robert Bourassa
- Sir George-Étienne Cartier, a father of the Canadian Confederation
- Jean Charest
- Jean Chrétien
- Jean Drapeau
- Pierre Ducasse
- Gilles Duceppe
- Maurice Duplessis
- Ludger Duvernay
- Lomer Gouin
- Daniel Johnson Sr.
- Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada
- Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- Bernard Landry
- Hector-Louis Langevin, a father of the Canadian Confederation
- Pierre Laporte
- Jean Lesage
- René Lévesque
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a father of the Canadian Confederation
- Honoré Mercier
- Yves Michaud
- Brian Mulroney
- 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
[edit] Sciences
- Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize winner
- Pierre Dansereau, father of ecology
- George Mercer Dawson, scientist
- Reginald Fessenden, inventor, "The Father of Radio Broadcasting"
- Armand Frappier, researcher in microbiology and immunology
- David H. Levy, astronomer
- William Edmond Logan, geologist
- Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon, medical scientist
- Simon Plouffe (1956- ), mathematician & discoverer of the BBP formula
- Hubert Reeves (1932- ), astrophysicist
- Frère Marie-Victorin, creator of Montreal's botanical gardens
- Marc Garneau (1949- ), astronaut, first Quebecer & Canadian in space
- Julie Payette (1963- ), astronaut, first Quebec woman in space
- Lorne Nelson, theoretical astrophysicist
[edit] Sports
- Georges St. Pierre, current UFC Welterweight Champion of the world
- Myriam Bédard, biathelete, Olympic Gold medalist
- Jean Béliveau, ice hockey player
- Chris Benoit, professional wrestler
- Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
- Gaétan Boucher, speed skater
- Ray Bourque, ice hockey player
- Martin Brodeur, ice hockey goalie
- Patrick Carpentier, IRL race car driver
- Alexandre Despatie, diver
- Marcel Dionne, ice hockey player
- Éric Gagné, Los Angeles Dodgers closer, 2003 National League Cy Young Award
- Marc Gagnon, short-track speed skater, Olympic Gold medalist
- Arturo Gatti, boxer
- Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, ice hockey player
- Doug Harvey, ice hockey player
- Dave Hilton, Jr., boxer
- Matthew Hilton, boxer
- Guy Lafleur, ice hockey player
- Sébastien Lareau, professional tennis player, 1999 U.S. Open Men's Doubles Winner
- René Lecavalier, broadcaster
- Vincent Lecavalier, ice hockey player
- Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
- Joe Malone, ice hockey player
- Rick Martel, professional wrestler
- Jacques Plante, pioneer ice hockey goalie
- Manon Rhéaume, female ice hockey goalie and Olympic Silver medalist, only female ever to play in a National Hockey League game
- Henri Richard, ice hockey player
- Maurice Richard, ice hockey player
- Patrick Roy, ice hockey goalie
- Gilles Villeneuve, F1 race car driver
- Jacques Villeneuve, F1 race car driver, son of Gilles
[edit] Other
- Louise Arbour, Supreme Court Justice (The Hague & Canada)
- Henri Raymond Casgrain, priest, author, historian - (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
- Aline Chainé, wife of former prime minister Jean Chrétien
- Michel Chartrand, union leader and left-wing activist
- Ernest Cormier, architect
- Lionel Groulx, priest, historian
- Louis Joliet, explorer
- Jean-Baptiste Kelly, vicar-general
- Paul-Émile Léger, Roman Catholic Cardinal
- Lyse Lemieux, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec
- Firmin Lepage, architect, 1930 - 2001
- René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of Rimouski, 1696 - 1718
- Bernard Lonergan, philosopher, theologian
- Édouard Montpetit (1881-1954), lawyer, economist, scholar
- Pacifique Plante, crime fighting lawyer
- Joseph-Octave Plessis, archbishop
- Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- Charles de Salaberry, soldier
- Ghyslain Raza, "Stars Wars Kid"
[edit] See also
- Anglo-Quebecer
- Scotch-Quebecer
- List of Gaspésiens
- List of Mauriciens
- List of Saguenéens
- List of Acadians
- List of Anglo-Quebecers
- List of Quebec authors
- List of Quebec musicians
- List of Quebec film directors
- List of Quebec actors and actresses
- List of Quebec comedians
- List of Anglo-Quebecer Musicians
- List of Irish Quebecers
- National Order of Quebec
- List of people by nationality
