List of people from Montreal
This is a list of notable people from Montreal.
A
Sir Hugh Allan of Ravenscrag
B
- René Balcer – television writer and producer, famous for the US television show Law and Order
- Roger Barnes – professional wrestler
- Jay Baruchel – television/movie actor
- Doug Beardsley – poet and educator
- Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien – broadcasting, magazines
- Bianca Beauchamp – fetish fashion model
- Mathieu Beaudoin – football player
- Tanith Belbin – Figure Skater, Olympic Silver medalist
- Jean Béliveau – former NHL hockey player
- Saul Bellow – novelist
- Chris Benoit – pro-wrestler (born in Montreal, but raised in Edmonton, Alberta)
- Eric Berne – psychiatrist, creator of Transactional Analysis, and author of Games People Play
- André Besette – CSC Holy Cross Brother, Miracle Worker of Montreal
- Tim Biakabutuka – former NFL football player/Carolina Panthers
- Charlie Biddle – Montreal Jazz pioneer and Juno award winner
- Yannick Bisson – actor known for playing Det. Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries and Jack in Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye
- Sacha Dean Biyan – noted fashion photographer raised in Montreal but now based in New York
- Conrad Black – financier and newspaper magnate
- Toe Blake – Montreal Canadiens hockey Legend
- Bless – hip-hop artist
- Paul Bley – jazz pianist
- Patrick Bordeleau – Hockey Player
- Mike Bossy – Hockey Hall of Fame member
- Eugenie Bouchard – tennis player
- Maurice "Mom" Boucher – ex-leader Hells Angels (as per March 2014)
- Henri Bourassa – political leader and publisher
- Robert Bourassa – former Quebec premier
- Pierre Bourque – mayor
- Raymond Bourque – former NHL hockey player
- Pierre Bouvier – frontman of Simple Plan and songwriter
- Scotty Bowman – hockey coach
- Justin Bradley – actor, Based out of Montreal and Toronto. Sometimes works in Los Angeles
- Tim Brady – guitarist/composer
- Glenda Braganza – Hollywood actress, recently starred in 10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
- Kenneth "Kenny" Brain – Big Brother Canada contestant
- Adam Braz – soccer defender (Montreal Impact & national team)
- Patrice Brisebois – NHL hockey player, Montreal Canadiens
- Martin Brodeur – NHL hockey player/goaltender, New Jersey Devils
- Charles Bronfman – business man and philanthropist
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – businessman
- Edward Bronfman – was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Bronfman family.
- Peter Bronfman – Canadian businessman and member of the Bronfman family
- Saidye Rosner Bronfman – philanthropist, and wife of Samuel Bronfman.
- Samuel Bronfman – liquor magnate
- Edwin Orion Brownell – pianist/vocalist
- Geneviève Bujold – actress
- Hy Buller – former NHL All-Star hockey player
- Mario Bunge – philosopher, Frothingham chair of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University
- Robin Burns – founder and owner ITECH Hockey equipment
- Gerard Butler – Scottish actor. Grew up in Montreal before moving back to his native Scotland.
- Win Butler – singer/songwriter
C
Francoise de Clossey
D
- Samuel Dalembert – NBA basketball player, Philadelphia 76ers
- Peter Dalla Riva – football player Montreal Alouettes
- Roméo Dallaire – senator, Lieutenant-General
- Vincent Damphousse – Former NHL hockey player
- J. P. Darche – NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
- Mathieu Darche – NHL hockey player, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadians
- Françoise David – politician
- John Caswell Davis – politician
- Mitch Davis – film programmer, filmmaker, journalist
- Stéphane Demers – actor
- Bernard Derome – anchorman
- Pierre Desjardins – football player Montreal Alouettes
- Paul Desmarais, Sr. – businessman
- Paul Desmarais, Jr. – businessman
- André Desmarais – businessman
- David Desrosiers – bassist of Simple Plan and vocalist. Birthplace is Sept-Îles
- Caroline Dhavernas – actress
- Sara Diamond – member of the Clique Girlz American girl group
- Stéphane Dion – politician
- Céline Dion – singer
- Jacob Dolson Cox – soldier and politician in the USA
- Audrey Capel Doray – artist
- Jean Doré – former mayor of Montreal
- Fifi D'Orsay – 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 hockey player
- Gilles Duceppe – politician
- Jean Duceppe – actor
- Louis Dudek – poet
- Jack Dunham – animator, television commercial producer, designer of the St-Hubert rooster mascot.[2]
- Alexandre Dupuis – football player
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G
- Alfonso Gagliano – politician
- André Gagné – professor and scholar, Concordia University
- Éric Gagné – pitcher/ Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers
- Marc Gagnon – Olympic Gold Medal speed skater
- Howard Galganov – anglophone rights activist, radio personality
- Céline Galipeau – anchorwoman
- Patsy Gallant – pop singer
- Mitch Garber – gaming, hotel executive, philanthropist, broadcaster
- Arturo Gatti – professional boxer, world champion
- Daniel Gauthier – co-founder of the Cirque du Soleil
- James Gelfand – pianist, composer, arranger
- Yasmeen Ghauri – supermodel
- Ralph Gilles – designer of the Chrysler 300c
- Jessalyn Gilsig – actress
- Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) – artist and inspiration for the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint[3]
- Jonathan Goldstein – author, humourist and radio producer
- John Gomery – jurist
- Brian Goodwin – biologist
- Adam Gopnik – writer, essayist
- Huntley Gordon – actor
- Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan – newspaper publisher
- Stewart Francis Granger – former NBA basketball player
- Howard Grant – former Canadian Olympics and Commonwealth boxer; trainer, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre
- Otis Grant – former Jamaican born, WBO Middleweight boxing champion
- Harold Greenberg – Movie producer, Founder of Astral Media
- Annie Grenier – AKA "Annie Brocoli" (Children's performer)
- Sylvain Grenier – WWE wrestler
- Irving Grundman – businessman, hockey executive
- Philip Guston – painter and printmaker
H
I
- Norman Iceberg – singer/songwriter
J
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- Florence La Badie – actress
- Charline Labonté – hockey player Canadian Olympic women's team, Gold medalists 2006
- Hubert Lacroix – CBC President and CEO
- Dany Laferrière – author
- Guy Lafleur – NHL Hockey Player, Montreal Canadiens
- Jon Lajoie – comedian
- Guy Laliberté – founder and CEO of Cirque de Soleil
- 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
- Pascal Languirand (Trans-X) – electronic music producer
- Jean Lapierre – politician
- Éric Lapointe – CFL running back for the Montreal Alouettes
- Pierre Laporte – politician
- Georges Laraque – NHL hockey player
- Ryan Larkin – animator
- Lisa Lavie – singer-songwriter
- Irving Layton – poet, essayist, short story writer
- Jack Layton – politician, Leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP)
- Irina Lazareanu – fashion model
- Louise Lecavalier – dancer
- Vincent Lecavalier – NHL player
- Jos LeDuc – professional wrestler
- Ranee Lee – jazz singer
- Sébastien Lefebvre – guitarist of Simple Plan and vocalist
- Jean Leloup – musician
- Mario Lemieux – NHL hockey player
- Vanessa Lengies – actress
- Guy A. Lepage – television personality
- Rene Lepine – real-estate developer
- Chris Leroux – MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates)
- Jean Lesage – lawyer, politician
- Kristopher Letang – QMJHL hockey player, NHL hockey player [Pittsburgh Penguins]
- André Éric Létourneau – intermedia artist, composer
- Pascal Lochard - CFL player
- Jean-Louis Lévesque – stockbroker, horse racing builder
- Shawn Levy – director and actor
- William Edmond Logan – geologist
- Colin Low – filmmaker
- Lunice – musician
- Roberto Luongo – NHL goaltender
- Yves A. Lussier – Physician-scientist in translational bioinformatics
M
- William C. Macdonald – tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
- Danny Maciocia – CFL football coach
- Nicolas Macrozonaris – sprinter, Canadian track and field
- Don Macpherson – journalist
- Arnaud Maggs – artist, photographer
- Jeanne Mance – founder of first hospital in North America, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, 1645
- 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 New York Yankees
- Massari – singer
- 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
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee – politician
- 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
- Simon McTavish – businessman
- Juan Mendez – former NCAA basketball player, Niagara University
- Charles Meredith – president of the Montreal Stock Exchange
- Frederick Edmund Meredith – lawyer, chancellor of Bishop's University
- Vincent Meredith – 1st 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
- Brenda Milner – neuropsychologist
- Hartland Molson – brewer, World War II fighter pilot, statesman
- John Molson – brewer, railway and steamship line builder
- Percival Molson – athlete, soldier
- Robert Moncel – commander of the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade in the Second World War
- Édouard Montpetit – lawyer, economist, academic
- Henry Morgan – department store founder
- Henry Morgentaler – physician, advocate for women's rights to abortion
- Terry Mosher – editorial cartoonist
- Ben Mulroney – Canadian television host, son of Brian Mulroney
- Brian Mulroney – former Prime Minister of Canada
- Mila Mulroney – wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney
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P
- P. Reign – hip hop artist (born in Montreal, raised in Toronto, Ontario)
- Frank L. Packard – novelist
- Michel Pagliaro – musician
- Jean Jacques Paradis – Commander of the Canadian Army
- Jessica Paré – actress
- Jacques Parizeau – politician, former Premier of Quebec
- Julie Payette – scientist, astronaut
- Trevor W. Payne – founder and music director of the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
- Cory Pecker – hockey player, right wing (EHC Visp)
- Érik Péladeau – businessman (Québecor)
- Pierre Péladeau – founder of Quebecor
- Pierre Karl Péladeau – CEO of Quebecor Media
- Wilfrid Pelletier – symphony conductor
- Dr. Wilder Penfield – pioneering neurosurgeon, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute
- David De La Peralle – football player
- Missy Peregrym – actress
- Oscar Peterson – jazz pianist
- Autumn Phillips – wife of Peter Phillips, eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II
- Mary Pierce – tennis player
- André Pijet – artist
- Steven Pinker – linguist and evolutionary psychologist
- Susan Pinker – journalist and psychologist
- Christopher Plummer – actor
- Dick Pound – lawyer, Olympic Games executive
- Cheryl Pounder – hockey player Canadian Olympic women's team, Gold medalist 2002, and 2006
- André Pratte – journalist, economist
Q
R
S
- Roméo Sabourin – SOE agent, WW II hero executed by the Nazis
- Giancarlo Scalia – pianist and composer
- Martin St. Louis – NHL hockey player
- Kim St-Pierre – hockey goaltender, Canadian Olympic women's team
- Georges St-Pierre – professional MMA fighter
- Lino Saputo – businessman
- Anne Savage – artist
- Paul Schoeffler – voice actor, actor
- Joseph A. Schwarcz – doctor of chemistry and professor at McGill University and formerly at Vanier College
- 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
- Marla Shapiro – CTV medical reporter and physician
- William Shatner – actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek
- Douglas Shearer – Oscar winning motion picture sound engineer
- Norma Shearer – Academy Award winning actress
- Madeleine Sherwood – actress, played Mother Superior in The Flying Nun
- Karen Simpson – actress and fashion designer
- Jaspreet Singh – author
- Charles Sirois – telecommunications
- 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
- Wonny Song – Classical concert pianist
- Sam Steinberg – supermarket founder
- 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 Hockey player
- Bruny Surin – track and field athlete
- 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
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- Martha Wainwright – singer/songwriter
- Rufus Wainwright – singer/songwriter
- Amanda Walsh – actress
- Dwight Walton – professional Basketball player/Canadian Olympian
- 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, was the bartender on The Jeffersons and Luigi in The Super Mario Brothers Super Show
- Bill Wennington – former NBA basketball player, Chicago Bulls
- Max Werner – founder, Montreal Pastry, world class pastry chef
- 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
- Joseph Wiseman – actor, best known for playing Dr. Julius No in the first James Bond film Dr. No
- Cairine Wilson – first woman to serve in the Senate of Canada
- William Workman – businessman and municipal politician
- Peter Worrell – former NHL hockey player
- Aleksandra Wozniak – tennis player
- Avi Wallerstein – ophthalmologist, co-founder LASIK MD
- Karl Wolf – singer
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See also
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