List of people from Montreal
This is a list of notable people from Montreal.
A
- Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
- Ramzi Abid – NHL player
- David Acer – magician and comedian, star of Mystery Hunters
- 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 – director
- Sidney Altman – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- René Angélil – singer, actor, Celine Dion's husband and manager
- Richard Bladworth Angus – founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Joel Anthony – NBA basketball player
- Gilles Archambault – novelist
- Francois Arnaud – actor
- Gabriel Aubry – model
- Melissa Auf der Maur – rock musician (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins)
- Nick Auf der Maur – journalist, municipal politician
- Michel C. Auger – journalist
- David Azrieli – real estate developer; bulldozed the Van Horne Mansion
B
- René Balcer – television writer and producer, known for the US television show Law and Order
- Roger Barnes – professional wrestler
- Joseph Barsalou – businessman and politician
- Jay Baruchel – television and 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 player
- Saul Bellow – novelist
- Chris Benoit – pro wrestler, born in Montreal, raised in Edmonton, Alberta
- Eric Berne – psychiatrist; creator of Transactional Analysis; author of Games People Play
- 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
- Yannick Bisson – actor known for playing Det. Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries and Jack in Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye
- Sacha Dean Biyan – fashion photographer, raised in Montreal, 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
- La Bolduc – real name Mary Travers, singer
- Patrick Bordeleau – hockey player
- Mike Bossy – Hockey Hall of Fame member
- Eugenie Bouchard – tennis player
- Louise Anne Bouchard – writer
- Maurice "Mom" Boucher – ex-leader of Hell's Angels (as of 2014)
- Henri Bourassa – political leader and publisher
- Robert Bourassa – former Quebec premier
- Pierre Bourque – mayor
- Raymond Bourque – former NHL player
- Pierre Bouvier – frontman of Simple Plan; 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, 10.5: Apocalypse
- Kenneth "Kenny" Brain – Big Brother Canada contestant
- Adam Braz – soccer defender, Montreal Impact and national team
- 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
- Edwin Orion Brownell – pianist, vocalist
- Geneviève Bujold – actress
- Hy Buller – former NHL All-Star player
- Mario Bunge – philosopher, Frothingham Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University
- Robin Burns – founder and owner, ITECH Hockey Equipment
- Ernie Butler – comedy club owner
- Gerard Butler – Scottish actor; lived here briefly as a baby
- Win Butler – singer/songwriter
C
- Mark Camacho – actor
- Charles Sandwith Campbell – philanthropist, benefactor of Montreal
- Paul Cargnello – singer/songwriter
- Gerald Emmett Carter – former cardinal archbishop of Toronto
- André Chagnon – Cable TV, broadcasting, philanthropist
- Serge Chapleau – political cartoonist
- Corinne Chaponnière – writer, journalist
- Robert Charlebois – singer/songwriter
- Gregory Charles – musician and radio host
- Dov Charney – entrepreneur and CEO of American Apparel
- Claude Charron – former politician, now TV host
- Régine Chassagne – singer, musician
- Patricia Chica – film and TV director
- Emmanuelle Chriqui – actress
- Denny Chronopoulos – Canadian football player
- Terri Clark – country singer/songwriter
- Françoise de Clossey – pianist and organist
- Guy Cloutier – former artist manager
- Kim Cloutier – fashion model
- 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
- Ernest Cormier – engineer and architect
- Corneille – singer
- Irwin Cotler – law professor, politician
- Jean Coutu – pharmacist
- Corey Crawford – NHL starting goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks
- Ron Crevier – former NBA basketball player
- Peter Cullen – voice actor (voice of Optimus Prime in the film Transformers)
- Elisha Cuthbert – actress
- 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[1]
D
- 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
- 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
- Stéphane Demers – actor
- Bernard Derome – anchorman
- Pierre Desjardins – football player, Montreal Alouettes
- André Desmarais – businessman
- Paul Desmarais, Sr. – businessman
- Paul Desmarais, Jr. – businessman
- David Desrosiers – bassist of Simple Plan and vocalist; born in Sept-Îles
- Caroline Dhavernas – actress
- Sara Diamond – member of the American girl group Clique Girlz
- Céline Dion – singer
- Stéphane Dion – politician
- 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
- 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 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
E
- Keith Eaman – Canadian football player
- Iwan Edwards – conductor, Member of the Order of Canada
- Vic Emery – Olympic bobsleigh gold medalist
- Empire ISIS – pop and dancehall singer, songwriter
- Anke Engelke – German comedian, born in Montreal
- Chad Erickson – Ringette coach
- Angelo Esposito – hockey player
- Cyrille Estève – Cyrille the Spoonman
- 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
- Mylène Farmer – singer
- Lila Feng – weather presenter
- David Fennario – playwright
- Maynard Ferguson – jazz trumpet player and bandleader
- Jennifer Finnigan – Hollywood actress
- Marc-André Fleury – ice hockey goalkeeper; 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
- René-Arthur Fréchet, architect
G
- 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
- 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 – Jamaican-born former WBO Middleweight boxing champion
- Harold Greenberg – movie producer, founder of Astral Media
- Sylvain Grenier – WWE wrestler
- Irving Grundman – businessman, hockey executive
- Philip Guston – painter and printmaker
H
- Dayle Haddon – model and actress
- Marc-André Hamelin – pianist and composer
- 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
- Alonzo Highsmith – former NFL football player
- Dave Hilton, Jr. – World Champion boxer
- Matthew Hilton – World Champion boxer
- 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
- Anthony Housefather (born 1971) – Member of Canadian Parliament
I
- Norman Iceberg – singer/songwriter
J
- Marlene Jennings – politician
- René Jodoin – film animator and producer
- Daniel Johnson, Jr. – former premier of Quebec
- Oliver Jones – jazz pianist
- Sass Jordan – singer
- Kris Joseph – basketball player
- Robert Joy – actor
- Claude Jutra – filmmaker
K
- Tommy Kane – former NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
- Daniel Kash – actor
- Kenneth Kaushansky – Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, hematologist, Master of the American College of Physicians
- Kaytranada – electronic musician, producer, DJ
- George Kennedy – owner of Montreal Canadiens hockey team
- Amir Khadir – physician and politician
- Kid Koala – DJ
- Franklin Kiermyer – drummer, composer
- Andy Kim – singer/songwriter
- A. M. Klein – author
- Naomi Klein – author and activist
- Leo Kolber – senator, de facto family member of the Bronfman family and empire
- Benjamin Kowalewicz – singer of Billy Talent
- 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 – of Kruger Inc.
L
- Florence La Badie – actress
- Charline Labonté – hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2006, 2010, 2014
- Hubert Lacroix – CBC President and CEO
- Dany Laferrière – author
- Guy Lafleur – NHL 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
- Jean Lapierre – politician
- Éric Lapointe – CFL running back for the Montreal Alouettes
- Pierre Laporte – politician
- Georges Laraque – NHL 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
- Irina Lăzăreanu – 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 player
- Vanessa Lengies – actress
- Guy A. Lepage – television personality
- René Lépine – real-estate developer
- Chris Leroux – MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates)
- Jean Lesage – lawyer, politician
- Kristopher Letang – QMJHL player, NHL player, Pittsburgh Penguins
- André Éric Létourneau – intermedia artist, composer
- Jean-Louis Lévesque – stockbroker, horse racing builder
- Shawn Levy – director and actor
- Liu Fang – musician
- Pascal Lochard – CFL player
- William Edmond Logan – geologist
- Jennifer Lonergan – educator, nonprofit executive, promoter of third-world women's craftmanship
- 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
- Don Macpherson – journalist
- Nicolas Macrozonaris – sprinter, track and field
- Arnaud Maggs – artist, photographer
- 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
- 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
- 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 – 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
- 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 – 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
N
- Narcy – hip hop artist
- Émile Nelligan – poet
- Hillel Neuer – human rights lawyer, Executive Director UN Watch
- Kai Nielsen – naturalist philosopher at Concordia University
- Craig Norman – head basketball coach of McGill University Redmen; former basketball player for Concordia University
O
- Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan – politician, Parti patriote member
- Alexander Walker Ogilvie – miller, statesman
- Maryse Ouellet – glamour model and former WWE wrestler
- Caroline Ouellette – hockey player, Canadian women's Olympic team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006
P
- 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 – 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 in 2002 and 2006
- André Pratte – journalist, economist
Q
- Sara Quin – musician
R
- Jesse Rath – actor
- Meaghan Rath – actress
- Claude Raymond – former baseball player and coach
- Ariel Rebel – pornographic model
- John Redpath – businessman, philanthropist
- Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid, social reformer, church worker, clubwoman
- Helen Richmond Young Reid, social worker
- Ginette Reno – singer
- Ahmed Ressam – al-Qaeda member
- Caroline Rhea – actress
- Mike Ribeiro – NHL player
- Henri Richard – former NHL player
- Maurice Richard – former NHL player
- Mordecai Richler – writer
- Vito Rizzuto – mobster
- Alphonso Theodore Roberts – political activist, cricketer
- Sam Roberts – musician
- Percy Rodrigues – actor
- Sasha Roiz – actor
- Cristina Rosato – actress
- Paul Rose – political figure
- Charlie J. Ross – vaudeville performer
- J.K.L. Ross – racehorse owner, philanthropist
- Greg Rusedski – tennis player
- Claude Ryan – publisher, statesman
- Frank "Dunie" Ryan – mobster
S
- Roméo Sabourin – SOE agent, WW II hero executed by the Nazis
- Martin St. Louis – NHL player
- Georges St-Pierre – professional MMA fighter
- Kim St-Pierre – hockey goaltender, Canadian Olympic women's team
- Lino Saputo – businessman
- Anne Savage – artist
- Paul Schoeffler – voice actor, actor
- Joseph A. Schwarcz – doctor of chemistry and professor at McGill University, 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 – Academy Award-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
- Nahum Sonenberg – biochemist, professor at McGill University
- 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 player
- Lance Stroll (born 1998) – Belgian-Canadian racing driver
- 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
T
- Maxime Talbot – NHL player
- Charles Taylor – philosopher emeritus at McGill
- 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
- 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
- Alexandre Trudeau – journalist; son of Pierre Trudeau, the former Prime Minister of Canada
- Dennis Trudeau – journalist
- Justin Trudeau – Member of Parliament; 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, son of Pierre Trudeau, a former Prime Minister of Canada
- Pierre Trudeau – 15th Prime Minister of Canada
- Alain Trudel – conductor
- Jean-Claude Turcotte – Roman Catholic Cardinal
- George Tutunjian – performer of Armenian revolutionary songs
- David Tyler – voice actor
U
- David Usher – singer/songwriter
V
- Maurice Vachon – also known as Mad Dog Vachon; wrestling champion
- Ernie Vandeweghe – former NBA basketball player, New York Knicks
- Gino Vannelli – singer/songwriter
- Chris Velan – singer/songwriter
- Jacques Vieau – fur trader and early Wisconsin settler
- Gilles Villeneuve – Formula One driver
- Jacques Villeneuve – Formula One driver (1997 World Champion); 1995 IndyCar champion; son of Gilles Villeneuve
- Marc-Édouard Vlasic – NHL player, currently playing for the San Jose Sharks
- Roch Voisine – singer
W
- 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
- 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
- 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
- William Workman – businessman and municipal politician
- Peter Worrell – former NHL player
- Aleksandra Wozniak – tennis player
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 Zeidel – NHL player
- Joel Zifkin – electric violinist, singer/songwriter
- David Zilberman – Olympic heavyweight wrestler
- Moses Znaimer – co-founder of Toronto's CityTV
- 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
References
- ↑ Block, Irwin (2011-03-04). "Former Westmount mayor dies at 87". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 2011-03-06. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
- ↑ Parent, Tim (April 6, 2009). "Disney animator, creater of St. Hubert BBQ rooster, has died". CJAD. Retrieved April 16, 2009.
- ↑ "Hilda Gorenstein by Meg McSherry Breslin,Chicago Tribune". February 7, 1998.
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