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List of Quebecers - Definition and Overview |
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List of famous Quebecers: citizens of Quebec.
Artists and entertainers
- Denys Arcand, cinematographer
- Gilles Archambault, novelist and commentator
- Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, author
- Marie Claire Blais, author
- La Bolduc, singer
- Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter (Les Automatistes)
- Genevieve 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
- Marcelle Ferron, glazier
- Jean-Claude Germain, playwright, author
- Huntley Gordon, actor
- Pierre Granche, sculptor
- Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
- Prudence Heward, painter
- Florence La Badie, actress
- Félix Leclerc, poet and songwriter
- Robert Lepage, playwright, actor and film director
- 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
- Miyuki Tanobe, painter
- Eva Tanguay, singer, vaudeville star
- Diane Tremblay, painter
- Michel Tremblay, playwright, author
- Pierre Vallières, author, political activist
- Gilles Vigneault, poet and songwriter
- Hal Willis, singer (Leonald Francis Gauthier)
Business
- 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
- 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
Inventors
Criminals
Politicians
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
Sports
- Myriam Bédard, biathelete, Olympic Gold medalist
- Jean Béliveau, ice hockey player
- Michel Bossy, ice hockey player
- Gaetan Boucher, speed skater
- Ray Bourque, ice hockey player
- Martin Brodeur, ice hockey player
- Patrick Carpentier, race car driver
- 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
- Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, ice hockey player
- Doug Harvey, ice hockey player
- René Lecavalier, broadcaster
- Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
- Jacques Plante, pioneer ice hockey goalie
- Maurice Richard, ice hockey player
- Patrick Roy, ice hockey goalie
- Gilles Villeneuve, race car driver
- Jacques Villeneuve, race car driver, son of Gilles
Other
- Frédéric Jeanbart, one of the main promoters and thinkers of IT/Internet in Quebec
- Louise Arbour, Supreme Court Justice (The Hague & Canada)
- Henri Raymond Casgrain, priest, author, historian
- 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
- Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger, Roman Catholic Cardinal
- Lyse Lemieux, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec
- Bernard Lonergan, philosopher, theologian
- Édouard Montpetit (1881-1954), lawyer, economist, scholar
- Pax Plante, crime fighting lawyer
- Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- Charles de Salaberry, soldier
See also
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