List of famous Quebecers: citizens of the Canadian province 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

• 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

Inventors

• Joseph-Armand Bombardier

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
• 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
• Joseph Prushinowski - the “Robin Hood Rabbi” who stole $200-million and donated it to Hasidic communities
• Paul Rose - FLQ Terrorist
• Jacques Rose - FLQ Terrorist
• Francis Simard - FLQ Terrorist
• Raymond Villeneuve , terrorist, convicted murderer

Politicians

• Sir John Abbott
• Adrien Arcand
• Lucien Bouchard
• Henri Bourassa
• Robert Bourassa
• Sir George-Étienne Cartier
• Jean Charest
• Jean Chrétien
• Jean Drapeau
• Pierre Ducasse
• Maurice Duplessis
• Ludger Duvernay
• Lomer Gouin
• Daniel Johnson Sr.
• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• Bernard Landry
• Hector-Louis Langevin, a father of the Canadian Confederation
• Pierre Laporte
• Jean Lesage
• René Lévesque
• Honoré Mercier
• Yves Michaud
• Brian Mulroney
• Robert Nelson
• Wolfred Nelson
• Louis-Joseph Papineau
• Jacques Parizeau
• Louis Stephen St. Laurent
• Étienne-Paschal Taché, a father of the Canadian Confederation
• Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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

• 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

• Anglo-Quebecer
• Scotch-Quebecer
• List of Gaspésiens
• List of Mauriciens
• List of Saguenéens
• List of Acadians
• 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 Irish Quebecers
• National Order of Quebec
• List of people by nationality

External link

• Television series about the 100 Quebecers who made the 20th century