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* Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott – prime minister of Canada * Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit *

David Acer David Acer (; born 27 February 1970) is a Canadian author, stand-up comedian, close-up illusionist, inventor of magic tricks, and co-host/co-writer of the syndicated television series Mystery Hunters. His writing on the Canadian documentary s ...

– magician and comedian, star of ''

Mystery Hunters ''Mystery Hunters'' is a Canadian documentary television series aimed at a young audience. It aired on YTV in Canada and on Discovery Kids and MeTV in the United States. It was also dubbed in Japanese and aired in Japan on NHK. Teenage hosts ...

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Marie-Yasmine Alidou Marie-Yasmine "Mimi" Alidou d'Anjou (born April 28, 1995) is a Canadian professional Association football, soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Portland Thorns FC, Portland Thorns and the Canada ...

– soccer player for the Canada national team * Andrew Allan – Allan Shipping Line * Sir

Hugh Allan Sir Hugh Allan (September 29, 1810 – December 9, 1882) was a Scottish-Canadian shipping magnate, financier and capitalist. By the time of his death, the Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers, Allan Shipping Line had become the largest privately o ...

– Allan Shipping Line *

Martha Allan Marguerite Martha Allan (August 5, 1894 – April 4, 1942) was the founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre and co-founder of the Dominion Drama Festival. She loathed amateur theatre, but her energies spearheaded the Canadian Little Theatre Mov ...

– founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre * Sir Montague Allan – businessman, donated the

Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the senior ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, and has been competed for since 1909. It was most recently won by the Wentworth Gryphins ...

Paul Almond Paul Almond (April 26, 1931 – April 9, 2015) was a Canadian television and motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is most known for being the director of the first film in the '' Up'' series. Life and career Paul A ...

– film director *

Sidney Altman Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989, he shared the Nobel Prize in ...

– Nobel Laureate in Chemistry *

Melissa Sue Anderson Melissa Sue Anderson (born September 26, 1962) is an American-Canadian actress. She began her career as a child actress after appearing in several commercials in Los Angeles. Anderson is known for her role as Mary Ingalls in the NBC drama series ...

– American-Canadian actress, known for her role as

Mary Ingalls Mary Amelia Ingalls (January 10, 1865 – October 20, 1928) was born near the town of Pepin, Wisconsin. She was the first child of Caroline and Charles Ingalls and older sister of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her '' Little House'' boo ...

on ''

Little House on the Prairie The ''Little House on the Prairie'' books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls). The stories are based on her childhood and adulthood in the Midwestern United States, Americ ...

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René Angélil René Angélil (; – ) was a Canadian musical producer, talent manager and singer. He was the husband and manager of singer Celine Dion. Early life Angélil was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a father of Syrian descent and a mother of ...

– singer, actor, Celine Dion's husband and manager *

Richard Bladworth Angus Richard Bladworth Angus (28 May 1831 – 17 September 1922) was a Scottish-Canadian banker, financier, and philanthropist. He was a co-founder and vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, president of the Bank of Montreal, president of th ...

– founder of the

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway () , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Canadian Pacific Ka ...

Joel Anthony Joel Vincent Anthony (born August 9, 1982) is a Canadian former professional basketball player who played for the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, and San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won two champion ...

– NBA basketball player *

Alex Anthopoulos Alex Anthopoulos (born May 25, 1977) is a Canadian professional baseball executive, currently working as the general manager and president of baseball operations for the Atlanta Braves. He was the senior vice president of baseball operations and ...

–

general manager A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...

and president of baseball operations for the

Atlanta Braves The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Braves compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Eas ...

Louise Arbour Louise Arbour, (born February 10, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist. Arbour was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario and a former Chief Pr ...

– lawyer, jurist, prosecutor *

Denys Arcand Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (; born June 25, 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized director from Quebec, earning widespread acclaim and numerous accolades for his "inten ...

– filmmaker *

Gilles Archambault Gilles Archambault (born September 19, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada. He studied at the Université de Montréal in 1957, and then worked at Radio-Canada, while working as a journalist. From 1988 to 19 ...

– novelist * Francois Arnaud – actor *

Jay Aspin Jay Aspin (born August 19, 1949) is a Canadian politician who served as the member of Parliament for the riding of Nipissing—Timiskaming from 2011 to 2015. Aspin was elected to the House of Commons for the Conservative Party of Canada in ...

– former MP * William H. Atherton – historian *

Gabriel Aubry Gabriel Aubry (born August 30, 1976)Date of birth formerly given as January 4, 1976. is a Canadian model. Early life Born in Montreal, Quebec, to French-Canadian parents, Aubry is one of nine siblings. Modeling career He has modeled for Tommy ...

– model *

Melissa Auf der Maur Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (; born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian musician. Auf der Maur began performing in 1993 after forming the indie rock band Tinker (band), Tinker while she was a student at Concordia University. She was recruited ...

– rock musician (

Hole A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid Body (physics), body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful for various purposes, or may represent a problem needing to be addressed in m ...

The Smashing Pumpkins The Smashing Pumpkins (also simply known as Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. The ...

) *

Nick Auf der Maur Nikolaus Erik Auf der Maur (April 10, 1942 – April 7, 1998)Downey, Donn. ''Montreal columnist chronicled cancer fight'', A1. ''The Globe and Mail'', April 9, 1998. was a Canadian journalist and politician from Montreal, Quebec. He was the fa ...

– journalist, municipal politician * Michel C. Auger – journalist * Adam Azimov – film director *

David Azrieli David Joshua Azrieli (; 10 May 1922 – 9 July 2014) was an Israeli-Canadian tycoon, real estate developer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of in March 2013, he was ranked by Forbes as the ninth-wealthiest Canad ...

– real estate developer

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Ralph Backstrom Ralph Gerald Backstrom (September 18, 1937 – February 7, 2021) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and later a coach, entrepreneur and hockey executive. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles ...

– former

NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

player *

Rita Baga Rita Baga (born Jean-François Guevremont) is a Canadian drag queen and television personality from Montreal, Quebec.Hugo Dumas"La future reine québécoise du Nord?". ''La Presse'', August 19, 2020. She is best known as a top three finalist in ...

– drag queen, television personality and host *

René Balcer René Balcer (born February 9, 1954) is a Canadian-American television writer, director, producer, and showrunner, as well as a photographer and documentary film-maker. Early life He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and attended Lower Canada Co ...

– television writer and producer, known for the US television show ''Law and Order'' *

Jean-Paul Banos Jean-Paul Banos (born 27 January 1961) is a Canadian former fencer, who lives in Montreal, Canada. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at four consecutive Olympic Games between 1984 and 1996. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, he def ...

– fencer * Roger Barnes – professional wrestler * Joseph Barsalou – businessman and politician *

Jay Baruchel Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (; born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor and director. He is best known for his voice role as Hiccup Haddock in the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' franchise (2010–2019), and for his lead roles in the comedies ' ...

– television and movie actor *

Doug Beardsley Doug Beardsley (born April 27, 1941) is a Canadian poet and educator. He has collaborated with numerous other writers including Al Purdy, Theresa Kishkan and Charles Lillard. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied at Sir George Williams U ...

– poet and educator *

Bianca Beauchamp Bianca Stéphanie Beauchamp (, born October 14, 1977) is a Canadian Pornographic film actor, pornographic actress and fetish model best known for her glamour model, glamour, Erotic photography model, erotic, and Rubber and PVC fetishism, latex F ...

– fetish fashion model * Charles-Odilon Beauchemin – printer and bookseller * Mathieu Beaudoin – football player *

Tanith Belbin Tanith Jessica Louise Belbin White (born July 11, 1984) is a Canadian American ice dancing, ice dancer and Olympic program host for NBC Sports. Though born in Canada, she holds Multiple citizenship, dual citizenship and has competed for the Unite ...

– figure skater, Olympic silver medalist *

Louise Belcourt Louise Belcourt (born 1961) is a Canadian-American artist based in New York, known for elusive, largely abstract paintings that blend modernist formal play, a commitment to the physical world, and a visual language that shifts between landscape ...

– artist *

Jean Béliveau Joseph Jean Arthur Béliveau (August 31, 1931 – December 2, 2014) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played parts of 20 seasons with the National Hockey League's (NHL) Montreal Canadiens from 1950 to 1971. Inducted into the Hoc ...

– former NHL player *

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only write ...

– novelist *

Meaghan Benfeito Meaghan Benfeito (born March 2, 1989) is a Canadian diver. She used to compete in the 10m synchronized event with Roseline Filion before the latter retired in January 2017. Benfeito and Filion won bronze medals in the 10 m platform synchr ...

– diver *

Chris Benoit Christopher Michael Benoit ( ; May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He worked for various pro-wrestling promotions during his 22-year career, but is notorious for Chris Benoit double-murd ...

– pro wrestler, born in Montreal, raised in

Edmonton Edmonton is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Central Alberta ...

Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...

Jehane Benoît Jehane Benoît (; ; March 21, 1904 – November 24, 1987) was a Canadian culinary author, speaker, commentator, journalist and broadcaster. Benoît was born into a wealthy family in Westmount, Quebec, with a father and grandfather who were ...

– chef, author, tv personality *

Aldo Bensadoun Albert "Aldo" Bensadoun (born 1939), is a Canadian-Moroccan businessman. He is the founder and executive chairman of Aldo, a retail shoe company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bensadoun's family foundation donated $25 million to McGill Univ ...

– founder of

Aldo Group The Aldo Group, branded and stylised as ALDO, is a Canadian multinational corporation, multinational retailer specializing in shoes and accessories. Established in 1972 in Montreal, Quebec, the company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun. Its corpor ...

Marc Bergevin Marc Bergevin (born August 11, 1965) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He is currently senior advisor to the general manager of the Los Angeles Kings. Bergevin played as a defenceman in the NHL. Playing career As ...

– former NHL player, hockey executive *

Eric Berne Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior. Berne's theory of transactional analysis was based on the ideas of Freud an ...

– psychiatrist; creator of Transactional Analysis; author of ''Games People Play'' *

Janette Bertrand Janette Bertrand (born March 25, 1925) is a Quebec journalist, actress, educator, and writer. Biography She was born in Montreal, grew up there, and studied journalism at the Université de Montréal. She began work at the ''Petit Journal'', w ...

– journalist, broadcaster, actress *

André Besette André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal, ...

– CSC

Holy Cross Brother The Congregation of Holy Cross (), abbreviated CSC, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in 1837 by Basil Moreau, in Le Mans, France. Moreau also founded the Marianites of Holy Cross for women, now d ...

, "miracle worker of Montreal" *

Norman Bethune Henry Norman Bethune (; March 4, 1890 – November 12, 1939; zh, t=白求恩) was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of socialized medicine, and member of the Communist Party of Canada. Bethune came to international prominence fi ...

– physician, medical innovator, and political activist *

Tim Biakabutuka Tshimanga "Tim" Biakabutuka (born January 24, 1974) is a former American football running back. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1993 to 1995, and was drafted with the eight overall pick in the 1996 NFL draft by th ...

– former NFL football player, Carolina Panthers *

Charlie Biddle Charles Reed Biddle, (July 28, 1926 – February 4, 2003) was an American-Canadian jazz bassist. He lived most of his life in Montreal, organizing and performing in jazz music events. Early life and education Biddle was born and grew up in ...

– Montreal Jazz pioneer, Juno Award winner *

Khem Birch Khem Xavier Birch (born September 28, 1992) is a Canadian professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish BSL and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Pittsburgh Panthers and the UNLV Runnin' Rebels. High school c ...

– NBA Player *

Yannick Bisson Yannick Denis Bisson (born May 16, 1969) is a Canadian film and television actor and director. He is famous for playing Detective William Murdoch on the series ''Murdoch Mysteries'' for over 15 years, since 2008. Early life Bisson was born in ...

– actor known for playing Det. Murdoch in ''

Murdoch Mysteries ''Murdoch Mysteries'' is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on Citytv on January 20, 2008, and currently airs on CBC. The series is based on characters from the ''Detective Murdoch'' novels by Maureen Jennings and stars Yannick ...

'' and Jack in '' Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye'' *

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, Publishing, newspaper publisher, Investor, financier, and Fraudster, convicted fraudster. Black's father was businessma ...

– financier and newspaper magnate *

Herbert Black Herbert Black is a Canadian businessman, art collector, and philanthropist. He is currently President & CEO of American Iron & Metal Company Inc. American Iron & Metal Company, Inc. (AIM) American Iron & Metal is based in Montreal, Quebec, and c ...

– businessman *

Sheila Blair Sheila S. Blair (born November 26, 1948) is a Canadian-born American art historian and educator. Blair has served as the dual Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College, along with her husband, Jonath ...

– art historian *

Toe Blake Joseph Hector "Toe" Blake (August 21, 1912 – May 17, 1995) was a Canadian ice hockey Player (game), player and Coach (ice hockey), coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Blake played in the NHL from 1935 to 1948 with the Montreal Maroons a ...

– former NHL player and coach *

Valérie Blass Valérie Blass (born 1967) is a Canadian artist working primarily in sculpture. She lives and works in her hometown of Montreal, Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Loc ...

– artist *

Paul Bley Paul Bley, Order of Canada, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live per ...

– jazz pianist *

La Bolduc Mary Rose-Anne Bolduc, born Travers, (June 4, 1894 – February 20, 1941) was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the ...

– real name Mary Travers, singer * Patrick Bordeleau – hockey player *

Daniel Borsuk Daniel Evan Borsuk (born January 19, 1978) is a Canadian plastic surgeon in Montreal, Quebec, who is a pioneer in facial reconstruction. The first Canadian face transplant was performed under his leadership. He is also an advocate for pet safety ...

– plastic surgeon *

Mike Bossy Michael Dean Bossy (January 22, 1957April 15, 2022) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. He spent his entire NHL career, which lasted from 1977 to 1987, with the Islanders, and ...

– Hockey Hall of Fame member *

Alain Bouchard Alain Bouchard (born 1949) is a Canadian billionaire businessman. He is co-founder and chairman of Alimentation Couche-Tard, and also serves on the board of directors of Atrium Innovations. Both corporations are based in Quebec. Early life Ala ...

– businessman *

Émile Bouchard Joseph Émile Alcide "Butch" Bouchard (4 September 1919 – 14 April 2012) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1956. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fa ...

– NHL Hall of Famer *

Eugenie Bouchard Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard (; , ; born February 25, 1994) is a Canadian professional tennis and pickleball player. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first Canadian-born player repr ...

– tennis player * Jean-François Bouchard – photographer and visual designer * Louise Anne Bouchard – writer * Chris Boucher – NBA player * Maurice "Mom" Boucher – ex-leader of Hell's Angels (as of 2014) *

Yassine Bounou Yassine Bounou (, ; born 5 April 1991), also known as Bono, is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal and the Morocco national team. Bono began his youth career in Morocco, playing for W ...

– footballer *

Henri Bourassa Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa (; September 1, 1868 – August 31, 1952) was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. In 1899, Bourassa was outspoken against the Government of the United Kingdom, British government's request for Cana ...

– political leader and publisher *

Robert Bourassa Robert Bourassa (; July 14, 1933 – October 2, 1996) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd premier of Quebec from 1970 to 1976 and from 1985 to 1994. A member of the Liberal Party of Quebec, he served a total of just ...

– former Quebec premier * Pierre Bourque – mayor *

Raymond Bourque Raymond Jean Bourque (born December 28, 1960) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He holds records for most career goals, assists, and points by a defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the James Norris Memorial ...

– former NHL player, Hockey Hall of Fame member *

Pierre Bouvier Pierre Bouvier (born May 9, 1979) is a Canadian singer and musician best known for being the lead vocalist and studio bassist of the rock band Simple Plan. He hosted the MTV reality show '' Damage Control''. Filmography Discography ...

– frontman of

Simple Plan Simple Plan is a Canadian rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, in 1999. The band's current lineup consists of Pierre Bouvier (lead vocals, studio bass guitar), Chuck Comeau (drums), Jeff Stinco (lead guitar), and Sébastien Lefebvre (rhyt ...

; songwriter *

Scotty Bowman William Scott Bowman (born September 18, 1933) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey head coach. He holds the record for most wins in National Hockey League (NHL) history, with 1,244 wins in the regular season and 223 in the Stanley Cup ...

– hockey coach *

Justin Bradley Justin Bradley is a Canadian actor. Early life Bradley was born to Barbara (née Hellings) and Jonathan Bradley, who was born in British Guiana. He started his career at the age of six, modelling in various department store advertisements. Bradle ...

– actor, based out of Montreal and Toronto, sometimes works in Los Angeles *

Tim Brady Timothy Wesley John Brady (born 11 July 1956) is a Canadian composer, electric guitarist, improvising musician, concert producer, record producer and cultural activist. Working in the field of contemporary classical music, experimental music, a ...

– guitarist, composer *

Glenda Braganza Glenda Braganza is a Canadian television and stage actress who has appeared in several Canadian and American television shows and films. Braganza was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Indian-Goan parents, and was raised in Ottawa, Ontario. She liv ...

– Hollywood actress, '' 10.5: Apocalypse'' *

Gilles Brassard Gilles Brassard is a faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001. Education and early life Brassard received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell Univers ...

– computer scientist * Nigel Braun – YouTuber and chemist *

Adam Braz Adam Braz (born June 7, 1981) is a Canadian former professional soccer player who last served as Technical Director of the Montreal Impact of Major League Soccer. Braz played on the Canada national team and in stints with Toronto FC in the Majo ...

– former soccer defender *

Patrice Brisebois Joseph Patrice Brisebois (born January 27, 1971) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche, playing nearly 900 games with the former and 1,009 games overall. Brisebois was recently th ...

– NHL player,

Montreal Canadiens The Montreal Canadiens (), officially ' ( Canadian Hockey Club) and colloquially known as the Habs, are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal. The Canadiens compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic D ...

Annie Brocoli Annie Grenier (born January 22, 1971) is a singer whose alter ego Annie Brocoli is a children's character in Quebec. Inspired by Grenier's childhood experiences as well as by her two children, Annie Brocoli has adventures while traveling around in ...

– real name Annie Grenier, children's performer *

Martin Brodeur Martin Pierre Brodeur (; born May 6, 1972) is a Canadian–American former professional ice hockey goaltender and current team executive. He played 22 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), 21 of them for the New Jersey Devils, with whom ...

– NHL player, goaltender, New Jersey Devils *

Charles Bronfman Charles Bronfman, (born June 27, 1931) is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, Bronfman was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the ...

– businessman and philanthropist * Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – businessman *

Edward Bronfman Edward Maurice Bronfman (November 1, 1927 – April 4, 2005) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Bronfman family. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Allan Bronfman and the nephew of Samuel Bronfman, founder of Se ...

– businessman, philanthropist, member of the Bronfman family *

Peter Bronfman Peter Frederick Bronfman OC (October 2, 1929 – December 1, 1996) was a Canadian businessman and entrepreneur, born in Montreal, and member of the Toronto branch of Canada's wealthy Bronfman family. He attended Selwyn House School in Montrea ...

– businessman, member of the Bronfman family *

Saidye Rosner Bronfman Saidye Rosner Bronfman (9 December 1896 – 6 July 1995) was a Canadian-Jewish philanthropist. Her husband, Samuel Bronfman (1891–1971), purchased Joseph E. Seagram and Sons Limited, that became the Seagram Company. The family took a leading ...

– philanthropist, wife of Samuel Bronfman *

Samuel Bronfman Samuel Bronfman, (February 27, 1889 – July 10, 1971) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Canadian Bronfman family. He founded Distillers Corporation Limited and purchased the Seagram Company, that became the world’ ...

– liquor magnate *

Stephen Bronfman Stephen Rosner Bronfman (born 23 January 1964) is a Canadian businessperson, philanthropist, environmental activist and scion of the Bronfman family. He is the Chief Revenue Officer of the Liberal Party of Canada and a senior advisor to Prime Mi ...

– philanthropist * Alma Faye Brooks – disco, soul and R&B singer * Harriet Brooks – nuclear physicist, researcher *

Nicole Brossard Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature. She lives i ...

– author, poet *

Alexander Brott Alexander Brott, , born Joël Brod (March 14, 1915April 1, 2005),

– conductor, composer *

Edwin Orion Brownell Edwin Orion Brownell (born November 30, 1964, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian musician and author. He is a neo-classical composer and concert pianist whose original music has been described as highly melodic; exhibiting an improvisational blu ...

– pianist, vocalist * Kim Brunhuber – journalist newscaster *

Geneviève Bujold Geneviève Bujold (; born July 1, 1942) is a Canadian actress. For her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the period drama film '' Anne of the Thousand Days'' (1969), Bujold received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other film cr ...

– actress *

Hy Buller Hyman Buller (March 15, 1926 – August 3, 1968) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. Nicknamed the "Blueline Blaster" because of his penchant for hitting opposing players above the skate toe and below the pads, Buller was one of two Jewish profe ...

– former NHL All-Star player *

Mario Bunge Mario Augusto Bunge ( ; ; September 21, 1919 – February 24, 2020) was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles. He was a ...

– philosopher, Frothingham Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University *

Stéphan Bureau Stéphan Bureau (born July 2, 1964) is a Canadian journalist, TV interviewer and producer of TV shows and documentary series. Life and career Bureau was born in Montreal, Quebec. He successfully auditioned at Télévision de Radio-Canada, a ...

– journalist * Robin Burns – founder and owner, ITECH Hockey Equipment *

Pascale Bussières Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian actress. Her credits include ''Sonatine (1984 film), Sonatine'' (1984), ''Eldorado (1995 film), Eldorado'' (1995), ''When Night Is Falling'' (1995), ''August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août s ...

– actress *

Ernie Butler Ernie Butler (died August 29, 2007) was a stand-up comedian and comedy impresario in Montreal, Quebec for 30 years. He was the proprietor of the Comedy Nest at the Pepsi Forum, and supported top-notch skill from the time he started Stitches o ...

– comedy club owner *

Gerard Butler Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as '' Mrs Brown'' (1997), the James Bond film ''Tomorrow Never ...

– Scottish actor; lived here briefly as a baby *

Win Butler Edwin Farnham Butler III (born April 14, 1980) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire with Josh Deu and his wife Régine Chassagne. Early l ...

– singer-songwriter

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Anne-Marie Cadieux Anne-Marie Cadieux (born September 23, 1963) is a Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in '' Streetheart (Le Cœur au poing)'' and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie A ...

– actress *

Ghitta Caiserman-Roth Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (March 2, 1923 – November 25, 2005) was a Canadian painter and printmaker. She was a founder of the Montreal Artist School and her work is in the National Gallery of Canada. Caiserman-Roth was also an associate member of th ...

– painter, printmaker *

Jesse Camacho Jesse Camacho (born May 29, 1991) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Sheldon Blecher in the television series '' Less Than Kind''.Mark Camacho Mark Camacho is a Canadian character actor. Career He has starred in live-action films, but is best known for his voice acting roles, such as Oliver Frensky in ''Arthur'', Lyle in '' Animal Crackers'', Dad in '' Rotten Ralph'', George Martin in ...

– actor * Charles Sandwith Campbell – businessman, philanthropist *

Charlotte Cardin Charlotte Cardin (born November 9, 1994) is a Canadian singer. She has been nominated for 14 Juno Awards. In 2022, she received four awards for Artist of the Year, Single of the Year for her song "Meaningless", Pop Album of the Year and Albu ...

– singer, songwriter * Paul Cargnello – singer-songwriter *

Jean Carignan Jean Carignan, (December 7, 1916 – February 16, 1988) was a Canadian fiddler from Quebec. Carignan was born in Lévis, Quebec, on December 7, 1916, later moving to Sherbrooke and then Trois-Rivières with his family; the family moved to Mont ...

– fiddler *

Alexandre Carrier Alexandre Carrier (born October 8, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the fourth round, 115th overall, by the Nashville Predators in the 2015 ...

– NHL player *

Gerald Emmett Carter Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter (March 1, 1912 – April 6, 2003) was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1978 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979. Biography Youth and ordi ...

– former cardinal archbishop of Toronto *

Thérèse Casgrain Marie Thérèse Casgrain (; 10 July 1896 – 3 November 1981) was a French-Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator. She was a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the province of Quebec, as well as the first woman t ...

– politician, suffragist *

Jean Charest John James "Jean" Charest (; born June 24, 1958) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 29th premier of Quebec from 2003 to 2012. Prior to that, he was a member of Parliament (MP) between 1984 and 1998. After holding se ...

– former Québec premier and onetime leader of the federal Progressive Conservatives *

André Chagnon André Chagnon (March 17, 1928 – October 8, 2022) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was noted for being the founder of telecommunications company Vidéotron. Early life Chagnon was born in the Ahuntsic neighbourhood of Montr ...

– cable TV, broadcasting, philanthropist *

Serge Chapleau Serge Chapleau (; born 5 December 1945 in Montreal) is a Canadian political cartoonist. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, the youngest in a family of seven children, Chapleau grew up in a blue collar neighbourhood in Montréal, where his chi ...

– political cartoonist * Corinne Chaponnière – writer, journalist *

Robert Charlebois Robert Charlebois (born June 25, 1944) is a Canadian author, composer, musician, performer and actor. Charlebois was born in Montreal, Quebec. Among his best known songs are ''Lindberg'' (the duo with Louise Forestier in particular), ''Ordi ...

– singer-songwriter *

Gregory Charles Gregory Charles (born February 12, 1968) is a Canadian performing artist of Trinidadian origin. Biography Charles' father Lennox was a black anglophone of Trinidadian origin; his mother was a white francophone Canadian. Charles was born in Mo ...

– musician and radio host *

Dov Charney Dov Charney (born January 31, 1969) is a Canadian entrepreneur and clothing manufacturer. He is the founder of American Apparel, which was one of the largest garment manufacturers in the United States until its bankruptcy in 2015. Charney was ...

– entrepreneur and CEO of American Apparel * Melvin Charney – artist, sculptor, architect *

Claude Charron Claude Charron (born October 22, 1946, in L'Île-Bizard, Quebec) is a former CEGEP teacher, provincial politician, writer and broadcaster. He became Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the youngest Member of the National Assembly of Quebec. ...

– former politician, now TV host *

Régine Chassagne Régine Alexandra Chassagne (; born 19 August 1976) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist, and is a member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler. Early life and career Régine Alexandr ...

– musician, singer, member of Arcade Fire *

Micheline Chevrier Micheline Chevrier (born 1958) is a bilingual Canadian theatre director, artistic director, dramaturge, mentor and teacher in Montreal. Early life Born in Val-d'Or, Quebec to Franco-Ontarian parents, Chevrier moved to Montreal in 1963. She grad ...

– theatre director *

Alex Chiasson Alex Chiasson ( , , born October 1, 1990) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Dallas Stars, Ottawa Senators, Calgary Flames, Washington Capitals, Edmonton O ...

– NHL player for the

Edmonton Oilers The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The Oilers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. Th ...

Patricia Chica Patricia Chica also known as Chicatronica is a Canadian film and television director, producer and writer. The American horror movie site Dread Central referenced her in their list of the "Rising Female Filmmakers" to watch along other notable f ...

– film and TV director *

Emmanuelle Chriqui Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui ( ; born 10 December 1975) is a Canadian actress. She is known for playing Sloan McQuewick on HBO's '' Entourage'' (2004–11), Claire Bonner in '' Snow Day'' (2000), Dalia in ''You Don't Mess with the Zohan'' (200 ...

– actress * Denny Chronopoulos – CFL player *

Terri Clark Terri Lynn Sauson, known professionally as Terri Clark (born August 5, 1968) is a Canadian country music singer who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that ...

– country singer-songwriter *

Patricia Claxton Patricia Claxton (born 1929) is a Canadian translator, primarily of Quebec literature. A native of Kingston, Ontario, Patricia Claxton spent most of her childhood in India. Upon returning to Canada, she has made Montreal, Quebec's largest city, ...

– literary translator * Françoise de Clossey – pianist and organist *

Guy Cloutier Guy Cloutier (born 11 February 1940 in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian music producer and talent manager. Cloutier adapted reality TV to the Quebec market. Entertainers Stéphanie Cloutier and Véronique Cloutier are his daughters. his d ...

– former artist manager *

Véronique Cloutier Véronique Cloutier (born December 31, 1974), also known as Véro, is a Canadian TV and radio personality. She is the daughter of Guy Cloutier and the sister of Stéphanie Cloutier. She has hosted various programs on Radio-Canada, including '' L ...

– radio and television personality * Kim Cloutier – fashion model *

Cœur de pirate Béatrice Mireille Martin (; born 22 September 1989), better known by her stage name Cœur de pirate (; French for ''Pirate's Heart''), is a Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist. A francophone from Montreal, she sings mostly in French and has ...

– singer, songwriter *

G. A. Cohen Gerald Allan Cohen ( ; 14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Canadian political philosophy, political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of ...

– political philosopher *

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, soc ...

– poet and singer * Mark Cohen – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD * Sidney M. Cohen – television director *

Steven Cojocaru Steven Cojocaru (; ; born July 4, 1972), is a Canadian television fashion critic. He was born in Montreal, Quebec to Romanian parents. Cojocaru started out as a magazine columnist and eventually began working on American television shows as a c ...

– fashion critic *

John Colicos John Colicos (December 10, 1928 – March 6, 2000) was a Canadian actor. He performed on stage and on television in the United States and Canada. Early life Colicos was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Greek father and a Canadian mother. Career ...

– actor *

Charles Comeau Charles-André "Chuck" Comeau (born 17 September 1979) is a Canadian musician and drummer, best known for being the drummer of the rock band Simple Plan. He also founded the apparel company Role Model Clothing along with his bandmate Pierre Bouvi ...

– drummer of

and songwriter *

Phil Comeau Phil Comeau (born 1956) is a Canadian film and television director, born in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia. He lives in Moncton, New Brunswick and Montreal, Quebec. Biography Phil Comeau is a film and television director and scriptwriter, based i ...

– film and TV director *

Antonio Cordasco Antonio Cordasco (5 June 186319 April 1921) was an Italian-Canadian labourer, employment agent, banker, and newspaper owner. He was a well-known padrone (migrant labour recruiter and contractor) based in Montreal. He emigrated to the city in 1886 ...

– Italian-Canadian migrant labour recruiter *

Ernest Cormier Ernest Cormier (December 5, 1885 – January 1, 1980) was a Canadian engineer and architect. He spent much of his career in the Montreal area, designing notable examples of Art Deco architecture, including the Université de Montréal ...

– engineer and architect *

Marc Costanzo Marc Francis Costanzo (born August 1, 1972) is a Canadian singer, musician, music publishing executive and the co-lead vocalist of the alternative rock group Len. Costanzo and his older sister, Sharon Costanzo, formed Len in 1991, although the gr ...

– singer *

Corneille Pierre Corneille (; ; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage o ...

– singer *

Irwin Cotler Irwin Cotler (born 8 May 1940) is a retired Canadian politician who was Member of Parliament for Mount Royal from 1999 to 2015. He served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal government of Paul ...

– law professor, politician *

Vincenzo Cotroni Vincenzo "Vic" Cotroni (; born Vincenzo Cotrone;Auger and Edwards ''The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime'' p.63. ; 1911 – September 16, 1984), also known as "The Egg", was an Italian-born Canadian crime boss of the Cotroni crime fami ...

– mobster * Jean Coutu – pharmacist *

Corey Crawford Corey Crawford (born December 31, 1984) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Nicknamed "Crow" by teammates and fans, he played his entire professional career with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), w ...

–

starting goaltender for the

Chicago Blackhawks The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago. The Blackhawks compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (N ...

Ron Crevier Ronald Joseph Oscar Camille Crevier (born April 14, 1958) is a Canadian former professional basketball player. He played part of one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and in the early 1980s for the Canadian national men's baske ...

– former NBA basketball player *

Marie-Josée Croze Marie-Josée Croze (; born February 23, 1970) is a Canadian actress. She also holds French nationality, which she obtained in December 2012. Early life Croze was born in Montreal, Quebec, was adopted, and grew up in Longueuil with four other c ...

– actress *

Katalin Cseh Katalin Cseh (born 29 June 1988) is a Canadian-born Hungarian physician and politician. She was elected as a Momentum Movement (part of the Renew Europe party group) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 parliamentary election ...

– Hungarian politician *

Beto Cuevas Luis Alberto Cuevas Olmedo (born September 12, 1967), better known as Beto Cuevas (), is a Chilean-Canadian singer, songwriter, plastic artist, painter, and actor. He is the lead singer for the Chilean band La Ley. In 2008 he launched his solo ...

– Chilean-Canadian lead singer of band La Ley *

Peter Cullen Peter Claver Cullen (born July 28, 1941) is a Canadian voice actor. He voiced Optimus Prime in the original 1980s ''The Transformers (TV series), Transformers'' animated series, later returning to the role in ''Transformers'' media in 2007, sta ...

– voice actor; voice of

Optimus Prime Optimus Prime, also known in Japan as is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the ''Transformers'' franchise. Generally depicted as a brave and noble leader, Optimus Prime is the supreme commander of the Autobots in their fight ag ...

in the film ''

Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two Extraterrestrials in fiction, alien robot fac ...

'' *

Maxwell Cummings Maxwell Cummings (born Komiensky), (April 19, 1898 – May 23, 2001) was a Canadian real estate builder and philanthropist. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of David and Beatrice Cummings, he came to Montreal with his family in 19 ...

– businessman, philanthropist * Nathan Cummings – businessman *

Elisha Cuthbert Elisha Ann Cuthbert (; born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress. As a child actress, she made her first televised appearance as an extra on ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'' and co-hosted '' Popular Mechanics for Kids''. She made her feature- ...

– actress *

Louis Cyr Louis Cyr (; born Cyprien-Noé Cyr; October 10, 1863 – November 10, 1912) was a Canadian strongman (strength athlete), strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Based on his recorded feats, including lifting wit ...

–

strongman Strongman is a competitive strength sport which tests athletes' physical strength and endurance through a variety of heavy lifts and events. Strongman competitions are known for their intensity, pushing athletes to their physical and mental limit ...

* May Cutler – publisher and journalist; founder of

Tundra Books Tundra Books is the oldest children's book publisher in Canada. Tundra Books was founded in 1967 by May Cutler, a Montreal-based writer and editor. Cutler established the publishing company in the basement of her home, becoming the first woman ...

; first Canadian woman to publish children's books; first woman to serve as Mayor of

Westmount, Quebec Westmount () is a city on the Island of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is an enclave of the city of Montreal, with a population of 19,658 as of the 2021 Canadian census. Westmount is home to schools, an arena, a pool, a public li ...

D

Samuel Dalembert Samuel Davis Dalembert (born May 10, 1981) is a Haitian-Canadian former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Seton Hall University. During his active N ...

– NBA basketball player, Philadelphia 76ers *

Peter Dalla Riva Peter Dalla Riva (born December 11, 1946), is a former professional Canadian football player with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) at the tight end and wide receiver positions. Dalla Riva played with the Alouettes for ...

– football player, Montreal Alouettes *

Roméo Dallaire Roméo Antonius Dallaire (born June 25, 1946) is a retired Canadian politician and military officer who was a senator from Quebec from 2005 to 2014, and a lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces. He notably was the force commander of U ...

–

senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or Legislative chamber, chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ...

, Lieutenant-General *

Vincent Damphousse Vincent François Damphousse (born December 17, 1967) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for eighteen seasons. He played centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Ca ...

– former NHL player * Shawn Daniels – Canadian football player * Catherine Daoust – Professional ice hockey defenceman for the

Montreal Victoire The Montreal Victoire () are a professional ice hockey team based in the Greater Montreal area that competes in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). They are one of the six charter franchises of the league. The team plays its home game ...

in the

Professional Women's Hockey League The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL; , LPHF) is a women's professional ice hockey league in North America. The league comprises eight teams, four each from the United States and Canada. The teams play a Season (sports), regular season ...

(PWHL). * J. P. Darche – NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks *

Mathieu Darche Mathieu Darche (born November 26, 1976) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player who is the general manager for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for several American Hockey League (AH ...

– NHL player, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens *

Françoise David Françoise David (; born January 13, 1948) is a former spokesperson of Québec solidaire – a left-wing, feminist, and sovereigntist political party in the province of Quebec, Canada. She was elected to serve as the Member of the National As ...

– politician * John Caswell Davis – politician *

Mitch Davis Mitch Davis is an American film director, writer, and producer noted for his 2001 film ''The Other Side of Heaven'' about the trials and adventures of a Mormon missionary, missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) ...

– film programmer, filmmaker, journalist *

Mortimer Davis Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis (February6, 1866March22, 1928) was a Jewish Canadian businessman and philanthropist. The mansion that he built in Montreal's Golden Square Mile has been renamed ''Purvis Hall'' and is today owned by McGill University. ...

– businessman, philanthropist *

Norman Dawe Robert Norman Dawe (October 18, 1898January 4, 1948) was a Canadian sports executive. He originated as an Official (ice hockey), ice hockey referee for minor ice hockey games in Verdun, Quebec, before becoming involved in the administrative asp ...

– sports executive *

Michel de Broin Michel de Broin (born 1970 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian sculptor. De Broin has created numerous public artworks in Canada and Europe, including the Salvador Allende monument in Montreal. He was the recipient of the 2007 Sobey Art Award. ...

– sculptor *

Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (January 12, 1928 – April 9, 2025) was a Canadian media proprietor, who was chairman and CEO of Telemedia. He founded the company in 1968, and went on to acquire a number of radio stations in Quebec and Ontario, and ...

– broadcasting, magazines * Stéphane Demers – actor * Bernard Derome – anchorman * Pierre Desjardins – football player, Montreal Alouettes * Roxane Desjardins – writer *

André Desmarais André Roger Desmarais (born October 26, 1956) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Early life He is the youngest son of Paul Desmarais Sr. and Jacqueline Desmarais. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he attended Lakefield College School in Ont ...

– businessman * Paul Desmarais, Sr. – businessman * Paul Desmarais, Jr. – businessman *

Alexandre Despatie Alexandre Despatie (; born June 8, 1985) is a Canadian diver and broadcaster from Laval, Quebec. He was the world champion at the 1 and 3 m springboards from 2005 to 2007 and is the first, and so far only, diver to have been world champion ...

– diver, television personality *

David Desrosiers Simple Plan is a Canadian rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, in 1999. The band's current lineup consists of Pierre Bouvier (lead vocals, studio bass guitar), Chuck Comeau (drums), Jeff Stinco (lead guitar), and Sébastien Lefebvre (rhythm ...

– bassist of

and vocalist; born in Sept-Îles * Sean Devine – playwright, actor, and politician *

Colleen Dewhurst Colleen Rose Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles. She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dra ...

– actress *

Caroline Dhavernas Caroline Dhavernas ( ; born May 15, 1978) is a Canadian actress. In the United States, her best known work has been her collaborations with Bryan Fuller. She played Jaye Tyler in the Fox comedy-drama series '' Wonderfalls'', and Alana Bloom in th ...

– actress * Domenic Di Rosa – actor * Kadie Karen Diekmeyer – Internet personality and activist *

Céline Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Referred to as the " Queen of Power Ballads", Dion's powerful, technically skilled vocals and commercially successful works have had a significant impact on popular musi ...

– singer *

Stéphane Dion Stéphane Maurice Dion (; ; born 28September 1955) is a Canadian diplomat, academic and former politician who has been the List of ambassadors of Canada to France, Canadian ambassador to France and Monaco since 2022 and special envoy to the Eu ...

– politician *

Christopher DiRaddo Christopher DiRaddo (born 1974) is a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted as the 2024 recipient of the Judy Mappin Community Award from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards, for his career contributions to the English-language l ...

– writer *

Xavier Dolan Xavier Dolan-Tadros (; born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature ...

– actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume director, producer *

Jacob Dolson Cox Jacob Dolson Cox Jr. (October 27, 1828August 4, 1900), was a statesman, lawyer, Union Army general during the American Civil War, Republican politician from Ohio, Liberal Republican Party founder, educator, author, and recognized microbiologis ...

– U.S. soldier and politician * Audrey Capel Doray – artist *

Jean Doré Jean Doré (12 December 1944 – 15 June 2015) was a Canadian politician and mayor of the City of Montreal, Quebec. Background Doré studied law at the Université de Montréal, where he was president of the Students' union, student union fro ...

– former mayor of Montreal *

Ivan Doroschuk Ivan Eugene Doroschuk (, ) (born 9 October 1957) is an American-born Canadian musician. He is the lead vocalist and founding member of Men Without Hats, best known for the songs "The Safety Dance" (1982) and " Pop Goes the World" (1987). Ear ...

– singer *

Fifi D'Orsay Fifi D'Orsay (born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier; April 16, 1904 – December 2, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress and singer. Early life Fifi D'Orsay was born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a fathe ...

– actress *

Luguentz Dort Luguentz Dort (born April 19, 1999; or ) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Dort joined the Thu ...

– NBA Player *

Anne Dorval Anne Dorval (; born November 8, 1960) is a French Canadian television, stage, and film actress. She is known for her work with Xavier Dolan that includes appearing in five of his films, '' I Killed My Mother'' (2009), '' Heartbeats'' (2010), '' La ...

– actress *

William Dow William Dow (March 27, 1800 – December 7, 1868) was a British-born brewer and financier of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Born at Muthill, Perthshire, he was the eldest son of Dr William Dow (1765-1844), Brewmaster, and Anne Mason. Since 1652, his ...

– brewer *

Jean Drapeau Jean Drapeau (; 18 February 1916 – 12 August 1999) was a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Montreal for 2 non-consecutive terms from 1954 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1986. Major accomplishments of the Drapeau Administration include ...

– mayor of Montreal during Expo '67 and the 1976 Olympic Games *

Glen Drover Glen Drover (born May 25, 1969) is a Canadian heavy metal guitarist from Ottawa, Ontario. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of Megadeth and King Diamond, along with his brother Shawn Drover who also performed with Megadeth. History ...

– guitarist for

Megadeth Megadeth is an American thrash metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1983 by vocalist and guitarist Dave Mustaine. Known for their technically complex guitar work and musicianship, Megadeth is one of the "big four" of American thrash metal—alo ...

Shawn Drover Shawn Drover (born May 5, 1966) is a Canadian drummer, best known for his work with the American heavy metal band Megadeth. He uses Sabian cymbals and Yamaha drums, Pro-mark drum sticks, Toca Percussion, Evans Drumheads and Extreme Isolatio ...

– drummer for Megadeth *

Steve Dubinsky Steven Dubinsky (born July 9, 1970) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames, Nashville Predators, and St. Louis Blues between 1993 and 2003. He playe ...

– former NHL player *

Gilles Duceppe Gilles Duceppe (; born July 22, 1947) is a Canadian retired politician, proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the federal political party, Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Ca ...

– politician *

Jean Duceppe Jean Hotte-Duceppe (25 October 1923 – 7 December 1990) was a Canadian stage and television actor from Montreal, Quebec. Early life and education Born on 25 October 1923 to a family of local shopkeepers in working-class Montreal, Jean Duceppe ...

– actor *

Louis Dudek Louis Dudek, (February 6, 1918 – March 23, 2001) was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books. In ''A Digital Hist ...

– poet *

Jack Dunham Jack Dunham (September 19, 1910 – August 16, 2008) was an American animator and television producer who worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walter Lantz Productions during his career. Dunham was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, on Septe ...

– animator, television commercial producer, designer of the

St-Hubert St-Hubert BBQ Ltd. is a chain of Canadian casual dining restaurants best known for its rotisserie chicken. St-Hubert is most popular in Quebec and in other French-Canadian areas such as Eastern Ontario and New Brunswick. The chain enjoys the s ...

rooster mascot *

Barbara Dunkelman Barbara Julie Dunkelman (born July 2, 1989) is a Canadian actress and internet personality. She is known for her work with the former production company Rooster Teeth, where she served as a Creative Director and was formerly the Director of Soci ...

– voice actress for

Rooster Teeth Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC was an American entertainment company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth was a subsidiary o ...

* Alexandre Dupuis – football player *

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (; born February 11, 1991) is a Canadian physician and former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL). He played university football and attended medical school at McGill Univ ...

– NFL player, physician

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* Keith Eaman – Canadian football player *

Henrietta Edwards Henrietta Muir Edwards (18 December 184910 November 1931) was a Canadian women's rights activist, author and reformer. She was the eldest of " The Famous Five", along with Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who fou ...

– women’s rights activist, suffragist *

Iwan Edwards Iwan Edwards (October 5, 1937 – March 4, 2022) was a Welsh-born Canadian choral conductor. Over a forty-year span he founded and conducted several choirs. He was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 1995.conductor Conductor or conduction may refer to: Biology and medicine * Bone conduction, the conduction of sound to the inner ear * Conduction aphasia, a language disorder Mathematics * Conductor (ring theory) * Conductor of an abelian variety * Cond ...

, Member of the

Order of Canada The Order of Canada () is a Canadian state order, national order and the second-highest Award, honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ...

Elisapie Elisapie Isaac (also known simply as Elisapie; syllabics: ; born 1977) is a Canadian Inuk musician, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, activist, and actress. She spent her childhood in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, and moved to Montreal in 1999 ...

– singer, broadcaster, activist *

Vic Emery Victor Emery (born June 28, 1933) is a Canadian athlete and businessman. Emery was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is a gold medallist in the four man bobsleigh pilot from the 1964 Olympic Winter Games, as well as the 1965 World Championships. Invo ...

– Olympic

bobsleigh Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobslei ...

gold medalist * Empire I – pop and dancehall singer, songwriter *

Anke Engelke Anke Christina Fischer ( Engelke; born 21 December 1965) is a German comedian, actress, voice actress and television presenter. Personal life Born in Montreal, Canada, Engelke moved to Cologne, Germany in 1971 with her German parents. Early ...

– German comedian, born in Montreal * Chad Erickson – Ringette coach *

Angelo Esposito Angelo Esposito (born February 20, 1989) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. Esposito was drafted in the first round (20th overall) by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career QMJHL Esposito's Queb ...

– hockey player *

Sam Etcheverry Samuel Etcheverry (May 20, 1930 – August 29, 2009), nicknamed "the Rifle", was a professional American and Canadian football player and head coach. Etcheverry played the quarterback position, most famously with the Montreal Alouettes of the C ...

– former

CFL The Canadian Football League (CFL; , LCF) is a professional Canadian football league in Canada. It comprises nine teams divided into two divisions, with four teams in the East Division and five in the West Division. The CFL is the highest pr ...

and

NFL The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The N ...

football quarterback, Montreal Alouettes, St. Louis Cardinals *

Terry Evanshen Terrence Anthony "Terry" Evanshen (born June 13, 1944) is a motivational speaker and former star receiver in the Canadian Football League. CFL Drafted by the Montreal Alouettes, Terry went on to have an outstanding career in the CFL playing fo ...

– former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders * Ken Evoy – founder of Sitesell; creator of SiteBuildIt!

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Lara Fabian Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (; born 9 January 1970), known professionally as Lara Fabian (, , ), is a Belgian, Italian and Canadian singer and songwriter. She claims to have sold over 20 million records worldwide and to be one of the List of best ...

– operatic singer *

Mylène Farmer Mylène Jeanne Gautier (; born 12 September 1961), known professionally as Mylène Farmer (), is a French singer and songwriter. Having sold more than 30 million records worldwide, she is among the most successful recording artists of all time ...

– singer *

Leylah Fernandez Leylah Annie Fernandez (born 6 September 2002) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA on 8 August 2022. Her best doubles ranking is world No. 17, achieved on 23 Octo ...

– tennis player *

David Fennario David William Fennario (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947 – 16 September 2023) was a Canadian playwright, best known for ''Balconville'' (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmer ...

– playwright *

Greg Fergus Gregory Christophe Fergus (born May 31, 1969) is a Canadian politician who served as the 39th Speaker of the House of Commons (Canada), speaker of the House of Commons from October 3, 2023 to May 26, 2025. He is the member of Parliament (MP) f ...

– Member of Parliament; 38th Speaker of the House of Commons *

Maynard Ferguson Walter Maynard Ferguson CM (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for his bands, which often served ...

– jazz trumpet player and bandleader *

Marcelle Ferron Marcelle Ferron (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001) was a Canadian painter and stained glass artist, was one of the original 16 signatories of Paul-Émile Borduas's Refus global manifesto, and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary ...

– painter, stained glass artist *

Denise Filiatrault Denise Filiatrault, (born May 16, 1931) is a Canadian actress and director. Biography Filiatrault attained star status on TV in the 1960s, co-starring with Dominique Michel in the Radio-Canada television series '' Moi et l'autre'' (1967–71 ...

– actress and director *

Jennifer Finnigan Jennifer Christina Finnigan (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Bridget Forrester in the American soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' from 2000 to 2004, for which she won three Daytime Emmy Awards for ...

– Hollywood actress *

Sheila Finestone Sheila Abbey Finestone (January 28, 1927 – June 8, 2009) was a Canadian Member of Parliament for Mount Royal and Senator from Montarville, Quebec. Early life Born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Minnie Cummings Abbey and Monroe Ab ...

– MP, senator *

Marc-André Fleury Marc-André Fleury (; born November 28, 1984) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender. Drafted out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) first overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2003 NHL entry draft, Fleury p ...

– NHL goaltender, three-time

Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup () is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ic ...

champion with the

Pittsburgh Penguins The Pittsburgh Penguins (colloquially known as the Pens) are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh. The Penguins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), E ...

Louis-Joseph Forget Louis-Joseph Forget (March 11, 1853 – April 7, 1911) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Life and career Born in Terrebonne, Canada East, he was a stockbroker and then founded his own brokerage firm, ''L. J. Forget et Compagnie'', i ...

– stockbroker, financier, statesman *

Rodolphe Forget Colonel Sir Joseph David Rodolphe Forget (December 10, 1861 – February 19, 1919) was a Canadian business investor, stockbroker, and politician. He held national directorships and had major investments in energy companies, as well as industr ...

– businessman, politician, philanthropist *

Samuel Fournier Samuel Fournier (born January 28, 1986, in Lacolle, Quebec) is a retired professional Canadian football fullback for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. He drafted 19th overall by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 2010 CFL Dra ...

– former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats *

Kathleen Fox Kathleen Fox (12 September 1880 – 17 August 1963) was an Irish painter, enamellist, and stained-glass artist. Life Kathleen Fox was born in Glenageary, County Dublin, on 12 September 1880. Her father was Captain Henry Charles Fox of the K ...

– flight instructor, air traffic controller, business executive *

René-Arthur Fréchet René-Arthur Fréchet (June 6, 1879 – May 28, 1950) was a Canadian architect who was active in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, modern day Acadia. He designed many churches and public buildings, a number of which are now protected for their archit ...

– architect * Pauline Fréchette – poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun *

Josh Freed Josh Freed is a Canadian writer, director and actor. He has won two Chris Awards for Best North American Current Affairs Documentary. In Canada, Freed has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, three Writers Guild of Canada Awards and a Genie Aw ...

– writer, humourist, filmmaker *

David Freiheit David Freiheit (born May 23, 1979), is a Canadian lawyer, former political candidate for the People's Party of Canada and YouTuber under the pseudonym Viva Frei. Biography Freiheit grew up in Montreal, Quebec, as the youngest of five sibli ...

– lawyer and YouTuber *

Gottfried Fuchs Gottfried Erik Fuchs (3 May 1889 – 25 February 1972), also known as Godfrey Fuchs, was a German Olympic footballer. He scored a then-world record 10 goals for the Germany national football team, Germany national team in a 16–0 win against Rus ...

(1889–1972) – German-Canadian Olympic soccer player

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Alfonso Gagliano Alfonso Gagliano (; 25 January 1942 – 12 December 2020) was a Canadian accountant and politician. Early life and family Born in Siculiana, Italy, Gagliano immigrated to Montreal in 1958. His political career began in 1977 when he ran for a ...

– politician *

André Gagné André Gagné is a professor and chair of theological studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Education Gagné has a B.Th. (2001) and Master of Arts (2003) from l'Université de Montréal, and a conjoint Ph.D. from l'Universi ...

– professor and scholar, Concordia University *

Éric Gagné Éric Serge Gagné (; born January 7, 1976) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher who played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After signing with the Dodgers as a free agent in 1995 ...

– pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers *

André Gagnon André Gagnon (2 August 1936 – 3 December 2020) was a Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, and actor, known for his fusion of classical and pop styles,Jean-Pierre Thiollet, ''88 notes pour piano solo'', Neva Editions, 2015, p.16 ...

– composer, pianist *

Marc Gagnon Marc Gagnon (born May 24, 1975) is a Canadian former short track speed skating, short track speed skater. He is a four-time World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Overall World Champion for 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and winner of three O ...

– Olympic gold medal speed skater * Marc-Antoine Gagnon – moguls skier *

Howard Galganov Howard Galganov (born February 12, 1950, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian political activist who was active as a radio personality in Montreal during the late 1990s. He made headlines in Quebec for being a vocal and confrontational opponent of t ...

– anglophone rights activist, radio personality *

Céline Galipeau Céline Galipeau () is a Canadian news anchor for Radio-Canada. Known for her coverage from Moscow, she is currently the weekday anchor of the network's flagship newscast ''Le Téléjournal''. Early life Galipeau was born in Longueuil, Quebec i ...

– anchorwoman *

Mavis Gallant Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, ( Young; 11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays. Person ...

– author *

Patsy Gallant Patricia Gallant (born August 15, 1948, in Campbellton, New Brunswick New Brunswick is a Provinces and Territories of Canada, province of Canada, bordering Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the no ...

– pop singer *

Mitch Garber Mitch Garber (born September 5, 1964) is a Canadian lawyer, investor and business executive. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 2019, that country's highest civilian honour. Career Mitch Garber is a member of the Executive Advisory Cou ...

– gaming, hotel executive, philanthropist, broadcaster *

Marc Garneau Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau (; February 23, 1949 – June 4, 2025) was a Canadian Armed Forces officer, astronaut, and politician. Garneau served as a naval officer before being selected as an astronaut as part of the 1983 NRC Group. He be ...

– astronaut, federal politician, cabinet minister *

Kathleen Gati Kathleen Gati (born 13 August 1957) is a US-based Canadian actress. She is known for portraying Liesl Obrecht on the ABC daytime soap opera ''General Hospital''. She appeared on the television series '' Leverage'' in 2009. Career At the age o ...

– actress *

Arturo Gatti Arturo Gatti (April 15, 1972 – July 11, 2009) was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007. A world champion in two weight class (boxing), weight classes, Gatti held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior lightwei ...

– professional boxer, world champion *

Daniel Gauthier Daniel Gauthier (born May 17, 1970) is a Canadian former ice hockey centre. He played 5 games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Blackhawks during the 1994–95 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1990 to 2012, was mainl ...

– co-founder of the Cirque du Soleil *

James Gelfand James Gelfand (born April 3, 1959) is a Canadian jazz pianist who has written scores for film and television. Early life Gelfand was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a large Jewish family. He is the great-grandson of Jacob Pascal, founder ...

– pianist, composer, arranger *

Bernie Geoffrion Joseph Bernard André Geoffrion (; February 16, 1931 – March 11, 2006), nicknamed "Boom Boom", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey ...

– hockey player for Montréal Canadiens *

Gettomasa Aleksi Lehikoinen (born November 22, 1993), better known by his stage name Gettomasa, is a Canadian-born Finnish rapper. He won the Finnish battle rap championship in 2012. He released his debut album ''Vellamo LP'' in 2014 with Finnish music pro ...

– Finnish rapper; born Aleksi Lehikoinen *

Yasmeen Ghauri Yasmeen Ghauri is a Canadian former fashion model. Ghauri is known for her walk also quoted as the "walk of life" by Tyra Banks. Being Pakistani, she is one of the first woman of South Asian descent to appear on the cover of ''Vogue''. Early ...

– supermodel *

Ralph Gilles Ralph Victor Gilles (; born 14 January 1970) is an American automobile designer and executive, and current Chief Design Officer of Stellantis NV. His career started in 1992, where he joined Chrysler. During his time at Chrysler, he was responsibl ...

– designer of the Chrysler 300c *

Margie Gillis Margie Gillis (born July 9, 1953) is a Canadians, Canadian dancer and choreographer. Gillis has been creating original works of modern dance for over thirty-five years. Her repertoire includes more than one hundred pieces, which she performs as ...

– dancer, choreographer *

Jessalyn Gilsig Jessalyn Sarah Gilsig (born November 30, 1971) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Meredith Gordon in ''Heroes (American TV series), Heroes'', Kayley in ''Quest for Camelot'', Lauren Davis in ''Boston Public'', Gina Russo in ...

– actress *

Jacques Godbout Jacques Godbout, OC, CQ (born November 27, 1933) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler (''touche-à-tout''), Godbout has become one of the most important wr ...

– writer, poet, filmmaker *

Phil Gold Phil Gold (born September 17, 1936) is a Canadian physician, scientist, professor and author. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a BSc degree in 1957, a MSc degree in 1961, a MD degree in 1961, and a PhD in 1965 from McGill University. He ...

– researcher, physician *

Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (1905–1998) was an American oil painter and watercolorist. A native of Montreal, Canada, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Gorenstein started painting as a teenager at a time when women artists weren't very well ...

– artist and inspiration for the documentary ''

I Remember Better When I Paint ''I Remember Better When I Paint'' is a feature length international documentary film about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies in people with Alzheimer's disease and how these approaches can change the way the disease is view ...

'' *

Victor Goldbloom Victor Charles Goldbloom (July 31, 1923 – February 15, 2016) was a Canadian pediatrician, lecturer, and politician. Early life and education He was born in Montreal, the son of Jewish pediatrician Alton Goldbloom and Annie Ballon. He studied ...

– politician, physician * Jonathan Goldstein – author, humourist and radio producer * Anne-France Goldwater – lawyer and TV court show personality *

John Gomery John Howard Gomery (August 9, 1932 – May 18, 2021) was a Canadian jurist from Quebec. He was a Justice of the Quebec Superior Court from 1982 to 2007, and appointed Commissioner for the Royal Commission investigating the Sponsorship scandal ...

– jurist *

Brian Goodwin Brian Carey Goodwin (25 March 1931 – 15 July 2009) (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada - Dartington, Totnes, Devon, UK) was a Canadian mathematician and biologist, a Professor Emeritus at the Open University and a founder of theoretica ...

– biologist *

Adam Gopnik Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist, who was raised in Montreal, Canada. He is best known as a staff writer for ''The New Yorker,'' to which he has contributed nonfiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 19 ...

– writer, essayist * Henry Gordon (1919–2009) – magician, journalist, CSI Fellow *

Huntley Gordon Huntley Ashworth Gordon (October 8, 1879 – December 7, 1956) was a Canadian actor who began his career in the Silent Film era. Profile Gordon was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated in both Canada and England. He had various jobs includi ...

– actor *

Shaul Gordon Shaul Gordon (; born July 11, 1994) is an Israeli-Canadian fencer in the sabre discipline. Gordon has represented the country on the international stage since 2013 and has competed at two Olympic Games, three Pan American Games and eight World Fe ...

(born 1994) – Canadian-Israeli Olympic

sabre A sabre or saber ( ) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the Early Modern warfare, early modern and Napoleonic period, Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such a ...

fencer *

Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan (July 18, 1848 – January 28, 1938), known as Sir Hugh Graham between 1908 and May 1917, was a Canadian newspaper publisher. Biography Born in Athelstan, Canada East (now Hinchinbrooke, Huntingdon County, ...

– newspaper publisher * Stewart Francis Granger – former NBA basketball player * W. R. Granger (William Rowen Granger) – president of the

Montreal AAA Montreal Amateur Athletic Association is Canada's oldest athletic association, located in Montreal, Quebec. It was renamed as the ''Club Sportif MAA'' or just ''MAA'' (Montreal MAA) in 1999 after a brush with bankruptcy, but is still widely known ...

, Canadian and Quebec Amateur Hockey Associations * Howard Grant – former Canadian Olympics and Commonwealth boxer; trainer, UFC welterweight champion, Georges St-Pierre *

Otis Grant Otis Grant (born December 23, 1967) is a Canadian retired boxer. As an amateur he won a silver medal for Canada at the 1987 Pan American Games, losing to Cuba's Angel Espinosa in the final. He is a two-time North American Boxing Federation (NAB ...

– Jamaican-born former WBO Middleweight boxing champion * Hulda Regina Graser – customs house broker *

Harold Greenberg Harold Greenberg, OC, CQ, (January 11, 1930 – July 1, 1996) was a Canadian film producer. Career Greenberg got his start in film working in his uncle's second-hand camera store when he was thirteen. He eventually set up his own film ...

– movie producer, founder of Astral Media *

Frank Greenleaf Frank Chapin Greenleaf (May 22, 1877January 1, 1953) was a Canadian sports administrator. He served as president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and the Hockey Québec, Quebec Amateur Hockey Association, and was an executive in the Q ...

– president of the Canadian and Quebec Amateur Hockey Associations *

Sylvain Grenier Sylvain Grenier (born March 26, 1977) is a Canadian retired Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). He is best known for his time wrestling for WWE between 2002 ...

– WWE wrestler * Irving Grundman – businessman, hockey executive *

Geneviève Guérard Geneviève Guérard (born April 19, 1973) is a Canadian dancer and television presenter living in Quebec. She was born in La Prairie. She studied at the École supérieure de ballet du Québec. Guérard joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1992 ...

– ballerina *

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Vladimir Guerrero Ramos Jr. (born March 16, 1999) is a Dominican-Canadian professional baseball first baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2019, and he bats and throws right-handed. Guerrero ...

–

MLB Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

for the

Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League East, East Division. Since 1989, the team has p ...

Quincy Guerrier Quincy Guerrier (born May 13, 1999) is a Canadian professional basketball player for Montreal Alliance of the Canadian Elite Basketball League. Guerrier played college basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini, Oregon Ducks and Syracuse Orange. ...

–

college basketball College basketball is basketball that is played by teams of Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. In the Higher education in the United States, United States, colleges and universities are governed by collegiate athle ...

player for the

Oregon Ducks The Oregon Ducks are the College sports in the United States, intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Oregon, located in Eugene, Oregon, Eugene. The Ducks compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCA ...

Philip Guston Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplis ...

– painter and printmaker

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* Dayle Haddon – model and actress *

Marc-André Hamelin Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ (born September 5, 1961) is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec ...

– pianist and composer *

Emily Hampshire Emily Hampshire is a Canadian-American actress. Her best known roles include Angelina in the 1998 romantic comedy ''Boy Meets Girl (1998 film), Boy Meets Girl'', Vivienne in the 2006 film ''Snow Cake'', Jennifer Goines in the Syfy drama series ' ...

– actress * Chris Haney – co-inventor of

Trivial Pursuit ''Trivial Pursuit'' is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question the ...

* Dan Hanganu – architect *

Louise Harel Louise Harel ( ; born April 22, 1946) is a Quebec politician. In 2005 she served as interim leader of the Parti Québécois following the resignation of Bernard Landry. She was also interim leader of the opposition in the National Assembly ...

– politician * Corey Hart – singer * Doug Harvey – Hall of Fame ice hockey player *

Jacques Hébert Jacques René Hébert (; 15 November 1757 – 24 March 1794) was a French journalist and leader of the French Revolution. As the founder and editor of the radical newspaper ''Le Père Duchesne'', he had thousands of followers known as ''the ...

– statesman *

Thomas Hellman Thomas Hellman (born 1975) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, radio columnist, and author. Born to an American father and a French mother, he sings both in French and English. Music and writing Hellman's M.A thesis in French literature in McGill ...

– pop singer * Carl Henry – singer * Prudence Heward –

Beaver Hall Group The Beaver Hall Group refers to a Montreal-based group of Canadians, Canadian painters who met in the late 1910s while studying art at a school run by the Art Association of Montreal. The Group is notable for its equal inclusion of men and women ar ...

artist *

Alonzo Highsmith Alonzo Walter Highsmith, Sr. (born February 26, 1965) is an American football executive, former fullback, and former boxer who is the senior personnel executive for the New England Patriots. He served as the vice president of player personnel ...

– former NFL football player * Dave Hilton, Jr. – world champion boxer * Matthew Hilton – world champion boxer *

William Hales Hingston Sir William Hales Hingston (29 June 1829 – 19 February 1907) was a Canadians, Canadian physician, politician, banker, and Senate of Canada, Senator. Biography Born in Hinchinbrooke, Quebec, Hinchinbrooke near Huntingdon, Quebec, he r ...

– mayor of Montreal, senator, physician *

David Julian Hirsh David Julian Hirsh (born October 26, 1973) is a Canadian actor. Early life Born and raised in a Jewish family in Montreal, and is descended from Holocaust survivors from Poland. Hirsh majored in criminology at the University of Toronto. He orig ...

– actor * Ian Hodgkinson – professional wrestler, lived in Montreal while in WCW *

Thomas William Holmes Thomas William Holmes VC (14 October 1898 – 4 January 1950) was a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), and was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the ...

– winner of the

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, British decorations system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British ...

Herbert Samuel Holt Sir Herbert Samuel Holt (February 12, 1855 – September 28, 1941) was an Ireland, Irish-born Canadians, Canadian civil engineer who became a businessman, banker, and corporate director. He was President of the Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal ...

– financier * Steve Holt – jazz pianist, AC singer-songwriter *

William Hope William Hope may refer to: * William Johnstone Hope (1766–1831), prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician * Sir William Hope, 14th Baronet (1819–1898), British Army officer * William Hope (VC) (1834–1909), Scottis ...

– actor *

Anna Hopkins Anna Hopkins (born February 12, 1987) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Lilith in Freeform's original series ''Shadowhunters'' and documentary filmmaker Monica Stuart in ''The Expanse''. Early life and education Hopkins ...

– actress *

Camillien Houde Camillien Houde (August 13, 1889 – September 11, 1958) was a Quebec politician, a Member of Parliament, and a four-time mayor of Montreal. He is of the few Canadian politicians to have served at all three levels of government. During Worl ...

– former mayor of Montreal * Alice Houghton – broker * Anthony Housefather – member of Canadian Parliament * Kent Hughes – hockey executive

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* Norman Iceberg – singer-songwriter

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* A. Y. Jackson – artist, member of the

Group of Seven The Group of Seven (G7) is an Intergovernmentalism, intergovernmental political and economic forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non- ...

* Édouard Jasmin – ceramic artist * Louis Jaque, modernist painter *

Marlene Jennings Marlene Jennings (born November 10, 1951) is a former Canadian politician. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, and represented the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine from February 2, 1997 to ...

– politician *

René Jodoin René Jodoin (30 December 1920 – 22 January 2015) was an animation director and producer who founded the French-language animation studio of the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Hull, Quebec on December 30, 1920, Jodoin died in Montreal on ...

– film animator and producer *

Daniel Johnson, Jr. Daniel Johnson Jr. (born December 24, 1944) is a former Canadian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec and was the 25th premier of Quebec for nine months in 1994 until his party's defeat in the provincial general election ...

– former Liberal premier of Quebec *

Pierre Marc Johnson Pierre Marc Johnson (born July 5, 1946) is a Canadian lawyer, physician and politician. He was the 24th premier of Quebec from October 3 to December 12, 1985, making him the province's shortest-serving premier, and the first Baby Boomer to hold ...

– former PQ premier of Quebec *

Mélanie Joly Mélanie Joly (; born January 16, 1979) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has been serving as the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Minister of Industry, Registrar General of Canada, and Minister responsible for the Economic D ...

– politician * Oliver Jones – jazz pianist *

Sass Jordan Sarah "Sass" Jordan (born 23 December 1962) is an English-born Canadian rock singer from Montreal, Quebec. Her first single, "Tell Somebody," from her debut album of the same title won the Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1989. S ...

– singer *

Kris Joseph Kristopher Carlos Joseph (born December 17, 1988) is a Canadian former professional basketball player. He played for the Syracuse Orange men's basketball team from 2008 to 2012. He was selected in the second round of the 2012 NBA draft by the Bo ...

– basketball player *

Robert Joy Robert Joy (born August 17, 1951) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as medical examiner Sid Hammerback on the police procedural series '' CSI: NY'', and his appearances in the films ''Atlantic City'' (1980), ''Ragtime'' (1981) ...

– actor *

Alexander Julien Vision Eternel (originally spelled and stylized as Vision Éternel) was a Canadian-American ambient rock band. Formed by guitarist Alexander Julien in Edison, New Jersey, United States in January 2007, the band eventually relocated to Montreal ...

– musician, member of

Vision Eternel Vision Eternel (originally spelled and stylized as Vision Éternel) was a Canadian-American ambient rock band. Formed by guitarist Alexander Julien in Edison, New Jersey, United States in January 2007, the band eventually relocated to Montreal, ...

Pierre Juneau Pierre Juneau (October 17, 1922 – February 21, 2012) was a Canadian film and broadcast executive, a one-time member of the Canadian Cabinet, the first chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) an ...

– film and broadcasting executive *

Claude Jutra Claude Jutra (; March 11, 1930 – November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter.

– filmmaker

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Emilie Kahn Emilie & Ogden is the former stage name of Canadian musician Emilie Kahn. In 2019, Kahn ceased performing under the name Emilie & Ogden and began performing as Emilie Kahn. Early life Kahn was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She began wri ...

– musician also known as Emilie & Ogden *

Garry Kallos Garry Kallos (born 5 March 1956) is a Canadian former wrestler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and won five gold medals at the Maccabiah Games in Israel, and sambo competitor who won a gold medal at the Pan American Games. Biography Kal ...

– wrestler and sambo competitor *

Tommy Kane Thomas Henry Kane (born January 14, 1964) is a Canadian former professional football player. He played for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL) for four years, and then for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football Le ...

– former NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks *

Daniel Kash Daniel Joshua Kash (born April 25, 1959) is a Canadian actor and film director. He is known for his appearances in films such as '' Aliens'', '' The Hunt for the BTK Killer'', and ''The Path to 9/11'', and in television series such as ''Law & Ord ...

– actor *

Nicholas Kasirer Nicholas Kasirer is a Canadian jurist who is serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2019. He was sworn into office on September 16, 2019. Early life and education Nicholas Kasirer was born in Montreal on February 2, 1 ...

– supreme court justice *

Victoria Kaspi Victoria Michelle Kaspi (born June 30, 1967) is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.

– astrophysicist and McGill professor *

Naïm Kattan Naïm Kattan, (, ; August 26, 1928 – July 2, 2021) was a Canadian novelist, essayist and critic of Iraqi Jewish origin. He was the author of more than 30 books, translated into several languages. Biography Kattan spent the first years of his l ...

– author, essayist * Kenneth Kaushansky – Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine,

hematologist Hematology ( spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. It involves treating diseases that affect the production ...

, Master of the

American College of Physicians The American College of Physicians (ACP) is a Philadelphia-based national organization of internal medicine physicians, who specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of adults. With 161,000 members, ACP is the largest medical-specialty or ...

Kaytranada Louis Kevin Celestin (born August 25, 1992), known professionally as Kaytranada (stylized as KAYTRANADA, shortened as KAYTRA), is a Haitian-Canadian music producer, rapper, singer and DJ. Celestin rose to prominence after releasing a series of m ...

– electronic musician, producer, DJ * Michael A. Kelen – former judge of the

Federal Court of Canada The Federal Court of Canada, which succeeded the Exchequer Court of Canada in 1971, was a national court of Canada that had limited jurisdiction to hear certain types of disputes arising under the Parliament of Canada, federal government's Canadi ...

George Kennedy George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played "Dragline" in ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supp ...

– owner of

hockey team *

Amir Khadir Amir Khadir (; born June 12, 1961) is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec. A member of Québec solidaire (QS), he was one of the party's co-spokespeople from 2006 to 2012, alongside Françoise David. From 2008 to 2018, he was a Memb ...

– physician and politician *

Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, (September 8, 1924 – March 24, 2016) was a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the first woman appointed a Cabinet minister in Quebec, t ...

– politician, judge * Franklin Kiermyer – drummer, composer, bandleader *

Andy Kim Andrew Kim (born July12, 1982) is an American politician and former diplomat serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democ ...

– singer-songwriter * A. M. Klein – poet, author *

Naomi Klein Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and Criticism of capitalism, ca ...

– author and activist *

Kid Koala Eric Yick Keung San (born December 5, 1974), better known by his stage name Kid Koala, is a Canadian scratch DJ, music producer, theatre producer, film composer, multimedia-performer and visual artist. His career began as a scratch DJ in 1994. K ...

– DJ * Leo Kolber – senator, businessman *

Benjamin Kowalewicz Benjamin Ian Kowalewicz (; born December 16, 1975) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of rock band Billy Talent. Early life Kowalewicz was born in Montreal. He grew up in Pierrefonds. When he was 11, he and his famil ...

– singer of Billy Talent *

Vanessa Kraven Vanessa Kraven (born February 10, 1982), is a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler who competed in several Independent circuit, independent Professional wrestling promotion, promotions in both the United States and Canada. She ...

– professional wrestler *

David Kristian David Kristian (born November 5, 1967) is a Canadian musician and film score composer and sound designer. David Kristian has been involved in audio for media since the early 1980s, when he first started work as an animation and experimental fil ...

– electronic musician *

Sid and Marty Krofft Sid Krofft (born July 30, 1929) and Marty Krofft (April 9, 1937 – November 25, 2023), known as The Krofft Brothers and born as Cydus and Moshopopoulos Yolas, were a Canadian sibling team of television creators, writers and puppeteers. Through ...

– producers/creators of '' H.R. Pufnstuf'', ''

The Bugaloos ''The Bugaloos'' is an American children's television series, produced by brothers Sid and Marty Krofft, that aired on NBC on Saturday mornings from 1970 to 1972. Reruns of the show aired in daily syndication from 1978 to 1985 as part of the "Krof ...

'', ''

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters ''Sigmund and the Sea Monsters'' is an American children's television series that ran from September 8, 1973, to October 18, 1975, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft and aired on Saturday mornings. It was syndicated by itself from December 1975 to ...

'', ''

Land of the Lost Land of the Lost may refer to: Film and television Film * Land of the Lost (film), ''Land of the Lost'' (film), a 2009 American comedy * ''The Land of the Lost'', a 1914 film starring Arthur Donaldson (actor), Arthur Donaldson * ''The Land of the ...

'', '' The Lost Saucer'' * Joseph Kruger – founder of Kruger Inc.

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Florence La Badie Florence La Badie (born Florence Russ; April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917) was an American-Canadian actress in the early days of the silent film era. She was a major star between 1911 and 1917. Her career was at its height when she died a ...

– actress *

Charline Labonté Charline Labonté (born October 15, 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Labonté played professionally for the Montreal Stars/Les Canadiennes de Montreal of the Canadian Women's Hockey League The Canadian Women's Ho ...

– hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2006, 2010, 2014 *

Elmer Lach Elmer James Lach ( , January 22, 1918 – April 4, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 14 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL). A Centre (ice hockey), centre, he was a member of the Pun ...

– NHL player, Hall of Famer *

Michel Maray de La Chauvignerie Michel Maray de La Chauvignerie (January 24, 1704August 10, 1778), also known as Michel Maray, sieur de la La Chauvignerie, was a French military officer in the Troupes de la Marine and interpreter of Iroquoian languages. Biography Michel Maray ...

– 18th century French military officer and interpreter *

Daniel Langlois Daniel Langlois (6 April 1957 – 2023) was a Canadian businessman who was the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc. He was founder and inaugural president of Softimage Inc., which i ...

– businessman, producer *

Hubert Lacroix Hubert T. Lacroix (born July 13, 1955) is a Canadian lawyer who served as the 15th President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the national public radio and television broadcaster, from 2008 until 2018. Born in Montreal, Qu ...

– CBC president and CEO *

Oleg Ladik Oleg Ladik (born 18 September 1971) is a Ukrainian-born Canadian former Olympic wrestler, who won a gold medal in the 1993 Maccabiah Games in Israel. He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and lives in Montreal, Quebec. Wrestling career Ladik competed f ...

– Olympic wrestler *

Dany Laferrière Dany Laferrière (; born Windsor Klébert Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a writer and filmmaker. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015. Born in Haiti, he lives between Montreal and P ...

– author *

Guy Lafleur Guy Damien Lafleur (September 20, 1951 – April 22, 2022), nicknamed "the Flower" and "Le Démon Blond", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was the first player in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 50 goals in six c ...

–

player,

Alexis Lafrenière Alexis Lafrenière (; born October 11, 2001) is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Selected first overall by the Rimouski Océanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QM ...

–

player,

New York Rangers The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. The Rangers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern Conference. The team plays ...

François Legault François Legault (; born May 26, 1957) is a Canadian politician serving as the 32nd premier of Quebec since 2018. A founding member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), he has led the party since it began in 2011. Legault sits as a Nationa ...

– businessman, politician, premier of Québec *

Corky Laing Laurence Gordon "Corky" Laing (born January 26, 1948) is a Canadian rock drummer, best known as a longtime member of the pioneering American hard rock band Mountain. He and guitarist/vocalist Leslie West were the only members to appear on eve ...

– musician *

Jon Lajoie Jonathan Lajoie ( ; born August 21, 1980) is a Canadian comedian, actor, rapper, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, musician and Internet celebrity. He gained fame mostly from his YouTube channel, posting comedic original songs (ofte ...

– comedian *

Guy Laliberté Guy Laliberté, (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian billionaire businessman and poker player. Along with Gilles Ste-Croix, he is the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, which was founded in 1984. The Canadian circus company's shows have since be ...

– founder and CEO of Cirque de Soleil *

Pierre Lalonde Pierre Lalonde (January 20, 1941 – June 21, 2016) was a Canadian singer and television host, who was sometimes also billed as Peter Martin in the United States. The son of Jean Lalonde, a popular singer in the 1940s, Lalonde attended high sch ...

– singer, tv host *

Paul Lambert Paul Lambert (born 7 August 1969) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Ipswich Town. Lambert played as a midfielder and won the Scottish Cup in 1987 with St Mirren as a 17-year-o ...

– left guard, Montreal Alouettes *

Phyllis Lambert Phyllis Barbara Lambert (née Bronfman; born January 24, 1927) is a Canadian architect, philanthropist, and member of the Bronfman family. Life Born in Montreal, Quebec, she studied at The Study, a premier independent school for girls, and was ...

– architect and member of the Bronfman family *

Mado Lamotte Mado Lamotte is the stage name of Luc Provost, a Canadian drag queen, author, singer and gay community personality, most noted as the owner of the Cabaret Mado drag club in Montreal, Quebec. Career Provost, who studied theatre at the Université ...

– drag queen and author * Jacques Lanctôt – FLQ member, convicted terrorist *

Louise Lanctôt Louise Lanctôt (born March 24, 1947) is a Canadian convicted kidnapper and writer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lanctôt is a political activist for the cause of Quebec independence from Canada. Louise Lanctôt was an active member of the Ra ...

– FLQ member, convicted terrorist *

Edmond Lapierre Edmond Anthony Lapierre (25 January 1866 – 20 June 1960) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative. Lapierre attended St. Mary's Academy in Montreal. He worked ...

– former MPP *

Jean Lapierre Jean-Charles Lapierre (May 7, 1956 – March 29, 2016) was a Canadian politician and television and radio broadcaster. After retiring from the government in 2007, he served as a political analyst in a variety of venues. He was Paul Martin's Q ...

– politician, broadcaster * Éric Lapointe – CFL running back for the Montreal Alouettes *

Pierre Laporte Pierre Laporte (; 25 February 1921 – 17 October 1970) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician. He was deputy premier of the province of Quebec when he was kidnapped and murdered by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FL ...

– politician *

Georges Laraque Georges Laraque (; born December 7, 1976) is a Canadians, Canadian former ice hockey player noted for being one the most successful hockey Enforcer_(ice_hockey), enforcers of his time. Laraque retired from hockey in 2010 after the Montreal Cana ...

– NHL player *

Ryan Larkin Ryan Larkin (July 31, 1943 – February 14, 2007) was a Canadian animator, artist, and sculptor who rose to fame with the psychedelic Oscar-nominated short ''Walking'' (1968) and the acclaimed '' Street Musique'' (1972). He was the subject of the ...

– animator * Pat Larochelle – professional ice hockey player *

Ricardo Larrivée Ricardo Larrivée (born March 12, 1967) , sometimes mononymously credited as Ricardo, is a television host and a food writer who lives in Quebec, Canada. He hosts the television show ''Ricardo'' on Radio-Canada and previously hosted '' Ricardo ...

– chef, tv host, cookbook author, businessman *

Nicholas Latifi Nicholas Daniel Latifi (; born 29 June 1995) is a Canadian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, Latifi is the son of Iranian Canadians, Iranian-Canadian billionaire businessman ...

– racing driver currently driving for

Williams Racing Williams Racing, legally known as Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited and competing as Atlassian Williams Racing, is a British Formula One team and constructor. It was founded by Frank Williams (1942–2021) and Patrick Head. The team w ...

Zoé Laurier Zoé, Lady Laurier ( Lafontaine; June 26, 1841 – November 1, 1921), was the wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada. Biography Zoé Lafontaine was born on 27 June 1841 to Godefroy-Napoleon Robert Lafontaine and Z ...

– wife of

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier (November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and Liberal politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime min ...

Lisa Lavie Lisa Lavie (surname pronounced ''lah-'') is a Canadian singer and songwriter originally from LaSalle, Quebec, Canada. Background Lavie's early musical influences included her older brothers, hip hop dancer Michael and disk jockey Danny. At age ...

– singer-songwriter *

Irving Layton Irving Peter Layton, OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made him enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001 ...

– poet, essayist, short story writer *

Jack Layton John Gilbert Layton (July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011) was a Canadian politician and academic who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2003 to 2011 and leader of the Official Opposition in 2011. He previously sat on T ...

– politician, leader of the federal New Democratic Party * Irina Lăzăreanu – fashion model *

La Zarra Fatima-Zahra Hafdi (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء حافظي; born 25 August 1988), known professionally as La Zarra (), is a Canadian singer based in France. She France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, represented France in the Eurovisi ...

– singer-songwriter *

Charlotte Le Bon Charlotte Le Bon (born 4 September 1986) is a Canadian actress and director based in Paris. She is known for her work in the Canal+ talk show '' Le Grand Journal'', and the films '' Yves Saint Laurent'', '' The Hundred-Foot Journey'', and '' T ...

– actress *

Louise Lecavalier Louise Lecavalier OC (born October 3, 1958) is a Canadian dancer known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance. Biography Lecavalier was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She began her professional dance career at the age of ei ...

– dancer *

Vincent Lecavalier Vincent Lecavalier (born April 21, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre currently working as a special advisor of hockey operations for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected first ove ...

– NHL player *

Fernand Leduc Fernand Leduc (4 July 1916 – 28 January 2014) was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene in the 1940s and 1950s. During his 50-year career, Leduc participated in many exhibitions in Ca ...

– painter *

Jos LeDuc Michel Pigeon (August 31, 1944 – May 1, 1999) was a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Jos LeDuc. Wrestling with a lumberjack gimmick, he debuted in Stampede Wrestling with his kayfabe brother, Paul LeDuc. The pair l ...

– professional wrestler *

Ranee Lee Ranee Lee, CM is an American jazz singer and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec. She is also an actor, author, educator and television host. Referred as “''Montreal's Queen of Jazz,''” Lee is a Juno Award winner, two-time Top Canadian ...

– jazz singer * Sébastien Lefebvre – guitarist of

and vocalist *

Alain Lefèvre Alain Lefèvre, (; born July 23, 1962) is a French Canadian pianist and composer. He has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Théatre des Champs-Élysées, Théatre du Châtelet, Sa ...

– pianist and composer *

Rachelle Lefevre Rachelle Marie Lefevre ( , ; born February 1, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She has starred in the television series '' Big Wolf on Campus'' and had recurring roles in '' What About Brian'', '' Boston Legal'', and '' Swingtown''. She played the va ...

– actress *

Jean Leloup Jean Leclerc (; born May 14, 1961) is a Québécois singer-songwriter and author from Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. He is popularly known as Jean Leloup (which he likes to translate to John the Wolf), a stage name he kept using until 2006, when h ...

– musician *

Jean-Paul Lemieux Jean Paul Lemieux, (; 1904 - 1990) was one of the foremost twentieth century painters in Canada. He worked in several different styles, as represented by his five artistic periods. Biography He was born in Quebec City, where he also died. He ...

$ndash; painter *

Mario Lemieux Mario Lemieux (; ; born October 5, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played parts of 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins between 1984–85 NHL season, 1984 and 2005–06 NHL se ...

(born 1965) – NHL player *

Vanessa Lengies Vanessa Lengies (born July 21, 1985) is a Canadian actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for starring in the drama ''American Dreams'' as Roxanne Bojarski. She appeared as Charge Nurse Kelly Epson on the TNT medical drama '' HawthoRNe'', and ...

– actress *

Guy A. Lepage Guy A. Lepage (; born Guy Antoine Lepage, 30 August 1960) is a Canadian comedian, actor, talk show host, and producer. Career Lepage was one of the five founding members of the Quebec comedy group Rock et Belles Oreilles (which also included Y ...

– television personality *

Marc Lépine Marc Lépine (; born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi; October 26, 1964 – December 6, 1989) was a Canadian mass murderer. On December 6, 1989, he murdered fourteen women and wounded another ten women and four menNote: Many sources state thirt ...

–

mass murderer Mass murder is the violent crime of murder, killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity. A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more ...

René Lépine René G. Lépine (born October 23, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist. Lépine was the chairman of Groupe Lépine, a real estate development and investment firm he founded in 1953. He is widely consid ...

– real-estate developer *

Chris Leroux Christopher Adam Leroux (born April 14, 1984) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher and television personality. He played for the Miami Marlins, Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates, and New York Yankees in Major League Baseball (MLB ...

–

pitcher (

Florida Marlins The Miami Marlins are an American professional baseball team based in Miami. The Marlins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East Division. The team plays its home games at LoanDepot Park. The ...

Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central ...

) *

Pierre Leroux Pierre Henri Leroux (; 7 April 1797 – 12 April 1871) was a French philosopher and political economy, political economist. He was born at Bercy, now a part of Paris, France, Paris, the son of an artisan. Life His education was interrupted by ...

– novelist, journalist and screenwriter *

Jean Lesage Jean Lesage (; June 10, 1912 – December 12, 1980) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 19th premier of Quebec from July 5, 1960, to June 16, 1966. Alongside Georges-Émile Lapalme, René Lévesque and others, he is often v ...

– lawyer, politician *

Kris Letang Kristopher Joseph Pierre Irwin Letang (born April 24, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played juniors in the Quebec Major Junior Hock ...

– QMJHL player, NHL player, three-time

champion with the

André Éric Létourneau André Éric Létourneau is a French Canadian media and transmedia artist, researcher, author, musician, composer, curator and professor based primarily in Montreal and Saint-Alponse-Rodriguez, Québec, Canada. He uses several pseudonyms, most ...

– intermedia artist, composer * Jean-Louis Lévesque – stockbroker, horse racing builder *

Devon Levi Devon Levi (born December 27, 2001) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Levi was the MVP at the 2019 World Junior A Challenge. He was then the 2019–20 ...

– goaltender drafted by

Florida Panthers The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in the Miami metropolitan area. The Panthers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team initially played it ...

in the 7th round, 212th overall in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, current

Northeastern Huskies The Northeastern Huskies are the athletic teams representing Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. They compete in thirteen varsity team sports: men's and women's hockey (in Hockey East); men's baseball, men's and women's basketball ...

Canada men's national junior ice hockey team The Canadian men's national under-20 ice hockey team is the ice hockey team representing Canada internationally in under-20 competition. Their primary participation in this age group comes at the International Ice Hockey Federation's World Juni ...

Shawn Levy Shawn Adam Levy (; born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian and American filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a director have grossed a collective $3.5 billion worldwid ...

– director and actor *

Jaclyn Linetsky Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky (January 8, 1986 – September 8, 2003) was a Canadian actress who played the title character on ''Caillou'' and Megan O'Connor on '' 15/Love''. Early life Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky was born on January 8, 1986, at the ...

– actress *

David Lipper David Lipper is a Canadian actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for his role as Viper in the ABC television sitcom ''Full House'' (1994–1995). His other roles include Jace in the television film '' She Fought Alone'' (1995), R ...

– actor *

Arthur Lismer Arthur Lismer, LL.D. (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven and educator. He is known primarily as a landscape painter and for his paintings of ships in dazzle camouflage. Early life ...

– painter, member of the

Liu Fang Liu Fang 1974) is a Chinese Canadians, Chinese–Canadian musician who is one of the most prominent ''pipa'' players in the world. Described in the media as the "empress of pipa" (''L'actualité''), "divine mediator" (World), "the greates ...

– musician *

Pascal Lochard Pascal Lochard (born September 17, 1990) is a Canadian former professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqua ...

– CFL player *

Édouard Lock Édouard Lock (born March 3, 1954, in Morocco) is a Canadian dance choreographer and the founder of the Canadian dance group, La La La Human Steps. Career La La La Human Steps Founder, Artistic Director and Choreographer Édouard Lock began h ...

– choreographer *

William Edmond Logan Sir William Edmond Logan, FRSE FRS FGS (20 April 1798 – 22 June 1875), was a Canadian-born geologist and the founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada. Life William Edmond Logan was born into a well-to-do Montreal family ...

– geologist * Jennifer Lonergan – educator, nonprofit executive, promoter of third-world women's craftmanship *

Loud (rapper) Loud is the stage name of Simon Cliche Trudeau, a Canadians, Canadian rapper from Quebec. Formerly associated with the band Loud Lary Ajust, he released his debut solo recording ''Une année record'' in 2017. His tour to support the album include ...

– rapper, songwriter * Colin Low – filmmaker *

Luba (singer) Luba (born Lubomyra Kowalchyk (), 24 April 1958) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and recording artist from Montreal. She was professionally active from 1980 to 1990, 2000 to 2001, and is active again as of 2007. At the beginning of ...

– recording artist *

Lunice Lunice Fermin Pierre II (born May 15, 1988), better known by his mononymous stage name Lunice, is a Canadian record producer and DJ from Montreal. He is one half of the duo TNGHT along with Hudson Mohawke. Biography Lunice is the son of a Fili ...

– musician *

Roberto Luongo Roberto Luongo (, , ; born April 4, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, and Vancouver Canucks. In 2022, Luongo was ...

– NHL goaltender * Yves A. Lussier – physician-scientist in translational bioinformatics *

John Goodwin Lyman John Goodwin Lyman (September 29, 1886 – May 26, 1967) was an American-born Canadian modernist painter active largely in Montreal, Quebec. In the 1930s he did much to promote modern art in Canada, founding the Contemporary Art Society in 1939. ...

– modernist painter

M

Tom Maayan Tom Kenji Maayan (; born July 5, 1993) is an Israeli professional basketball player who last played for Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for Seton Hall University before playing professiona ...

(born 1993) – Canada-born Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League *

L. Ian MacDonald L. (Lawrence) Ian MacDonald (born 1947) is a Canadians, Canadian writer, columnist, broadcaster, public speaker, and diplomat.

(born 1947) – author, columnist, broadcaster, and diplomat * William C. Macdonald – tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist *

Danny Maciocia Danny Maciocia (born May 26, 1967) is a Canadian football coach who is the current general manager of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was previously head coach of the Université de Montréal Carabins football te ...

– CFL football coach *

Don Macpherson Don Macpherson (born 7 September 1954) is a British screenwriter working in films and television. Biography Macpherson was born in Durham, and educated at Nottingham High School and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an Exhibitio ...

– journalist * Nicolas Macrozonaris – sprinter, track and field *

Arnaud Maggs Arnaud Maggs (May 5, 1926 – November 17, 2012) was a Canadian artist and photographer. Born in Montreal, Maggs is best known for stark portraits arranged in grid-like arrangements, which illustrate his interest in systems of identification and c ...

– artist, photographer *

André Major André Major (born April 22, 1942) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.André Major
The Canad ...

– author *

Sean Patrick Maloney Sean Patrick Maloney (born July 30, 1966) is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2024 to 2025. He served as the U.S. representative from from ...

– Canadian-American politician and

U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of th ...

for the state of

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York New York may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * ...

since 2013 *

Jeanne Mance Jeanne Mance (; November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hos ...

– founder of first hospital in North America, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, 1645 *

Frederic Marcotte Frederic Marcotte is a poet and musician. He published ''Évangile'' (gospel) in August 2010, which earned him to be finalist for the poetry prize of the Fondation Émile-Nelligan for Canadian poets under 35 years old. In March 2011, ''Théorie ...

– poet and musician *

Rudolph A. Marcus Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born American chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems". Marcus theory, named after hi ...

– Nobel laureate of chemistry * Lou Marinoff – philosopher at City College of New York *

Yann Martel Yann Martel, (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel '' Life of Pi'', an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spe ...

– writer,

Man Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, wh ...

2002 *

Paul Martin Paul Edgar Philippe Martin (born August 28, 1938), also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian lawyer and retired politician who served as the 21st prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2003 to 2006. Th ...

– former prime minister of Canada * Russell Martin – baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays *

Massari Sari Abboud (; born December 10, 1980), better known by his stage name Massari ( ), is a Lebanese-Canadian singer and songwriter. He began his career in the early 2000s and went on to release two contemporary R&B, R&B albums, ''Massari (album), Ma ...

– singer *

Mike Matheson Michael Matheson (born February 27, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 23rd overall, by the Florida Pa ...

– NHL player for the Montreal Canadiens * Bennedict Mathurin – NBA player * Charles Mayer – journalist, sportsperson and politician *

John McCallum John McCallum (born 9 April 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist, diplomat and former university professor. A former Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP), McCallum was the Canadian Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2019. He was asked for ...

– politician *

John Wilson McConnell John Wilson McConnell (July 1, 1877 – November 6, 1963) was a Canadian sugar refiner, newspaper publisher, humanitarian and philanthropist in Quebec, Canada. Early life J.W. McConnell was born to a farming family in the District Municipalit ...

– businessman, publisher, philanthropist * David Ross McCord – lawyer, philanthropist *

Kevin McDonald Kevin Hamilton McDonald (born May 16, 1961) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, who have appeared together in a number of stage, television and film productions, most notably the 1988–1 ...

– actor/comedian/voice actor, member of The Kids in the Hall *

Anna McGarrigle Anna McGarrigle, CM (born December 4, 1944) is a Canadian folk music singer and songwriter who recorded and performed with her late sister Kate McGarrigle. Early life Anna McGarrigle studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal (1964-1968) ...

– singer, songwriter *

Kate McGarrigle Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010)Obituary at CBC ...

– singer, songwriter *

Thomas D'Arcy McGee Thomas D'Arcy McGee (13 April 18257 April 1868) was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was an Irish Catholic who opposed British rule in Ireland, and was ...

– politician *

Molly McGlynn Molly McGlynn is a Canadian Americans, Canadian American film and television director and screenwriter.

– film and television director and screenwriter *

Ken McGoogan Kenneth McGoogan (born 1947). is the Canadian author of fifteen books, including ''Flight of the Highlanders'', ''Dead Reckoning'', ''50 Canadians Who Changed the World'', ''How the Scots Invented Canada'', and four biographical narratives focusing ...

– writer *

Duncan McIntyre Duncan MacIntyre or Duncan McIntyre may refer to: * Duncan Ban MacIntyre (1724–1812), Scottish Gaelic poet * Duncan MacIntyre (New Zealand politician) (1915–2001), New Zealand politician * Duncan McIntyre (businessman) (1834–1894), Canadian b ...

– businessman * Scott McKay – former city counsellor and leader of the

Green Party of Quebec The Green Party of Quebec (GPQ; , PVQ) is a Quebec political party whose platform is the promotion of green politics. It has not won any seats in the National Assembly of Quebec. Its platform is oriented towards promotion of green values, sus ...

Patricia McKenzie Patricia McKenzie (born March 3, 1987) is a Canadian actress, producer, dancer and singer. Career Patricia is best known as an actress for her role in '' Cosmopolis'' and on television as Reena in '' Charlie Jade'' and Jenn in '' Naked Josh''. ...

– actress *

Norman McLaren William Norman McLaren, LL. D. (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).Rosenthal, Alan. ''The new documentary in action: a caseb ...

– film animation pioneer *

Stuart McLean Andrew Stuart McLean, (April 19, 1948 – February 15, 2017) was a Canadian radio broadcaster, humorist, monologist, and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio program '' The Vinyl Cafe''.Simon McTavish – businessman *

Ronald Melzack Ronald Melzack (July 19, 1929 – December 22, 2019) was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at McGill University. In 1965, he and Patrick David Wall re-charged pain research by introducing the gate control theory of pain. In 19 ...

– psychologist, professor * Juan Mendez – former NCAA basketball player, Niagara University *

Monique Mercure Marie Lise Monique Émond (14 November 193016 May 2020), better known as Monique Mercure (), was a Canadian stage and screen actress. She was one of the country's great actors of the classical and modern repertory. In 1977, Mercure won a Cann ...

– actress * Charles Meredith – president of the Montreal Stock Exchange *

Frederick Edmund Meredith Frederick Edmund Meredith (January 16, 1862 – September 23, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and businessman. He was the 8th Chancellor (education), Chancellor of Bishop's University; President of the Mount Royal Club; Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montre ...

– lawyer, chancellor of Bishop's University *

Vincent Meredith Sir Henry Vincent Meredith, 1st Baronet (February 28, 1850 – February 24, 1929), was a Canadians, Canadian banker and philanthropist. He was president of the Bank of Montreal, the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Royal Victoria Hospital and ...

– first and last Baronet of Montreal; president of the Bank of Montreal *

William Collis Meredith Sir William Collis Meredith, (23 May 1812 – 26 February 1894) was Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, Superior Court for the Province of Quebec from 1866 to 1884. In 1844, he was offered but refused the positions of Solicitor Genera ...

– Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec *

Luck Mervil Lucknerson Junior Mervil (born October 20, 1967), is a Haitian-Canadian singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur. He is known for his work in the French musical Notre-Dame-de-Paris, playing Clopin in the original French & English casts. Dur ...

– singer, actor * Jim Miller – Canadian football player * Marc Miller – politician * Robert Miller – businessman, founder of

Future Electronics Future Electronics Inc. is a distributor of electronic and electro-mechanical components headquartered in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Future Electronics is one of Quebec's largest privately owned companies and is currently the third largest electroni ...

Brenda Milner Brenda Milner (''née'' Langford; born 15 July 1918) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Milner is a professor in the Dep ...

– neuropsychologist *

Andrew Molson Andrew Thomas Molson is a Canadian businessman born in 1967 in Montreal. He is the eldest son of Eric Molson and the brother of Justin Molson and Geoff Molson. He is a member of the Molson family. Education Andrew Molson attended secondary ...

– businessman, member of the

Molson family The Molson family of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was founded by John Molson, who immigrated to Canada in 1782 from his home in Lincolnshire, England. They are considered to be one of Canada's most prominent business families with a combined net w ...

, eldest son of

Eric Molson Eric Herbert Molson (born September 16, 1937) is a Canadian billionaire businessman. He is the former chairman of Molson Coors and former Chancellor of Concordia University. He is a member of the Molson family. Education Born in Montreal, Eric M ...

– brewer, businessman, member of the

Geoff Molson Geoffrey Eric Molson (born July 23, 1971), is a Canadian businessman and current president and chief executive officer and co-owner of the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens, Evenko, Bell Centre, and L'Équipe Spectra alongside his b ...

– businessman, member of the

, son of

Hartland Molson Hartland de Montarville Molson, (May 29, 1907 – September 28, 2002) was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, Senate of Canada, Canadian senator, military aviator, and a member of the Molson family of brewing, brewers. Education Born in Montreal, Que ...

– brewer, World War II fighter pilot, statesman, member of the

John Molson John Molson (28 December 1763 – 11 January 1836) was an English people, English-born brewer and entrepreneur in colonial Province of Quebec (1763–91), Quebec, which during his lifetime became Lower Canada. In addition to founding Molson Brewe ...

– brewer, railway and steamship line builder, member of the

Percival Molson Captain Percival Talbot "Percy" Molson, MC (August 14, 1880 – July 5, 1917) was a Canadian star athlete and soldier. After an outstanding sports career with McGill University, Molson joined its administration. Molson died fighting in World ...

– athlete, soldier, member of the

Robert Moncel Lieutenant General Robert William Moncel (9 April 1917 – 10 December 2007) was a senior officer in the Canadian Army. Moncel was Lieutenant-General of the Canadian Army and former Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. He was the youngest gener ...

– commander of the

4th Canadian Armoured Brigade The 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade of the Canadian Army during World War II. It was part of the 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division. Organization As of 1942 the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade comprised: * 21st Armoured Reg ...

in the Second World War *

Raymond de Montmorency Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph de Montmorency VC (5 February 1867 – 23 February 1900) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Bri ...

– recipient of the

Édouard Montpetit Édouard Montpetit (; 26 September 1881 – 27 May 1954) was a Quebec lawyer, economist and academic. Biography Montpetit was born on 26 September 1881 in Montmagny, Quebec. Called to the bar in 1904, Montpetit worked as a lawyer and taught poli ...

– lawyer, economist, academic *

Dickie Moore (ice hockey) Richard Winston Moore (January 6, 1931 – December 19, 2015) was a Canadian professional hockey player, businessman and community philanthropist. He won the Art Ross Trophy twice as the National Hockey League's leading scorer and was inducted int ...

– NHL player, Hall of Famer *

Henry Morgan Sir Henry Morgan (; – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he and those under his command raided settlements and shipping ports o ...

– department store founder *

Henry Morgentaler Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler (March 19, 1923 – May 29, 2013), was a Polish-born Canadian physician, and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a Jewish youth during World War ...

– physician, advocate for women's rights to abortion * Marjolène Morin – singer * James Wilson Morrice – landscape artist * Terry Mosher – editorial cartoonist * Ben Mulroney – television host; son of Brian Mulroney * Brian Mulroney – former prime minister of Canada * Caroline Mulroney – politician * Mila Mulroney – wife of the 18th prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney

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*Ruba Nadda – producer *Pierre Nadeau – journalist, television presenter and producer * Narcy (rapper), Narcy – hip hop artist * Émile Nelligan – poet * Sophie Nélisse – actress * Hillel Neuer – human rights lawyer, executive director UN Watch * Yannick Nézet-Séguin – conductor * Kai Nielsen (philosopher), Kai Nielsen – naturalist philosopher at Concordia University * Craig Norman – head basketball coach of McGill University Redmen; former basketball player for Concordia University * Aldo Nova – singer, musician, producer

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* Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan – politician, Parti patriote member * Alexander Walker Ogilvie – miller, statesman * Heather O'Neill – author * Erin O'Toole – politician, Conservative Party of Canada member * Maryse Ouellet – glamour model and former WWE wrestler * Caroline Ouellette – hockey player, Canadian women's Olympic team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006

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* 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 – astronaut, governor general * Trevor W. Payne – founder and music director of the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir * Cory Pecker (born 1981) – hockey player, right wing (EHC Visp) * Érik Péladeau – businessman (Québecor) * Pierre Péladeau – founder of Quebecor * Pierre Karl Péladeau – CEO of Quebecor Media * Alfred Pellan – painter * Gérard Pelletier – journalist and politician * Wilfrid Pelletier – symphony conductor * Wilder Penfield, 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 – former 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 * Valérie Plante – mayor of Montreal * Christopher Plummer – actor * Judes Poirier – university professor * Camille Poliquin – musician * Antoni Porowski – chef, actor, and television personality * 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 * Olivier-Maxence Prosper – NBA player

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* Nathalie Quagliotto – visual artist * Tegan and Sara, Sara Quin – musician

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*Zotique Racicot – auxiliary bishop of Montreal from 1905 to 1915 * Jesse Rath (born 1989) – actor * Meaghan Rath – actress * Claude Raymond (baseball), Claude Raymond – former baseball player and coach * Jade Raymond – video game designer and producer * John Redpath – businessman, philanthropist * Hubert Reeves – astrophysicist * Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid – social reformer, church worker, clubwoman * Heather Reisman – businesswoman * Ginette Reno – singer * Caroline Rhea – actress * Mike Ribeiro – NHL player * Henri Richard – former NHL player * Maurice Richard – former NHL player * Mordecai Richler – writer * Nancy Richler – novelist * Helen Richmond Young Reid – social worker * Jean-Paul Riopelle – painter, sculptor * Vito Rizzuto – mobster * Léa Roback – trade union organizer, activist * Alphonso Theodore Roberts – political activist, cricketer * Sam Roberts (singer-songwriter), Sam Roberts – musician * Marc Robillard – musician, composer and songwriter * Braulio Rocha – photographer * Percy Rodrigues – actor * Sasha Roiz (born 1973) – Israeli-born Canadian actor * Cristina Rosato – actress * Fred Rose (politician), Fred Rose – trade union organiser, politician * Paul Rose (Quebec), Paul Rose – terrorist, political figure * Ari Rosenberg (born 1964) – Israeli basketball player * Ethel Rosenfield (1910–2000) – sculptor * Charlie J. Ross – vaudeville performer * J.K.L. Ross – racehorse owner, philanthropist * Allan Roth – baseball statistics, baseball statistician for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers * Patrice Roy – news anchor * Albert S. Ruddy – film and television producer, known for producing ''The Godfather'' and ''Million Dollar Baby'', which won him two Academy Awards for Best Picture * Greg Rusedski – tennis player * Allison Russell – singer songwriter * Claude Ryan – publisher, statesman * Frank "Dunie" Ryan – mobster

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* Roméo Sabourin – Special Operations Executive, SOE agent, World War II, WW II hero executed by the Nazis * Moshe Safdie – architect, urban designer * Peter Sagar – multi-instrumentalist, known for his band HOMESHAKE and former touring guitarist for Mac DeMarco * Idola Saint-Jean – journalist, educator, feminist * Benjamin St-Juste – American football player * Martin St. Louis – NHL player * Georges St-Pierre – professional MMA fighter * Kim St-Pierre – hockey goaltender, Canadian Olympic women's team * Sugar Sammy – stand-up comedian * Lino Saputo – businessman * Jeanne Sauvé – 23rd governor general of Canada * Serge Savard – NHL player * Anne Savage (artist), Anne Savage – artist * Derek Seguin – comic * Marco Scandella – NHL player * Arnold Scaasi – fashion designer * Aliocha Schneider – singer, actor * Paul Schoeffler – voice actor, actor * Seymour Schulich – businessman, philanthropist * Joseph A. Schwarcz – doctor of chemistry and professor at McGill University, formerly at Vanier College * Cynthia Scott – Academy Award-winning director * F. R. Scott, Frank Scott – scholar, poet, professor, lawyer * Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger – winner of the

in World War I * Mark Shainblum – comics writer and co-creator of Northguard * Marla Shapiro – CTV Television Network, CTV medical reporter and physician * Omar Sharif Jr. – actor, author, activist * William Shatner – actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in ''Star Trek'' * Douglas Shearer – Academy Award-winning motion picture sound engineer * Norma Shearer – Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning actress * Eliezer Sherbatov (born 1991) – Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player * Madeleine Sherwood – actress, played Mother Superior in ''The Flying Nun'' * Sir George Simpson – explorer, governor of HBC * Karen Simpson – actress and fashion designer * Jaspreet Singh – author * Charles Sirois – telecommunications * David Six (artist), David Six – artist * Skiifall – rapper * Jeff Skoll – Internet entrepreneur * Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Smith – railway executive * George M. Smith – Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Larry Smith (Canadian football), Larry Smith – former CFL football player; former president of the Montreal Alouettes * Nahum Sonenberg – biochemist, professor at McGill University * Wonny Song – classical concert pianist * Kwasi Songui – actor * Alex Soria – singer-guitarist (The Nils, Chino) * Peter Stearns – historian, honorary knight * H. Arnold Steinberg – businessman, philanthropist, chancellor of McGill University * Sam Steinberg – supermarket founder * Tobie Steinhouse – artist * Ralph M. Steinman – 2011 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine * George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, George Stephen – banker, railway executive * Jeff Stinco – lead guitarist of

* P.J. Stock – NHL player, broadcaster * Lance Stroll (born 1998) – Formula One racing driver * Lawrence Stroll (born 1959) – owner of Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Racing Point F1 Team, major shareholder/executive chairman in Aston Martin and father to Formula One driver Lance Stroll * Howard Stupp (born 1955) – Olympic wrestler * Bruny Surin – track and field athlete * Daisy Sweeney – pianist, music teacher * 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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* Mutsumi Takahashi – journalist * Maxime Talbot – NHL player * Ari Taub (wrestler), Ari Taub (born 1971) – Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler * Charles Taylor (philosopher), Charles Taylor – philosopher emeritus at McGill University, McGill * Lucille Teasdale-Corti – physician, humanitarian * Iro Tembeck – ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher * José Théodore – NHL player * David Thompson (explorer), David Thompson – explorer * Ryan Thorne – head basketball coach for the McGill Martlets, former CIAU champion in basketball with Bishop's University * Kim Thúy – author * Jacob Tierney – actor, director, screenwriter, producer * Kevin Tierney – movie producer * Tiga (musician), 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 * Clem Trihey – professional ice hockey player * Alexandre Trudeau – journalist; son of Pierre Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada * Justin Trudeau – 23rd prime minister of Canada, son of Pierre Trudeau, a former prime minister of Canada * Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) – List of Prime Ministers of Canada, 15th prime minister of Canada * Sophie Grégoire Trudeau – former spouse of the 23rd prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau * Yves Trudeau (biker) – contract killer, gangster * Alain Trudel – conductor * Yanic Truesdale – actor * Jean-Claude Turcotte – Roman Catholic cardinal * Roxane Turcotte – author of children's and youth literature * George Tutunjian – performer of Armenian revolutionary songs * Rachel Tyndale – pharmacogeneticist

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* David Usher – singer-songwriter

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* Maurice Vachon – also known as Mad Dog Vachon; wrestling champion * Armand Vaillancourt – sculptor * Stevie Vallance – also known as Louise Vallance; singer, musician, actress, voice actress and director * Jean-Marc Vallée – filmmaker * Karine Vanasse – actress, tv host * Ernie Vandeweghe – former NBA basketball player, New York Knicks * Georges Vanier – governor general * Gino Vannelli – singer-songwriter * Chris Velan – singer-songwriter * Joe Veleno – NHL prospect for the Detroit Red Wings * Jacques Vieau – fur trader and early Wisconsin settler * Denis Villeneuve – filmmaker * Gilles Villeneuve – Formula One driver * Jacques Villeneuve – Formula One driver (1997 World Champion); 1995 IndyCar champion; son of Gilles Villeneuve * Claude Vivier – contemporary classical music, contemporary classical composer, ethnomusicologist and poet * Marc-Édouard Vlasic – NHL player, currently playing for the San Jose Sharks * Roch Voisine – singer

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* Eleanor Wachtel – writer and broadcaster *Richard Wagner – Chief Justice of Canada * Mark Wainberg – AIDS researcher * Martha Wainwright – singer-songwriter * Rufus Wainwright – singer-songwriter * Avi Wallerstein (surgeon), Avi Wallerstein – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD * Amanda Walsh – actress * Dwight Walton – professional basketball player, Canadian Olympian * Patrick Watson (musician), Patrick Watson – singer-songwriter * 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 * Esther Wertheimer – sculptor and educator * 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 * Bernie Wolfe (hockey), Bernie Wolfe (born 1951) – NHL hockey player * William Workman (Canadian politician), William Workman – businessman and municipal politician * Peter Worrell – former NHL player * Aleksandra Wozniak – tennis player

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* Xue Yiwei – writer – Côte-des-Neiges

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* Joel Yanofsky – writer * Nikki Yanofsky – jazz singer * Wayne Yearwood – former professional basketball player; Canadian Olympian

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* Sami Zayn – professional wrestler currently signed to the WWE * Larry Zeidel, Larry "Rock" Zeidel (1928–2014) – NHL player * Joel Zifkin – electric violinist, singer-songwriter * David Zilberman (wrestler), David Zilberman – Olympic heavyweight wrestler * Moses Znaimer – co-founder of Toronto's CityTV * Mortimer Zuckerman – magazine editor, publisher, real estate tycoon

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