45.5089° N, 73.5617° W — 4,908 FAMOUS PEOPLE
MONTREAL
Most Famous People Born in Montreal, Canada
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
William Shatner
Born 1931
Pierre Trudeau
1919 - 2000
Xavier Dolan
Born 1989
Steven Pinker
Born 1954
Mario Lemieux
Born 1965
Naomi Klein
Born 1970
Norma Shearer
1902 - 1983
Oscar Peterson
1925 - 2007
Jason Reitman
Born 1977
Geneviève Bujold
Born 1942
Charles Taylor (philosopher)
Born 1931
Jessalyn Gilsig
Born 1971
Maurice Richard
1921 - 2000
Rachelle Lefevre
Born 1979
Eric Berne
1910 - 1970
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Born 1975
Elias Koteas
Born 1961
Colleen Dewhurst
1924 - 1991
Shawn Levy
Born 1968
Charlotte Le Bon
Born 1986
Marie-Josée Croze
Born 1970
Henry Mintzberg
Born 1939
Anke Engelke
Born 1965
Maynard Ferguson
1928 - 2006
Jessica Paré
Born 1980
Melissa Auf der Maur
Born 1972
Hubert Reeves
Born 1932
Mary Pierce
Born 1975
Caroline Dhavernas
Born 1978
Jean-Marc Vallée
Born 1963
Peter Cullen
Born 1941
Mordecai Richler
1931 - 2001
Martha Wainwright
Born 1976
Christophe Beck
Born 1972
Ralph M. Steinman
1943 - 2011
Joseph Wiseman
1918 - 2009
Philip Guston
1913 - 1980
René Angélil
1942 - 2016
Chris Benoit
1967 - 2007
Lothaire Bluteau
Born 1957
Robert Joy
Born 1951
Jon Lajoie
Born 1980
Martin Brodeur
Born 1972
Maryse Ouellet
Born 1983
Émile Nelligan
1879 - 1941
Kate McGarrigle
1946 - 2010
Corey Hart (singer)
Born 1962
Missy Peregrym
Born 1982
Jennifer Finnigan
Born 1979
Roberto Luongo
Born 1979
Paul Bley
1932 - 2016
Jean-Paul Riopelle
1923 - 2002
Eugenie Bouchard
Born 1994
Michel Tremblay
Born 1942
August Schellenberg
1936 - 2013
Greg Rusedski
Born 1973
Mark Robson
1913 - 1978
Louis-Joseph Papineau
1786 - 1871
A-Trak
Born 1982
Ian Stevenson
1918 - 2007
Colin Ferguson
Born 1972
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
1661 - 1706
Suzanne Clément
Born 1969
François Arnaud (actor)
Born 1985
Tiga (musician)
Born 1974
Yannick Bisson
Born 1969
Ruta Lee
Born 1936
Jacques Parizeau
1930 - 2015
Gerald Cohen
1941 - 2009
Vincent Lecavalier
Born 1980
Sidney Altman
Born 1939
Robert Bourassa
1933 - 1996
Marc-André Grondin
Born 1984
Marc-André Hamelin
Born 1961
Conrad Black
Born 1944
Scotty Bowman
Born 1933
Jack Layton
1950 - 2011
Joe Weider
1920 - 2013
Rudolph A. Marcus
Born 1923
Gino Vannelli
Born 1952
Vanessa Lengies
Born 1985
Chilly Gonzales
Born 1972
Louise Arbour
Born 1947
Régine Chassagne
Born 1977
Meaghan Rath
Born 1986
Isabelle Gélinas
Born 1963
Madeleine Sherwood
1922 - 2016
Terri Clark
Born 1968
Claude Jutra
1930 - 1986
A. Y. Jackson
1882 - 1974
David H. Levy
Born 1948
Alexandra Stewart
Born 1939
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Born 1975
Georges Vanier
1888 - 1967
Julie Payette
Born 1963
Nikki Yanofsky
Born 1994
Alissa White-Gluz
Born 1985
William Hope (actor)
Born 1955
Rosemary Forsyth
Born 1943
Mavis Gallant
1922 - 2014
Mike Dopud
Born 1968
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
1849 - 1917
Jean Lesage
1912 - 1980
Henri Richard
1936 - 2020
Dayle Haddon
Born 1948
Maureen Forrester
1930 - 2010
Christian Duguay (director)
Born 1957
Albert S. Ruddy
Born 1930
Gilles Duceppe
Born 1947
Ginette Reno
Born 1946
Robert Charlebois
Born 1944
Pierre Bouvier
Born 1979
Stéphane Rousseau
Born 1966
Patrice Bernier
Born 1979
Jacob Viner
1892 - 1970
Joannie Rochette
Born 1986
Gordon Korman
Born 1963
Yassine Bounou
Born 1991
Antoine-Olivier Pilon
Born 1997
Patrick Watson (musician)
Born 1979
George London (bass-baritone)
1920 - 1985
Michel Brault
1928 - 2013
Kevin McDonald
Born 1961
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
1680 - 1767
Maurice Vachon
1929 - 2013
Chester Brown
Born 1960
Edgar Bronfman Sr.
1929 - 2013
Lynda Bellingham
1948 - 2014
Claude Vivier
1948 - 1983
Jacques Lemaire
Born 1945
Emily Hampshire
Born 1981
Mike Bossy
Born 1957
Phyllis Lambert
Born 1927
Pascale Bussières
Born 1968
Galt MacDermot
1928 - 2018
Éric Gagné
Born 1976
Adrien Arcand
1899 - 1967
Frank Marino
Born 1954
Pierre Laporte
1921 - 1970
Ariel Rebel
Born 1985
Emeraude Toubia
Born 1989
Tim Rozon
Born 1982
Jacob Dolson Cox
1828 - 1900
Erik Guay
Born 1981
Jacob Tierney
Born 1979
Adam Cohen (musician)
Born 1972
Hubert Aquin
1929 - 1977
Laurence Leboeuf
Born 1985
Bernie Geoffrion
1931 - 2006
David Rakoff
1964 - 2012
Peter Dale Scott
Born 1929
Rodney Eastman
Born 1967
Luc Robitaille
Born 1966
Khem Birch
Born 1992
Tamara Rojo
Born 1974
Georges Laraque
Born 1976
Henri Bourassa
1868 - 1952
Cindy Busby
Born 1983
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Born 1955
Pat Patterson (wrestler)
1941 - 2020
Christy Chung
Born 1970
D. A. Carson
Born 1946
Alexandre Bilodeau
Born 1987
Arthur H. Robinson
1915 - 2004
Barclay Hope
Born 1958
Sébastien Lefebvre
Born 1981
Ivan Koloff
1942 - 2017
Marcel Barbeau
1925 - 2016
Miquel Brown
Born 1945
Alexandre Despatie
Born 1985
Lanny Barbie
Born 1981
Bernie Parent
Born 1945
Monique Mercure
1930 - 2020
Normand Corbeil
1956 - 2013
Kris Letang
Born 1987
Paul Cameron (cinematographer)
Born 1958
Henry Corden
1920 - 2005
Gilles Brassard
Born 1955
Robert MacNeil
Born 1931
Catherine Disher
Born 1960
Gump Worsley
1929 - 2007
Andrew Walker (actor)
Born 1979
Patrick Huard
Born 1969
Jill Greenberg
Born 1967
Kim Nguyen
Born 1974
Aleksandra Wozniak
Born 1987
Aldo Nova
Born 1956
André Hainault
Born 1986
Brigitte Bako
Born 1967
Daniel Kash
Born 1959
Marc-Édouard Vlasic
Born 1987
Victor Vroom
Born 1932
William Edmond Logan
1798 - 1875
Shawn Drover
Born 1966
Jean Drapeau
1916 - 1999
Jonathan Cherry
Born 1978
J. Gordon Edwards
1867 - 1925
Daniel Pilon
1940 - 2018
Jeffrey Skoll
Born 1965
Jennifer Abel
Born 1991
Doug Harvey (ice hockey)
1924 - 1989
Don Ross (guitarist)
Born 1960
Lorena Gale
1958 - 2009
Jean-Sébastien Giguère
Born 1977
Pierre Falardeau
1946 - 2009
Nicole Brossard
Born 1943
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Born 1967
Mort Sahl
Born 1927
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
1912 - 1943
Alvin Karpis
1907 - 1979
Anna Hopkins
Born 1987
Allison Adler
Born 1967
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse
Born 1991
Robert Farah (tennis)
Born 1987
Eric Lamaze
Born 1968
Maxim Lapierre
Born 1985
Justine Dufour-Lapointe
Born 1994
Mike Ribeiro
Born 1980
Jake Eberts
1941 - 2012
Sébastien Lareau
Born 1973
Sylvie Fréchette
Born 1967
Erik Mongrain
Born 1980
Frank Mills
Born 1942
Meaghan Benfeito
Born 1989
Émilie Gamelin
1800 - 1851
Bianca Beauchamp
Born 1977
Chris Makepeace
Born 1964
John McCallum
Born 1950
Percy Rodriguez
1918 - 2007
Kenneth Gilbert
1931 - 2020
Marcel Dubé
1930 - 2016
Logan Mader
Born 1970
Ryan Larkin
1943 - 2007
Pierre-Marc Johnson
Born 1946
Diane Dufresne
Born 1944
Henrietta Edwards
1849 - 1931
Chuck Comeau
Born 1979
Andy Kim
Born 1946
Joanne Vannicola
Born 1968
Jayne Heitmeyer
Born 1960
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
1883 - 1947
Jeremy Narby
Born 1959
Wilfrid Pelletier
1896 - 1982
Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin
Born 1981
Guy Stewart Callendar
1898 - 1964
Jean-Claude Lauzon
1953 - 1997
Joel Anthony
Born 1982
Norah McClintock
1952 - 2017
William deVry
Born 1968
Paul Bloom (psychologist)
Born 1963
Marc Bergevin
Born 1965
Serge Savard
Born 1946
Marco Scandella
Born 1990
Philippe Couillard
Born 1957
Jaclyn Linetsky
1986 - 2003
Jacques Godbout
Born 1933
Karina Gauvin
Born 1966
Yanic Truesdale
Born 1970
Linda Kash
Born 1961
Camillien Houde
1889 - 1958
Bill Wennington
Born 1963
James Wilson Morrice
1865 - 1924
Gregory Chamitoff
Born 1962
Marvin L. Cohen
Born 1935
Flora Martínez
Born 1977
Gigi Gorgeous
Born 1992
André Mathieu
1929 - 1968
Colin McPhee
1900 - 1964
Yasmeen Ghauri
Born 1971
Henry Brant
1913 - 2008
Anne-Marie Cadieux
Born 1963
Sophie Lorain
Born 1958
Pierre Dansereau
1911 - 2011
Daniel Di Tomasso
Born 1983
Mauro Biello
Born 1972
Lance Stroll
Born 1998
Émile Bouchard
1919 - 2012
Dickie Moore (ice hockey)
1931 - 2015
Robert W. Cox
1926 - 2018
Danielle Proulx
Born 1952
Bill Graham (Canadian politician)
Born 1939
Marc-André Gragnani
Born 1987
Ben Blue
1901 - 1975
Autumn Phillips
Born 1978
Denis Héroux
1940 - 2015
Silvio Narizzano
1927 - 2011
Rod Gilbert
Born 1941
Prudence Heward
1896 - 1947
Thérèse Casgrain
1896 - 1981
Françoise Abanda
Born 1997
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Born 1990
Venus Terzo
Born 1967
Marina Orsini
Born 1967
Dov Yosef
1899 - 1980
Benoît Charest
Born 1964
Carolyn Waldo
Born 1964
Guy A. Lepage
Born 1960
Joseph Mallozzi
Born 1965
Chloé Dufour-Lapointe
Born 1991
Adam MacDonald
Born 1977