45.5089° N, 73.5618° W
MONTREAL
Most Famous People Born in Montreal, Canada
- Notable people
- 4,921
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1948
- Most distinctive
- Hockey 8.4×
Bilingual, with a comic streak. Montreal's distinctive profession is hockey at more than eight times the global rate, alongside an unusually thick column of actors, filmmakers, singers, and poets — the city's notables split almost evenly between French and English in every category. Hockey is the constant, but the comedy tradition that runs from the cabarets of Saint-Laurent through the National Film Board to the Just for Laughs festival is the cultural surprise the panel can't quite carry.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Montreal during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Montreal Is Known For
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Actor is Montreal's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (592).
Montreal over-indexes on hockey — 8.4× the global rate.
Montreal under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Montreal's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Music
- Art & Design
- Other
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Jacob Dolson Cox
1828 - 1900
Charles Boucher de Boucherville
1822 - 1915
Édouard-Charles Fabre
1827 - 1896
Rodolphe Laflamme
1827 - 1893
Peter Redpath
1821 - 1894
Alexander Hesler
1823 - 1895
Henry J. Friel
1823 - 1869
Louis Delorme
1824 - 1895
Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson
1826 - 1875
Stanley Clark Bagg
1820 - 1873
Charles Laberge
1827 - 1874
Antoine Chartier de Lotbinière Harwood
1825 - 1891
Henri-Maurice Perrault
1828 - 1903
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
1829 - 1879
Joseph Lenoir
1822 - 1861
Robert Harwood
1826 - 1897
Narcisse Lecavalier
1827 - 1892
Strachan Bethune
1821 - 1910
François-Maximilien Bibaud
1823 - 1887
William Duckett (Canadian politician)
1825 - 1887
Maurice Laframboise
1821 - 1882
Arthur B. Sleigh
1821 - 1869
Ulysse-Janvier Robillard
1826 - 1900
Louis Mitchell
1822 - 1902
Frederick Thomas Green
1829 - 1876
John Cooke (entrepreneur)
1824 - 1882