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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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Montreal during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 594 notable births.

What Montreal Is Known For

Click any row to filter the list of people below.

Actor is Montreal's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (592).

Montreal over-indexes on hockey8.4× the global rate.

Montreal under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Actor592
  2. Politician522
  3. Hockey492
  4. Writer245
  5. Singer193
  6. Football157
  7. Film134
  8. Lawyer116
  1. Hockey4928.4×
  2. Actor5922.3×
  3. Film1342.2×
  4. Singer1931.9×
  5. Poet941.8×
  6. Business791.6×
  7. Writer2451.5×
  1. Football1570.3×

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.

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Showing 134 of 4,921 notable people

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Xavier Dolan

Born 1989

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Jason Reitman

Born 1977

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Mark Robson

1913 - 1978

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Claude Jutra

1930 - 1986

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Christian Duguay (director)

Born 1957

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Albert S. Ruddy

Born 1930

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Michel Brault

1928 - 2013

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Jeremiah S. Chechik

Born 1955

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Kim Nguyen

Born 1974

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J. Gordon Edwards

1867 - 1925

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Jake Eberts

1941 - 2012

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Jean-Claude Lauzon

1953 - 1997

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Denis Héroux

1940 - 2015

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Silvio Narizzano

1927 - 2011

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Paul Almond

1931 - 2015

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John N. Smith

Born 1943

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Willie Dunn

1942 - 2013

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Eric Canuel

Born 1961

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Jean-François Pouliot

Born 1957

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Arthur Lipsett

1936 - 1986

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Pierre David

Born 1944

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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Born 1979

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Robert Morin

Born 1949

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Robert Lawrence (film editor)

1913 - 2004

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Daniel Roby

Born 1970

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Maxime Giroux

Born 1976

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Lee Roy Myers

Born 1977

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Aristomenis Tsirbas

Born 1967

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Bernard Émond

Born 1951

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Lynne Stopkewich

Born 1964

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André Forcier

Born 1947

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Douglas Jackson (filmmaker)

Born 1940

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Graeme Campbell (director)

Born 1954

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Gilles Groulx

1931 - 1994

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Fernand Dansereau

Born 1928

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Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Born 1941

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Jean-Claude Lord

Born 1943

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Louise Archambault

Born 1970

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Ruba Nadda

Born 1972

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Manon Barbeau

Born 1949

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Jennifer Baichwal

Born 1965

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Paul Cowan (filmmaker)

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John L'Ecuyer

Born 1966

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Harold Greenberg

1930 - 1996

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Allan F. Nicholls

Born 1945

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Rafal Zielinski

Born 1957

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François Delisle

Born 1967

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Gary Yates (director)

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Denis Chouinard

Born 1964

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Chloé Leriche

-

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Mireille Dansereau

Born 1943

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Robert Favreau

Born 1948

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Mark Rezyka

Born 1959

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Jacques Leduc

Born 1941

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Benoît Pilon

Born 1962

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Daniel Louis

Born 1953

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Kevin Tierney

1950 - 2018

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Michel Langlois

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Richard Brouillette

Born 1970

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Beverly Shaffer

Born 1945

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Martin Duckworth

Born 1933

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Sophie Bissonnette

Born 1956

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Martine Chartrand

Born 1962

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Gilles Maheu

Born 1948

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Dominique Fortin

Born 1961

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Lysanne Thibodeau

1959 - 2018

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Jennifer Abbott

Born 1965

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Barry Avrich

Born 1963

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Gerald Mayer

1919 - 2001

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David Acomba

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Brigitte Sauriol

Born 1945

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Dean Marshall

Born 1969

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Jean Cousineau

1937 - 2013

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John Wildman (actor)

Born 1960

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Harry Gulkin

1927 - 2018

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Jean Bissonnette

1934 - 2016

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Hubert Tison

Born 1937

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Jimmy Kaufman

Born 1949

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Jean-Paul Ladouceur

1921 - 1992

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Bernard Longpré

1937 - 2002

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Maurice Devereaux

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Ric Esther Bienstock

Born 1959

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Evan Beloff

-

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Anne-Marie Gélinas

Born 1964

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John Juliani

1940 - 2003

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Marcel Simard

1945 - 2010

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Mark Kenneth Woods

Born 1977

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Sylvain Corbeil

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Ryan Mullins

Born 1981

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Paul Cadieux

-

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Jules Falardeau

Born 1985

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Jacques Giraldeau

1927 - 2015

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Tony Asimakopoulos

-

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Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol

Born 1942

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Araz Artinian

Born 1974

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Julie Roy

Born 1973

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Sylvie Groulx

Born 1960

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Pierre Petel

1920 - 1999

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Robert Wertheimer

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André-Line Beauparlant

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Arthur Tarnowski

Born 1971

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Benoît Reeves

Born 1960

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Julian Roffman

1919 - 2000

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Michel Shane

Born 1955

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Flavie Payette-Renouf

Born 1988

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Kris Lefcoe

-

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Murray Shostak

-

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Jacques K. Primeau

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Christopher Eberts

-

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Martin Lavut

1939 - 2015

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Francis Bordeleau

Born 1992

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André Lamy

1932 - 2010

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Chloe Bellande

-

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Nicole Robert (productrice)

Born 1946

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Lorraine Dufour

Born 1950

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Luc Chalifour

Born 1961

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Francine Desbiens

Born 1938

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Raymond Brousseau

-

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Pierre Lamy (producteur)

1926 - 1998

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Louis Bédard

1924 - 1991

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Sylvain L'Espérance

Born 1961

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Isabelle McEwen

Born 1954

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Michel Poirier

Born 1956

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Éric Piccoli

Born 1985

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4295 FILM

Rolland Guay

Born 1930

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Claude Demers

Born 1962

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Charlotte Beaudoin Pelletier

Born 1991

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Marie-Ève Nadeau

Born 1982

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Simon Galiero

Born 1978

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Joyce Borenstein

Born 1950

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Arto Paragamian

Born 1965

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Laurence Gendron

Born 1985

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Paul Larose

1938 - 2015

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Maurice Leroux (réalisateur)

Born 1924

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