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.
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Émile Nelligan
1879 - 1941
Peter Dale Scott
Born 1929
Nicole Brossard
Born 1943
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
1912 - 1943
Claude Gauvreau
1925 - 1971
Louis Dudek
1918 - 2001
Pierre Perrault
1927 - 1999
Serge Monast
1945 - 1996
Jacques Brault
Born 1933
Marie Uguay
1955 - 1981
Jovette Marchessault
1938 - 2012
Claude Péloquin
1942 - 2018
John Glassco
1909 - 1981
Claudine Bertrand
Born 1948
Éva Circé-Côté
1871 - 1949
Huguette Gaulin
1944 - 1972
Michèle Lalonde
Born 1937
Denise Desautels
Born 1945
Louky Bersianik
1930 - 2011
Michel Garneau
Born 1939
Normand de Bellefeuille
Born 1949
France Théoret
Born 1942
Josée Yvon
1950 - 1994
Roland Giguère
1929 - 2003
Albert Lozeau
1878 - 1924
Andrée Maillet
1921 - 1995
José Acquelin
Born 1956
Michel Beaulieu
1941 - 1985
Christian Mistral
1964 - 2020
Jean Marcel
1941 - 2019
André Roy (writer)
Born 1944
Thérèse Renaud
1927 - 2005
Lisa Carducci
Born 1943
Lucien Francoeur
Born 1948
Danielle Fournier
Born 1955
Yves Préfontaine
1937 - 2019
Martine Audet
Born 1961
Catherine Lalonde
Born 1974
Frederick George Scott
1861 - 1944
Gilbert La Rocque
1943 - 1984
Janou Saint-Denis
1930 - 2000
Carole David
Born 1955
Monique Deland
Born 1958
Marcel Labine
Born 1948
Todd Swift
Born 1966
Jacques Renaud
Born 1943
Jean-Marc Desgent
Born 1951
Tania Langlais
Born 1979
André Gervais (écrivain)
Born 1947
Frans Ben Callado
Born 1978
Claude Beausoleil
1948 - 2020
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
1829 - 1879
Émile Coderre
1893 - 1970
Sylvain Garneau
1930 - 1953
Bertrand Laverdure
Born 1967
Antonio Santori
1961 - 2007
Albert Ferland
1872 - 1943
Robert Charbonneau
1911 - 1967
Pierre Baillargeon
1916 - 1967
Arthur de Bussières
1877 - 1913
Louise Warren
Born 1956
Frederic Marcotte
Born 1975
Benoît Jutras (écrivain)
Born 1975
Mathieu Blais
Born 1979
Robert Baillie
Born 1947
Doug Beardsley
Born 1941
Marc André Brouillette
Born 1969
Aisha Sasha John
Born 1980
Carolyn Marie Souaid
Born 1959
Gustave Lamarche
1895 - 1987
Janick Belleau
Born 1946
Daniel Dugas
Born 1959
Stéphane Despatie
Born 1968
Claude Paré
Born 1956
Philippe Haeck
Born 1946
Louis Portugais
1932 - 1982
Louise Bouchard
Born 1949
Janique Watier
Born 1966
Maurice Soudeyns
Born 1944
Mario Cholette
Born 1961
Stéphane D'Amour
Born 1961
Catherine Harton
Born 1983
Guy Gervais
Born 1937
Robert J Mailhot
1977 - 2010
Julie Bruck
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Bernard de Brienne
1925 - 1997
Joël Pourbaix
Born 1958
Rita Amabili-Rivet
Born 1954
Stéphane Jean
Born 1964
Kim Doré
Born 1979
Martin Ouellet (poète)
Born 1976
Jim Tilley
Born 1950
Kerry Lee Powell
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Annie Lafleur
Born 1980