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QUEBEC
Most Famous People Born in Quebec, Canada
- Notable people
- 1,105
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1937
- Most distinctive
- Hockey 9.1×
Francophone North America's legal and literary capital — the lawyer, judge, writer, and poet over-indexes stack up in a way no English-Canadian city can match. Robert Lepage staged most of his world-touring theatre here before taking it to Cirque du Soleil, and the 9.1× hockey index is, almost single-handedly, Patrick Roy.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Quebec during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Quebec Is Known For
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Politician is Quebec's biggest profession — 17% of all notables (185).
Quebec over-indexes on hockey — 9.1× the global rate.
Quebec under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Quebec's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Writing
- Film & TV
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- Filtered to 1840s Clear ×
William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie
1847 - 1924
Joseph Vézina
1849 - 1924
Adolphe-Philippe Caron
1843 - 1908
Faucher de Saint-Maurice
1844 - 1897
Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry
1846 - 1919
Alexandre Chauveau
1847 - 1916
Henry James Morgan
1842 - 1913
Cyrille Duquet
1841 - 1922
Archibald Lucius Douglas
1842 - 1913
Henri-Thomas Taschereau
1841 - 1909
Frederick Montizambert
1843 - 1929
Evans John Price
1840 - 1899
William Dawson LeSueur
1840 - 1917
William Power (Canadian politician)
1849 - 1920
Campbell Mellis Douglas
1840 - 1909
François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot
1843 - 1908
Richard Turner (Canadian politician)
1843 - 1917
Eugène Hamel
1845 - 1932
Victor Châteauvert
1841 - 1920
Joseph-Guillaume Bossé
1843 - 1908
Cyrille Émile Vaillancourt
1848 - 1912
Pierre Malcom Guay
1848 - 1899
Nazaire Le Vasseur
1848 - 1927
John Sharples Jr.
1847 - 1913
John Galna
1849 - 1918