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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.

Through the Decades

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

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 110 notable births.

What Quebec Is Known For

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Biggest Most distinctive Under-indexed

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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Filtered to 1840s Clear ×

0018 ENTREPRENEUR

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

1847 - 1924

Notable Births by Decade

What Quebec Is Known For

Profession Mix Over Time

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Joseph Vézina

Adolphe-Philippe Caron

Faucher de Saint-Maurice

Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry

Alexandre Chauveau

Henry James Morgan

Cyrille Duquet

Archibald Lucius Douglas

Henri-Thomas Taschereau

Frederick Montizambert

Evans John Price

William Dawson LeSueur

William Power (Canadian politician)

Campbell Mellis Douglas

François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot

Richard Turner (Canadian politician)

Eugène Hamel

Victor Châteauvert

Joseph-Guillaume Bossé

Cyrille Émile Vaillancourt

Pierre Malcom Guay

Nazaire Le Vasseur

John Sharples Jr.

John Galna