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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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Politician is Quebec's biggest profession — 17% of all notables (185).

Quebec over-indexes on hockey9.1× the global rate.

Quebec under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.

  1. Politician185
  2. Hockey119
  3. Actor68
  4. Writer65
  5. Lawyer50
  6. Singer32
  7. Journalist27
  8. Priest23
  1. Hockey1199.1×
  2. Lawyer502.6×
  3. Judge132.5×
  4. Poet211.8×
  5. Writer651.8×
  6. Business191.7×
  7. Journalist271.6×
  1. Football130.1×
  2. Player130.6×

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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Showing 185 of 1,105 notable people

0001 POLITICIAN

Stéphane Dion

Born 1955

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0017 POLITICIAN

Marc Garneau

Born 1949

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0019 POLITICIAN

Pauline Marois

Born 1949

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0027 POLITICIAN

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

1820 - 1890

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0072 POLITICIAN

Pierre Pettigrew

Born 1951

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0079 POLITICIAN

John Jones Ross

1831 - 1901

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0083 POLITICIAN

Simon-Napoléon Parent

1855 - 1920

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0097 POLITICIAN

John Baird (Canadian politician)

Born 1969

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0124 POLITICIAN

Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau

1808 - 1894

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0132 POLITICIAN

Louise Beaudoin

Born 1945

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0138 POLITICIAN

Lawrence Cannon

Born 1947

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0153 POLITICIAN

Max Gros-Louis

1931 - 2020

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0154 POLITICIAN

Claude Castonguay

Born 1929

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0155 POLITICIAN

Claude Morin (PQ politician)

Born 1929

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0164 POLITICIAN

Gérard Deltell

Born 1964

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0166 POLITICIAN

J. Michel Doyon

Born 1943

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0180 POLITICIAN

Michel Gauthier

1950 - 2020

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0204 POLITICIAN

Joseph-Édouard Cauchon

1816 - 1885

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0212 POLITICIAN

Jacques-Yvan Morin

Born 1931

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0231 POLITICIAN

Jean-Jacques Bréard

1751 - 1840

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0234 POLITICIAN

Thomas David Morrison

1796 - 1856

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0236 POLITICIAN

Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière

1748 - 1822

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0258 POLITICIAN

Gilles Grégoire

1926 - 2006

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0259 POLITICIAN

Michel Pigeon

Born 1945

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0273 POLITICIAN

Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry

1752 - 1828

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0283 POLITICIAN

André Arthur

Born 1943

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0293 POLITICIAN

Alain Paquet

Born 1961

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0297 POLITICIAN

Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau

1745 - 1809

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0309 POLITICIAN

Charles Richard Ogden

1791 - 1866

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0315 POLITICIAN

Ulric-Joseph Tessier

1817 - 1892

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0316 POLITICIAN

Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry

1846 - 1919

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0327 POLITICIAN

Clément Richard

Born 1939

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0338 POLITICIAN

Paul Bouchard

1908 - 1997

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0342 POLITICIAN

Michel Després

Born 1957

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0343 POLITICIAN

Honoré Julien Jean-Baptiste Chouinard

1850 - 1928

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0349 POLITICIAN

Alexandre Chauveau

1847 - 1916

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0354 POLITICIAN

Malachy Bowes Daly

1836 - 1920

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0356 POLITICIAN

Richard Marceau

Born 1970

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0363 POLITICIAN

Philippe Hamel

1884 - 1954

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0366 POLITICIAN

William Evan Price

1827 - 1880

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0371 POLITICIAN

André Gaulin

Born 1936

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0384 POLITICIAN

Amable Berthelot

1777 - 1847

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0395 POLITICIAN

Dennis Dawson

Born 1949

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0404 POLITICIAN

Lucien-Hubert Borne

1884 - 1954

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0408 POLITICIAN

Sylvain Légaré

Born 1970

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0409 POLITICIAN

Joseph-Xavier Perrault

1836 - 1905

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0411 POLITICIAN

Frank Carrel

1870 - 1940

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0424 POLITICIAN

Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay (seigneur)

1740 - 1806

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0427 POLITICIAN

Charles-Louis Tarieu de Lanaudière

1743 - 1811

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0428 POLITICIAN

Joseph Shehyn

1829 - 1918

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0437 POLITICIAN

Thomas McGreevy

1825 - 1897

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0444 POLITICIAN

Christian Dubé (politician)

Born 1956

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0447 POLITICIAN

Nathalie Rochefort

Born 1970

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0459 POLITICIAN

André Drolet

Born 1954

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0462 POLITICIAN

Wilfrid Lacroix

1891 - 1970

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0464 POLITICIAN

Réjean Hébert

Born 1955

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0466 POLITICIAN

André Bachand (Progressive Conservative MP)

Born 1961

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0467 POLITICIAN

Roger Clavet

Born 1953

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0468 POLITICIAN

Denis Blanchette

Born 1956

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0474 POLITICIAN

René Chaloult

1901 - 1978

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0476 POLITICIAN

Maryse Gaudreault

Born 1959

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0478 POLITICIAN

Jean-François Gosselin

Born 1975

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0480 POLITICIAN

Michel Côté (Canadian politician)

Born 1942

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0486 POLITICIAN

Evans John Price

1840 - 1899

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0492 POLITICIAN

Nicolas Vincent

1769 - 1844

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0495 POLITICIAN

Philippe Baby Casgrain

1826 - 1917

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0500 POLITICIAN

Cyrille-Fraser Delâge

1869 - 1957

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0503 POLITICIAN

David Edward Price

1826 - 1883

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0507 POLITICIAN

Auguste Tessier

1853 - 1938

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0511 POLITICIAN

Louis Lagueux

1793 - 1832

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0513 POLITICIAN

Raymond Bernier

Born 1952

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0515 POLITICIAN

Patrick Huot

Born 1975

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0516 POLITICIAN

Margaret Delisle

Born 1946

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0520 POLITICIAN

Jean-François Therrien

Born 1969

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0524 POLITICIAN

Léon Trépanier

1881 - 1967

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0527 POLITICIAN

François Cloutier

1922 - 2016

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0539 POLITICIAN

Raymonde Saint-Germain

Born 1950

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0541 POLITICIAN

Michel Rivard (politician)

Born 1941

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0544 POLITICIAN

Guy Lechasseur

1916 - 2005

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0559 POLITICIAN

Adolphe Guillet dit Tourangeau

1831 - 1894

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0566 POLITICIAN

Henri-Edgar Lavigueur

1867 - 1943

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0567 POLITICIAN

Oscar Drouin

1890 - 1953

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0575 POLITICIAN

Eugène Chinic

1818 - 1889

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0577 POLITICIAN

Georges-Honoré Simard

1817 - 1873

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0578 POLITICIAN

Isabelle Morin

Born 1985

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0583 POLITICIAN

Alupa Clarke

Born 1986

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0584 POLITICIAN

Catherine Morissette

Born 1979

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0587 POLITICIAN

Jean Leclerc (politician)

Born 1958

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0598 POLITICIAN

William Power (Canadian politician)

1849 - 1920

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0600 POLITICIAN

Jean-Marc Jacob

Born 1947

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0602 POLITICIAN

Jean-Paul St. Laurent

1912 - 1986

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0605 POLITICIAN

Yves Lévesque

Born 1957

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0606 POLITICIAN

Pierre Bertrand (politician)

1875 - 1948

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0608 POLITICIAN

Gaston Tremblay

1924 - 1998

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0617 POLITICIAN

Olivier Robitaille

1811 - 1896

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0620 POLITICIAN

France Hamel

Born 1952

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0622 POLITICIAN

Georges Tanguay

1856 - 1913

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0630 POLITICIAN

John Charles Kaine

1854 - 1923

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0632 POLITICIAN

Anne Guérette

Born 1964

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0633 POLITICIAN

Michelyne St-Laurent

Born 1948

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0640 POLITICIAN

Hubert Benoit

Born 1963

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0642 POLITICIAN

Marcel Bourbonnais

1918 - 1996

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0652 POLITICIAN

Arthur Lachance

1868 - 1945

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0658 POLITICIAN

Raymond Côté

Born 1967

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0661 POLITICIAN

Denis de Belleval

Born 1939

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0662 POLITICIAN

Charles Deblois

1939 - 2019

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0664 POLITICIAN

François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot

1843 - 1908

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0671 POLITICIAN

Konrad Sioui

Born 1953

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0677 POLITICIAN

Jean-Pierre Soucy

Born 1953

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0699 POLITICIAN

Pierre MacDonald

1936 - 2015

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0701 POLITICIAN

Hélène Scherrer

Born 1950

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0705 POLITICIAN

Achille-Ferdinand Carrier

1859 - 1930

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0714 POLITICIAN

Raymond Francœur

Born 1946

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0715 POLITICIAN

Richard Turner (Canadian politician)

1843 - 1917

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0724 POLITICIAN

Jacques Couture

1929 - 1995

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0739 POLITICIAN

Mark Robert Drouin

1903 - 1963

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0745 POLITICIAN

René Bégin

1912 - 1980

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0747 POLITICIAN

Gérald Martineau

1902 - 1968

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0756 POLITICIAN

Olivier-Napoléon Drouin

1867 - 1943

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0762 POLITICIAN

Jean-Charles Cantin

1918 - 2005

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0772 POLITICIAN

Louis Duclos

Born 1939

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0777 POLITICIAN

Joseph-Oscar Auger

1873 - 1942

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0780 POLITICIAN

Patrick Tobin Asselin

1930 - 2005

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0788 POLITICIAN

George Garneau

1864 - 1944

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0789 POLITICIAN

Jonatan Julien

Born 1972

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0798 POLITICIAN

Éric Mercier

Born 1967

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0799 POLITICIAN

Gilles Marceau

1928 - 2008

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0804 POLITICIAN

Marc Ferland (politician)

Born 1942

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0806 POLITICIAN

Christian Jobin

Born 1952

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0808 POLITICIAN

William Hossak

1814 - 1896

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0812 POLITICIAN

Guy Côté

Born 1965

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0818 POLITICIAN

Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand

1832 - 1918

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0819 POLITICIAN

Jean Filion

Born 1951

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0824 POLITICIAN

Gaby Larrivée

Born 1933

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0830 POLITICIAN

Victor Châteauvert

1841 - 1920

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0837 POLITICIAN

Jean-Paul Cook

1927 - 2005

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0838 POLITICIAN

Maud Debien

Born 1938

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0843 POLITICIAN

Monique Tardif

Born 1936

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0844 POLITICIAN

Léopold Demers

1912 - 1990

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0845 POLITICIAN

Joseph-Guillaume Bossé

1843 - 1908

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0846 POLITICIAN

Joseph Boutin Bourassa

1853 - 1943

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0853 POLITICIAN

Jacques Malouin

1826 - 1901

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0857 POLITICIAN

Lorenzo Robitaille

1882 - 1906

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0859 POLITICIAN

David Alexander Ross

1819 - 1897

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0861 POLITICIAN

J.-Wilfrid Dufresne

1911 - 1982

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0862 POLITICIAN

Cyrille Émile Vaillancourt

1848 - 1912

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0865 POLITICIAN

Paule Robitaille

Born 1962

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0870 POLITICIAN

Victor Forget

1916 - 1986

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0875 POLITICIAN

Jacques Dumoulin

1898 - 1988

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0891 POLITICIAN

John Caldwell (seigneur)

1775 - 1842

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0896 POLITICIAN

Romuald Montézuma Gendron

1865 - 1946

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0923 POLITICIAN

Joseph Bell Forsyth

1830 - 1913

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0924 POLITICIAN

Lorne Campbell Webster

1871 - 1941

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0928 POLITICIAN

Ann Bourget

Born 1969

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0938 POLITICIAN

Henri Jolicoeur (Québec)

1905 - 1967

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0940 POLITICIAN

Louis-Édouard Glackmeyer

1793 - 1881

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0941 POLITICIAN

Hyacinthe Delorme

1720 - 1778

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0954 POLITICIAN

Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret

1819 - 1901

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0955 POLITICIAN

Joseph Philippe Baby Casgrain

1856 - 1939

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0963 POLITICIAN

Joseph Arthur Paquet

1857 - 1901

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0965 POLITICIAN

William Gerard Power

1882 - 1940

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0970 POLITICIAN

Charles Delagrave

1881 - 1952

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0976 POLITICIAN

Thomas Andrew Low

1871 - 1931

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0979 POLITICIAN

Maurice Martel

Born 1936

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0983 POLITICIAN

Arthur H. Murphy

1831 - 1903

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0998 POLITICIAN

Andres Türler

Born 1957

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1002 POLITICIAN

René Blouin

Born 1948

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1021 POLITICIAN

Ralph Mercier

1937 - 2020

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1022 POLITICIAN

Charles Sparrow

1808 - 1897

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1024 POLITICIAN

George Doucet

Born 1939

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1035 POLITICIAN

John Sharples Jr.

1847 - 1913

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1048 POLITICIAN

Louis Panet

1794 - 1884

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1050 POLITICIAN

Guy Fortier

1912 - 1994

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1061 POLITICIAN

Alan Gray Martin

Born 1930

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1068 POLITICIAN

Charles Eusèbe Casgrain

1825 - 1907

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1069 POLITICIAN

William Francis Romain

Born 1818

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1072 POLITICIAN

Philippe-Jacques Paradis

1868 - 1933

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1075 POLITICIAN

Anatole Plante

1893 - 1981

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1076 POLITICIAN

Josie Alice Quart

1895 - 1980

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1077 POLITICIAN

Alfred Thibaudeau

1860 - 1926

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1079 POLITICIAN

Adolphe Marcoux

1884 - 1951

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1081 POLITICIAN

Ludger Alain

1865 - 1922

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1093 POLITICIAN

Armand Daigle

1892 - 1957

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1094 POLITICIAN

Charles-Édouard Cantin

1901 - 1994

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1100 POLITICIAN

John Galna

1849 - 1918

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