46.8173° N, 71.2247° W
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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Stéphane Dion
Born 1955
Marc Garneau
Born 1949
Pauline Marois
Born 1949
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
1820 - 1890
Pierre Pettigrew
Born 1951
John Jones Ross
1831 - 1901
Simon-Napoléon Parent
1855 - 1920
John Baird (Canadian politician)
Born 1969
Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
1808 - 1894
Louise Beaudoin
Born 1945
Lawrence Cannon
Born 1947
Max Gros-Louis
1931 - 2020
Claude Castonguay
Born 1929
Claude Morin (PQ politician)
Born 1929
Gérard Deltell
Born 1964
J. Michel Doyon
Born 1943
Michel Gauthier
1950 - 2020
Joseph-Édouard Cauchon
1816 - 1885
Jacques-Yvan Morin
Born 1931
Jean-Jacques Bréard
1751 - 1840
Thomas David Morrison
1796 - 1856
Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière
1748 - 1822
Gilles Grégoire
1926 - 2006
Michel Pigeon
Born 1945
Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry
1752 - 1828
André Arthur
Born 1943
Alain Paquet
Born 1961
Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau
1745 - 1809
Charles Richard Ogden
1791 - 1866
Ulric-Joseph Tessier
1817 - 1892
Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry
1846 - 1919
Clément Richard
Born 1939
Paul Bouchard
1908 - 1997
Michel Després
Born 1957
Honoré Julien Jean-Baptiste Chouinard
1850 - 1928
Alexandre Chauveau
1847 - 1916
Malachy Bowes Daly
1836 - 1920
Richard Marceau
Born 1970
Philippe Hamel
1884 - 1954
William Evan Price
1827 - 1880
André Gaulin
Born 1936
Amable Berthelot
1777 - 1847
Dennis Dawson
Born 1949
Lucien-Hubert Borne
1884 - 1954
Sylvain Légaré
Born 1970
Joseph-Xavier Perrault
1836 - 1905
Frank Carrel
1870 - 1940
Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay (seigneur)
1740 - 1806
Charles-Louis Tarieu de Lanaudière
1743 - 1811
Joseph Shehyn
1829 - 1918
Thomas McGreevy
1825 - 1897
Christian Dubé (politician)
Born 1956
Nathalie Rochefort
Born 1970
André Drolet
Born 1954
Wilfrid Lacroix
1891 - 1970
Réjean Hébert
Born 1955
André Bachand (Progressive Conservative MP)
Born 1961
Roger Clavet
Born 1953
Denis Blanchette
Born 1956
René Chaloult
1901 - 1978
Maryse Gaudreault
Born 1959
Jean-François Gosselin
Born 1975
Michel Côté (Canadian politician)
Born 1942
Evans John Price
1840 - 1899
Nicolas Vincent
1769 - 1844
Philippe Baby Casgrain
1826 - 1917
Cyrille-Fraser Delâge
1869 - 1957
David Edward Price
1826 - 1883
Auguste Tessier
1853 - 1938
Louis Lagueux
1793 - 1832
Raymond Bernier
Born 1952
Patrick Huot
Born 1975
Margaret Delisle
Born 1946
Jean-François Therrien
Born 1969
Léon Trépanier
1881 - 1967
François Cloutier
1922 - 2016
Raymonde Saint-Germain
Born 1950
Michel Rivard (politician)
Born 1941
Guy Lechasseur
1916 - 2005
Adolphe Guillet dit Tourangeau
1831 - 1894
Henri-Edgar Lavigueur
1867 - 1943
Oscar Drouin
1890 - 1953
Eugène Chinic
1818 - 1889
Georges-Honoré Simard
1817 - 1873
Isabelle Morin
Born 1985
Alupa Clarke
Born 1986
Catherine Morissette
Born 1979
Jean Leclerc (politician)
Born 1958
William Power (Canadian politician)
1849 - 1920
Jean-Marc Jacob
Born 1947
Jean-Paul St. Laurent
1912 - 1986
Yves Lévesque
Born 1957
Pierre Bertrand (politician)
1875 - 1948
Gaston Tremblay
1924 - 1998
Olivier Robitaille
1811 - 1896
France Hamel
Born 1952
Georges Tanguay
1856 - 1913
John Charles Kaine
1854 - 1923
Anne Guérette
Born 1964
Michelyne St-Laurent
Born 1948
Hubert Benoit
Born 1963
Marcel Bourbonnais
1918 - 1996
Arthur Lachance
1868 - 1945
Raymond Côté
Born 1967
Denis de Belleval
Born 1939
Charles Deblois
1939 - 2019
François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot
1843 - 1908
Konrad Sioui
Born 1953
Jean-Pierre Soucy
Born 1953
Pierre MacDonald
1936 - 2015
Hélène Scherrer
Born 1950
Achille-Ferdinand Carrier
1859 - 1930
Raymond Francœur
Born 1946
Richard Turner (Canadian politician)
1843 - 1917
Jacques Couture
1929 - 1995
Mark Robert Drouin
1903 - 1963
René Bégin
1912 - 1980
Gérald Martineau
1902 - 1968
Olivier-Napoléon Drouin
1867 - 1943
Jean-Charles Cantin
1918 - 2005
Louis Duclos
Born 1939
Joseph-Oscar Auger
1873 - 1942
Patrick Tobin Asselin
1930 - 2005
George Garneau
1864 - 1944
Jonatan Julien
Born 1972
Éric Mercier
Born 1967
Gilles Marceau
1928 - 2008
Marc Ferland (politician)
Born 1942
Christian Jobin
Born 1952
William Hossak
1814 - 1896
Guy Côté
Born 1965
Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand
1832 - 1918
Jean Filion
Born 1951
Gaby Larrivée
Born 1933
Victor Châteauvert
1841 - 1920
Jean-Paul Cook
1927 - 2005
Maud Debien
Born 1938
Monique Tardif
Born 1936
Léopold Demers
1912 - 1990
Joseph-Guillaume Bossé
1843 - 1908
Joseph Boutin Bourassa
1853 - 1943
Jacques Malouin
1826 - 1901
Lorenzo Robitaille
1882 - 1906
David Alexander Ross
1819 - 1897
J.-Wilfrid Dufresne
1911 - 1982
Cyrille Émile Vaillancourt
1848 - 1912
Paule Robitaille
Born 1962
Victor Forget
1916 - 1986
Jacques Dumoulin
1898 - 1988
John Caldwell (seigneur)
1775 - 1842
Romuald Montézuma Gendron
1865 - 1946
Joseph Bell Forsyth
1830 - 1913
Lorne Campbell Webster
1871 - 1941
Ann Bourget
Born 1969
Henri Jolicoeur (Québec)
1905 - 1967
Louis-Édouard Glackmeyer
1793 - 1881
Hyacinthe Delorme
1720 - 1778
Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret
1819 - 1901
Joseph Philippe Baby Casgrain
1856 - 1939
Joseph Arthur Paquet
1857 - 1901
William Gerard Power
1882 - 1940
Charles Delagrave
1881 - 1952
Thomas Andrew Low
1871 - 1931
Maurice Martel
Born 1936
Arthur H. Murphy
1831 - 1903
Andres Türler
Born 1957
René Blouin
Born 1948
Ralph Mercier
1937 - 2020
Charles Sparrow
1808 - 1897
George Doucet
Born 1939
John Sharples Jr.
1847 - 1913
Louis Panet
1794 - 1884
Guy Fortier
1912 - 1994
Alan Gray Martin
Born 1930
Charles Eusèbe Casgrain
1825 - 1907
William Francis Romain
Born 1818
Philippe-Jacques Paradis
1868 - 1933
Anatole Plante
1893 - 1981
Josie Alice Quart
1895 - 1980
Alfred Thibaudeau
1860 - 1926
Adolphe Marcoux
1884 - 1951
Ludger Alain
1865 - 1922
Armand Daigle
1892 - 1957
Charles-Édouard Cantin
1901 - 1994
John Galna
1849 - 1918