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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.