List of people from Montreal explained
This is a list of notable people from Montreal.
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- Ralph Backstrom - former NHL player
- Rita Baga - drag queen, born in Boucherville; born Jean-François Guèvremont
- René Balcer - television writer and producer, known for the US television show Law and Order
- Jean-Paul Banos (born 1961) - fencer
- Roger Barnes - professional wrestler
- Joseph Barsalou - businessman and politician
- Jay Baruchel - television and movie actor
- Doug Beardsley - poet and educator
- Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien - broadcasting, magazines
- Bianca Beauchamp - fetish fashion model
- Charles-Odilon Beauchemin - printer and bookseller
- Mathieu Beaudoin - football player
- Tanith Belbin - figure skater, Olympic silver medalist
- Louise Belcourt - artist
- Jean Béliveau - former NHL player
- Saul Bellow - novelist
- Meaghan Benfeito - diver
- Chris Benoit - pro wrestler, born in Montreal, raised in Edmonton, Alberta
- Eric Berne - psychiatrist; creator of Transactional Analysis; author of Games People Play
- André Besette - CSC Holy Cross Brother, "miracle worker of Montreal"
- Norman Bethune - physician, medical innovator, and political activist
- Tim Biakabutuka - former NFL football player, Carolina Panthers
- Charlie Biddle - Montreal Jazz pioneer, Juno Award winner
- Khem Birch - Montreal NBA Player edit by LMR-11
- Yannick Bisson - actor known for playing Det. Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries and Jack in
- Conrad Black - financier and newspaper magnate
- Sheila Blair - art historian
- Toe Blake - former NHL player and coach
- Valérie Blass – artist
- Paul Bley - jazz pianist
- La Bolduc - real name Mary Travers, singer
- Yassine Bounou - footballer
- Chris Boucher - NBA player
- Patrick Bordeleau - hockey player
- Daniel Borsuk - plastic surgeon
- Mike Bossy - Hockey Hall of Fame member
- Eugenie Bouchard - tennis player
- Jean-François Bouchard - photographer and visual designer
- Louise Anne Bouchard – writer
- Maurice "Mom" Boucher - ex-leader of Hell's Angels (as of 2014)
- Henri Bourassa - political leader and publisher
- Robert Bourassa - former Quebec premier
- Pierre Bourque - mayor
- Raymond Bourque - former NHL player, Hockey Hall of Fame member
- Pierre Bouvier - frontman of Simple Plan; songwriter
- Scotty Bowman - hockey coach
- Justin Bradley - actor, based out of Montreal and Toronto, sometimes works in Los Angeles
- Tim Brady - guitarist, composer
- Glenda Braganza - Hollywood actress,
- Gilles Brassard - computer scientist
- Adam Braz - former soccer defender
- Patrice Brisebois - NHL player, Montreal Canadiens
- Annie Brocoli - real name Annie Grenier, children's performer
- Martin Brodeur - NHL player, goaltender, New Jersey Devils
- Charles Bronfman - businessman and philanthropist
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - businessman
- Edward Bronfman - businessman, philanthropist, member of the Bronfman family
- Peter Bronfman - businessman, member of the Bronfman family
- Saidye Rosner Bronfman - philanthropist, wife of Samuel Bronfman
- Samuel Bronfman - liquor magnate
- Alma Faye Brooks - disco, soul and R&B singer
- Edwin Orion Brownell - pianist, vocalist
- Kim Brunhuber - journalist newscaster
- Geneviève Bujold - actress
- Hy Buller - former NHL All-Star player
- Mario Bunge - philosopher, Frothingham Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University
- Robin Burns - founder and owner, ITECH Hockey Equipment
- Ernie Butler - comedy club owner
- Gerard Butler - Scottish actor; lived here briefly as a baby
- Win Butler - singer-songwriter
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- Samuel Dalembert - NBA basketball player, Philadelphia 76ers
- Peter Dalla Riva - football player, Montreal Alouettes
- Roméo Dallaire - senator, Lieutenant-General
- Vincent Damphousse - former NHL player
- Shawn Daniels - Canadian football player
- J. P. Darche - NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
- Mathieu Darche - NHL player, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens
- Françoise David - politician
- John Caswell Davis - politician
- Mitch Davis - film programmer, filmmaker, journalist
- Norman Dawe - sports executive[2]
- Stéphane Demers - actor
- Bernard Derome - anchorman
- Pierre Desjardins - football player, Montreal Alouettes
- Roxane Desjardins - writer
- André Desmarais - businessman
- Paul Desmarais, Sr. - businessman
- Paul Desmarais, Jr. - businessman
- David Desrosiers - bassist of Simple Plan and vocalist; born in Sept-Îles
- Sean Devine - playwright, actor, and politician
- Caroline Dhavernas - actress
- Domenic Di Rosa - actor
- Kadie Karen Diekmeyer - Internet personality and activist
- Céline Dion - singer
- Stéphane Dion - politician
- Xavier Dolan – actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume director, producer
- Jacob Dolson Cox - U.S. soldier and politician
- Audrey Capel Doray – artist
- Jean Doré - former mayor of Montreal
- Ivan Doroschuk - singer
- Fifi D'Orsay - actress
- Lu Dort - NBA Player
- William Dow - brewer
- Jean Drapeau - mayor of Montreal during Expo '67 and the 1976 Olympic Games
- Glen Drover - guitarist for Megadeth
- Shawn Drover - drummer for Megadeth
- Steve Dubinsky - former NHL player
- Gilles Duceppe - politician
- Jean Duceppe - actor
- Louis Dudek - poet
- Jack Dunham - animator, television commercial producer, designer of the St-Hubert rooster mascot[3]
- Barbara Dunkelman - voice actress for Rooster Teeth
- Alexandre Dupuis - football player
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- Lara Fabian - operatic singer
- Mylène Farmer - singer
- Leylah Fernandez - tennis player
- David Fennario - playwright
- Greg Fergus - Member of Parliament; 38th Speaker of the House of Commons
- Maynard Ferguson - jazz trumpet player and bandleader
- Denise Filiatrault - actress and director
- Jennifer Finnigan - Hollywood actress
- Marc-André Fleury - ice hockey goalkeeper; three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins
- Louis-Joseph Forget - stockbroker, financier, statesman
- Rodolphe Forget - businessman, politician, philanthropist
- Samuel Fournier - former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- Kathleen Fox (born 1951) – flight instructor, air traffic controller, business executive
- René-Arthur Fréchet - architect
- Pauline Fréchette (1889–1943) - poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun
- David Freiheit - lawyer and YouTuber
- Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972) - German-Canadian Olympic soccer player
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- Alfonso Gagliano - politician
- André Gagné - professor and scholar, Concordia University
- Éric Gagné - pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers
- André Gagnon - composer, pianist
- Marc Gagnon - Olympic gold medal speed skater
- Marc-Antoine Gagnon - moguls skier
- Howard Galganov - anglophone rights activist, radio personality
- Céline Galipeau - anchorwoman
- Mavis Gallant - author
- Patsy Gallant - pop singer
- Mitch Garber - gaming, hotel executive, philanthropist, broadcaster
- Kathleen Gati - actress
- Arturo Gatti - professional boxer, world champion
- Daniel Gauthier - co-founder of the Cirque du Soleil
- James Gelfand - pianist, composer, arranger
- Gettomasa - Finnish rapper; born Aleksi Lehikoinen
- Yasmeen Ghauri - supermodel
- Ralph Gilles - designer of the Chrysler 300c
- Jessalyn Gilsig - actress
- Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) - artist and inspiration for the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint[4]
- Jonathan Goldstein - author, humourist and radio producer
- Anne-France Goldwater - lawyer and TV court show personality
- John Gomery - jurist
- Brian Goodwin - biologist
- Adam Gopnik - writer, essayist
- Henry Gordon (1919–2009) - magician, journalist, CSI Fellow
- Huntley Gordon - actor
- Shaul Gordon (born 1994) - Canadian-Israeli Olympic sabre fencer
- Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan - newspaper publisher
- Stewart Francis Granger - former NBA basketball player
- W. R. Granger (William Rowen Granger) - president of the Montreal AAA, Canadian and Quebec Amateur Hockey Associations[5]
- Howard Grant - former Canadian Olympics and Commonwealth boxer; trainer, UFC welterweight champion, Georges St-Pierre
- Otis Grant - Jamaican-born former WBO Middleweight boxing champion
- Hulda Regina Graser - customs house broker
- Harold Greenberg - movie producer, founder of Astral Media
- Frank Greenleaf - president of the Canadian and Quebec Amateur Hockey Associations[6]
- Sylvain Grenier - WWE wrestler
- Irving Grundman - businessman, hockey executive
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. - MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays
- Quincy Guerrier - college basketball player for the Oregon Ducks
- Philip Guston - painter and printmaker
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- Emilie Kahn – musician also known as Emilie & Ogden
- Garry Kallos (born 1956) – wrestler and sambo competitor
- Tommy Kane - former NFL football player, Seattle Seahawks
- Daniel Kash - actor
- Kenneth Kaushansky - Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, hematologist, Master of the American College of Physicians
- Kaytranada - electronic musician, producer, DJ
- Michael A. Kelen - former judge of the Federal Court of Canada
- George Kennedy - owner of Montreal Canadiens hockey team
- Amir Khadir - physician and politician
- Kid Koala - DJ
- Franklin Kiermyer - drummer, composer
- Andy Kim - singer-songwriter
- A. M. Klein - author
- Naomi Klein - author and activist
- Leo Kolber - senator, de facto family member of the Bronfman family and empire
- Benjamin Kowalewicz - singer of Billy Talent
- Vanessa Kraven – professional wrestler
- David Kristian - electronic musician
- Sid and Marty Krofft - producers/creators of H.R. Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost, The Lost Saucer
- Joseph Kruger - founder of Kruger Inc.
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- Florence La Badie - actress
- Michel Maray de La Chauvignerie - 18th century French military officer and interpreter
- Zoe Laurier - wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- La Zarra - singer-songwriter
- Charline Labonté - hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2006, 2010, 2014
- Hubert Lacroix - CBC president and CEO
- Oleg Ladik (born 1971) - Olympic wrestler
- Dany Laferrière - author
- Alexis Lafrenière - NHL player, New York Rangers
- Guy Lafleur - NHL player, Montreal Canadiens
- Corky Laing - musician
- Jon Lajoie - comedian
- Guy Laliberté - founder and CEO of Cirque de Soleil
- Paul Lambert - left guard, Montreal Alouettes
- Phyllis Lambert - architect and member of the Bronfman family
- Mado Lamotte - drag queen and author
- Jacques Lanctôt - FLQ member, convicted terrorist
- Louise Lanctôt - FLQ member, convicted terrorist
- Edmond Lapierre - former MPP
- Jean Lapierre - politician
- Éric Lapointe - CFL running back for the Montreal Alouettes
- Pierre Laporte - politician
- Georges Laraque - NHL player
- Ryan Larkin - animator
- Nicholas Latifi - racing driver currently driving for Williams Racing
- Lisa Lavie - singer-songwriter
- Irving Layton - poet, essayist, short story writer
- Jack Layton - politician, leader of the federal New Democratic Party
- Irina Lăzăreanu - fashion model
- Louise Lecavalier - dancer
- Vincent Lecavalier - NHL player
- Jos LeDuc - professional wrestler
- Ranee Lee - jazz singer
- Sébastien Lefebvre - guitarist of Simple Plan and vocalist
- Rachelle Lefevre - actress
- Jean Leloup - musician
- Mario Lemieux (born 1965) - NHL player
- Vanessa Lengies - actress
- Guy A. Lepage - television personality
- Marc Lépine - mass murderer
- René Lépine - real-estate developer
- Chris Leroux - MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates)
- Pierre Leroux - novelist, journalist and screenwriter
- Jean Lesage - lawyer, politician
- Kris Letang - QMJHL player, NHL player, three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins
- André Éric Létourneau - intermedia artist, composer
- Jean-Louis Lévesque - stockbroker, horse racing builder
- Devon Levi - goaltender drafted by Florida Panthers in the 7th round, 212th overall in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, current Northeastern Huskies, Canada men's national junior ice hockey team
- Shawn Levy - director and actor
- Jaclyn Linetsky - actress
- David Lipper - actor
- Liu Fang - musician
- Pascal Lochard - CFL player
- William Edmond Logan - geologist
- Jennifer Lonergan - educator, nonprofit executive, promoter of third-world women's craftmanship
- Colin Low - filmmaker
- Lunice - musician
- Roberto Luongo - NHL goaltender
- Yves A. Lussier - physician-scientist in translational bioinformatics
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- Tom Maayan (born 1993) - Canada-born Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League
- L. Ian MacDonald (born 1947) - author, columnist, broadcaster, and diplomat
- William C. Macdonald - tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
- Danny Maciocia - CFL football coach
- Don Macpherson - journalist
- Nicolas Macrozonaris - sprinter, track and field
- Arnaud Maggs - artist, photographer
- Sean Patrick Maloney - Canadian-American politician and U.S. Representative for the state of New York since 2013
- Jeanne Mance - founder of first hospital in North America, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, 1645
- Frederic Marcotte - poet and musician
- Rudolph A. Marcus - Nobel laureate of chemistry
- Lou Marinoff - philosopher at City College of New York
- Yann Martel - writer, Man Booker Prize 2002
- Paul Martin - former prime minister of Canada
- Russell Martin - baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays
- Massari - singer
- Charles Mayer - journalist, sportsperson and politician[7]
- John McCallum - politician
- John Wilson McConnell - businessman, publisher, philanthropist
- David Ross McCord - lawyer, philanthropist
- Kevin McDonald - actor/comedian/voice actor, member of The Kids in the Hall
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee - politician
- Molly McGlynn - film and television director and screenwriter
- Ken McGoogan - writer
- Duncan McIntyre - businessman
- Scott McKay - former city counsellor and leader of the Green Party of Quebec
- Patricia McKenzie - actress
- Norman McLaren - film animation pioneer
- Simon McTavish - businessman
- Juan Mendez - former NCAA basketball player, Niagara University
- Charles Meredith - president of the Montreal Stock Exchange
- Frederick Edmund Meredith - lawyer, chancellor of Bishop's University
- Vincent Meredith - first and last Baronet of Montreal; president of the Bank of Montreal
- William Collis Meredith - Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec
- Luck Mervil - singer, actor
- Jim Miller - Canadian football player
- Marc Miller - politician
- Brenda Milner - neuropsychologist
- Andrew Molson - businessman, member of the Molson family, eldest son of Eric Molson
- Eric Molson - brewer, businessman, member of the Molson family
- Geoff Molson - businessman, member of the Molson family, son of Eric Molson
- Hartland Molson - brewer, World War II fighter pilot, statesman, member of the Molson family
- John Molson - brewer, railway and steamship line builder, member of the Molson family
- Percival Molson - athlete, soldier, member of the Molson family
- Robert Moncel - commander of the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade in the Second World War
- Édouard Montpetit - lawyer, economist, academic
- Henry Morgan - department store founder
- Henry Morgentaler - physician, advocate for women's rights to abortion
- Terry Mosher - editorial cartoonist
- Ben Mulroney - television host; son of Brian Mulroney
- Brian Mulroney - former prime minister of Canada
- Mila Mulroney - wife of the 18th prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney
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- Ruba Nadda - producer
- Pierre Nadeau - journalist, television presenter and producer[8]
- Narcy - hip hop artist
- Émile Nelligan - poet
- Hillel Neuer - human rights lawyer, executive director UN Watch
- Kai Nielsen - naturalist philosopher at Concordia University
- Craig Norman - head basketball coach of McGill University Redmen; former basketball player for Concordia University
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- P. Reign - hip hop artist, born in Montreal, raised in Toronto
- Frank L. Packard - novelist
- Michel Pagliaro - musician
- Vernon Pahl - Canadian football player
- Jean Jacques Paradis - Commander of the Canadian Army
- Jessica Paré - actress
- Jacques Parizeau - politician, former premier of Quebec
- Julie Payette - scientist, astronaut
- Trevor W. Payne - founder and music director of the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
- Cory Pecker (born 1981) - hockey player, right wing (EHC Visp)
- Érik Péladeau - businessman (Québecor)
- Pierre Péladeau - founder of Quebecor
- Pierre Karl Péladeau - CEO of Quebecor Media
- Wilfrid Pelletier - symphony conductor
- Dr. Wilder Penfield - pioneering neurosurgeon, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute
- David De La Peralle - football player
- Missy Peregrym - actress
- Oscar Peterson - jazz pianist
- Autumn Phillips - former wife of Peter Phillips, eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II
- Mary Pierce - tennis player
- André Pijet - artist
- Steven Pinker - linguist and evolutionary psychologist
- Susan Pinker - journalist and psychologist
- Christopher Plummer - actor
- Judes Poirier - university professor
- Camille Poliquin - musician
- Antoni Porowski - chef, actor, and television personality
- Dick Pound - lawyer, Olympic Games executive
- Cheryl Pounder - hockey player, Canadian Olympic women's team, gold medalist in 2002 and 2006
- André Pratte - journalist, economist
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- Roméo Sabourin - SOE agent, WW II hero executed by the Nazis
- Moshe Safdie - architect, urban designer
- Peter Sagar - multi-instrumentalist, known for his band HOMESHAKE and former touring guitarist for Mac DeMarco
- Martin St. Louis - NHL player
- Georges St-Pierre - professional MMA fighter
- Kim St-Pierre - hockey goaltender, Canadian Olympic women's team
- Lino Saputo - businessman
- Anne Savage - artist
- Marco Scandella – NHL player
- Paul Schoeffler - voice actor, actor
- Joseph A. Schwarcz - doctor of chemistry and professor at McGill University, formerly at Vanier College
- Cynthia Scott - Academy Award-winning director
- Frank Scott - scholar, poet, professor, lawyer
- Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger - winner of the Victoria Cross in World War I
- Mark Shainblum - comics writer and co-creator of Northguard
- Marla Shapiro - CTV medical reporter and physician
- William Shatner - actor, best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek
- Douglas Shearer - Academy Award-winning motion picture sound engineer
- Norma Shearer - Academy Award-winning actress
- Eliezer Sherbatov (born 1991) - Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
- Madeleine Sherwood - actress, played Mother Superior in The Flying Nun
- Karen Simpson - actress and fashion designer
- Jaspreet Singh - author
- Charles Sirois - telecommunications
- David Six - artist
- Skiifall - rapper
- Jeff Skoll - Internet entrepreneur
- Donald Smith - railway executive
- George M. Smith - Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
- Larry Smith - former CFL football player; former president of the Montreal Alouettes
- Nahum Sonenberg - biochemist, professor at McGill University
- Wonny Song - classical concert pianist
- Kwasi Songui - actor
- Alex Soria - singer-guitarist (The Nils, Chino)
- Benjamin St-Juste - American football player
- Kevin Steen - professional wrestler
- Sam Steinberg - supermarket founder
- Ralph M. Steinman - 2011 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- George Stephen - banker, railway executive
- Peter Stearns - historian, honorary knight
- Jeff Stinco - lead guitarist of Simple Plan
- P.J. Stock - NHL player
- Lance Stroll (born 1998) - Belgian-Canadian racing driver
- Bruny Surin - track and field athlete
- Robert Augustus Sweeney - only African American double recipient of the American Medal of Honor
- Sylvia Sweeney - former basketball player for the Canadian women's national team; TV journalist
- Jack W. Szostak - Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
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- Maxime Talbot - NHL player
- Ari Taub (born 1971) - Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
- Charles Taylor - philosopher emeritus at McGill
- José Théodore - NHL player
- David Thompson - explorer
- Ryan Thorne - head basketball coach for the McGill Martlets, former CIAU champion in basketball with Bishop's University
- Tiga - electronic musician, singer, DJ
- Josh Tordjman - NHL player
- Ibrahim Tounkara - Canadian football player
- Daniel Tracey - journalist, politician
- Gérald Tremblay - former mayor of Montreal
- Michel Tremblay - novelist, playwright
- Tony Tremblay - poet, radio personality
- Clem Trihey - professional ice hockey player
- Alexandre Trudeau - journalist; son of Pierre Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada
- Justin Trudeau - Member of Parliament; 23rd prime minister of Canada, son of Pierre Trudeau, a former prime minister of Canada
- Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000) - 15th prime minister of Canada
- Sophie Grégoire Trudeau - spouse of the 23rd prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau
- Alain Trudel - conductor
- Jean-Claude Turcotte - Roman Catholic cardinal
- Roxane Turcotte - author of children's and youth literature
- George Tutunjian - performer of Armenian revolutionary songs
- Rachel Tyndale - pharmacogeneticist
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See also
Notes and References
- News: Irwin . Block . Former Westmount mayor dies at 87 . . 2011-03-04 . 2011-03-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110306040818/http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Former%2BWestmount%2Bmayor%2Bdies/4379996/story.html . 2011-03-06 .
- News: R. Norman Dawe Sportsman, Dead. January 5, 1948. The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. 3.
- News: Tim. Parent. Disney animator, creater of St. Hubert BBQ rooster, has died . CJAD. April 6, 2009 . April 16, 2009.
- Web site: Hilda Gorenstein by Meg McSherry Breslin, Chicago Tribune. February 7, 1998.
- News: William R. Granger Died in 52nd Year. April 25, 1925. The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. 4.
- News: Former CAHA Head F. Greenleaf Dies. January 2, 1953. The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. 14.
- Web site: Charles Mayer. 1971. Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. 25 December 2020.
- Web site: Le journaliste Pierre Nnadeau s'éteint à 82 ans. Gosselin. Janie. Duschene. André. 3 September 2019. La Presse. fr. 6 March 2021.
- Web site: Metaphors in Montreal - a David Gutnick documentary. CBC Radio. Canadian Broadcasting Company. 2016-11-25. 2022-07-29.
