List of Quebecois

List of famous Quebecois: citizens of Quebec

Table of contents

1 Artists & Entertainers 2 Inventors: 3 Criminals: 4 Politicians: 5 Sports 6 Other:

Artists & Entertainers

• Gilles Archambault, novelist and commentator
• Marie Claire Blais, author
• La Bolduc, singer
• Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter (Les Automatistes)
• Genevieve Bujold, actress
• Pascale Bussières, actress
• Roch Carrier, author
• Jean Cartier, muralist
• Leonard Cohen, poet, author and songwriter
• Charles Daudelin, sculptor
• Céline Dion, singer
• Georges Dor, chansonnier, songwriter, author, playwright
• Fifi D'Orsay, actress
• Marcelle Ferron, glazier
• Pierre Granche, sculptor
• Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
• Félix Leclerc, poet and songwriter
• Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poet
• Jean-Paul Mousseau, muralist
• Émile Nelligan, poet
• Mordecai Richler, author
• Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter
• William Shatner, actor
• Michel Tremblay, author
• Pierre Vallières, author, political activist
• Gilles Vigneault, poet and songwriter
• Hal Willis, singer (Leonald Francis Gauthier)

Inventors:

• Joseph-Armand Bombardier

Criminals:

• Marie-Joseph Angélique - African slave
• Richard Blass - mass murderer
• Maurice "Mom" Boucher, - "Hells Angels" leader
• Marc Carbonneau, - FLQ Terrorist
• Jacques Cossette-Trudel, - FLQ Terrorist
• Louise Cossette-Trudel, - FLQ Terrorist
• Jacques Lanctôt, - FLQ Terrorist
• Yves Langlois, - FLQ Terrorist
• Marc Lépine, - École Polytechnique Massacre
• Bernard Lortie, - FLQ Terrorist
• Paul Rose, - FLQ Terrorist
• Jacques Rose, - FLQ Terrorist
• Francis Simard, - FLQ Terrorist

Politicians:

• John Abbott
• Henri Bourassa
• Sir George-Étienne Cartier
• Jean Charest
• Jean Chrétien
• Jean Drapeau
• Maurice Duplessis
• Ludger Duvernay
• Daniel Johnson Sr
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• Bernard Landry
• Pierre Laporte
• René Lévesque
• Honoré Mercier
• Yves Michaud
• Robert Nelson
• Wolfred Nelson
• Louis-Joseph Papineau
• Jacques Parizeau
• Louis Stephen St. Laurent
• Jeanne Sauvé
• Suzanne Tremblay
• Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Sports

• Myriam Bédard, biathelete, Olympic Gold medalist
• Jean Béliveau, ice hockey player
• Michel Bossy, ice hockey player
• Gaetan Boucher, speed skater
• Ray Bourque, ice hockey player
• Martin Brodeur, ice hockey player
• Patrick Carpentier, race car driver
• Marcel Dionne, ice hockey player
• Eric Gagné, Los Angeles Dodgers closer, 2003 National League Cy Young Award
• Marc Gagnon, short-track speed skater, Olympic Gold medalist
• Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, ice hockey player
• René Lecavalier, broadcaster
• Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
• Jacques Plante, pioneer ice hockey goalie
• Maurice Richard, ice hockey player
• Patrick Roy, ice hockey player
• Gilles Villeneuve, race car driver
• Jacques Villeneuve, race car driver, son of Gilles

Other:

• Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize winner
• Louise Arbour, Supreme Court Justice (The Hague & Canada)
• Henri Raymond Casgrain, priest, author, historian
• Aline Chainé, First Lady of Canada
• Alphone Desjardins, father of Credit Unions in America
• Marc Garneau, astronaut, first Canadian in space
• Lionel Groulx, priest, historian
• Louis Joliet, explorer
• Bernard Lonergan, theologian
• Rudolph Marcus, Nobel Prize winner
• Roméo Sabourin (1923-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Charles de Salaberry, soldier

See also: List of people by nationality