List of people from Montreal

This is a list of notable people from Montreal.

A
Melissa Auf der Maur
Sir Hugh Allan of Ravenscrag

B
Tanith Belbin
Adam Braz
  • 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 Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye
  • 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, 10.5: Apocalypse
  • 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

C
Françoise de Clossey
  • Jesse Camacho – actor
  • Mark Camacho – actor
  • Charles Sandwith Campbell – philanthropist, benefactor of Montreal
  • Paul Cargnello – singer-songwriter
  • Gerald Emmett Carter – former cardinal archbishop of Toronto
  • André Chagnon – cable TV, broadcasting, philanthropist
  • Alex Chiasson – NHL player for the Edmonton Oilers, 2018 Stanley Cup champion
  • Serge Chapleau – political cartoonist
  • Corinne Chaponnière – writer, journalist
  • Robert Charlebois – singer-songwriter
  • Gregory Charles – musician and radio host
  • Dov Charney – entrepreneur and CEO of American Apparel
  • Claude Charron – former politician, now TV host
  • Micheline Chevrier – theatre director
  • Patricia Chica – film and TV director
  • Emmanuelle Chriqui – actress
  • Denny Chronopoulos – Canadian football player
  • Terri Clark – country singer-songwriter
  • Françoise de Clossey – pianist and organist
  • Guy Cloutier – former artist manager
  • Kim Cloutier – fashion model
  • G. A. Cohen – political philosopher
  • Leonard Cohen – poet and singer
  • Mark Cohen – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD
  • Sidney M. Cohen – television director
  • Steven Cojocaru – fashion critic
  • John Colicos – actor
  • Charles Comeau – drummer of Simple Plan and songwriter
  • Phil Comeau – film and TV director
  • Antonio Cordasco – Italian-Canadian migrant labour recruiter
  • Ernest Cormier – engineer and architect
  • Marc Costanzo – singer
  • Corneille – singer
  • Irwin Cotler – law professor, politician
  • Jean Coutu – pharmacist
  • Corey Crawford – NHL starting goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks
  • Ron Crevier – former NBA basketball player
  • Katalin Cseh – Hungarian politician
  • Beto Cuevas – Chilean-Canadian lead singer of band La Ley
  • Peter Cullen – voice actor; voice of Optimus Prime in the film Transformers
  • Elisha Cuthbert – actress
  • Louis Cyr – strongman
  • May Cutler – publisher and journalist; founder of Tundra Books; first Canadian woman to publish children's books; first woman to serve as Mayor of Westmount, Quebec[1]

D
Celine Dion

E
  • Keith Eaman – Canadian football player
  • Iwan Edwards – conductor, Member of the Order of Canada
  • Vic Emery – Olympic bobsleigh gold medalist
  • Empire I – pop and dancehall singer, songwriter
  • Anke Engelke – German comedian, born in Montreal
  • Chad Erickson – Ringette coach
  • Angelo Esposito – hockey player
  • Sam Etcheverry – former CFL and NFL football quarterback, Montreal Alouettes, St. Louis Cardinals
  • Terry Evanshen – former CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders
  • Ken Evoy – founder of Sitesell; creator of SiteBuildIt!

F
  • 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

G
  • 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

H
Anthony Housefather
  • Dayle Haddon – model and actress
  • Marc-André Hamelin – pianist and composer
  • Chris Haney – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
  • Dan Hanganu – architect
  • Louise Harel – politician
  • Corey Hart – singer
  • Doug Harvey – Hall of Fame ice hockey player
  • Jacques Hébert – statesman
  • Thomas Hellman – pop singer
  • Carl Henry – singer
  • Prudence Heward – Beaver Hall Group artist
  • Alonzo Highsmith – former NFL football player
  • Dave Hilton, Jr. – world champion boxer
  • Matthew Hilton – world champion boxer
  • David Julian Hirsh – actor
  • Ian Hodgkinson – professional wrestler, lived in Montreal while in WCW
  • Thomas William Holmes – winner of the Victoria Cross
  • Herbert Samuel Holt – financier
  • Steve Holt – jazz pianist, AC singer-songwriter
  • William Hope – actor
  • Anna Hopkins – actress
  • Camillien Houde – former mayor of Montreal
  • Alice Houghton – broker
  • Anthony Housefather (born 1971) – Member of Canadian Parliament

I
  • Norman Iceberg – singer-songwriter

J
  • Louis Jaque, modernist painter
  • Marlene Jennings – politician
  • René Jodoin – film animator and producer
  • Daniel Johnson, Jr. – former premier of Quebec
  • Oliver Jones – jazz pianist
  • Sass Jordan – singer
  • Kris Joseph – basketball player
  • Robert Joy – actor
  • Alexander Julien – musician, member of Vision Eternel
  • Claude Jutra – filmmaker

K

L
Mario Lemieux

M
Rudolph A. Marcus
  • 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

N
  • 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

O

P
Cory Pecker

Q
  • Nathalie Quagliotto – visual artist
  • Sara Quin – musician

R
Greg Rusedski

S
Lance Stroll

T
Pierre Trudeau
  • 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

U

V

W
  • Martha Wainwright – singer-songwriter
  • Rufus Wainwright – singer-songwriter
  • Avi Wallerstein – ophthalmologist, co-founder of LASIK MD
  • Amanda Walsh – actress
  • Dwight Walton – professional basketball player, Canadian Olympian
  • Patrick Watson – singer-songwriter
  • Ben Weider – co-founder of the IFBB (International Federation of BodyBuilders)
  • Joe Weider – creator of the Mr. Olympia and Ms. Olympia bodybuilding contests
  • William Weintraub – author, filmmaker
  • Danny Wells – actor; played bartender on The Jeffersons and Luigi in The Super Mario Brothers Super Show
  • Bill Wennington – former NBA basketball player, Chicago Bulls
  • Max Werner – founder of Montreal Pastry, world class pastry chef
  • Alissa White-Gluz – singer-songwriter; former vocalist of The Agonist; current vocalist of Arch Enemy
  • Trevor C. Williams – former member of the Canadian national basketball team; philanthropist
  • Cairine Wilson – first woman to serve in the Senate of Canada
  • Joseph Wiseman – actor, known for playing Dr. Julius No in the first James Bond film Dr. No
  • Karl Wolf – singer
  • Bernie Wolfe (born 1951) – NHL hockey player
  • William Workman – businessman and municipal politician
  • Peter Worrell – former NHL player
  • Aleksandra Wozniak – tennis player

X

Y
  • Joel Yanofsky – writer
  • Nikki Yanofsky – jazz singer
  • Wayne Yearwood – former professional basketball player; Canadian Olympian

Z
  • Sami Zayn – professional wrestler currently signed to the WWE
  • Larry "Rock" Zeidel (1928–2014) – NHL player
  • Joel Zifkin – electric violinist, singer-songwriter
  • David Zilberman – Olympic heavyweight wrestler
  • Moses Znaimer – co-founder of Toronto's CityTV
  • Mortimer Zuckerman – magazine editor, publisher, real estate tycoon

See also
  • List of people from British Columbia
  • List of people from Calgary
  • List of people from Edmonton
  • List of people from Laval, Quebec
  • List of people from Ontario
  • List of people from Quebec
  • List of people from Quebec City
  • List of people from Toronto
  • List of people from Vancouver

References
  1. Block, Irwin (2011-03-04). "Former Westmount mayor dies at 87". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 2011-03-06. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
  2. "R. Norman Dawe Sportsman, Dead". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. January 5, 1948. p. 3.Free access icon
  3. Parent, Tim (April 6, 2009). "Disney animator, creater of St. Hubert BBQ rooster, has died". CJAD. Retrieved April 16, 2009.
  4. "Hilda Gorenstein by Meg McSherry Breslin, Chicago Tribune". February 7, 1998.
  5. "William R. Granger Died in 52nd Year". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. April 25, 1925. p. 4.Free access icon
  6. "Former CAHA Head F. Greenleaf Dies". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. January 2, 1953. p. 14.Free access icon
  7. "Charles Mayer". Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. 1971. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  8. Gosselin, Janie; Duschene, André (3 September 2019). "Le journaliste Pierre Nnadeau s'éteint à 82 ans". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  9. "Metaphors in Montreal - a David Gutnick documentary". CBC Radio. Canadian Broadcasting Company. 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
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