List of people from Montreal

This is a list of notable people from Montreal.

A

Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott – prime minister of Canada

Scott Abbott – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit

Jennifer Abel – diver, Olympic medalist

David Acer – magician and comedian, star of Mystery Hunters

Frances Payne Adler – American and Canadian poet

Marie-Yasmine Alidou – soccer player for the Canada national team

Andrew Allan – Allan Shipping Line

Sir Hugh Allan – Allan Shipping Line

Martha Allan – founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre

Sir Montague Allan – businessman, donated the Allan Cup

Paul Almond – film director

Sidney Altman – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Melissa Sue Anderson – American-Canadian actress, known for her role as Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie

René Angélil – singer, Celine Dion's husband and manager

Richard Bladworth Angus – founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Joel Anthony – NBA basketball player

Alex Anthopoulos – general manager and president of baseball operations for the Atlanta Braves

Louise Arbour – lawyer, jurist, prosecutor

Nelly Arcan – writer

Denys Arcand – filmmaker

Gilles Archambault – novelist

François Arnaud – actor

Jay Aspin – former MP

William H. Atherton – historian

Gabriel Aubry – model

Melissa Auf der Maur – rock musician (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins)

Nick Auf der Maur – journalist, municipal politician

Michel C. Auger – journalist

Félix Auger-Aliassime – tennis player

Adam Azimov – film director

David Azrieli – real estate developer

B

Ralph Backstrom – former NHL player

Rita Baga – drag queen, television personality and host

Joby Baker – actor, painter

René Balcer – television writer and producer, known for the US television show Law and Order

Jean-Paul Banos – fencer

Roger Barnes – professional wrestler

Joseph Barsalou – businessman and politician

Jay Baruchel – television and movie actor

Doug Beardsley – poet and educator

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

Mercédes Benegbi – disabilities activist

Sonia Benezra – broadcaster, television host

Meaghan Benfeito – diver, Olympic medalist

Chris Benoit – pro wrestler and double-murderer

Jehane Benoît – chef, author, TV personality

Aldo Bensadoun – founder of Aldo Group

Marc Bergevin – former NHL player, hockey executive

Eric Berne – psychiatrist; creator of Transactional Analysis; author

Janette Bertrand – journalist, broadcaster, actress

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

Dan Bilefsky – journalist, author

Alexandre Bilodeau – skier, Olympic gold medalist

Khem Birch – NBA Player

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

Herbert Black – businessman

Sheila Blair – art historian

Toe Blake – former NHL player and coach

Valérie Blass – artist

Paul Bley – jazz pianist

Bob Blumer – tv personality

La Bolduc – real name Mary Travers, singer

Moïse Bombito – soccer player

Patrick Bordeleau – hockey player

Daniel Borsuk – plastic surgeon

Mike Bossy – Hockey Hall of Fame member

Alain Bouchard – billionaire businessman

Émile Bouchard – NHL Hall of Famer

Eugenie Bouchard – tennis player

Jean-François Bouchard – photographer and visual designer

Louise Anne Bouchard – writer

Chris Boucher – NBA player

Maurice "Mom" Boucher – ex-leader of Hell's Angels (as of 2014)

Yassine Bounou – footballer

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

Stan Bowman – NHL general manager

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

Nigel Braun – YouTuber and chemist

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

Stephen Bronfman – philanthropist

Alma Faye Brooks – disco, soul and R&B singer

Harriet Brooks – nuclear physicist, researcher

Nicole Brossard – author, poet

Alexander Brott – conductor, composer

Edwin Orion Brownell – pianist, vocalist

John Brownstein – epidemiologist, professor

Francine Brunel-Reeves - singer, caller and researcher

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

Stéphan Bureau – journalist

Pat Burns – NHL head coach

Robin Burns – founder and owner, ITECH Hockey Equipment

Pascale Bussières – actress

Ernie Butler – comedy club owner

Gerard Butler – Scottish actor; lived here briefly as a baby

Win Butler – singer-songwriter

C

Anne-Marie Cadieux – actress

Ghitta Caiserman-Roth – painter, printmaker

Jesse Camacho – actor

Mark Camacho – actor

Charles Sandwith Campbell – businessman, philanthropist

Charlotte Cardin – singer, songwriter

Paul Cargnello – singer-songwriter

Jean Carignan – fiddler

Alexandre Carrier – NHL player

Gerald Emmett Carter – former cardinal archbishop of Toronto

Thérèse Casgrain – politician, suffragist

André Chagnon – telecommunications and broadcasting executive, philanthropist

Gretta Chambers – journalist

Serge Chapleau – political cartoonist

Corinne Chaponnière – writer, journalist

Jean Charest – former Québec premier and onetime leader of the federal Progressive Conservatives

Robert Charlebois – singer-songwriter

Gregory Charles – musician and radio host

Dov Charney – entrepreneur and CEO of American Apparel

Melvin Charney – artist, sculptor, architect

Claude Charron – former politician, now TV host

Régine Chassagne – musician, singer, member of Arcade Fire

Micheline Chevrier – theatre director

Alex Chiasson – NHL player for the Edmonton Oilers

Patricia Chica – film and TV director

Emmanuelle Chriqui – actress

Denny Chronopoulos – CFL player

Terri Clark – country singer-songwriter

Patricia Claxton – literary translator

Françoise de Clossey – pianist and organist

Guy Cloutier – former artist manager

Véronique Cloutier – radio and television personality

Kim Cloutier – fashion model

Cœur de pirate – singer, songwriter

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

Vincenzo Cotroni – mobster

Jean Coutu – pharmacist

Corey Crawford – NHL starting goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks

Ron Crevier – former NBA basketball player

Marie-Josée Croze – actress

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

Maxwell Cummings – businessman, philanthropist

Nathan Cummings – businessman

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

D

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

Catherine Daoust – Professional ice hockey defenceman for the Montreal Victoire in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).

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

Mortimer Davis – businessman, philanthropist

Norman Dawe – sports executive

Michel de Broin – sculptor

Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien – broadcasting, magazines

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

Alexandre Despatie – diver, Olympic medalist, television personality

David Desrosiers – bassist of Simple Plan and vocalist; born in Sept-Îles

Sean Devine – playwright, actor, and politician

Colleen Dewhurst – actress

Caroline Dhavernas – actress

Domenic Di Rosa – actor

Kadie Karen Diekmeyer – Internet personality and activist

Céline Dion – singer

Stéphane Dion – politician

Christopher DiRaddo – writer

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

Luguentz Dort – NBA Player

Anne Dorval – actress

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

Chloé Dufour-Lapointe – skier, Olympic medalist

Justine Dufour-Lapointe – skier, Olympic gold medalist

Jack Dunham – animator, television commercial producer, designer of the St-Hubert rooster mascot

Barbara Dunkelman – voice actress for Rooster Teeth

Alexandre Dupuis – football player

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif – NFL player, physician

E

Keith Eaman – Canadian football player

Henrietta Edwards – women’s rights activist, suffragist

Iwan Edwards – conductor, Member of the Order of Canada

Elisapie – singer, broadcaster, activist

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

Marcelle Ferron – painter, stained glass artist

Denise Filiatrault – actress and director

Jennifer Finnigan – Hollywood actress

Sheila Finestone – MP, senator

Serge Fiori – musician, singer, writer

Sarah Fischer – operatic soprano

Marc-André Fleury – NHL goaltender, 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 – flight instructor, air traffic controller, business executive

René-Arthur Fréchet – architect

Pauline Fréchette – poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun

Josh Freed – writer, humourist, filmmaker

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

Ian Gailer, festival and organization manager

Howard Galganov – anglophone rights activist, radio personality

Céline Galipeau – anchorwoman

Mavis Gallant – author

Patsy Gallant – pop singer

Mitch Garber – gaming, hotel executive, philanthropist, broadcaster

Marc Garneau – astronaut, federal politician, cabinet minister

Kathleen Gati – actress

Arturo Gatti – professional boxer, world champion

Daniel Gauthier – co-founder of the Cirque du Soleil

James Gelfand – pianist, composer, arranger

Bernie Geoffrion – hockey player for Montreal Canadiens

Gettomasa – Finnish rapper; born Aleksi Lehikoinen

Yasmeen Ghauri – supermodel

Nicolas Gill – judoka, Olympic medalist

Ralph Gilles – designer of the Chrysler 300c

Margie Gillis – dancer, choreographer

Jessalyn Gilsig – actress

Jacques Godbout – writer, poet, filmmaker

Phil Gold – researcher, physician

Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) – artist and inspiration for the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint

Victor Goldbloom – politician, physician

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

Charles Blair Gordon (1867–1939) – industrialist and banker, president of Dominion Textile and the Bank of Montreal

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

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

Sylvain Grenier – WWE wrestler

Irving Grundman – businessman, hockey executive

Geneviève Guérard – ballerina

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. – MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays

Quincy Guerrier – college basketball player for the Oregon Ducks

Philip Guston – painter and printmaker

H

Dayle Haddon – model and actress

Marc-André Hamelin – pianist and composer

Emily Hampshire – actress

Chris Haney – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit

Dan Hanganu – architect

Louise Harel – politician

Corey Hart – singer

Doug Harvey – Hall of Fame ice hockey player

Moshe Hauer – Modern Orthodox rabbi

Jacques Hébert – statesman

Thomas Hellman – pop singer

Carl Henry – singer

Prudence Heward – Beaver Hall Group artist

Émilie Heymans – diver, Olympic medalist

Alonzo Highsmith – former NFL football player

Dave Hilton, Jr.